Off-site / Simon Ripoll-Hurier’s artist’s residency at the Thomas Mann residential middle school. September 2021 to June 2022

Simon Ripoll-Hurier’s res­i­dency with stu­dents at the Thomas Mann res­i­den­tial middle school, 75013 Paris
Outputs: Wednesday 8 June 2022 at 3pm

Elle veut ren­trer dans ma chambre/She wants to come into my room

A film by Simon Ripoll-Hurier
cre­ated with Eliora Armstrong, Noa Better, Alicia Bekombo, Sathya Brou, Tyana Brunot, Djeynaba Diallo, Kenny Djebotaud, Fatoumata Diakite, Abdoul Jabbie, Chanel Tchinda, Beverly Toussaint and Yvan Yoni, boarders at the Thomas Mann middle school.
Laetitia Striffling, image
Anne de Béarn, addi­tional sound recording

The res­i­dency Pareidolia: reading the invis­ible engages stu­dents at the Thomas Mann res­i­den­tial middle school in a reflec­tion on the imper­cep­tible, areas that are imper­cep­tible and inac­ces­sible.

Throughout the 2021 - 2022 school year, the artist Simon Ripoll-Hurier car­ried out an inves­ti­ga­tion with stu­dents at the Thomas Mann res­i­den­tial middle school, into invis­ible areas of their envi­ron­ment. During work­shops they attempted to cap­ture these spaces using sound and image recording tech­niques. With Simon Ripoll-Hurier, the stu­dents cre­ated a futur­istic film. But this futur­istic approach is nonethe­less a vision of the pre­sent moment, a vision of phe­nomena invis­ible to the naked eye, which can reveal things that are imper­cep­tible but already exist. Thanks to these work­shops the stu­dents observed their sur­round­ings, their bed­rooms, their class­rooms, their school, their neigh­bour­hood, and they used their imag­i­na­tion and their cre­ativity to pro­duce a group work that is both a doc­u­men­tary and a fic­tion film.

This pro­ject was part of the Art Pour Grandir artistic res­i­den­cies at middle schools and was sup­ported by the City of Paris.