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  • Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research

    9 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet

    75013 Paris
    +33.(0)1.45.84.17.56
    Postal address
    Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research
    Université de Paris
    5 rue Thomas Mann
    Campus des Grands Moulins
    75205 Paris Cédex 13
  • Workshop "Backwater" by Ali Cherri
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  • Seminar "Disturbing Objects,Disquiet Objects. Going Beyond Classificatory Certainties" by Lotte Arndt
  • "Midideux"
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    For the fourth semester of the Académie vivante (Living Academy) pro­gram, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research has invited the research and cre­ation pro­gram directed by Julie Ramage (Paris Diderot University) to take place in Bétonsalon’s spaces from September 2017.

    This pro­gram brings together around 30 stu­dents in two working groups at two sites. One is pre­sent on the campus of the Paris Diderot University, while the other is made up of stu­dents who are incar­cer­ated at the Poissy prison (Maison cen­trale de Poissy). The two groups are brought together to col­lab­o­rate from a dis­tance on the real­iza­tion of a research pro­cess and an artistic pro­ject resulting in the pro­duc­tion of a pub­li­ca­tion launched at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research at the end of the pro­gram.

    The 2017-2018 term focuses on archae­ology, a dis­ci­pline exploring the border between the fields of sci­en­tific study and cre­ative pos­si­bil­i­ties.

    In archae­ology we see cur­rent research ques­tioning the rela­tion between archae­ol­o­gists and their object of study. In Theatre/Archaeology, Mike Pearson and Michael Shanks ques­tion the need for archae­ol­o­gists to clean up decom­posing arte­facts; they put for­ward the hypoth­esis of a fear of the mor­tality of the body that archae­ol­o­gists would face when encoun­tering these objects. The pro­ject asks these ques­tions in the con­text of prisons, which are, since the 19th cen­tury, thought of in terms of "con­tam­i­na­tion", "vice", dis­eases, and "rebel­lion". 

    The starting point of the pro­ject is to iden­tify objects which for the par­tic­i­pants sig­nify "sick/ness“. By asking how these objects are embedded in cer­tain nar­ra­tive set­tings, by repro­ducing them by using tech­niques of rep­re­sen­ta­tion deployed in archae­o­log­ical prac­tice (such as molding or pho­togram­metry) and studying them in a lab­o­ra­tory, in short, by mixing sci­en­tific anal­ysis with the pro­cess of cre­ation and nar­ra­tion, we create a space of dis­course in which a metaphor­ical account of the living con­di­tions of incar­cer­ated bodies can emerge.

    The Académie vivante (Living Academy) program is supported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation.

    
The research and creation program is supported by Paris Diderot University, Section des Etudiants Empêchés, Ateliers Lettres de l’UFR Lettres, Arts, Cinéma, SAPIENS-USPC, INRAP Centre, and Maison centrale de Poissy.

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