Workshops

We sug­gest you take a reser­va­tion due to lim­ited capacity: public­s@­be­ton­salon.net

Wednesday 13 and Saturday 16 October, 2.30pm to 4.30pm
Wycinanki, paper cut­ting work­shop with Janka Patocka
Workshop 1: inter­gen­er­a­tional, six years to infinity
Workshop 2: from 8 to 12 years

Friday 17 September
Heritage Day for Children (Journée des Enfants du Patrimoine)
Workshops with Hélène Deléan
In the ZAC Paris Rive Gauche neigh­bour­hood, imag­ined by the archi­tect Christian de Portzamparc. Here, con­tem­po­rary archi­tec­ture (mul­ti­coloured build­ings, secret gar­dens, glass cubes) and her­itage indus­trial archi­tec­ture and build­ings stand side by side (les Frigos, les Grands Moulins de Paris, the com­pressed air fac­tory). The centre of art and research Bétonsalon is located in a former flour mill, built in 1950 by the archi­tect Denis Honegger.
After a short intro­duc­tion to the his­tory of the storage building that was con­verted into a uni­ver­sity, the artist Hélène Deléan will ask the stu­dents to imagine a new flour dis­tri­bu­tion system for the neigh­bour­hood. Small groups will work together on a map to show the build­ings, infras­truc­ture, vehi­cles and roads that will enable delivery. Making use of air, water or under­ground sys­tems, they will mark their net­work with a pointed instru­ment, on a large black sheet of paper, giving it the appear­ance of a neg­a­tive. Each group will be invited to pre­sent their pro­posal at the end of the ses­sion.

WEDNESDAY WORKSHOPS
Intergenerational work­shops, from 6 years to infinity, with Mathilde Cameirao

Workshops related to the exhi­bi­tion The Fold of the Cosmic Belly
by Jagna Ciuchta

Workshop 1: “Our chosen fam­i­lies”
Using Jagna Ciuchta’s exhi­bi­tion, and the dif­ferent family con­nec­tions it explores, as their starting point, the par­tic­i­pants can create photos of their chosen fam­i­lies using old enlarged black and white pho­tographs. They will be cut up, decom­posed, and recom­posed with other fic­tional or real char­ac­ters, using flu­o­res­cent yellow as a devel­oper or a con­cealer.

Maurizio Anzeri’s embroi­dery work on old pho­tographs could also serve as a source of inspi­ra­tion to work on these family por­traits (you do not need to know how to embroider to par­tic­i­pate in the work­shop).

Participants can, and are strongly encour­aged to, bring their own colour or black and white pho­tographs and magazines. They can be pho­to­copied if you don’t want to spoil them, and the images can be cut out and used in the col­lages.

Workshop 2: “The Guiding Principles”
Jagna Ciuchta uses extremely varied mate­rials and tech­niques and invites other artists to par­tic­i­pate in the exhi­bi­tion, without ever losing track of her guiding prin­ci­ples. This work­shop is an oppor­tu­nity to create sculp­tures out of objects gleaned around the home, and words and pat­terns dis­cov­ered in the exhi­bi­tion. The prin­ciple and the image (or word) it will con­sti­tute becomes what assem­bles and links these dis­parate ele­ments to give them a meaning and unity. The focus will be on sharing tech­niques between par­tic­i­pants, exchange of mate­rials and the invi­ta­tion to include a part of someone else’s work in your own.

Participants are requested to bring mate­rials that are part of their everyday life: an old gar­ment or a piece of cloth, a clean card­board box, an image (pho­tograph, post­card, magazine), which will be cut up and assem­bled. Other mate­rials will be avail­able at the work­shop.
No embroi­dery or sewing skills are required.

Workshop 3: “Out­side the Frame”
Using the instal­la­tion cre­ated by Jagna Ciuchta and Ana Teresa Barboza (a com­bi­na­tion of pho­tog­raphy, weaving and embroi­dery) this work­shop is an oppor­tu­nity to weave with unusual mate­rials: wool as well as paper, fabric or plastic strips that can occupy the space and be con­nected to other objects or images. Small frames, orig­i­nally meant for painting, will be diverted to become rudi­men­tary looms. They allow the hybrid work to be woven inside the frame, then over­flow into the sur­rounding space to take over a wall, a corner of the room, the floor, or a few steps of the stair­case. The works will be dis­played at the end of the work­shop in, or in front of, Bétonsalon, and they will be pho­tographed in situ.

No knowl­edge of weaving is required to par­tic­i­pate in the work­shop, the par­tic­i­pants will be taught the basic prin­ci­ples and a few ele­men­tary knots.
Participants are invited to bring a small object or a pho­tograph that will be included in the woven work.

Saturday 25 September, 9 October, 13 November, 20 November, 2.30pm to 4.30pm
Workshops for ages 9-15 with Hélène Deléan
Looking for the Missing Work!
Saturday 25 September, 9 October,13 November, 20 November, 2.30pm - 4.30pm


Four à la carte writing and the­atrical impro­vi­sa­tion work­shops.
The exhi­bi­tion will be the sub­ject and the playing field for an inves­ti­ga­tion that con­cerns a missing work. Structured like role plays, each work­shop will address the issue from a cer­tain per­spec­tive: sit­u­a­tional exer­cises (pre­sen­ta­tion of the intrigue and the char­ac­ters that will be embodied) the­atrical impro­vi­sa­tion, spec­u­la­tion, pho­to­graphic tech­niques, and sketches.
A riso pub­li­ca­tion will be pro­duced at the end of the ses­sions, recording the exchanges and doc­u­ments cre­ated, to form unique exhi­bi­tion cat­a­logue.

Wednesday 29 September, 27 October, 24 November, 2.30pm to 4.30pm 
In­ter­gen­er­a­tional work­shops, 6 years old to infinity, with Mathilde Cameirao