What can be done with an archive? Researchers have long practiced and expanded this “taste for the archive.” From research to writing, the movement of the archive has taken many paths, from the most classical to the most innovative. But what happens when artists follow that same path and seize the archive to bring it into their own space, to perform it like a score, making it the object of their own “research-creation”? This archaeological and sensitive approach unfolds the archive differently—through speech, the body, gesture, and staging—conceiving the archive as knowledge, concept, method, and experience all at once. This use of the document now rests on a relationship to time that affirms the present of transmission as a restitution aimed at other horizons and possible futures. The questions that follow are varied: who are the publics of archives? Who shapes them, interprets them? How, and toward what end(s)? To address these questions, over the course of two days, through encounters, debates, performances, and shared experiences, we will examine how archives are brought into play and how they are approached pedagogically.
July 17
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Presentation by Antoine de Baecque (SACRe, ENS) and Barbara Turquier (SACRe, La Fémis), Benoit Broisat (ESAA), Morgan Labar (ENSBA Lyon)
Conversation with Emilie Rousset, director of Affaires familiales
Lou Grégoire and Héloïse Bellut (ESAA), La mémoire de l’événement à l’épreuve de la conservation-restauration
Roundtable 1: How do archives await the artists…
With Sylvie Nayral (ESAA), Antoine de Baecque (ENS), Christelle Lecœur (ENSBA Malaquais)
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Tilhenn Klapper (SACRe, Beaux-Arts de Paris)
Delphine Pauletto (ESAA), Aure Lecrès (Avignon Archives), Ross Louis (ESAA) and ESAA students, Prêt sur gage, document(s) d’archives, nouvelles fictions
Roundtable 2: Live performance and archives – restitution and performance
With Marion Boudier (Université d’Amiens), Julia de Gasquet (ENS), Kenza Jernite (SACRe, Université Sorbonne nouvelle)
July 18
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Jules Maillot (ENSBA Lyon, UR ACTH), Ce qui danse sous les fraisiers, archive sensible du vivant microscopique
Benoît Broisat and Gaspard Salatko (ESAA), with ESAA students, Riken no ken : dériver, éprouver, archiver, activer
Roundtable 3: From archive to art, and back again – how do we transmit?
With Sophie Delpeux (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne), Barbara Blanc (LUMA), Fabienne Balandras and Olivier Notellet (ENSBA Lyon)
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Zoumana Meïté (SACRe CNSAD), Le passé ça se fixe avec les yeux fermés
Roundtable 4: How is a repertoire formed, lost, and rediscovered?
With Olivia Grandville (La Semaine d’art en Avignon), Éric Ruf (Le Soulier de satin), Antoine de Baecque (Les Clés du Festival d’Avignon)
Kenza Jernite (SACRe, Paris 3) and Mathilde Rossigneux-Méheust (Lyon 2), Presentation and staged reading of Punis !, by the Collectif Grandiose
Distribution
In partnership with École Supérieure d'Art d'Avignon, SACRe