Archives and repertoires, restitution and transmission

SACRe - ESAA Days

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With SACRe and École Supérieure d'Art d'Avignon

For the fourth consecutive year, the SACRe program of Université PSL and the École Supérieure d’Art d’Avignon are organizing two days of research-creation meetings as part of the Festival d’Avignon.

Cloître Saint-Louis, salle colloque © Festival d'Avignon

Presentation

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 a.m. – 1 p.m.

  1. Introduction by Antoine de Baecque (SACRe, ENS) and Barbara Turquier (SACRe, La Fémis), Benoît Broisat (ESAA), Morgan Labar (ENSBA Lyon)

  3. Conversation with Émilie Rousset (Compagnie John Corporation, director of Affaires familiales)

  5. Lou Grégoire and Héloïse Bellut (ESAA), La mémoire de l’événement à l’épreuve de la conservation-restauration

  7. Round Table 1: Comment les archives attendent-elles les artistes…
    With Sylvie Nayral (ESAA), Antoine de Baecque (ENS-PSL), Christelle Lecœur (ENSA Paris Malaquais-PSL)

3 p.m. – 6 p.m.

  1. Tilhenn Klapper (SACRe, Beaux-Arts de Paris)

  3. Delphine Pauletto (ESAA), Aure Lecrès (Avignon Municipal Archives), Ross Louis (ESAA), and students from ESAA: Prêt sur gage, document(s) d’archives, nouvelles fictions

  5. Conversation with Milo Rau (director of LA LETTRE)

  7. Round Table 2: Spectacles vivants et archives : restitution et performance
    With Marion Boudier (Université d’Amiens), Julia Gros de Gasquet (ENS-PSL), Kenza Jernite (SACRe, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

July 18

10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

  1. Jules Maillot (ENSBA Lyon, UR ACTH), Ce qui danse sous les fraisiers, archive sensible du vivant microscopique

  3. Benoît Broisat and Gaspard Salatko (ESAA), students from ESAA: Riken no ken : dériver, éprouver, archiver, activer

  5. Round Table 3: De l’archive à l’art, et inversement : comment transmettre ?
    With Sophie Delpeux (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Barbara Blanc (LUMA), Fabienne Ballandras and Olivier Nottellet (ENSBA Lyon)

3 p.m. – 6 p.m.

  1. Zoumana Meite (SACRe, CNSAD), Le passé ça se fixe avec les yeux fermés

  3. Round Table 4: Comment se forme, se perd, se retrouve un répertoire ?
    With Olivia Grandville (Centre chorégraphique national de La Rochelle, La Semaine d’art en Avignon), Éric Ruf (Comédie-Française, Le Soulier de satin)

  4. Kenza Jernite (SACRe, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), presentation and reading of Punis ! by the Collectif Grandiose (with Christine Vézinet Crombecque, Philippe Royer, May Royer, Nina Vantieghem)

Distribution

In partnership with École Supérieure d'Art d'Avignon, SACRe

Practical infos

Duration : 3h