The Fictive Archive Investigations group invites you to a day of meetings devoted to fiction at the heart of archives. A day where spectators will be able to discover a variety of perspectives on the use of archives in artistic creation. It will also be an opportunity to understand the relationship between scientific and artistic practices, through several fields: philosophy, dance, anthropology and geology.
The artists invited to the gallery take part in the exhibition 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘎𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘥 and find here an opportunity to clarify or expand their research.
𝟭𝟬:𝟯𝟬 Introduction by Claire Ducène, visual artist and curator of the exhibition Memories Gone Wild and Catherine Henkinet, art historian and ISELP exhibitions officer.
𝟭𝟬:𝟰𝟱 > 𝟭𝟭:𝟯𝟬 In the present, the absent. Archives, stories and virtual existences: what it is about to exist
By Noëlie Plé, author and doctoral student in contemporary philosophy
What do we mobilise when we create something? What are we trying to make exist? What do we give importance to? Starting from these questions about the act of making, this meeting will explore the relationship between fictional narratives elaborated from archival materials and Etienne Souriau's aesthetic philosophy, deploying what he calls "the different modes of existences".
𝟭𝟮:𝟬𝟬 > 𝟭𝟮:𝟰𝟱 Loïe Fuller: the Serpentine Dance interrupted by the photographic image
By Patrick Gaïaudo, artist and dance researcher
Patrick Gaïaudo will exhibit his research on Loïe Fuller, the American dancer who presented the Serpentine Dance in Paris in 1892. The aim will be to reconstruct "this form in movement" from the study of the related photographic corpus.
In the internal construction, in the plasticity of the image, we could thus detect and read a dance on the verge of actualization.
𝟭𝟰:𝟬𝟬 > 𝟭𝟰:𝟰𝟱 Putting the pieces back together. Critique of the inventory
By Elise Billiard Pisani, anthropologist and independent curator
The archive is made up of fragments that need to be organised to produce a story. An archive is a discontinuous collection of documents, letters, photographs, recordings and objects of all kinds that are not directly related to each other. By linking them together, we give a framework to the story. In this process of weaving and telling the story, the indexing of each entry is crucial. Far from being a purely administrative and descriptive act, it is a thoughtful political act that will have consequences on the constitution of a corpus and a history.
𝟭𝟱:𝟭𝟱 > 𝟭𝟲:𝟬𝟬 Caves as underground archives and space for fictions
By Balthazar Blumberg, visual artist, and Sophie Verheyden, a doctor of environmental geochemistry specialising in the cave environment.
The study of caves is at the crossroads of many disciplines, from geology to archaeology. The concretions found there, more precisely the stalagmites, crystallise multiple geological, climatic and human histories. How can we understand these crossroads of narratives that evolve over totally different time frames?
𝟭𝟲:𝟭𝟱 - Endnotes on the day
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