Artes Seminar 2022-2024

  • April 4, 2023: Claire Azéma (MCF design), Clément Séchaud (music doctoral student)
    MSH Bordeaux, Salle Jean Borde, 2 p.m.-5 p.m.

This new three-year program, chosen collectively by teacher-researchers and doctoral students within the new autonomous unit ARTES (UR 24141), follows more than ten years of research on very diverse themes (The effect of reality, Writing and creation, Rhythms in the arts, The art of interpreting art). The seminar has in fact existed in this form since 2010, and the common point between these themes is that all of them can be treated through the prism of different artistic disciplines, like our research unit (plastic arts, design, cinema and audiovisual, theater and performing arts, music, dance, etc.).

By way of comparison, and to stick to the last themes, Places and circles of art somehow takes care of the spatial dimension that Rhythms in arts had left unresolved, while the voluntary proximity with the program of the aggregation of plastic arts, as with the question of “interpretation”, continues here with “art and life”. So, what is a “living” place or environment for art? Which also means: how does a place or environment make an art more “alive”?

With these first questions, the first necessary distinctions immediately arrive: between place and environment, of course (the environment always being a specific place), but also between the so-called “living” arts and the others, which cannot be called “dead” … We are thinking here of the spaces of the stage, of architecture, of the city, of nature, of museums and other places where art is performed, exhibited, and made. The theme can be approached from a

cultural point of view (place of these places in societies), theoretical (what do these places do to art? and vice versa), historical (genius loci), material, but also from the angle of uses and practices: places common areas, laboratory, workshop, film set, stage, cinema room, rehearsal room and all other places or environments, material or immaterial.

The principle of the seminar is always the same: each speaker has 45 minutes to present their work, followed by questions from the audience (made up of Masters in Arts students, preparation for aggregation, but also doctoral students, doctors, researchers, etc.). Each 3-hour session normally welcomes two speakers, in order to create echoes, sometimes planned, sometimes unpredictable, between the communications. As far as possible, parity is respected in the development of the annual program, as well as a deliberate balance between experienced teacher-researchers and doctoral students or doctors. All the seminars are then published in our collection Les Cahiers d'Artes at Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux (see successively numbers 10, 12, 14, 18).

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