BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Seminar : RESONANCES / ALICE DTSTART:20230615T140000 DTEND:20230615T180000 DTSTAMP:20260509T101007Z UID:6e809116c6ee462b7bb232964624646caed02b1568e1f34fa7d8181e CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Joseph Baan Mathilde Chenin\n[ALICE] Research Seminar : RESONA NCES\n14:00 - 18:00\nStudio 2\, Rue du Valentin 35\, Lausanne \n\nWhat do es it mean to get attuned with a place? What forms of intimacies and care does it unravel? \nIf resonance is defined as a specific vibratory qualit y\, as an echo of attachment between a space and its inhabitants\, what ar e the textures of these vibratory qualities? To which extent can collectiv e practices become levers of re-attunement? What are the roles of building in these processes?\nThis ALICE’s Research seminar Resonances will expl ore affective dimensions of spaces and landscapes to understand how attune ment processes are essential practices to navigate in contemporary uncerta inties and discrepancies. We propose to give specific attention to how the se resonances are produced through commonings and everyday habits and what traces they leave within our milieu and us. Through a lecture from Mathil de Chenin\, a performance proposed by Jo Baan and discussions\, we will ad dress the micropolitics of vibratory qualities and the ways in which traci ng\, drawing\, and building participate in strengthening vibratory solidar ities with our milieus and beyond.\nKeywords : Vibrative qualities\, attun ement\, script\, collective practices\, singularities\n\n14:00 - Studio 2\ nIntroduction\nTiphaine Abenia\nJulien Lafontaine Carboni\n\n14:30 - Studi o 2\nShifting Singularities\nPerformance Workshop\nJoseph Baan\nIn this pe rformance workshop we will investigate how to compose the common in singul arity. In this case\, singularity is understood as the self\, with all the ambiguous\, disorganized\, messy\, and sometimes contradicting parts that make up the self. At the heart of this investigation lies how to navigate singularity within groupness\, and how to find resonances in decentral\, perhaps even conflictual encounters. Ambiguous\, conflicting moments and p resences constantly occur within the self and in relation. Rather than loo king for common ground\, we will treat such conflicting moments as a place where resonance can emerge. Through a series of scores and movement exerc ises\, we will consider what it means to affect and to be affected\; what it means to inconvenience and to be inconvenienced\; and how the self migh t shift in relation. Please wear comfortable clothes that allow you to mov e freely.\n\n\n16:30 - Studio 2\nPresence\, resonance\, somatic. Vibratory qualities of commonality in the plural\nLecture\nMathilde Chenin\nThe pre sentation will look back at the investigations I carried out during my doc toral research with two artists' collectives (La Déviation\, in Marseille \, and Bermuda\, in Sergy)\, one of whose distinctive features is that the y spend most of their time materially fabricating their shared living and working space. In this respect\, we will focus on the one hand on their ge stures: how do they build those places\, even though they're not carpenter s\, plasterers\, electricians\, tilers\, etc.\, and what can we learn from the heterodox and idiosyncratic way they use the construction techniques? On the other hand\, we will unpack the ordeals and tribulations associate d with this commitment to the collective construction effort: how do the g roups cope with the disputes that emerge\, and how do they continue to hol d together? Equipped with the epistemological tools of pragmatic sociology \, we'll be looking at how making together\, because it brings bodies not only into presence\, but literally into resonance\, opens the field to a r egime of engagement in action that is\, strictly speaking\, somatic\, defe ating usual and liberal types of resolutions\, and giving way to the compo sition of a commonality based on the vibratory qualities of co-presence.\n \n\nContributers :\nJosephine Baan (also goes by the names Joseph\, Jo\, o r any variation thereof) engages in art\, education and collaboration as w ays to forge creative resurgence. They’re interested in the complexities of collectivity and in the possibility of establishing a solidarity that does not homogenise\, but affirms difference. Josephine performs with thei r body and voice and makes installations\, props\, scripts and choreograph ies that explore the spaces and relationships between the flesh and the wo rd\, human and non-human bodies\, and change and preservation. Materially and performatively thinking between things\, beings and situations\, they consciously switch perspective to influence roles and readings of power an d control in relation to affection and gestures of care. They use speculat ive fiction and performance as tools to invade existing narratives that na turalize normative states of sex\, gender\, race\, ecology\, and the hiera rchies between them. Their practice is closely linked to their work as an educator\, which is influenced by radical pedagogy and non-hierarchical co llaborative methods.\n\nMathilde Chénin is a visual artist. Her work emph asizes versions over finished forms\, and privileges collaboration as an i mportant aspect of her research. The collective space of being and working together is explored through an idea of expanded writing practices naviga ting between bodies\, techniques\, and language. Her work is an elaboratio n of different kinds of systems\, immaterial and utopian architectures gen ealogies\, scores and other collective large objects. In 2016\, she is the co-founder of the project bermuda — a self-built site of shared studios for artistic production and research (Sergy\, FR) — alongside with arti sts Maxime Bondu and Guillaume Robert\, curator Bénédicte Le Pimpec\, et computer programmer Julien Griffit. In 2022\, she defended a PhD in socio logy. Following the collective trajectory of two places where artists both live and work\, the research focused on forms of commonalities\, which co mpose at the crossroad between dwelling and creating\, two social activiti es that are told to be resistant to extended forms of communities (HEAD— Genève\; Laboratoire de Sociologie Urbaine\, EPFL Lausanne).\n\nwww.mathi ldechenin.org\nwww.bermuda.pm\n\nEveryone is welcome to join ! Let us know with an email if you wish to participate.\n  LOCATION:Studio 2 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR