Fabrication and narration of the matter / ARCHIZOOM
Event details
| Date | 22.11.2022 |
| Hour | 18:30 |
| Speaker | Véronique Patteeuw, Benoît Rossel, Romain Barth |
| Location |
Maison du peuple, Lausanne
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | French, English |
Fabrication and narration of the matter
Monday 22 November 2022, 6.30 p.m.
Old cinema Eldorado, Maison du peuple
Place Chauderon 5, 1003 Lausanne
6.40 p.m. – Projection of the short film Le Chant du styrène directed by Alain Resnais in 1958
7 p.m. – Projection of an extract from the film Koyaanisqatsi directed by Godfrey Reggio in 1983
7.15 p.m. – Discussion with Véronique Patteeuw and Benoît Rossel, moderated by Romain Barth, followed by an aperitif
Evoking the ultimate matter, the one that remains after any valorization process, comes down to talking about the matter that is produced upstream, from an industrial manufacturing process.
While Alain Resnais’s short film Le Chant du styrène traces the manufacturing chain of plastic by associating the machine with progress, Godfrey Reggio’s film Koyaanisqatsi proposes an overabundance of images narrating the mass of industrial matter, making explicit “the limits to growth” – to quote one of the Club of Rome’s reports – while creating a dizzying sense of dread in the viewer. How can we represent and be represented by matter and its manufacturing process, especially when it is poorly documented? Do we perceive the industrial object as detached from its manufacturing process and from the social organization of production that is necessary for it?
During an evening, Véronique Patteeuw, architect, teacher at EPFL and Benoît Rossel, director, teacher at ECAL, will approach, through a historical perspective, the impact of matter on the perception of our territory as well as our body and will cross their views in order to understand the narrative processes (of the order of aestheticization, mysticism or even a certain realism) which underlie the representation of matter.
A program organized with Romain Barth in the context of the exhibition Ultimate Matter and the architecture and cinema series.
In collaboration with Ecrans Urbains, Fondation CUB.
Monday 22 November 2022, 6.30 p.m.
Old cinema Eldorado, Maison du peuple
Place Chauderon 5, 1003 Lausanne
6.40 p.m. – Projection of the short film Le Chant du styrène directed by Alain Resnais in 1958
7 p.m. – Projection of an extract from the film Koyaanisqatsi directed by Godfrey Reggio in 1983
7.15 p.m. – Discussion with Véronique Patteeuw and Benoît Rossel, moderated by Romain Barth, followed by an aperitif
Evoking the ultimate matter, the one that remains after any valorization process, comes down to talking about the matter that is produced upstream, from an industrial manufacturing process.
While Alain Resnais’s short film Le Chant du styrène traces the manufacturing chain of plastic by associating the machine with progress, Godfrey Reggio’s film Koyaanisqatsi proposes an overabundance of images narrating the mass of industrial matter, making explicit “the limits to growth” – to quote one of the Club of Rome’s reports – while creating a dizzying sense of dread in the viewer. How can we represent and be represented by matter and its manufacturing process, especially when it is poorly documented? Do we perceive the industrial object as detached from its manufacturing process and from the social organization of production that is necessary for it?
During an evening, Véronique Patteeuw, architect, teacher at EPFL and Benoît Rossel, director, teacher at ECAL, will approach, through a historical perspective, the impact of matter on the perception of our territory as well as our body and will cross their views in order to understand the narrative processes (of the order of aestheticization, mysticism or even a certain realism) which underlie the representation of matter.
A program organized with Romain Barth in the context of the exhibition Ultimate Matter and the architecture and cinema series.
In collaboration with Ecrans Urbains, Fondation CUB.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Archizoom
Contact
- Cyril Veillon, Solène Hoffmann