April 2025
Seminars and research workshops
Heritage conflicts
This interdisciplinary seminar organized by Vincent Négri and Mathilde Leloup deals with cultural heritage in wars and international crises, in order to unravel contemporary issues and shed light on the relationship to heritage in these contexts of violence. The international and political reconfigurations caused by the crises, the drivers of the destruction of World Heritage sites and the symptoms of new forms of dispersion and depredation of heritage and culture will be discussed. The publication of a collective work is planned by CNRS editions.
Between scandal and taboo: how to account for sexual violence in armed conflict ?
In this seminar organized by Fabrice Virgili, the processes of in/visibility of sexual violence in armed conflicts will be carefully studied. Shortly after the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, cases of sexual violence were reported, then scandalized, and were also used politically. However, the establishment of the facts is still approximate. The fact that some acts of sexual violence are overexposed while others remain in the shadows, makes it difficult to analyse them and to compare them with other current or past conflicts.
Research residencies
Overseas cultural heritage
During her residency, Marion Bertin wishes to initiate a reflection on these heritages, from both a legal and anthropological point of view. On the one hand, it is a question of identifying the technical and legislative dimensions behind the status, responsibility and protection of overseas heritage. On the other hand, it is a question of studying these heritages in practice, in order to identify the socio-cultural issues that underlie them in terms of representation and valorization. [learn more]
Creation
Musical composition residency
Vicente Atria
The objective of this residency is to create a 25–minute composition commissioned by the Proton Bern Ensemble. This new work will delve into the imagined intersections of the folk traditions of Transylvania and Switzerland, the practices of the European Renaissance, and the early colonial music of the Americas, specifically inspired by the cultural richness of Peru‘s viceroyalty. [learn more]
Author’s residency
Gaëlle Obiegly
“Initially, the subject of the book is a retrospective of the work of an artist who exists in real life. I work from what already exists. But it’s a novel.”
In this fiction, the audience is confronted with an arrangement of empty rooms. If there is nothing visible, the work is nevertheless revealed through language. To put it another way, the works are exhibited by a storyteller who describes them and narrates their interactions. We visit an exhibition in which the works are not visible. However, they are not absent. It is a question of replacing the image with its narrative.
Jean-Noël Orengo
In his project Paris and the Void, the narrator calls himself Noël Stavisky and in 1937 is said to have become the private secretary of Alberto Giacometti and Samuel Beckett. Very quickly, they became fathers to him. They consider him more as a model than a secretary, and push him to extreme experiences necessary for their inspiration: weight loss, homelessness, multiple logorrhea… Wanting to be and knowing himself to be a poet, Stavisky benefits as much as he is under their influence, from which he often detaches himself with violence… This collaboration nevertheless allowed him to create an impossible work uniting writing, sculpture, painting and staging. [learn more]
Prix Escourbiac – Fondation des Treilles
Delphine Warin
“In her project for a photobook on Morocco, the intimate is at the heart of her work. “My approach is a trial and error. My priority is to show the unspeakable, to get to the point. I cannot imagine this approach other than with patience, respect for others and humanity. That‘s why my relationship with the subject is just as important as the story being told. When I photograph, time is my ally.“ The book published by Éditions Odyssée will be presented on the occasion of the professional week of the Rencontres photographiques d‘Arles. [learn more]