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LE DEVENIR DE L'EAU :

ENSA Paris-Malaquais - 3ème Année de Licence

EXPLORATIONS EN MILIEU INSTABLE

From streams to bodies of water: Explorations in unstable environments.

 

With the emergence of the Covid 19 and the necessity to confine ourselves to our homes in mid-March 2020, the architectural studio - What's becoming of Water ?-, took a major turn. 

What was to be a participatory, outdoor construction, life-size, hands-on, recycled materials workshop, to take place along the waterways in St-Denis, became a series of conceptual exercises, exploring bodily fluids and domestic waters, that took place in the homes where the students were confined. The "unstable environments", the confinement, and the epidemic to which we had to adapt to, were central to the questioning and conceptualizations developed thereafter.

 

Three phases marked the explorations:

Individual conceptual exercises developed during the lockdown.

Cross-conceptual exercises - between students - developed during the lockdown.

Outdoor collective exercises  - between students and partners - developed after the lockdown.

 

From May 11th  after the lockdown, it was possible to return to the field (along the St-Denis canal), look for sites, and partners likely to be interested in the conceptual exercises, and motivated to develop new narratives, and share their sensibilities and interests with the students. In this way dancers, fishermen, artists, associations, performers, storytellers, and inhabitants, created performances, readings, writings, and wanderings, on wastelands, under bridges, on public squares, and along the streams, with the students.

 

From the intimate to the collective, from the constrained indoors to the great outdoors, from bodily floods to streams, the conceptualizations grew and became finally exploratory performances imbued with new meaning, energy, and hope.

Susan Dunne, Associate professor

    Etudiants
 
Adèle AZAVANT 
Bérénice GAUTHIER
Salma HARRAK
Lauren MARCHAND
Micol VADALA
Lorenzo VERRESCHI
    Partenaires
 
Gauthier MALSHERBES
Barbara BRACCI
Dominique LANGLOIS
Marc GUILLERMAIN
Annalisa BARBATI
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