Discussion between Cy Lecerf Maulpoix and Julie Sermon
Within the exhibition “Primordial Soup” by Tiphaine Calmettes at Bétonsalon, Julie Sermon and Cy Lecerf Maulpoix will discuss their approaches and methodologies, and put their work into perspective with the issues and sometimes the contradictions of contemporary artistic practices.
Julie Sermon and Cy Lecerf Maulpoix are the authors of two books, published in 2021, which cross ecology with other practices and fields of research: performing arts (Julie Sermon, Morts ou vifs. Pour une écologie des arts vivants, éditions B42, 2021) and LGBTQI struggles (Cy Lecerf Maulpoix, Écologies déviantes. Voyage en terres queer, Cambourakis, 2022).
Cy Lecerf Maulpoix
Cy Lecerf Maulpoix has been part of LGBTQI and climate justice collectives since COP21. As a freelance journalist, he covers social struggles through interviews, investigations and articles published in the general and specialised press. As an author and translator, he is currently developing several projects on the history and practices of minority ecologies. He published Ecologies Déviantes (Cambourakis, 2021) and Edward Carpenter et l’Autre nature (Le Passager Clandestin, 2022).
Julie Sermon
Julie Sermon is a professor of history and aesthetics of contemporary theatre (University of Lyon 2), director of the laboratory Passages Arts & Littératures (XX-XXI), within which she leads the “Environmental Humanities” axis. She is the author of several works devoted to the renewal of languages, forms and practices that mark the theatrical and puppet field, and she is particularly interested in the phenomena of decentring (theoretical, aesthetic, actorial) that they imply.
Since 2017, she has devoted most of her teaching and research activities to the two-way relationship that can be established between the performing arts and ecology – reflections of which she offers a first inventory in Morts ou vifs. Contribution à une écologie sensible, théorique et pratique des arts vivants (edition B42, June 2021).