Image taken from the film Elle veut rentrer dans ma chambre/She wants to come into my room, directed by Simon Ripoll-Hurier with boarders at Thomas Mann secondary school (Paris, 13th) as part of the “Pareidolia: reading the invisible” residency, Bétonsalon – centre for art and research, 2022.
Image taken from the film Elle veut rentrer dans ma chambre/She wants to come into my room, directed by Simon Ripoll-Hurier with boarders at Thomas Mann secondary school (Paris, 13th) as part of the “Pareidolia: reading the invisible” residency, Bétonsalon – centre for art and research, 2022.
Pareidolia: reading the invisible – School residency
Simon Ripoll-Hurier
The residency “Paréidolies : lire l’invisible/Pareidolia: reading the invisible” engages students at the Thomas Mann residential middle school (Paris, 13th) in a reflection on the imperceptible, areas that are imperceptible and inaccessible.
Throughout the 2021 – 2022 school year, the artist Simon Ripoll-Hurier carried out an investigation with students at the Thomas Mann residential middle school, into invisible areas of their environment. During workshops they attempted to capture these spaces using sound and image recording techniques. With Simon Ripoll-Hurier, the students created a futuristic film. But this futuristic approach is nonetheless a vision of the present moment, a vision of phenomena invisible to the naked eye, which can reveal things that are imperceptible but already exist. Thanks to these workshops the students observed their surroundings, their bedrooms, their classrooms, their school, their neighbourhood, and they used their imagination and their creativity to produce a group work that is both a documentary and a fiction film.
Simon Ripoll-Hurier
At the crossroads of music and visual arts, Simon Ripoll-Hurier has worked on “collective images” such as Hollywood (Translations, 2008-2010), Broadway (The Broadway Melody, 2010-2013), or dreams (Dreamland, 2013). Between 2014 and 2017, he developed Diana, a research project that includes film, video, performance and radio creation, in the course of which he encounters different “listening practices” that he puts into relation (amateur radio, birdwatching, ghost research…). The question of the signal is central. From ghost hunters in New Jersey to birders in Alabama, via amateur radio operators in French Guiana, we meet amateurs who, each in their own way, develop relationships with the invisible. For them, it’s a matter of transmitting signals to distant, hidden or occult entities, and interpreting the signals that act as responses in the mass of parasites and background noise. Since 2018, Simon Ripoll-Hurier and Myriam Lefkowitz have been collaborating around the practice of Remote Viewing on a research project that will take the form of a film.
Simon Ripoll-Hurier’s work has been presented at festivals and biennials (Visions du Réel, FIDMarseille, Bergen Assembly, Helicotrema), in art centers (Palais de Tokyo, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Frac Franche-Comté, Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Greylight in Brussels, Le Magasin, la Villa du Parc) and broadcasted on radio (France Culture, Wave Farm / WGXC).
Simon Ripoll-Hurier also plays with Les Agamemnonz, an instrumental surf band, and co-founded *DUUU, a web radio for artistic creation.
This project was part of the Art Pour Grandir artistic residencies at middle schools and was supported by the City of Paris.
A film created with Eliora Armstrong, Noa Better, Alicia Bekombo, Sathya Brou, Tyana Brunot, Djeynaba Diallo, Kenny Djebotaud, Fatoumata Diakite, Abdoul Jabbie, Chanel Tchinda, Beverly Toussaint et Yvan Yoni, boarders at Thomas Mann secondary school (Paris, 13e) ; Laetitia Striffling, image; Anne de Béarn, additional sound recording.
Elle veut rentrer dans ma chambre/She wants to come into my room is conducted in partnership with Thomas Mann secondary school. It takes place within the framework of the Art Pour Grandir artistic residencies in secondary schools and is supported by the City of Paris.
