Workshop with Lauren Tortil and the 10th-grade students from Jean Macé Highschool (Vitry-Sur-Seine) as part of the exhibition “Un-Tuning Together – Practicing listening with Pauline Oliveros”, Paris, 2024. Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Photo: Susie Richard.
Workshop with Lauren Tortil and the 10th-grade students from Jean Macé Highschool (Vitry-Sur-Seine) as part of the exhibition “Un-Tuning Together – Practicing listening with Pauline Oliveros”, Paris, 2024. Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Photo: Susie Richard.
Visit to the exhibition “SOFARSOGOOD” by the Young Mediators from Jean Macé high school to another class, PIE “Discovering a Contemporary Art Center in the Paris region, supported by the DAAC Créteil and Pass Culture, Paris, 2024. Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Photo: Susie Richard.
Visit to the exhibition “SOFARSOGOOD” by the Young Mediators from Jean Macé high school to another class, PIE “Discovering a Contemporary Art Center in the Paris region, supported by the DAAC Créteil and Pass Culture, Paris, 2024. Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Photo: Susie Richard.
Visit to the exhibition “SOFARSOGOOD” by the Young Mediators from Jean Macé high school to another class, PIE “Discovering a Contemporary Art Center in the Paris region, supported by the DAAC Créteil and Pass Culture, Paris, 2024. Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Photo: Susie Richard.
Workshop with Lauren Tortil and the 10th-grade students from Jean Macé Highschool (Vitry-Sur-Seine) as part of the exhibition “Un-Tuning Together – Practicing listening with Pauline Oliveros”, Paris, 2024. Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Photo: Susie Richard.
Workshop with Lauren Tortil and the 10th-grade students from Jean Macé Highschool (Vitry-Sur-Seine) as part of the exhibition “Un-Tuning Together – Practicing listening with Pauline Oliveros”, Paris, 2024. Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Photo: Susie Richard.
Visit to the exhibition “SOFARSOGOOD” by the Young Mediators from Jean Macé high school to another class, PIE “Discovering a Contemporary Art Center in the Paris region, supported by the DAAC Créteil and Pass Culture, Paris, 2024. Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Photo: Susie Richard.
Visit to the exhibition “SOFARSOGOOD” by the Young Mediators from Jean Macé high school to another class, PIE “Discovering a Contemporary Art Center in the Paris region, supported by the DAAC Créteil and Pass Culture, Paris, 2024. Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Photo: Susie Richard.
Visit to the exhibition “SOFARSOGOOD” by the Young Mediators from Jean Macé high school to another class, PIE “Discovering a Contemporary Art Center in the Paris region, supported by the DAAC Créteil and Pass Culture, Paris, 2024. Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. Photo: Susie Richard.
PIE « Discovering a contemporary art center » – With Jean Macé Highschool from Vitry-sur-Seine
Lauren Tortil
Over the course of 2023-2024, Bétonsalon accompanied and welcomed a class of second-year students from the Jean Macé Highschool in Vitry-sur-Seine to discover three exhibitions.
• As part of the exhibition “Un·Tuning Together. Practicing listening with Pauline Oliveros” (Semester 1, 2023), the students took part in a workshop with the artist Lauren Tortil, focusing on the notions of attention and individual and collective listening.
• Following this experience, the students returned to the art centre for a writing workshop linked to the exhibition “Jean-Noël Herlin, un junkmail junkie” (Semester 2, 2024).
• Finally, for the exhibition “SOFARSOGOOD” by Sylvie Fanchon, they became mediators for another class at the highschool (Semester 3, 2024).
Alongside the exhibition visits, the students were given the opportunity to find out more about the jobs and activities of the art centre (meetings and discussions with members of the team).
Lauren Tortil
Lauren Tortil is a sound artist and doctoral student at EUR CAPS in Rennes 2. Influenced by sound studies and media archaeology, she is interested in listening processes through the prism of sound technologies and the environments they generate. Her approach – which also incorporates a visual and sculptural dimension – is manifested in the iconographic and theoretical research that feeds her protean visual practice: performances, installations, printed objects and so on. She is the author of the book Une généalogie des grandes oreilles, Tombolo Presses, 2019. Her work is regularly shown in France, including at the FRAC Ile-de-France, Bétonsalon, the Centre Pompidou, the Pernod Ricard and Louis Vuitton Foundations, the ADAGP, and the Villa du Parc in Annemasse; and abroad at the Musée d’art de Joliette, Canada; the Igloo Sound Gallery in Jihlava; the 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennial, etc. She was awarded the Villa Kujoyama with the support of the Institut français, the Institut français of Japan and the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller in 2024.
This project is supported by the DAAC Créteil and Pass Culture.
