In collaboration with the Master 1 Arts plastiques – Médiation, Exposition, Critique program at Université Paris VIII Vincennes Saint-Denis.

Conceived by professors Clélia Barbut and Nathalie Desmet and the art center team, this course is designed as a kind of experimental investigation or radioscopy, during which students from the Master 1 Arts plastiques, Médiation, Exposition, Critique at Université Paris VIII Vincennes Saint-Denis, are accompanied by the Bétonsalon team to experience, through collective participative observation, “a year in the life of an art center”. Management, administration, audiences, mediation, curating, production, publishing… What knowledge and skills are deployed by the members of an art center team? Around what rhythms and in what spaces is the work organized? What are the narratives and interactions? How does a code of ethics fit in with the production of an exhibition, the organization of artist residencies, the creation of forms of mediation?

Over the course of the year, the students will be asked to find ways of presenting the results of the survey, which may range from qualitative studies and mediation tools to art criticism and even fiction: the production of a sound or visual piece to a round table and other original forms. The format of the presentation, which will take place at the end of the academic year, will be defined over the course of the project, which will be structured by the collective work.