Workshops
We suggest you take a reservation due to limited capacity: publics@betonsalon.net
Wednesday 13 and Saturday 16 October, 2.30pm to 4.30pm
Wycinanki, paper cutting workshop with Janka Patocka
Workshop 1: intergenerational, six years to infinity
Workshop 2: from 8 to 12 years
Friday 17 September
Heritage Day for Children (Journée des Enfants du Patrimoine)
Workshops with Hélène Deléan
In the ZAC Paris Rive Gauche neighbourhood, imagined by the architect Christian de Portzamparc. Here, contemporary architecture (multicoloured buildings, secret gardens, glass cubes) and heritage industrial architecture and buildings stand side by side (les Frigos, les Grands Moulins de Paris, the compressed air factory). The centre of art and research Bétonsalon is located in a former flour mill, built in 1950 by the architect Denis Honegger.
After a short introduction to the history of the storage building that was converted into a university, the artist Hélène Deléan will ask the students to imagine a new flour distribution system for the neighbourhood. Small groups will work together on a map to show the buildings, infrastructure, vehicles and roads that will enable delivery. Making use of air, water or underground systems, they will mark their network with a pointed instrument, on a large black sheet of paper, giving it the appearance of a negative. Each group will be invited to present their proposal at the end of the session.
WEDNESDAY WORKSHOPS
Intergenerational workshops, from 6 years to infinity, with Mathilde Cameirao
Workshops related to the exhibition The Fold of the Cosmic Belly
by Jagna Ciuchta
Workshop 1: “Our chosen families”
Using Jagna Ciuchta’s exhibition, and the different family connections it explores, as their starting point, the participants can create photos of their chosen families using old enlarged black and white photographs. They will be cut up, decomposed, and recomposed with other fictional or real characters, using fluorescent yellow as a developer or a concealer.
Maurizio Anzeri’s embroidery work on old photographs could also serve as a source of inspiration to work on these family portraits (you do not need to know how to embroider to participate in the workshop).
Participants can, and are strongly encouraged to, bring their own colour or black and white photographs and magazines. They can be photocopied if you don’t want to spoil them, and the images can be cut out and used in the collages.
Workshop 2: “The Guiding Principles”
Jagna Ciuchta uses extremely varied materials and techniques and invites other artists to participate in the exhibition, without ever losing track of her guiding principles. This workshop is an opportunity to create sculptures out of objects gleaned around the home, and words and patterns discovered in the exhibition. The principle and the image (or word) it will constitute becomes what assembles and links these disparate elements to give them a meaning and unity. The focus will be on sharing techniques between participants, exchange of materials and the invitation to include a part of someone else’s work in your own.
Participants are requested to bring materials that are part of their everyday life: an old garment or a piece of cloth, a clean cardboard box, an image (photograph, postcard, magazine), which will be cut up and assembled. Other materials will be available at the workshop.
No embroidery or sewing skills are required.
Workshop 3: “Outside the Frame”
Using the installation created by Jagna Ciuchta and Ana Teresa Barboza (a combination of photography, weaving and embroidery) this workshop is an opportunity to weave with unusual materials: wool as well as paper, fabric or plastic strips that can occupy the space and be connected to other objects or images. Small frames, originally meant for painting, will be diverted to become rudimentary looms. They allow the hybrid work to be woven inside the frame, then overflow into the surrounding space to take over a wall, a corner of the room, the floor, or a few steps of the staircase. The works will be displayed at the end of the workshop in, or in front of, Bétonsalon, and they will be photographed in situ.
No knowledge of weaving is required to participate in the workshop, the participants will be taught the basic principles and a few elementary knots.
Participants are invited to bring a small object or a photograph that will be included in the woven work.
Saturday 25 September, 9 October, 13 November, 20 November, 2.30pm to 4.30pm
Workshops for ages 9-15 with Hélène Deléan
Looking for the Missing Work!
Saturday 25 September, 9 October,13 November, 20 November, 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Four à la carte writing and theatrical improvisation workshops.
The exhibition will be the subject and the playing field for an investigation that concerns a missing work. Structured like role plays, each workshop will address the issue from a certain perspective: situational exercises (presentation of the intrigue and the characters that will be embodied) theatrical improvisation, speculation, photographic techniques, and sketches.
A riso publication will be produced at the end of the sessions, recording the exchanges and documents created, to form unique exhibition catalogue.
Wednesday 29 September, 27 October, 24 November, 2.30pm to 4.30pm Intergenerational workshops, 6 years old to infinity, with Mathilde Cameirao
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