Tentatives par un ciel couvert

Workshop and performance

A proposal and design by Aurelie Haberey, artist researcher, teacher in the photography department of Université Paris 8. In collaboration with Rose Durr researcher in anthropology and Killian Abautret, artist writer. With the participation of students. M1 and M2 of the photography department of Paris 8.

This project takes as a starting point the research of Nicéphore Niépce on the fixity of the image and more particularly from the angle of the correspondence that he maintained with his brother Claude Niépce.

Tentatives par un ciel couvert is a title that takes the fragment of a sentence extracted from one of the letters. It evokes an action, gestures, an atmospheric imaginary, a technical constraint, a climatic dimension. This collection of archival documents, a vast, dense and confused space, abundant and incomplete, retraces and reveals the exchange between two brothers mixing the experience of research with emotional language. Heliography, which is both a process and a photograph on a tin plate, becomes for us a trigger for contacts where the process of creation is made in the relationship.

The workshop proposes to make appear a landscape with a relational form. Playing on the mode of correspondence, the experiments and essays of the students in photography extend the gestures of Nicéphore Niépce by developing in their turn the experimentation. Here the process of creation continues in the relationship, through contact. This workshop thus proposes to perform the search in interaction with the letters of Nicéphore Niépce and Claude Niépce. We will use these documents freely.

This workshop led by Aurélie Haberey is part of its processual and collaborative artistic research where the image is experimental and linked to scenic forms. This proposal draws on the materials of his ongoing research entitled Bringing up images; the creation of a landscape in relational form around the fragility and non-fixity of the photographic image.

During this time of work in collaboration with Rose Durr and Killian Abautret, we will set up a work of writing, voice and body practicing the performance which will be both a methodological tool and a plastic form that will make visible their research.

This workshop questions, the gesture between research and creation, performance as research practice and artistic form but also the text document and the living document. He also questions the permeability of research, its poetic, empirical part, its inspirations but also its pragmatic aspects.

Collaboration with LE BAL will take many forms. First of all as an external look during the working sessions to feed the research reflection but also as a place hosting the performance created as part of the workshop. For this event, students will be invited. are to perform their research process from a choreography of gestures experienced during the workshop.

Aurélie Haberey