Unexpected Items In The Bagging Area
Unexpected Items In The Bagging Area is a project developed by the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC) and IRCAM through a research and creation workshop piloted by the artists and teachers Yann Beauvais and Jérôme Combier accompanied by Grégoire Lorieux and Sébastien Naves (IRCAM) on the theme of “images in motion and sonic experiences”.
Using the concepts of a projected image and experimental cinema as a starting point, the ENSAPC students developed their thoughts, research, physical and musical proposals, in connection with other mediums such as poetry, improvised music, computer music, or installations.
Originally intended to be exhibited at IRCAM and the Ygrec-ENSAPC art center these creations, due to the current health crisis, will be accessible on social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) from June 15, 2020. Every day, extracts, adaptations, trailers, and complete works produced by seven ENSAPC students will be proposed: Dylan Altamiranda, Yannis Briki and Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit, Lina Filipovich, Aurélie Massa, Loïck Mfoundou, Amosphère, in collaboration with IRCAM.
Faced with isolation, lack of access to certain physical and technological tools, and uncertainty, it seemed important to both teachers and students to show that beyond the constraints of the moment, creative and collective commitment are means by which living things assert themselves.
Amosphère x NSDOS
ATyPtek
“With the artificial future of humanity and its counterpart, the future-human, is machines, a kind of existential test is therefore underway. From now on, a being only experiences emotions an inseparable assembly of human and non-human. The transformation of force into the last word of the truth of beings signals the entry into the final age of man, that of the being that can be made in a fabricated world.” Achille Mbembe, Brutalisme, 2020.
The artists NSDOS and Amosphère (aka Amo Vaccaria) offer a series of sonic and performative works to discover. They were developed and fostered in “ATyPtek”, a virtual ecosystem in which the audience becomes an active visitor who can activate a selection of works and interact with them via avatars.
This immersive proposition is a part of a larger question on the role and power of certain artistic practices in a context where a pandemic imposes social distancing. This proposition attempts to answer the following questions: What are the possibilities for sonic and corporal performance during a pandemic? What architectural forms are possible for a world in which the future is so uncertain?
Dylan Altamiranda
Tu te souviens de cette chanson ?
Tu te souviens de cette chanson ? (2020) is an audiovisual work. Dylan Altamiranda invited several people to sing, a capella, two emblematic pieces of classical music: Ave Maria by Schubert and Turkish March by Beethoven (two pieces broadcast regularly in Latin America). The people invited to perform didn’t have to know the words, or even how to sing.
The result is an audiovisual piece in which the chorus made up of songs, whistling, humming reworked by the artist, offering a reinterpretation-reconstruction of the works by Beethoven and Schubert.
Tu te souviens de cette chanson ? highlights and questions the re-appropriation of colonial heritage and the integration of “worldly” culture in popular culture.
Lina Filipovich
So Blue
So Blue is a video combined with an audio collage, made from songs by Elvis Presley and fragments from Marlen Khoutsiev's film I Am Twenty as well as documentaries. It retraces an imagined trip made by Elvis to Minsk (USSR) in 1962 and places the viewer in front of a hybrid work, neither fiction nor documentary.
Yannis Briki et Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit
La Cabine
Telephone boxes are ghosts of our landscape. They have disappeared quietly and gradually. Originally conceived as an installation, La Cabine is a project that imagines and stages a space-time in which various vocal messages, utilitarian or intimate, personal or professional, that have not been received by their addressee would be lost and would arrive in a single booth, left for a visitor to listen to.
Aurélie Massa
Bio-scénose
Bio-scénose is a video in which two leaves tell their existence and their story in the world, and how they die in it. Witnesses of the plant, these voices are addressed to the spectator, who is invited as the narration progresses to get closer to them in order to hear them.
This work, which originates from a text by Aurélie Massa, was developed during the ENSAPC-IRCAM collaboration in the form of an audiovisual production. The objective of this research was to find the tools for modifying the voice, in order to create a sound matter from a discours, "a voice common to the plant and human worlds".
Loïck Mfoundou
A10
Loïck Mfoundou works as a courier when a road accident sends him to the hospital. A10 is the witness account of this trauma that the spectator relives, their gaze becoming that of the artist inside the passenger seat of his car and seeing the scene of the accident.
The interminable suspense imposed by the monotony of the motorway images and the voyeuristic perception from inside the vehicle combine to form a flat and violent metaphor for the condition of many workers with precarious employment in France.
An ENSAPC, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou coproduction, in collaboration with the Centre d’Art Ygrec-ENSAPC.