Installation, 10 digital photographs, 4 videos, 2 headsets, 2 touch pads, 2 projections

 

10 digital photographs, 4512 x 3000 pixels or 3000 x 4512 pixels, variable dimensions ; 2 HD videos, sound, color, loop (Interview of Adèle BERNARD, 1440 x 1080 pixels, 5’09’’ and interview with Anna ETTER, 1440 x 1080 pixels, 4’07’’) and 2 soundtracks, loop (Interview with Marie FRIEDRICH, 6’50’’ and Interview with Louka ABOULADZE, 7’18’’)

 

HD video, 1440 x 1080 pixels, color, sound, loop, 12’31’’

 

HD video, 1440 x 1080 pixels, color, sound, loop, 27’52’’

 

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This work aims to be displayed as an installation. A video is projected on a wall (on the left) and reconstructs the performance that took place on March 9, 2019. The central wall bears 10 digital photographs and 2 videographies and 2 soundtracks with headphones available to the public. This wall retraces key moments photographed as well as interviews of members who participated in this performance. On the wall on the right, viewers can discover the projection of a panel talk that brings out the feelings and reflections of people following this experience.

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This project is a collective performative research focusing on my affinities, aiming to develop a sensitive reflection on the creation of a concept that I named “Ekaïrosophie” by trying to make participants more aware of their environment, the people around them and themselves. 

 

“Ekaïrosophie” is one of my inventions that derives from the concepts of (environmental, social and mental) ecosophy and the Greek word “kaïros” (decisive moment) that would form e-care-osophy (care). Ekaïrosophie would mean inhabiting one’s place, one’s social bonds by investing oneself, being awake, being constantly on the alert, but also inhabiting oneself and developing a mental wisdom based on awareness and evolution through experiences, decisive moments (kaïros) that we can meet.

 

This performance based on improvisation started after the explanation of my research followed by each participant picking a label uphazard. The labels read “voice, song”, “gesture, signs, dance”, “silence”, “sound”, “writing, reading” or “place”. Everyone had to memorize their label, keep it confidential and depart from it to create individually, collectively and with the place. Videography or photography made it possible to keep traces of this event and specifically of the links that could emerge between the people. A therapeutic art can therefore be revealed by the joint construction of a collective and individual memory, of a social consciousness, which feeds our process of reflection and creation.