A day organised by the national networks A+U+C (Art + University + Culture) and TRAS (Transversale des Réseaux Arts Sciences), in partnership with Avignon University and the Festival d'Avignon.
Far from being merely places where academic knowledge is passed on, higher education establishments are living laboratories of citizenship, where critical thinking is forged. Between freedom and commitment, they offer everyone the opportunity to express themselves, to question the world and to build collective responses.
Artistic and cultural practices play a fundamental role in this: they open up spaces for experimentation, freeing up speech, encouraging the diversification of expression and the emergence of new artistic forms. The work of the cultural services, student, scientific and educational initiatives and the presence of a wide range of artists and contributors open up new horizons.
New alliances and collaborative spaces are being developed between campuses and local players, bringing together artists, scientists, students and citizens. These initiatives are also giving rise to new, hybrid forms, at the crossroads of live performance, the visual arts, art in the public space and living spaces.
It is also through these practices that social ties are strengthened. By bringing together a variety of audiences, encouraging the exchange and confrontation of ideas, and giving a place to singular expressions and sometimes marginalised voices, artistic and cultural activities on campus, and their openness to the city, help to build a diverse and plural community.
The day will provide an opportunity to exchange ideas with a wide range of speakers and to discover three works by young artists from universities.
2pm/6pm Shows presented and supported by the Art + University + Culture national network
2.55pm & 5.25pm - Cloister
Camembert: the crowning glory - Collectif Nous indiscipliné-e-s – Theatre
How do you laugh at political and institutional violence? How can we subvert dominant figures? How can we highlight the ridiculousness of the political situation we're in without inflicting violence on the audience?
In the form of a TV zap - tableaux of light interspersed with black - we satirise a capitalist, bourgeois, patriarchal system born of a Christian culture. The tone is direct, sometimes provocative, often parodic. On stage, our queer bodies sing in a choir, lipsync Marlène Schiappa's tirades, read tales to the audience and eat Ostia on their knees, their tongues outstretched towards pious black leather hands.
Every gesture is held back, as if shy of appearing on this stage where camembert boxes and plastic crowns meet, right up to the orgiastic collective scenes where each character seems to reveal their true face. The play is dressed in a burlesque, drag and militant aesthetic: sequins, balaclavas, heels and cardboard signs".
Project supported by the Culture Department of the University of Lille and the Art + University + Culture network (A+U+C)
Photo and visual credits: Jean-François Quais, Malo Baillivet and Eliot Rivierre
3.50pm & 5.40pm Amphitheatre AT01
Papé - Lou Couston – Dance
"In front of me is my body,
I watch him, I watch myself, automated
so I drift".
Papé explores the sensations of a new organic reality that imposes itself and disturbs.
Without seeking to describe or portray these states, Lou attempts to experience them fully. From the slightest surge of stress to the presence of a pathology, this play offers a plunge into the experience of losing control.
"I want to explore the sensation of a foreign body, of a reality that imposes itself and disturbs. That moment when control gives way, when mobility is lost, when the body no longer responds as it did before.
The mind observes, resists or tries to let go. I don't want to recount or depict these states, but to try to feel them fully.
This solo is a plunge into the experience of loss of control, from the slightest surge of stress to the presence of a pathology".
Lou Couston is a high-level student-artist at Grenoble INP Ensimag.
Project supported by the Art + University + Culture (A+U+C) network.
2pm & 4.25pm University Library
Sand - Ulysse Kaldor Company – Theatre
Characters move between two spaces, one far away, the other much closer. Their conversations and thoughts are revealed to us in bits and pieces. Gradually, the past resurfaces, and the stories that link these people are reconstructed before our eyes, stories that are both ordinary and tragic. Some become narrators of the stories of others, interweaving their voices. The plot takes shape, but the ambiguity remains: is it reconstructed, fantasised, invented from scratch by others?
"We chose to start with two authors who haunt us both: Samuel Beckett and Marguerite Duras. In some of their plays we found disturbing echoes, motifs that we wanted to explore: the importance of the seascape, the beach, in the background and its influence on the thoughts and relationships between people, strong relationships very often associated with absence, with lack, and of which we don't know whether they are being told in the present or belong only to an already distant and flickering memory."
Sam Cornu is a researcher, playwright and director, Camille Protar is a director, actor, sound designer and researcher. Both are working on a doctorate in research and creation at Avignon University. Company supported by the Actée network
A project supported by Avignon University and the Art + University + Culture (A+U+C) network.
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