Insiders – pratiques, usages, savoir-faire
Entrepôt Lainé, arc en rêve centre d’architecture / CAPC musée d’art contemporain
par Francine Fort, directrice générale d’arc en rêve centre d’architecture et Charlotte Laubard, directrice du CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
-- Presented during evento 2009, 1st edtion which explored the theme of collective intimacy in Bordeaux from October 9th to 18th, 2009 --
In the face of a new global culture ridden with social and economical crises, new forms of solidarity have arisen in the light of ecological awareness and a new found faith in politics. They allow for the affirmation of new systems of organization and trade founded on cooperation and the open sharing of knowledge.
Insiders bears witness to a new way of looking at different customs and know-how emanating from singular cultures and territories. The modernization and modes of transmission of this popular knowledge –or folk-lore– operates within a global system and inside of local contexts. They highlight the complexity of identities shaped by the appropriations, transformations and combinations without witch such contemporary singularities would not emerge.
This two-fold exhibition, devised as an archipelago of artistic and architectural proposals, combines and assembles a series of recent works, projects, works-inprogress and commissions.
PRACTICES, CUSTOMS, KNOW-HOW
In terms of artistic practices, the project’s general method is founded on the principle of collection. It emulates the customs of the first folklorists, from the 19th century onwards, who studied areas by making observations and inventories. This modus operandi shared by artistic, anthropological and museographic practices, consists of selecting, assembling, collecting, comparing, isolating and preserving the “units” within a whole that appropriately reflect the customs of a society.
In order to broaden this field of inquiry, numerous correspondents – participating observers located in different parts of the world – have been invited to share information about their specific situations. Sets of objects, new works, accounts of “minor histories” and spontaneous archives: all of these proposals are based on the practice of collecting. The exhibition refuses to submit to a panoramic gaze, attempting a more heterogeneous form, similar to a ‘polyphonic’ narrative.
The architectural and urban perspectives are ideally positioned to observe the adjustments and conversions of current economic, environmental and social issues. Its approach is based on a contemporary set of procedures and projects that delineates new territories, forms, symbols and relationships by continually re-actualizing the value of proximity. Its alternative methodologies elaborate new outlooks that blur the established boundaries between professional and
amateur practices.
On a local scale and within networks, these acts of appropriation operate as innovative forces, inventing territories and initiating real and virtual situations. They offer the chance to rehabilitate the original folklores and to develop a fundamental globalization of shared, dynamic affinities.
How does architectural and urban creation anticipate these new conditions? How do architects, urban planners and landscape architects base their work on these new relationships with the world –with culture, aesthetics, techniques, history and economics– in order to put alternative strategies in place and invent new models?
With 2012 Architecten with Cornelia Lauf, 4 Taxis, Kim Adams, Anonymes, Cory Arcangel, Vladimir Arkhipov, Bertille Bak, Ball & Nogues Studio, Leah Beeferman, Patrick Bouchain, Alexander Brodsky, Patrice Caillet, Jean-Marc Chapoulie + Denis Savary, Raimond Chaves (performance) with Inti Guerrero, Cybermohalla with Cédric Vincent, Calin Dan, Burning Man Festival, Stefan Canham + Rufina Wu, Crimsons Architectural Historians, Burö Detours, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel + Mick Peter, Jeremy Deller, La demeure du chaos / Thierry Ehrmann, Stephane Doesinger, Jimmie Duhram, El Ultimo Grito, EqA, Ruth Ewan, Fashion Architecture Taste, Peter Fattinger + Design-Build, Cao Fei, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Freistilmuseum with Tiphanie Blanc, Terunobu Fujimori, Anna Galtarossa & Daniel Gonzalez, Dionisio Gonzalez, Gramazio & Kohler, Richard Greaves, Peter Haimerl, Helen & Hard, Anna Heringer, HildunK, Interbreeding Field, Pierre Joseph, Alan Kane, Igloo Media / Kastello, Palaces of the Roma in Romania, Mike Kelley, Le Vilain, Laurent Legall, Jacques Loeuille, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Joseph Marzolla / Dona Kossy & Kooks Museum, Asier Mendizabal, Mathieu Mercier, MMW, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Gaël Peltier, Nikolay Polissky, Marjetica Potrc, Arne Quinze, Raumlabor, Pedro G. Romero / Archivo F.X., Adelfo Scaranello, Janet Lee Scott / Papiers funéraires, Dubravka Sekulic & Ivan Kucina, Jim Shaw, SPEEDISM, Sitesize, Brad Templeton, Suzanne Treister, Oscar Tuazon, Marcel Türkowski, Viljoen & Bohn, Kai Vöckler + Archis Interventions, Mario Ybarra jr., Andrea Zittel…
Lainé Warehouse, arc en rêve architecture center, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art
