matali crasset is an admired designer, known for her public commissions and numerous editions with brands. In this Talking Heads event hosted by Alexandra Midal, crasset addresses the more subterranean and essential…
Actress Véronique Augereau and actor Philippe Peythieu are the voices behind the French Marge and Homer Simpson. For this Talking Head, Augereau and Peythieu sit down with graphic designer Olivier Lebrun, author…
Artists who are attentive to humanitarian situations raise the question of the gaze in the face of vulnerability and appraise the risks of voyeurism. More generally, the speakers in this section reflect…
These conferences tackle the issue of engagement. Beyond representation, how can art enter into dialogue with communities in the grip of humanitarian crises? Through projects in Kenya, Afghanistan and Beirut, the speakers…
These lectures question the related, though sometimes competing, notions of ethics and aesthetics. Certain symbols make it possible to connect these notions. Similarly, a dialogue between distant perspective and field action allows…
This series of presentations looks at some concrete cases in which art and humanitarian aid work together in crisis areas. The speakers bear witness to the positive impact of art, both in…
Montage is one of the privileged instruments of cinema for directing the attention and emotions of the spectators. Alfred Hitchcock, who defined himself as a director of spectators before being a director…
These lectures highlight the physical and material dimension of montage in various contexts outside cinema. Through musical composition, theatre, architecture or literary creation, montage can be a technique as much as a…
Against a deluge of images, certain forms of montage, compilation and spatialization allow for a critical engagement with images. Doreen Mende looks back at the approaches of Soviet women editors and the…
This series of lectures approaches the notion of montage in arts and activities close to cinema such as new media, video games and comics. Freeing himself from cinemacentrism, Frederik Peeters defends the…