- Conference : Création : de l’idée à sa réalisation — Comment artistes et techniciens travaillent-ils ensemble ?
- Speakers : Mathieu Audejean et Angela Frères (Les Fabricateurs / Panem et circenses), Pierre Andrac et Jany Jérémie (Lieux publics et Cie), Douglas Edric Stanley (École des beaux arts d’Aix-en-Provence)
- Moderator : Marc Voiry
- Conference series : Sirènes et blablabla
- Location : Palais Longchamp, Marseille, France
- Date & Time : Wednesday, 3 June 2009, 18:00
- Live radio broadcast : Radio Grenouille 88.8, Marseille
- Live stream : Radio Grenouille
Tomorrow I’ll be taking part in a radio debate on the subject of collaboration between artists and technicians, with the opening question: « how do artists and technicians work together ? ».
It is an odd formulation, no matter how commonplace, especially considering the obvious role form and forming play in any production of art. As if the artist came before the forming, instead of the other way around, or (even better) simultaneously. But of course, the idea itself has become so common that we have somehow taken it for granted as if by mere repetition we had somehow forgotten to distinguish temperament and disposition : art and technique are somehow, in some parallel universe that would be simultaneously our own, two disparate entities that after having been separated at birth can now be brought together in some novel embrace. That we still have to disentangle ourselves from such artificial constructs, it’s maddening. Art and the technosciences, two opposing forces brought together at last, how charming an idea — how charming, and how charmingly tedious. When do we get to move on from the preliminaries to the actual nature of our contemporary state of affairs?