Truant School [visions of clouds], Summer 2022, bermuda
Residency and conferences
With EDOUARD CABAY, architect, Annalisa De Cia, astrophysicist, DONOVAN LE COADOU, artist, DAVID GERSTEN, educator, MARION NEUMANN, documentary film maker, ANNA HOLVECK, artist, ANDRE OUREDNIK, data scientist and writer, NICOLAS PRIGNOT, science philosopher, THEO ROBINE LANGLOIS, writer, ALAN RUIZ, artist, Lei Saito, artist LINA SCHLAGETER, dancer, Gordan Savičić, artist, CAMILLE SEVEZ & DEBORAH BRON artits.
Gordan Savičić
Gordan Savičić is a creative technologist, artist and designer whose work investigates the relationship between people, networks and interfaces. He has a background in media art and visual communication, and he has been active within the fields of academic research, teaching and design industry.
Nicolas Prignot
Doctor and philosopher, Nicolas Prignot explores narratives and speculative gestures in times of devastation through subjects such as agriculture on polluted soil or electrosensitivity. He teaches at the School of Graphic Research in Brussels and at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts de Saint-Luc in Tournai. Member of the constructivist study group of the Free University of Brussels, he collaborated in the colloquium and the collective work Gestures speculatives, directed by Didier Debaise and Isabelle Stengers (Presses du réel, 2015) and in the publication Terres des villes, Brussels vegetable surveys in the first seasons of the 21st century (L’Éclat, 2018). Nicolas Prignot is a graduate of the master’s degree in experimentation in arts and politics at Sciences Po Paris and defended a thesis entitled The wave, the proof and the militant, directed by Isabelle Stengers and Benoît Timmermans, having as a starting point the three ecologies of Felix Guattari.
Lina Schlageter
Graduated from the CNDC in Angers, Lina Schlageter has a Bachelor’s degree in dance performing arts from Paris 8, and from the CNSMDP in Laban kinetography. She produces choreographic pieces, performances, sound installations and audio guides depending on the context, and interprets for various choreographers including Loïc Touzé, Dominique Brun, Marie Orts. She also collaborates with visual artists such as Ulla van Brandenburg, Bertrand Dezoteux, Flora Moscovici, Louise Siffert.
Her latest choreographic project, De sept voiles, is a translation of The Dance of the Seven Veils by Salomé performed by Alla Nazimova in the 1923 film of the same name. For this project Lina Schlageter carried out a rigorous analysis of this peculiar dance in order to produce a choreographic score. She is interested in the ability of movement writing to generate narratives, to account for dances while including the possibility of writing errors and bugs in interpretation.
Edouard Cabay
Edouard Cabay is an architect and professor of architecture. He founded and currently directs Appareil, an experimental architectural office in Barcelona. He teaches, as senior faculty, at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. He has taught experimental design studios at the AA School in London, at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris and at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
Machinic Protocols is a research using automated drawing techniques in order to explore notions of indeterminacy and chance in space. Since 2015, the research has been carried mainly in the domain of architectural academia yet strongly engages with other fields such as computational design, digital technologies, calligraphy and cartography.
Marion Neumann
Marion Neumann is a Geneva-based filmmaker. She has a Master in documentary film / camera from the HFF in Munich. Her first feature “This moment is not the same” (2010) was the result of a community experiment. Her work as a cinematographer screened in many festivals, with films such as “Wild plants” (2016) by Nicolas Humbert, and “Naturales Historiae” (2019) by Pauline Julier. “The Mushroom Speaks” (2021) is her second feature-length film.
The Mushroom Speaks is a film taking on a walk alongside parasites, symbionts and decomposers offering ideas of both interconnectedness and collaboration. Driven by a vision of resistance, the encounters seek possibilities of renewal and question what connects us when the world seems to be falling apart.
Marion Neumann, April 2021, The Mushroom Speaks, documentary, Switzerland, 90 min
Uri Wegman
Uri Wegman is an architect and an educator. He has taught at the Cooper Union in New York and currently teaching at EPFL in Lausanne. Uri holds a Bachelor of architecture from the Cooper Union and a Master’s degree with distinction from the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Cooper Union where he teaches design studio. His work has been exhibited at Storefront for Art and Architecture and OffRamp, and has been published in the Journal of Architectural Education and the New York Times. He practiced at the Situ Studio and the Sarah Oppenheimer Studio before co-founding Outer Architecture.
Tracking clouds. Could we depict clouds through their modes of transformation and movement rather than by their fixed shape ? Tracking clouds is an ongoing research focusing on the various hidden traces and structures of transformation revealed by implementing track motion technology and machine vision learning to footage of moving clouds.
André Ourednik
André Ourednik is a geographer, researcher, fiction writer and lecturer (EPFL and the University of Neuchâtel). Trained in geography, philosophy and mathematical methods for the human sciences, he is the author of a doctoral thesis on the digital modeling of inhabited space. His publications include the hypertext Wikitractatus (2014), Omniscience, a metaphysical satire of the civilization of data (2017) and the essay Hypertopia (2019).
Robopoieses questions the confinement of the field of artificial intelligence to decision-making. First by considering the fundamental artificiality of any form of collective thought, starting with language itself. Further by reflecting on how speech and other artificial constructs mediate our relationship to the unspeakable and the elusive, in other words: our relationship to nature.
David Gersten
David Gersten is an architect, writer and educator based in New York City. He has been a Professor in The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union, since 1991, where he has served as Associate Dean under Dean John Hejduk and Acting Dean of the School of Architecture. He has taught studios and seminars at every level of the School’s five-year program, as well as a series of seminars titled ‘The House of Poetry’ in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Professor Gersten currently heads Architectonics, the first-year Design Studio and teaches an Advanced Concepts seminars entitled; ‘A Material Imagination of the Social Contract’.
David Gersten is the founding Director and President of: Arts Letters & Numbers, a non-profit arts and education organization dedicated to expanding the experiences understood as education through creating new structures and spaces
Alan Ruiz
Alan Ruiz is an artist whose work examines the protocols that shape and condition space through economic, aesthetic, and social systems. His work has been exhibited in both national and international institutions including the Kitchen, Queens Museum, the Storefront for Art & Architecture, and TG, Nottingham. His writing has been published in ArtForum, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Archinect, ED, BOMB Magazine, and Movement Research Performance Journal. He has taught classes at the Rhode Island School of Design, Wesleyan University, and currently teaches at Eugene Lang, The New School and the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons.
Anna Holveck
Anna Holveck weaves links between the experience of sound, performance, voice, video, writing and musical composition. By confronting these practices with the environment, with the contexts, she wonders about the ways space influences the morphology of the sound. How it provokes a particular reading, responds to the composition and enters into resonance.
Barely visible, Theo’s silhouette stands out against a vast Pyrenean mountain landscape. A hiss comes from the crest. Difficult to identify the source. An echo. Bernard waits and observes the panorama. Theo’s silhouette blends into the landscape and appears from time to time. Bernard looks for him. They whistle to each other information about their positions and their route.
Quio quio (the dialogue), 2020, Color video installation, 13 minutes. Sound installation, double stereo, Aubisque pass
With Theo Peyrusque and Bernard Miqueu
Donovan Le Coadou
Donovan Le Coadou is interested in the circulation and movement of forms over time, the cycles they undergo, their births, their disappearances and the creations they generate. Ruin, nostalgia, recovery, collection are notions he tackles in his works.
For Run Test project, he was hosted on the TOTAL industrial site in Dunkirk as part of the “Enterprise artist residency” program supported by the Ministry of Culture.
Théo Robine-Langlois
Théo Robine-Langlois lived in Juvisy, Cergy, Taipei, Grenoble, Paris. He writes on the internet, in magazines, produces exhibitions, radio broadcasts. His first book, […], was published in 2016. He has been a correspondent for *DUUU radio since 2014, for which he has produced numerous programs, such as LFI (La rocket intergalactic).
He explores language through different writing media.
It’s always beautiful a cloud at worst it’s annoying is a sound piece made from [...], the first text by Théo Robine-Langlois, published by NOUS editions, grmx collection in 2016, and edited by *DUUU.