In this three-voice conversation and from our artistic and educational practices, we propose to operate a shift from the term transmission to that of experience. By using this term, it is the haptic dimension (linked to the activity of the touch) of the experience that interests us.
The possibility of “letting ourselves be taught by experience” [1] seems to us, in fact, common to our respective activities. We will then take advantage of this conversation to explore how our experiences, whether they are in the field of choreography, performance or visual and graphic arts, engage one or more communities and make a particular place for language (oral or writing).
[1] Vinciane Desprès, Au bonheur des morts, La découverte, Paris, 2015, p. 29.
Dialogue in French with simultaneous translation to Spanish
This dialogue is part of a program that opens a reflection on the notion of transmission and critical thinking about practices and knowledges in performing arts today. A four-day program activated in different spaces of the Mercat dels Flors.
Jocelyn Cottencin: Visual artist with multifaceted productions, Jocelyn Cottencin engages his work in several artistic fields and develops projects that combine art, politics and notion of terrain. He uses for his projects notably installation, performance, film, book through recurring themes such as the group and the community. For the past ten years, he has been engaged in a cycle of projects based on a principle of collective experience rather than the production of objects. He often works with students, young dancers, specific communities with which he pursues this reflection on the group, the desire, the relationship to the territory in a society grappling with decisive upheavals. His latest works are installations where filmmaking holds an important place which generally mix with fiction, documentary through performative actions.
Anne Kerzerho:is currently the educational director of the master's practice at ICI - Center chorégraphique national de Montpellier after having held the same position at the contemporary dance school of the CNDC in Angers. Previously, she worked at CCN Rennes as development manager. There, she designs support systems for young artists and, with choreographer Alain Michard, initiates the A domicile, artist residences in rural areas event. From 2010, she developed with the choreographer Loïc Touzé, the project Around the table, a performative and nomadic device around the knowledge and practices of the body. She has participated in the Autour de la Table editions in Berlin, Istanbul, Angers, Montreal, Montpellier, Grenoble and Ardèche.
Photo by Jocelyn Cottencin.
