Description
“In the beginning, there was the question of tomorrow. Seen from today. With what we’re wearing. Each and every one of us. After the introductions, we went shouting in the forest. We observed the small details, the almost invisible, and discussed them. We watched the film “Soleil Vert”. We exchanged and shared. All the way through. We told each other what was bothering us. We wrote. We wrote a lot. On sheets of paper with our pens. On windows covered in Meudon white. On signs carried all around. In the fields, in the heart of the forest, near springs, close to farms.
We chose a place on the site where we could write even more.
A place that would also allow us to welcome the public and create an installation that would reflect our actions and reflections. And a place where we could show our film. Through-light as an ally of our poetry. We welcomed many people and showed and told them what we had done.
Blanc de Meudon on glass. Maison des Soeurs de la Retraite Chrétienne, Les Fontenelles”.
Laurent Lacotte, with a class from Lycée St-Joseph des Fontenelles
Action
These workshops were conducted within the framework of the Visual artists in high school program proposed by the Burgundy-Franche-Comté Region. Through this program – and with the partnership of the DRAC and the DRAAF – the Regional Council of Franche-Comté aims to arouse the curiosity and encourage the initiatives of high school students by meeting artists and discovering places of creation and artistic dissemination.
Three approaches are approached during the residency: the encounter with a work through the discovery of a creative process, the artistic and cultural practice and the construction of an aesthetic judgment. Having begun with a visit to Bien Urbain, the objective is to bring the students to discover the field of urban arts, as much through sensitivity as through practice.
Biographie
For more than fifteen years, Laurent Lacotte has been working directly in urban and suburban spaces and common areas. He questions the rules of these spaces, and beyond his actions and interventions, allows himself to draw up sensitive and poetic cartographies of the places he crosses. The participatory dimension is an integral part of his work, and has enabled him to work with a wide variety of audiences. Each immersion in a new territory is an adventure in itself, a pretext for discovery and contact. Writing and poetry play a fundamental role in her work. Through textual inscriptions in exhibition venues and public spaces, he gives voice to the people with whom he works. Attentive to the needs of others, he believes that art is a lever for exchange, and that it should speak to as many people as possible.
Laurent Lacotte teaches at Via Ferrata, the Beaux-Arts preparatory school in Paris, and is volunteer co-director of the ARCA springboard program at Doc, an artistic production and distribution space in Paris.
Crédits
Laurent Lacotte