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Final Group 1

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The result was too fashioned and stylised. The pictures did not show the contrast between the female body and posture with and without the prosthetics. After taking the test photos our team understood the need to be purposeful with every detail - from the hair and accessories of the model to her posture, in order to showcase the idea of "The Weight On Our Shoulders"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sqCUcYpYO4

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PRESENTATION FR - Illusion de république 

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PRESENTATION FR - Illusion de république 

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Nous nous sommes penchés sur l'appartenance des corps à une culture et au pays dans lequel il se trouve. Quel est notre ressenti aujourd'hui en France ? Pour nous il y a un contraste entre les supposés liberté et égalité de l'identité républicaine française et la difficulté à accepter les cultures et les différences. Afin d'illustrer plastiquement cette idée, nous avons réalisé un cadre dans lequel nous avons tendu une matière qui nous semblait particulièrement intéressante: le collant. La proximité avec le corps est indéniable et elle nous permet d'exprimer la tension, l'opposition, la fragilité et la non-transparence. La couleur unie souligne l'uniformisation voulu par l'État qui contraint les corps à travers des filtres culturels. En jouant avec nos corps nous montrons la difficulté à se frayer un chemin, à traverser ce cadre qui contrôle nos corps. La constitution est projetée sur ces gestes, puis des chiffres, rappellent que chacun est catégorisé partout où il se trouve. Ainsi les corps luttent contre ce cadre.

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https://youtu.be/hg1xpa2xgsI

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Final project

For our project, we chose the body as the stage to convey our message. Then, we chose plastic as our medium, which allowed us to question the effects on the living body and at the same time its negative impact on the natural world.  By restricting our movements, causing harm to ourselves, and suffocating ourselves, we saw plastics harmful results on a living body, and at the same time on the environment as a whole.  Plastic, generated in immense quantities by human beings, modifies our ecosystem, oppressing and poisoning it.  If you would like to know more about our learning process throughout the week, all the information can be found on our padlet.

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Headdress Dach et Zéphir

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Jewel Dach et Zéphir

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Dach and Zéphir

The French artists Dach and Zéphir inspired us to think about the object (in our case, the prosthetic) as a medium and a part of a larger whole. Their work "La figure de l'autre" tackles history and cultural heritage as capable of producing a language of forms, materials and uses, at the origin of artefacts. That is why our prosthetics found inspiration in the African head vase as an object serving to keep the body standing straight.

Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist- Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women

Haraway’s manifesto inspired us to think about prosthetics as means of transcending societal boundaries. According to her work, a human body with a prosthetic (understood in a broader sense of extensions) signifies a rejection of rigid boundaries, notably those separating "human" from “animal” and “human” from "machine." That led us to reflect on the existence of boundaries, especially for women, and on the way in which objects can serve as either tools to break the chains making them unfree, or as tools to keep them in the same cage of societal boundaries, norms and gazes.

Chicago School of Media Theory, definition of prosthetic

Karl Marx's description of the connection between material things and social relations lays the foundation for twentieth century theories of prosthesis: "There is a physical relation between things. But it is different with commodities...There it is a definite social relation between men, that assumes, in their eyes, the fantastic form of a relation between things" (Marx 77). The blurred line between men and the materialism of the commodity sets up a prosthetic system in which social relations are determined by the material relations between commodities, ultimately alienating men from one another and from themselves.

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China's pictures taken by Yiming Yao Sciences Po student

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4. VALÉRIE JOUVE :

Bodies in Resistance (Corps en résistance) by Valérie Jouve

‘I’ve always been obsessed with the alchemy between the Other and oneself, between the space and the person, between the collective and the individual. (...) that was when i began to think about a different approach to the photographic portrait and the figures began to converse with the space around them. The traditional portrait stresses an identity, whereas I felt that I was more interested in setting a body of individuals against the body of the Jean Nouvel building.’

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2. GEORGE DODDS :

Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture by George Dodds in Sixteenth Century Journal · July 2003

‘Johannes Wilde compares Giorgione’s portrait Laura – in which “the flesh has been rendered in a variety of tints, among them a very intense red” – with the “colour sensations [one experiences] in the south in the deceptively transparent air which precedes a sudden storm in the summer.” Wilde concludes that, in this manner, Giorgione has purposefully demonstrated, “that figure and surrounding are inseparable, and that plastic form only exists in a space full of light and atmos- phere” ’.

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5. LE CORBUSIER, 'LE MODULOR' :

The Modulor is an architectural concept invented by Le Corbusier in 1945. A standardised human figure used to design the structure and size of housing units. He believed that it should allow maximum comfort in the relationship between man and his living space. Thus, Le Corbusier thought of creating a system more suitable than the metric system, as it is directly linked to human morphology, and he hoped one day to see the latter replaced.

http://www.veroniquechemla.info/2015/05/le-siecle-de-le-corbusier-de-juliette.html

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Our bodies make another universe. Combining Emanuele Coccia’s idea and the Modulor by Le  Corbusier, the organic (body) and the inorganic (building) are integrated: bodies are tools for measure, the internal movement of the organic body simulates the operation of an inorganic urban. Heads and faces were cut out to show the loss of identity. After talking about how urbanization change the chinese landscape, we started our experiments based on the personal photos of Yiming Yao, a student of Sciences Po, currently in China. With the urban landscape as a reference, intersecting bodies of different skin color delivers the sense of alterity, of both the foreign and the organic.

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3. KLAUS KAMPERT :
Mostly dealing with the human body, with the triad of body-mind-emotion in particular. The body is for him the shell of the soul and it is this he try to explore.

https://www.lensculture.com/klaus-2

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How to recreate the city landscape with bodies.

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New Babylon Stories for the exposition 'La région humaine : des corps dans la ville'.

https://lebleuduciel.net/edition/

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https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artists-reclaimed-pantyhose-provocative-sculptures

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The use of similar lines to Kiwanga connotes at once, veins and lines of a broken map. This is a referral to the construction of a French identity- both based in historical land possessions and the inability to deny difference today.

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scenes: constitution, identity numbers, screen and body with lines.

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http://galeriepoggi.com/fr/artistes/oeuvres/12156/kapwani-kiwanga#oeuv-82

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We looked into post-colonial artist Kapwani Kiwanga's work who is  living and working in Paris.

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https://bienal.iksv.org/en/bienal-artists/turiya-magadlela

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Day 3 group 3 continued - Artist Reference 

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Day 3 group 3 continued - Artist Reference 

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We researched the work of Turiya Magadlela. She is a South African Artist who works with pantyhose in her work. The space she creates in the image below is a similar use of the tights that we had thought of. We thereafter decided to create a mobile 'wall' with the material, mimicking the way she has done.

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Notebook planning to the left. Transcription: refined idea is to work on the hypocrisy of the french values freedom and liberty and universality. Conversation around the existing violence against minorities in the country is silenced under the pretext that equality exists de facto not only de jure. The Republic is supposedly universally accepting  yet expression of difference is considered an act against the state (yet this is only applicable to certain groups).
The sketches below demonstrate our first  ideas for the tights to serve as a restrictive wall against the spectator themselves and to enter a space where film develop our theme more.

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We researched artists who have worked with tights in their work. Marianna Bernhaut and Martin Soto use of objects inspired some of the experimentation to the left. . We first tried using ‘found objects’ (as of the Dada movements). The rock was symbolic in terms of the weight a body carries, or the weight of resistance against control. The painting and smashing of the vases had relevance to our theme of forced assimilation however, after the group discussion we agreed to work a lot more on the semiotics and symbolism of all aspects of the work.

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“The Weight On Our Shoulders” is a social commentary about the pressure put on female bodies to appear perfectly balanced and straight. A series of photographs presents the difference between a woman's natural posture and a woman’s “ideal” posture with prosthetics made to help the body stand straight. A prosthesis refers to an extension of a body by artificial means. Anything can be an extension, a prosthetic, an unnatural feature, which shakes societal boundaries. Human body with prosthetics signifies a rejection of rigid boundaries, notably those separating "human" from "machine." Yet social norms often cage the possibilities for the female body to transcend already set boundaries. After all, is not sitting straight a deficiency that needs to be supplemented, or is it a cage? Do prosthetics help supplement a deficiency or do they further alienate women from their own bodies?

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Kristin Koleva (Science po student)
Matteo Pereira (ESAD student)
Gaia Dupont (ESAD student)
Louna Lesperres (ESAD student)

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Yiming Yao, Sciences Po
Ploipailin Vial, ESAD First Year
Calypso Racle, ESAD Third Year Art
Garance Heinry, ESAD First Year

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The Fallacy Republic - Final Project - Cécile Théo Julia Lucile 

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The Fallacy Republic - Final Project - Cécile Théo Julia Lucile 

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Our work will interrogate the relationship between our bodies, the perception of illness, and representations of these relationships. From the start, we wanted to give ourselves a scale: the scale of the body and we relied on key words: oppression / breathing, body constraint / deployment.

To do this, today we made attempts to constrain the body. To constrain the body to signify an oppression of the illness, this desire to fight, to breathe.
We had the idea of ​​trying to oppress the body by constraining it with its movements or by constraining breathing with bubble wrap and rope or by trying to compress the rib cage or even bound feet and hands. The intention would be to make video or photos to illustrate our project. The approach we took today was to see how we could illustrate the oppression and then with a second action break this oppression by the force of the breath and the breath releases.

What didn’t work today. The materials are not suitable for making the inhalation and exhalation visible, the movements of the stomach and lungs are not wide enough. Therefore, we want to try to illustrate this oppression of the body by suffocation. you breathe with your mouth and nose. Coming to constrain your body parts seems a more interesting track to us.

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Inspirations

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Group 3 - The Fallacy Republic Day 1/2 Discussion and Artists 

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Group 3 - The Fallacy Republic Day 1/2 Discussion and Artists 

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After meeting as a group and working around our initial individual ideas  (linked to consumption, space and control) we dove deeper into the work of Pedro Almodovar specifically "La piel que habito". We were inspired by the themes of
bodily transformation and their link to spiritual transformation. The 'neutral' colour palette and actual use of a body suit is something we wanted to work with. Discussing skin its supposed manipulation and fallacy of neutrality. After the group discussion we were focused on the notion of belonging and physical sense of belonging- in relation to contrasts: feeling too big or too small, having and holding autonomy in a space or not. These sensations led us to thinking about means of 'correcting' them through assimilation. Our finals thoughts were on forced assimilation/ intégration state control over body.

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 The Fallacy Republic - Artist Statement Group 3

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 The Fallacy Republic - Artist Statement Group 3

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This work speaks to opposition. The contrast between the liberty and equality that characterises supposed French Republican Identity and the violence that characterises the lives of certain identities in France. The above values promise an acceptance of all, as “there is one universal french identity.” However, universality requires a homogenising force, that is necessarily repressive. Laws such as that against the headscarf or historical colonial policies such as the ‘mission assimilatrice’ are examples in which certain bodies, vessels of identity are controlled by the state.  The frame controls, makes identity uniform through the pale coloured tights. The projection of the constitution and identity numbers is distorted through the physical struggle against the frame. Répression instead of promised liberty is carried by our bodies.

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1. EMANUELE COCCIA, 'METAMORPHIC BEINGS: THE NONHUMAN LIFE IN THE HUMAN BODY AND SPIRIT' :
'To be the world' (Être le monde) by Emannuele Coccia, for the exposition In Tune with the world at Louis Vuitton’s Fondation in 2018.

‘No need to open our eyes to meet it. It boils in us with strenght and intensity same as it manifest in us : with its colors, forms, and ambiguities.’

‘The lines that each lives draws by crossing spaces and time are not only ephemeral ashes of a subjective experience. They are the nerves of the body of the universe.’

Coccia's ideas into  conferences :

in ENG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3t1fq7a5Yc

in FR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX3XI5zI1C0