20. – 21.05.2025 | Talk and workshop
Pascaline Morincôme: Community Video and Writing Workshop
TALK
Tracing part of my research, this presentation focuses on the use of video in the context of the Aids pandemic from the early 1980s, through the 1990s and into the early 2000s. In this presentation, I will focus in particular on the use of ‘self-writing’ on camera and first-person narration, by video artists from LGBTQIA+, feminist and anti-racist organizations, invested in processes of individual and collective emancipation. The presentation will be built around a selection of videos and excerpts from various practitioners such as Guillaume Dustan, Alexandra Juhasz and Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski.
The evening is open to all interested students, and will also provide an opportunity to meet with the group participating in the following day's workshop.
WORKSHOP
The workshop will revolve around writing workshops, group readings, discussions, and the making of short films to explore first-person narration more directly. First, I'll propose playful writing exercises that we can use on a daily basis to free up our writing or get down to work, and which we'll practice together. Then we'll translate these texts or bits of text into images, working as simply as possible with our phone, cameras, laptops or image recorders of our choice.
BIO
Pascaline Morincôme is a researcher, curator and teacher. She is particularly interested in alternative video and film forms, and the militant practices that can result from them. Among other projects, she co-organized with Sibylle de Laurens the Seedy Films cycle of lectures and screenings at the Bibliothèque Kandinsky and the Centre Pompidou cinema from 2017 to 2019. Between 2019 and 2020, she worked with Olga Rozenblum and Julien Laugier on the films of Guillaume Dustan, whose first retrospective took place in Paris in June 2019. She is a PhD student in art theory at the University of Saint-Étienne, and her thesis focuses on participatory and community video practices used as radical pedagogical tools by artists, activists and non-professional video-makers.
Talk
20.05.2025 7 pm
Studio Widmann A 2.30