SCHOOL (for self-taught people)
Here, the participants state their intimate as well as ideological obsessions, starting from their own skills, following their desires, and using their bodies, whether they be young dancers, visual artists… A way to incorporate new social, cultural and aesthetic coordinates. The point is to spark collective actions in which participants shift between concepts and their immediate (literal or figurative) opposites, to trigger “primitive” movements – ones that can only be described through adjectives, such as “burlesque”, “powerful” or “choreographic” – from forms that were elaborated beforehand. It’s an “unconscious” creation which is, however, the consequence of a sum of precise rules, revealing new insights on the secret kinship of the unconscious and the artistic, the poetic and the technical, and bringing young artists to take action….
It prefigures a utopic art school that would tend towards attitudes and behaviors in which action precedes theory, a form of artistic protocol which could exemplify collective behavior. Each workshop is simultaneously recorded and edited into a movie. It is shown at the end of the session if the circumstances allow it. A live restitution can also be contemplated. Each recorded episode is edited into a global cut after all the workshops have taken place.
César Vayssié spans across several artistic fields and explores the relationship between art and politics. He practices contemporary dance as a militant experience through films and performances that conceptualize the diversity of genres and artistic skills. He often works with student and young artists in order to explore their relationship with sentimental, artistic and political desire in a troubled society. He has collaborated with Philippe Quesne, François Chaignaud...He works with Boris Charmatz since his earliest plays. His works have been displayed in the Folkwang Museum (Essen), the Nanterre Amandiers Theatre, the MUCEM and Actoral in Marseille, the Paris FIAC, the Tate Modern and the ICA in London, the MoMI and MoMA in New York, the Tanzquartier and Impulstanz in Vienna, the Lausanne Cité Festival, the Belluard Festival in Fribourg et in numerous places dedicated to visual arts and live shows. He was featured artist in the Ménagerie de Verre in 2017, where he created such performances as COPROUDUCTION, EXEMPLE, PARTI(CIPA)TION. He leads workshops and mentoring programs (EnsAD-Paris, Moscow Film School, Bern University of Art (CH), University of Antioquia Medellin, ISDAT Toulouse...). His movie UFE(UNFILMEVENEMENT) won the Georges de Beauregard national award and the Audience award in the 2016 FID in Marseille. His last movie, NE TRAVAILLE PAS (Don’t Work) was awarded the FIPRESCI Award in the 2018 Viennale.