Some communities have tried to tell their stories through artistic, writing and archiving practices that teach us how they tell their own stories.
The objects that remain, and those that continue to be fashioned today, are so many “little stories” linked by “common gestures”, “gestures of thought and language, […] technical and relational gestures, […] material and immaterial gestures” that give rise to a memory of the community, sometimes through its struggles to exist.
How can we reconstruct the history of a community through what it has left behind: traces, objects, archives? How can artistic institutions, archives and associations play a part in the process of making vernacular and/or militant archives part of our heritage – a heritage that is often living, precarious and ephemeral? If community is created through “collective action”, how can the practice of archives, and their re-telling through singular modes of exhibition and activation, enable us to continue making community?
The program
The “Communities of archives” round-table will focus on the issues involved in the patrimonialization of activist archives, particularly in relation to the LGBTQIA+ community and the fight against AIDS.
The day will close with a screening of Lionel Soukaz’s film “En corps +” at the Vidéodrome in Marseille.
Find out more about the speakers
Renaud Chantraine - PhD in social anthropology and ethnology
In 2021, Renaud Chantraine will be defending a thesis in social anthropology and ethnology at EHESS on the processes and effects of patrimonialization, archival issues and the memories of LGBTQI minorities and the fight against HIV/AIDS. He is one of the curators of the exhibition “VIH/sida, l’épidémie n’est pas finie!” (2021) at the Mucem. A teacher at the Ecole du Louvre since 2024, he also joined the Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique at ENS Saclay in April 2025 to lead the post-doctorate “Nodes d’archives, régimes de traitement des données et transmission de la mémoire militante de la lutte contre le VIH/sida”. Since 2025, he has been coordinating the DEMAIN collective project at Sorbonne University.
Aude Fanlo - Head of Mucem's Research and Education Department
Aude Fanlo has a degree in literature and has worked on academicism in literature. She is currently head of the research and teaching department at the Mucem, and has co-curated the exhibitions “Psychodémies” (2021-2022) and “Don Quichotte – Histoire de fou, histoire d’en rire” (2025-2026).
Hélène Fleckinger - Lecturer at Paris 8 University
Hélène Fleckinger is a lecturer at Paris 8 University. She is the author of a thesis on the relationship between cinema, video and feminism (France, 1968-1981), to be published by Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
Pascal Lièvre and Léna Meurillon - Ami-e-s du Patchwork activists
Pascal Lièvre has been an artist and activist with Ami. e. s du Patchwork des Noms since 2021. He is in charge of digital and oral archives, social networks and helps coordinate patchwork restoration workshops.
Léna Meurillon has been an activist with Ami-e-s du Patchwork des Noms since 2023. She is also a student in sociology of gender and conducts research on bisexuality.
Frédéric Marchand and Julien Aubert Schiappapietra - members of the Mémoire des sexualités association
Frédéric Marchand and Julien Aubert Schiappapietra are members of Mémoire des sexualités, an association that provides a documentary collection, organizes public debates and fairs, and helps build the LGBT activist movement.
Some communities have tried to tell their stories through artistic, writing and archiving practices that teach us how they tell their own stories.
The objects that remain, and those that continue to be fashioned today, are so many “little stories” linked by “common gestures”, “gestures of thought and language, […] technical and relational gestures, […] material and immaterial gestures” that give rise to a memory of the community, sometimes through its struggles to exist.
How can we reconstruct the history of a community through what it has left behind: traces, objects, archives? How can artistic institutions, archives and associations play a part in the process of making vernacular and/or militant archives part of our heritage – a heritage that is often living, precarious and ephemeral? If community is created through “collective action”, how can the practice of archives, and their re-telling through singular modes of exhibition and activation, enable us to continue making community?
The program
The “Communities of archives” round-table will focus on the issues involved in the patrimonialization of activist archives, particularly in relation to the LGBTQIA+ community and the fight against AIDS.
The day will close with a screening of Lionel Soukaz’s film “En corps +” at the Vidéodrome in Marseille.
Find out more about the speakers
Renaud Chantraine - PhD in social anthropology and ethnology
In 2021, Renaud Chantraine will be defending a thesis in social anthropology and ethnology at EHESS on the processes and effects of patrimonialization, archival issues and the memories of LGBTQI minorities and the fight against HIV/AIDS. He is one of the curators of the exhibition “VIH/sida, l’épidémie n’est pas finie!” (2021) at the Mucem. A teacher at the Ecole du Louvre since 2024, he also joined the Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique at ENS Saclay in April 2025 to lead the post-doctorate “Nodes d’archives, régimes de traitement des données et transmission de la mémoire militante de la lutte contre le VIH/sida”. Since 2025, he has been coordinating the DEMAIN collective project at Sorbonne University.
Aude Fanlo - Head of Mucem's Research and Education Department
Aude Fanlo has a degree in literature and has worked on academicism in literature. She is currently head of the research and teaching department at the Mucem, and has co-curated the exhibitions “Psychodémies” (2021-2022) and “Don Quichotte – Histoire de fou, histoire d’en rire” (2025-2026).
Hélène Fleckinger - Lecturer at Paris 8 University
Hélène Fleckinger is a lecturer at Paris 8 University. She is the author of a thesis on the relationship between cinema, video and feminism (France, 1968-1981), to be published by Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
Pascal Lièvre and Léna Meurillon - Ami-e-s du Patchwork activists
Pascal Lièvre has been an artist and activist with Ami. e. s du Patchwork des Noms since 2021. He is in charge of digital and oral archives, social networks and helps coordinate patchwork restoration workshops.
Léna Meurillon has been an activist with Ami-e-s du Patchwork des Noms since 2023. She is also a student in sociology of gender and conducts research on bisexuality.
Frédéric Marchand and Julien Aubert Schiappapietra - members of the Mémoire des sexualités association
Frédéric Marchand and Julien Aubert Schiappapietra are members of Mémoire des sexualités, an association that provides a documentary collection, organizes public debates and fairs, and helps build the LGBT activist movement.
