The technical gesture: research and craftsmanship at the museum #2
Seminar
Following on from several years of analysis and encounters linking design and know-how, since the beginning of 2024 the cycle has offered meetings with artisans who come to talk about and demonstrate aspects of their craft, live at the Mucem: this year’s guests include an artisan-designer of bamboo objects and furniture, a basket-maker, a ceramist, a cork artisan…
We’ll be comparing the respective contributions of manual knowledge and know-how, and their transmission within and across trades. We’ll look at gestures and words, Provençal “gaubi”, Japanese “waza”, craft skills… as well as their social, cultural and economic dimensions.
This year, the seminar will be combined with a workshop with students from the Beaux-Arts de Marseille, EHESS and the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès.
In partnership with EHESS, Univ. Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Beaux-Arts de Marseille
Program :
Monday, March 10
9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Introduction to the workshop
With : Aude Fanlo (Mucem), Frédéric Joulian (EHESS), Flavia Carraro (Univ. Toulouse Jean Jaurès), Olivier Gosselain (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles), Vanessa Brito (Beaux-Arts de Marseille -INSEAMM).
10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Materials, basic actions on matter and technical gestures: keys to understanding them
By Frédéric Joulian
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Presentation of the workshop and demonstration of bamboo objects and furniture,
With Tobie Chevallier (craftsman-designer)
from 2:30 to 4 p.m.
Space-making workshop using Provence cane.
With Flora Kuentz (basket weaver)
from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Questions from participants to craftsmen
Debate moderated by Flavia Carraro
Wednesday, March 12
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
From process to object and back again: reading keys
By Flavia Carraro
from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Workshop presentation and potter’s wheel demonstration
With Pierre Dutertre (ceramist)
from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Discussion on the conditions of the ceramics trade
With Pierre Dutertre and Valeria Tarroni (ceramic craftsmen)
from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Visit the “Populaire” exhibition and discuss the showcases devoted to ceramics
With Françoise Dallemagne (Mucem), on registration at mucemlab@mucem.org and subject to availability.
from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Student workshop: Comparing and analyzing objects, series and collections from various documentary archives
Thursday, March 13
9 a.m. to 9.15 a.m.
Presentation of the day
By Frédéric Joulian
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Presentation of the workshop and demonstration of how to make cork objects
With Gabriel Martinerie (Cork craftsman, Natural History)
from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Technography and Anthropography. Expressing, telling… in writing, drawing, exhibition, video, object, PPT. Why do we do it? For whom?
By Frédéric Joulian and Olivier Gosselain
from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The subversive power of description
By Vanessa Brito
from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Student workshop: writing projects
Friday, March 14
from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Introduction to the day
9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Varied writing on the technography of objects, gestures and processes.
Accompanied by the supervisors.
from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Restitution of analyses and student work
Seminar
Following on from several years of analysis and encounters linking design and know-how, since the beginning of 2024 the cycle has offered meetings with artisans who come to talk about and demonstrate aspects of their craft, live at the Mucem: this year’s guests include an artisan-designer of bamboo objects and furniture, a basket-maker, a ceramist, a cork artisan…
We’ll be comparing the respective contributions of manual knowledge and know-how, and their transmission within and across trades. We’ll look at gestures and words, Provençal “gaubi”, Japanese “waza”, craft skills… as well as their social, cultural and economic dimensions.
This year, the seminar will be combined with a workshop with students from the Beaux-Arts de Marseille, EHESS and the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès.
In partnership with EHESS, Univ. Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Beaux-Arts de Marseille
Program :
Monday, March 10
9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Introduction to the workshop
With : Aude Fanlo (Mucem), Frédéric Joulian (EHESS), Flavia Carraro (Univ. Toulouse Jean Jaurès), Olivier Gosselain (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles), Vanessa Brito (Beaux-Arts de Marseille -INSEAMM).
10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Materials, basic actions on matter and technical gestures: keys to understanding them
By Frédéric Joulian
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Presentation of the workshop and demonstration of bamboo objects and furniture,
With Tobie Chevallier (craftsman-designer)
from 2:30 to 4 p.m.
Space-making workshop using Provence cane.
With Flora Kuentz (basket weaver)
from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Questions from participants to craftsmen
Debate moderated by Flavia Carraro
Wednesday, March 12
9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
From process to object and back again: reading keys
By Flavia Carraro
from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Workshop presentation and potter’s wheel demonstration
With Pierre Dutertre (ceramist)
from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Discussion on the conditions of the ceramics trade
With Pierre Dutertre and Valeria Tarroni (ceramic craftsmen)
from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Visit the “Populaire” exhibition and discuss the showcases devoted to ceramics
With Françoise Dallemagne (Mucem), on registration at mucemlab@mucem.org and subject to availability.
from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Student workshop: Comparing and analyzing objects, series and collections from various documentary archives
Thursday, March 13
9 a.m. to 9.15 a.m.
Presentation of the day
By Frédéric Joulian
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Presentation of the workshop and demonstration of how to make cork objects
With Gabriel Martinerie (Cork craftsman, Natural History)
from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Technography and Anthropography. Expressing, telling… in writing, drawing, exhibition, video, object, PPT. Why do we do it? For whom?
By Frédéric Joulian and Olivier Gosselain
from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The subversive power of description
By Vanessa Brito
from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Student workshop: writing projects
Friday, March 14
from 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Introduction to the day
9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Varied writing on the technography of objects, gestures and processes.
Accompanied by the supervisors.
from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.