À bras le corps
Les Cahiers d'À bras le corps No. 4
Author(s) Rodolphe Olcèse (editeur)
Format magazine
Year 2015
Language(s) French
Pages 48 pages
Description
Why territory, territories? Many wounded lives remind us today, in spite of themselves, that space is the fundamental dimension of existence, the one without which no other can either express itself or unfold. By bringing together texts and interventions around territories, the term being deliberately taken in its plural form, we wanted to recall that if territory refers primarily to the earth, it is not so that we may claim our place in the sun, but so that the ground revealed to us gives us the necessary impetus to take hold of it... and leave it. For space only lives by opening itself to multiple crossings, to innumerable presences that do not so much come here as they wish to journey through there. The identity tensions of the moment, which promise us many gloomy days, have clearly lost sight of one of the essential possibilities of life, which is gained at the cost of a painful but oh so precious apprenticeship: walking. It becomes particularly urgent to run for nothing, as Antonio Contador reminds us, who evokes in our pages a series of monologues produced over three years, discovering a known territory, but one which reveals through the movement of running entirely unprecedented contours.
This new issue of the Cahiers thus wishes once again to bear witness to a conviction that has driven us since the establishment of the editorial project A bras le corps: the most singular artistic signatures, but also the most stimulating, are assuredly those which venture outside their preserve, take risks in unknown territories, whether invited there or discovering themselves through the trial. The practices toward which the contributors of this fourth cahier turn demonstrate this in an exemplary manner: cinema, through a glimpse of the work of Maria Ruido or a recent project by Clément Postec, or performative practices, as shared during the encounter days organized by think think think at Honolulu (Nantes) last May, can and must engage gestures that in their own way move the lines, seek to shift borders and give us air, that is to say, breath. Breath is also what the photographs (by Damien Marguet and Marylène Negro) and creative texts (by Anne Luthaud and Jérôme Alexandre in particular) composed for this issue seek to bring us.
There is hardly any need to revisit this observation, which we can each experience daily in our respective domains: the treasures of energy we can deploy to preserve our own private space are very often aligned with a truly stupefying spiritual desiccation and impoverishment. Against this, let us invite one another to take side roads, for no one can truly advance on a path they already know by heart. For our eyes to open wide and rest upon an entirely new world, we must open space to what can only surprise our expectations, suspend our opinions and our preconceptions: the encounter, which always gives us infinitely more than what we can receive. That our territories may welcome this precious moment of imbalance that comes with a face offering itself to us for the first time is a chance. Let us not let it slip away.
Rodolphe Olcèse
Summary
Territoires (Editorial) by Rodolphe Olcèse / Suburbain by Damien Marguet / A-bras-le-territoire by Franck Ancel / Les territoires pluriels de María Ruido by Boris Monneau / Courir pour rien et monologues en courant pour rien by Antonio Contador / Montage hétérophonique au cinéma by Rudolf di Stefano / Mille autres raisons - Entretien avec Clément Postec by Rodolphe Olcèse / Nouveau monde by Marylène Negro / Marcher, camper, flotter by Smaranda Olcèse-Trifan / Territoire by Alexandre Coursier / Mon territoire by Anne Luthaud / Secteur by Pierre Weiss / Territoire nouveau by Jérôme Alexandre / Vingt-neuf fois le territoire by Rodolphe Olcèse / Vingt-neuf fois le territoire by Jérôme Châtelain / Quel territoire ? by Arnaud Boudon
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