Que peut la Nuit
- research laboratory
A nocturnal laboratory on participation in public space.
The research laboratory
Cifas and Collectif Impatience are organising a collective research laboratory on the tools, paradoxes and possibilities of participatory practices, with nights in public space as their field of exploration. This laboratory follows on from Collectif Impatience's research on childhood, the night and participatory forms "Que peut la Nuit".
As night is open to uncertainty, they are proposing a collective immersion in the plurality of its specificities: night as a space of encounter, where it is possible not to understand everything, where norms are reversed, where perceptions are displaced. But it is also a space threatened by a logic of productivity and profit.
This laboratory will involve exploratory walks, reflection, experimentation and wandering around the city, so that everyone can imagine and test participatory methods.
We will be exploring questions such as:
- How does the "vagueness" of the night-time public space offer itself to participation?
- What bodily states and senses enable or encourage participation?
- What plurality of positions is possible for participants?
- What delegation of decision-making / dispersal of control is established?
- Does participation really have the power to undo positions of domination?
- What remains afterwards? What does participation transform?
Collectif Impatience
Collectif Impatience (Paris) is made up of Perrine Mornay and Olivier Boréel. Their work focuses on research and relationships with audiences. Faced with the instability of the world, they opt for an exploratory approach. They invent forms that shift the way we look at things, the way we receive an artistic form and the way we become an audience for it. They develop a "dramaturgy of address".
Their installations and performances are developed as various interfaces with an audience: visual and/or participatory installations, theatre without actors, audience scenography, staging of themselves...
By making pieces for others, with others, and by using these "others" to multiply their materials and media, they gain a better understanding of who they are.
Practical information
Date
10/03/25 > 14/03/25
Time
14:00 > 22:00
Place
PACO : Rue de Manchester 17 - 1080 Molenbeek
For whom?
This laboratory is aimed at anyone with a practice in which they wish to examine participation.
Conditions
- Free, lunch included.
- Duration: 5 days. Presence is required for the whole duration of the workshop.
- Language: French
Accessibility
The space in which the laboratory will be held is on the 4th floor of a building without a lift, accessed by an outside staircase.
The programme will consist of studio sessions and a city walk.
If you have any special accessibility requirements, please contact: charlotte@cifas.be
Applications
To apply, please complete this form, attaching your CV and a letter/sound/video of motivation (1,500 characters including spaces/3 min max.), describing your practice and briefly explaining why exploring participation is (or would be) useful to you.