9:30 Welcome

10:00 Introduction by Marine Thévenet (Cifas)

10:15 Ambivalent Middle Ages - Clovis Maillet (FR)

Texts and images from the Middle Ages have a singular capacity to disorientate. Seemingly close (dragons, knights and Christianity) and yet so far from what we know (hierarchisation of beings, fluid mechanics, bloody violence), the Middle Ages seem to be inviting themselves into recent contemporary art, and yet we don't know much about the era. What can the ambivalence of medieval figures, such as Joan of Arc, teach us about our use of history?

11:30 Icons never die - Eden Tinto Collins (FR/BE)

Following the screening of the two seasons of her sitcom A Pinch of Kola the day before, Eden Tinto Collins guides us into the imaginary world of Jane Dark, a mediating figure born in the face of hate speech. Exploring fiction, the Belgian medieval and collective memory, this presentation unfolds the subterranean links between Jane Dark and Joan of Arc, for a poetic odyssey between non-linear time, survival and reparation.

12:00 Eden Tinto Collins (FR/BE) et Clovis Maillet (FR)

facilité par Aurel Leforestier (BE)

Together, Eden and Clovis will be discussing the reappropriation of historical figures and motifs in contemporary artistic practice, between artistic medievalism and battle of imaginaries.

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Registrations to workshops

14:30 > 17:00 Let's do it

17:00 PAYSAGES RALENTIS - Moni Wespi

A group of slow-moving costumed performers attempt to blend into Place Reine Astrid.

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Clovis Maillet (FR)

Clovis Maillet (1981, France) is a medievalist and artist. He has published La parenté hagiographique (2014), Les genres fluides (2020), Un Moyen Âge Emancipateur (with T. Golsenne, 2021) and Ecotransféminismes (with E. Bigé, 2025). He is a specialist in gender studies and trans history, and studies the uses of history in contemporary art. Clovis Maillet also works as a performance artist in collaboration with several other artists, and co-wrote the show Medieval Crack with the Foulles collective.

Eden Tinto Collins (FR/BE)

Eden Tinto Collins (born in 1991 in France, of Ghanaian descent) lives between Paris and Brussels. Trained at the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy, she is developing a hybrid artistic practice, both poetic and hypermedia, through noetic devices that link mind and spirit. Her works, mainly in the form of installations, explore networks, interdependencies and frictions between melancholy, mythologies and post-, trans- and cyber-human imaginaries. In 2021, she published Bonne Arrivée, a generational tale of initiation, and founded Acéphale Studio (Joinville-le-Pont), followed by Ka Libre Ensemble, a production company. In 2024, Roaming The Imaginal marked her first solo exhibition in Belgium at Beursschouwburg.

Aurel Leforestier (BE)

Aurel Leforestier is an artist and playwright. He is a graduate of INSAS in stage direction and of EHESS, where he worked on representations of nature in theatrical scenography in sixteenth-century Italy. With Léa Tarral and Maxime Arnould, he founded the group 3ème vague, which seeks to explore political ecology in the performing arts, and is a member of the MOUTON collective, which performs in rural areas and is currently working to open a venue on the Plateau de Millevaches in France.