A veritable observatory of analyses and a platform for experimentation, the 'Troubles, Alliances and Aesthetics' Chair studies relations of proximity, neighbourhoods, affections and intimacies as they emerge from the so-called margins of gender, sexuality, race and class. What formats of life and what forms of existence have the encounters between our bodies, our subjectivities and our communities provoked in the past and are they engendering today, in the fields of theory, activism and artistic practice? 

The 'Inhabiting the landscape. Art meets the living" (2020-2022) proposed to explore how art can be closely woven into a pre-existing living territory. The "Artistic practices of hospitality for the living" Chair proposes to take the investigation a step further, with a new question as its compass: how can art create a living territory? The experimental laboratory for this Chair is the School itself, its buildings, courtyards and gardens.

The artist gives force to the issues of the world by gathering for his or her work scattered knowledge that he or she deepens, diverts or brushes aside, but which he or she uses as so many inspiring elements to formulate his or her vision. This particular use of available knowledge, this way of delving into the new, the old, the obsolete, the essential and the marginal with the same passion, of plunging into the incomprehensible, characterises artistic practices.

Photography today is undergoing profound changes, both technically and artistically. While its use in artistic creation has long been a given for today's institutions and discourse on art, the limits of the medium are constantly evolving, giving rise to multiple hybridisations with other techniques and renewed questioning of the very nature of the photographic process. On the one hand, 'artificial intelligences' - image-producing algorithms - are challenging us to redefine photorealism.

List of places

In a symbolic axis starting from 14 rue Bonaparte, and within the Palais des Études, this hemicycle was the space for the consecration of the Grand Prix de Rome, awarded to the best students. Nowadays, it remains the place for the graduation ceremony, and in the context of cultural programming, prestigious conferences are regularly held.

CAPACITY

100 people