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The research platform of the TALM Esba – the Angers site

Seven research programmes exist and together make up a collaborative research platform whose structure relies both on a Research Unit dealing with independent programmes, and a functional coordination. Two types of programme are developed within this platform: Those considered as long term and which structure both research and third cycle and initial training, and those considered as short term, lasting between 18 and 24 months.
The research unit groups together long term programmes. Its operation is ensured by a research co-ordinator whose mission answers to different demands: accompanying the administrative staff and the monitoring of calls for project, valorization, articulation with the 3rd cycle and international development. Both physical and functional, this platform is adapted to research in an art school as the transfer of an art practice is different to that of knowledge and the form and temporality of these programmes can vary according to the needs and the options from which they emerge. Essentially the work emanating from the programmes and the research unit is addressed to different professional creative milieus including that of art, which is central. The modes of dissemination that are exhibition, display, demonstration, projection etc… are formally the consequence of the object of research underlying the conditions of social existence of an artistic practice and the issues to be shared.

The Scientific Council
The development of research is accompanied by a Scientific Council which is an advisory body to the establishment. It is composed of teachers who support research programmes, qualified participants, the coordinators and directors of sites. Its advisory and expert mission applies to initial courses, post graduate courses, 3rd cycles and their respective development, research and its strategic development. Its advice is submitted to the Pedagogical Council for Student Affairs (CPVE) and then debated. They can be validated by the Governing Board before being submitted to a Management Board if necessary.

In Translation

Director of research: Sébastien PLUOT
Associated Teachers:
TALM ESBA: Fabien Vallos, Jacqui Riva & Goeffrey Lowe.
Barnard College, University of Columbia : Peter Tracey Connor, Brian O’Keffee

This research programme has the goal of developing the deepening of theoretical knowledge of the phenomena and procedures of translation in the arts which engage a range of issues connected to linguistic theory, technology, psychoanalysis, theories of esthetics (the relationships between the arts and the rapport with the oeuvre, its interpretation, its understanding). Research takes into account the phenomena of translation in all of their dimensions: inter-linguistic (from one language to another), intra-linguistic (metaphor, metonym, allegory) and inter-semiotic (from one medium to another). Historical and theoretical research is envisaged in the permanent articulation between curatorial practices of production of oeuvres and publications. This programme has produced a series of exhibition projects, conferences and symposiums: Living Archives, Louie Louie and Art by Telephone Recalled.

In Translation has become an international research programme which is developed from a partnership between the Angers site of the TALM Esba, the San Francisco Art Institute the Cneai of Chatou and the « Barnard Translation Center » department of Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. Many other participants in the project intervene during seminars, exhibitions and publications: Mel Bochner, Artist ; Pierre Bal Blanc, Curator and critic ; Corinne Diserens, Art Historian and exhibition curator ; Silvia Kolbowski, Artist ; Nicolas Knight, Artist ; Ben Kinmont, Artist, Marcella Lista, Art Historian ; Pierre Leguillon, Artist ; Fabrice Reymond, Artist ; Julia Robinson, Art Historian, Professor at NYU ; Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé, Graphic Designers ; Avital Ronell, Professor of comparative literature at New York University and the European Graduate School, Switzerland ; Yann Sérandour, artist ; Raphael Zarka, artist.

En Traduction consists of three strands:
– Art by Telephone
www.artbytelephone.com
-Living Archives
living-archives.com
-A translation from one language to another

Low, fictions and strategies of less in design and architecture

Reference teachers: Catherine Geel, David Enon, Pascal Riffaud and Denis Brillet (Block)
Partners : Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, Gili Eco Trust, S.A.R.A (Angers Regional Management Company).

At the end of two years the research proposes the first theoretical and visual responses to a group of terms corresponding to strategies of little (poverty, absence, void, lack, deprivation, austerity, simplicity, exhaustion, weak, diffused, fragile), to its fictions (a category of modern belief versus the postmodern critical tool) and their relationships with the visual writings of design, architecture and art. Two case studies (urban fabric and auto administrated territory) allow the envisaging of different aspects of the techniques employed today, as much on the level of territorial practice of expertise, visual production (domestic and in the environment) and the integration of systems (energetic, ecological, cultural and administrative) as on the meaning of these gestures at the heart of a cultural industry constantly in demand.

Publication: Low, fictions and strategies of little vol. 1 gathers study texts, interventions made by lecturers and the work of students (state of art), the acts of the “Design Poverty Fiction” festival organized at Hornu (Art Center – Belgium – March 2013) by the Design option (Arc BNC) Talm EPCC of Angers, the Dirty Art Department (Sandberg Instituut) and the Object Design department (Arts Déco – Paris), as well as a work of analysis and exhibition “Architectural Prospectives” done within the design department of Angers (November 2012 – October 2013). It is presented as a state of the art and elements used in research.

Public classes:
Classes and workshops are designed to answer to the expectations of an amateur audience.
They take place in the evening or during the day and last for two or three hours. Voyages are occasionally organized for visits to exhibitions and meetings with artists.

– Visual Arts workshops (9-14 years)
– Preparatory drawing classes (15 – 20 years)
– Multimedia (15 – 20 years)
– Drawing, sketching (18 years and +)
– Drawing and painting (18 years and +)
– Painting (18 years and +)
– History of Art (18 years and +)
– Modeling, volume, sculpture (18 years and +)
– Engraving (18 years and +)

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The TALM Esba expands its international scope each year by developing numerous partnerships with foreign art schools and establishments.
The establishment itself offers a number of possibilities for study abroad. The exchange programmes are part of the standard student curriculum and are mainly geared towards fourth year students. A period of study in a foreign school demands that the student present the outline of their personal project to other teachers, other pedagogical and cultural milieus. The three school sites have signed bilateral Erasmus conventions for the mobility of their students and teachers and also maintain privileged partnerships with institutions located outside of Europe.
Erasmus Partners
Non European Partners

2 integrated exhibition spaces

Workshops: Screen-print, lithograph, engraving, computer graphics, cinema-video, photography, computer, foundry, metal, woodwork, tapestry…

François Landais Directeur par intérim de l’établissement et du site
Lucie Delefosse Échanges internationaux, stages et relation entreprise
Véronique Petit Documentation
Karine Monnier Pédagogie et bourses
Geoffrey Lowe Relations internationales – enseignant référent
Corinne Arrivé Assistante de direction
Aurélia Le Goff Chargée de communication
Vanessa Haie Assistante comptable et pédagogique
Martine Gérard Accueil et standard
Philippe Helstroffer Informatique
David Rousset Responsable équipe technique

Hôtel d’Ollone – 72 rue Bressigny
49100 | Angers
tél. +33 (0)2 41 24 13 50
fax +33 (0)2 41 87 26 49
contact@esba-angers.eu
www.esba-angers.eu
www.esba-talm.fr

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