The French Public Higher Schools of Art
Annecy
École supérieure d’art Annecy Alpes
about
The Higher School of Art of greater Annecy (ESAAA) is part of the national network of higher art schools and is unique in this group/context for its work on spaces, landscape and the organization of territory, and also for its radical position concerning the experimental dimension of art: experimentation, this common foundation of creation since Modernity, so commonplace that at times it seems empty of substance, is strongly asserted by the ESAAA and is the cornerstone of its activity.
The curricula proposed by the ESAAA incorporate this dialectic necessity of distance/ing and proximity, and even though there is something of an immersion in the activity of the workshop, they also propose a number of projects which take place outside of the walls, engaged with the issues of our time, its urban nature, its hi and lo fidelity technologies, its global fluctuations.. and commit themselves to participating through these numerous points of contact. The ESAAA is designed at each and every level of its activity to be a platform for work from which it is possible to deploy communal and shared propositions.
A school embedded in an exceptional site, Les Marquisats, an architectural site that has been designated “20th Century Heritage” site, on the shores of lake Annecy, operating as both a place of residence and as a site for production.
options
Art
Design
qualifications
DNA option Design mention design d'espace
DNSEP option Art
DNSEP option Design mention design d'espace
third cycle
DSRA Higher qualification in art research of the ESAAA
The DSRA is an atypical third cycle (BAC+8), bringing young artists, designers, architects and other creators as well as theoreticians to a school qualification prepared over three years after a Masters or DNSEP qualification.
research units
The ESAAA research unit
Since 2006, the ESAAA has supported the work of a team of artists, philosophers, designers, architects and historians who work together within its Research Unit. This collaborative research activity with its variable geometry, which relies on a number of different national and international networks, has allowed the following actions to be carried out:
– From 2006 to 2012 work on experimentation and the archive, and in turn on performance and the “format” with the LAAC, first under Laurent Jeanpierre and Elie During, then under Thierry Mouillé and David Zerbib, resulting in Experimenta (in Annecy in 2008), and Format X (at the 104 in Paris in 2010), publishing In Actu, de l’experimental dans l’art, in 2009 with the Presses du réel, and, with the same editor, In Octavo, des formats de l’art (to be published).
– From 2009 to 2011: a programme led by Nicolas Thély worked on the changes in sensitivity in the age of the Web 2.0: this “lo fidelity research path” resulted in study days in Grenoble, Valance and Quimper, and allowed the organization of different exhibitions (such as “Best Practices” in Stockholm in 2011) concluding with the publication of Search Terms, Basse def by B42 éditions.
– From 2010 to 2011: a third axis of research led by Stéphane Sauzedde developed a sensitive and critical apparatus starting with ahistorical and localized forms of art: “la pensée sauvage” (wild thought). This research led to the AUTRES exhibition and catalogue in the Musée-Château of Annecy (June 2012).
Finally, since 2011, the ESAA has done work on “Los Angeles: the margins at the center”, dealing with amateur practices and cinema (Pratiques domestiques) and on intuition (Le laboratoire des intuitions). (Cf. Ongoing research programme).
research programmes
publications
ESAAA press
activities and events
Art History lectures
Exhibitions
Conferences, lectures, workshops, international exchanges and study trips, invited participants.
Exhibitions of the work of students and guest artists take place in various exhibition spaces of the conglomeration and department.
post-curricular or extracurricular activities
More than twenty workshops and classes for children, teenagers and adults.
international cooperation
Erasmus charter holder
Benefits from the Explo’ra grants system
Numerous international projects, renewed on an annual basis
specific equipment
Computer, multimedia, photography, video, sound, screen-printing, engraving, digital print, volume (wood, metal, molding…) workshops.
networks
ANdEA, ADÉRA, BEAR.
administrative team
Stéphane Sauzedde Directeur
Laetitia Sanchez Ameye Administratrice
Marion Huyghues Despointes Coordinatrice
Bartolomé Sanson Edition et communication
Isabelle La Barthe Bibliothèque
Françoise Brouet Secrétariat pédagogique
professors
Naïm Aït Sidhoum
Felicia Atkinson
Jean-Marc Chapoulie
Alexandre Costanzo
Laurent Faulon
Marc Giloux
Géraldine Gourbe
Patrick Litzler
Hubert Marcelly
Richard Monnier
Thierry Mouillé
Kacem Noua
Françoise Novarina
Gilles Perdu
Didier Tallagrand
Nicolas Tixier
Jian-Xing Too
Claire Viallat
David Zerbib
contact
52 bis rue des Marquisats
74000 | Annecy
tél. +33 (0)4 50 33 65 50
fax +33 (0)4 50 33 65 55
contact@esaaa.fr
www.esaaa.fr
students
178 students