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The Art and Water laboratory

The Art and Water laboratory associates skills in scientific research and skills in art research for the implementation of projects which touch upon the numerous relationships that exist between art and water. Located in a phase of structure and growth, the laboratory is developed around a collective project that affirms the identity of an original intellectual production, at the intersection of knowledge and creation. The work is forcibly interdisciplinary, and is in constant contact with the contemporary issues of creation, in direct connection with the socioeconomic and cultural realities of art, in the immediate environment of the oeuvres and the process of conception.
The investigations are organized on the basis of three strategic orientations where each one has the vocation of hosting a number of research projects. The first axis of research concerns the relationships between art and water when they enter into resonance with territory and landscapes. The second research is in the intellectual issues of creation linked to water as matter and material. The third axis of research materializes on the terrain of the relationships that art and water have with movement and mobility. Of differing scales, structures and natures, the projects of the Laboratory of art and water take place within this tripartite organization. The Musée éclaté de la presqu’île of Caen project is located on the “Territory/Landscapes” axis.

Catalogues, artists’ books, artists’ writings.

– The « Conférences de la presqu’île »: lecture cycles proposed by teachers from the Caen/Cherbourg ésam linked to different options and mentions in the school – open to everyone, Wednesdays at 6p.m. In the auditorium of the Caen site.
– « XXe siècle etc. »: a cycle of art history lectures proposed in partnership with the Basse-Normandie FRAC and the Artothèque of Caen.
– The « Impressions multiples » trade fair: a gathering of independent publishers (multiples and prints by artists, graphic and typographic trials, electronic and sound publications, micro-publishing) proposed within the framework of the Passages de témoins festival.
– The “Interstice -rencontre des inclassables” festival: dedicated to the practices of international visual artists and musicians that questions the intermedia relationships of sound/image/object/space.
– Graduate exhibitions: work done by the DNSEP (“A suivre…”), DNAT and honors graduates.
– Temporary shows and exhibitions proposed in partnership with local cultural structures (the Nordik Impact festival, the Boréales festival, the Caen/Basse-Normandie National Center for Choreography, the Comédie of Caen, the Theater of Caen, etc.)

Weekly workshops and an introduction to artistic practice for children, teenagers and adults; visual arts activities in schools.

Exchanges and pedagogical projects with the following institutions :
Erasmus :
Fachhochschule Mannheim, Germany
Fachhochschule Münster, Germany
Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, Germany
Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel, Germany
University of the Arts, London Wimbledon College of Art, England
Higher School of Arts of Saint-Luc de Liège, Belgium
School for Graphic Research, Brusses, Belgium
St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny Ondara Tarrega, Spain
Kuvataideakatemia, Finland
University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Latvijas Makslas akademia, Latvia
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia
Akademia Sztuk Pieknych Warszaw, Poland
Ecole cantonale d’art du Valais, Switzerland
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey
Non Erasmus:
The University of Quebec in Chicoutimi, Canada
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced learning, Canada
Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath College of Fine Arts, India
The State Academy of Architecture and the Arts in the Ourals, Russia
University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA

A large (200m2) exhibition gallery located on the Caen site that hosts exhibitions of school graduates in addition to other exhibitions by artists from outside of the school programmed in the framework of cultural partnerships.

Technical workshops:

– Volume section: wood workshops; metal workshops, in which cutting and welding, folding, forging, casting are done; a resin and plastics workshop.
– Ceramics section: workshops allowing students to explore a multitude of ceramics techniques (molding, modeling, turning, casting, enameling and tin glazing, raku, stoneware, reduction and oxidized baking)
– Print section: engraving workshops in soft carving, xylography, aquatint, screen-printing workshops with a number of print tables; lithography and photolithography workshop.
– Publishing section: printer allowing wood-typography, lead typography, offset and digital.
– Photography section: film developing laboratory, black and white and color printing workshops, including one for large formats; a shooting studio; a digital photography workshop.
– Video section: video editing spaces, film studio equipped with a cyclo for embedding
– Sound section: sound studio equipped with a voice recording studio; sound editing spaces
– Computer and multimedia section: computer room for classes, digital workshops in Typography, layout, multimedia, animation and virtual 3D.

Libraries: The libraries located on each of the two sites of the Caen/Chernourg ésam provide a fund of references and resources for visual and contemporary art from the 20th century to today, that is to say over 27,000 documents in printed form (monographs, exhibition catalogues, essays) audiovisual documents (CD-Audio, DVD, CD-Rom), periodicals (art reviews, French and international graphic design reviews).

Student workshops: workshops with an area of 100 and 200m2 allow each student to benefit from an adapted workspace within the school throughout the year so as to imagine and carry out their personal projects. The pedagogical exhibition spaces allow them to present their work in professional conditions during evaluations or when passing degrees.

A 250 seater auditorium with a 12×11m plateau.

Éric Lengereau Relations internationales
Samuel Weddle Administrateur
Brice Giacalone Etudes et recherche
France Jacquel-Blanc Relations internationales
Julie Laisney Communication et action culturelle
Chantal Marie Bibliothèque

Site de Caen [siège social] :
17 cours Caffarelli 14000 | Caen
Site de Cherbourg :
61 rue de l’abbaye 50100 | Cherbourg-Octeville
tél. +33 (0)2 14 37 25 00
fax +33 (0)2 14 37 25 01
info@esam-c2.fr
http://www.esam-c2.fr
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