Art
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Jacques Bertin Project

The Graphic of Jacques Bertin – visual creation and human sciences at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

The EHESS graphic laboratory, created in 1954 by Jacques Bertin, was a resource for all the researchers of this institution who were looking for visualizations and graphic proposals enabling them to speed up their research. The color, the line, the arrangement of signs in space were so many means, tools serving thought and the elaboration of knowledge. On the occasion of the program of actions set up by EHESS to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jacques Bertin’s Graphic Semiology (1967), EESAB Lorient wished to join in the celebration of this important event, dealing with the collaboration between humanities and visual research.

The experience of narrative

Contemporary narrative is characterized by the hybridization of genres, means and supports. Genders because it borrows as much from history, the novel, philosophy, essay, poetry, psychoanalysis, the human sciences, the documentary investigation, the reportage. Means because it uses texts, images, sounds, actions, choreographies, objects, environments to create what we should now call narrative experiences. Hybridization of the supports, finally, because the same story is displayed on different screens, on architecture, on paper or in the air.
Since 2012, EESAB has offered a seminar entitled “The Experience of Narrative”. Artists, theoreticians, art critics, exhibition curators come to present their practices, perceptions, experiments around the notion of narrative, which founds the project of establishment. Each episode of the study days is followed by the publication of a book by
different contributors (artists, theorists, teachers or art school students), whether or not they participated in the study days.

Tomorrow the ocean

BOAT ® is an artistic and educational research vessel conceived as a mobile workshop, a work platform, an annex of the Ecole supérieure supérieure d’art de Bretagne, meeting other territories, other cultures, other disciplines. This project was initiated by three EESAB teaching artists, Nicolas Floc’h, Erwan Mével and Jocelyn Cottencin, within the framework of the “territories extremes” research line.
Since November 2014, Nicolas Floc’h, Erwan Mével and Jocelyn Cottencin have started up with Pierre-Yves Glorennec and Jacques Dussol the renovation of the boat “Grand Largue”. Students from Brest, Lorient and Rennes were involved in the project. On the construction site, Nicolas Floc’h and Erwan Mevel coordinated the work, together with students from Rennes.
On the graphic project, Jocelyn Cottencin initiated a draft codex, chromatic, formal and typographical layout of the boat and its environment with students from Lorient.

Exhibition catalogues, proceedings of seminars and symposia

TRAVEL AND TRIPS
The school organizes regular trips or study trips for students (Venice Art Biennale, Documenta in Kassel). Every year, during the first semester, a trip to Paris is offered to students of the 1st year, with a program of visits (museums, art centers, galleries, etc.)

SEMINARS AND DAYS OF STUDIES
The teaching team of the Lorient site offers seminars or study days, with the participation of external guests (artists, teachers, researchers from all disciplines):
× Either on joint projects with other EESAB sites.
× Either in connection with the project to set up the Lorient site. Every year since 2012, the study days “L’expérience du récit” are an opportunity to invite theorists and artists to share their experiments or analyzes around this notion of narrative, the foundation of the pedagogical project. These days give rise to an eponymous annual publication.

EXHIBITIONS
The gallery of the school hosts on average 3 exhibitions per year. Artists, collectives or gallery owners, in conjunction with the teachers, propose a selection of works and travel to meet the students, to animate a conference or a workshop related to the exhibition. This program includes exhibitions linked to the biennals organized in the Lorient conurbation, the “Rencontres photographiques” and the “Itineraires graphiques” co-founded by the school.
The school encourages partnerships to allow students to expose as much as possible outside the walls.

Classes for adults and children

Through the Erasmus network, exchange agreements signed with many european countries.
Other international partnerships: Medellin, Colombia ; Nha Trang, Vietnam.

School gallery

Auditorium, library.
Workshops: wood, ceramics, metal, modeling, casting, earth, painting, photography, photo laboratory, engraving, lithography, screen printing, typography, sound, videography, infography, CAD, 3D image.

ANdEA, ELIA, Contemporary art in Brittany..

Partnerships : University of South Brittany (UBS), Theaters, Libraries, Museums, contemporary art exhibition centers, photography exhibition centers, etc…

Danièle Yvergniaux Directrice générale de l’établissement
Roland Decaudin Directeur du site
Delphine Balligand Expositions et communication
Olivier Gouronc Ateliers bois et métal, maintenance
Maryannick Pourchasse Secrétariat pédagogique
Françoise Blanchard Bibliothèque
Mireille Pot Secrétariat de direction et comptabilité
Anne-Marie Métayer Accueil et secrétariat des cours publics
Jean-Paul Couty Ateliers bois et métal, maintenance
Agathe Lazko Responsable administrative
David Bideau Atelier video et son
Florence Gloanec Atelier édition/impression
Nathalie Prévost-Nikitine coordination pédagogique
François Fravallo Entretien
Younousse Diedhiou Accueil, gardiennage

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56100 | Lorient
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