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3rd cycle – research in the Lyon Ensba

The 3rd cycle – research is structured in two currently active Research Units (UR):
– ACTH contemporary art and the time of history
– DatAData poetic media and the esthetic issues connected to digital cultures
The 3rd cycle takes place over 3 years, with a possibility to extend it a further 1 or 2 years, and is validated by a 3rd cycle research degree awarded by the Lyon Ensba. The forms and conditions of defending the degree are specific to each UR and to each project; this can take the form of an exhibition, publication, edition, distribution, event, and is accompanied by a research dissertation. Each UR functions with a team of 5 artist-researchers benefiting from an annual research grant. Each one is registered as a student of the school. He/she can be a 3rd cycle student registered with another, partner, higher education establishment. To this can be added artists, visual artists, theoreticians and professionals who participate for all or part of the programme as “associated partners”. A transversal conference common to both research units, to which the post graduates are associated, is an important element in the structuring of research within the 3rd cycle.

The postgraduate art course in the Lyon Ensba

The postgraduate art course in the Lyon Ensba consists of a year of high level training consisting of a residency and a scholarship, for a group of five young international artists, coming from a training in art and holding a DNSEP or equivalent international qualification and after a process of selection through “concours (competition)”. First, under the direction of artists Nick van Steeg and Marie José Burki and critic Jean-Pierre Rehm at the moment of its creation in 1999, then under the sole direction of Jean-Pierre Rehm until 2012, the post graduate programme is currently under the direction of François Piron.
Geared towards 5 young artists with diverse geographical origins already engaged in different practices, this one year programme invites them to pursue and develop their work while benefiting from the school’s infrastructure and its workshops and studios, and to participate in critical discussions, encounters and trips. On this frontier of the professional field of art that these artists often face alone, the Postgraduate course proposes an experiment in modes of social being, founded on exchange and thought. Trips abroad, within and beyond the borders of Europe, are organized with the aim of generating encounters with numerous artists and professionals, developing a critical vision of exhibitions and events, and observing, on the scale of a city or a country, the elements that make up the fermentation of an art scene.

DNAP Art
DNAP Design d’espace
DNAT Design graphique
DNAT Design Textile
DNSEP Art
DNSEP Design – mention espace
DNSEP Design – mention graphique

ACTH Contemporary Art and the Time of History

Since January 2004, in collaboration with the Centre for History and Theory of the Arts of the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences of Paris ((CEHTA / EHESS), the school has set up a research programme run by artist Bernhard Rüdiger and theoretician and art historian Giovanni Careri, that has for subject the construction of the real in contemporary art.

1. A first step in research around the ethical question of a “fair image” of the real was published in 2008 by Archibooks in Paris under their direction: ” Face au réel : Éthique de la forme dans l’art contemporain ” / “Faced with the real : Ethics of the form in contemporary art”. This book provides an account of work done with: Pietro Montani, André Gunthert, Thomas Schütte, Luciano Fabro, Allan Sekula, Ernst van Alphen and Mieke Bal, in collaboration with young artist researchers coming from the Lyon Ensba and doctoral students from the EHESS.

2- In the context of this research unit, the Lyon Ensba has hosted conferences by Georges Didi-Huberman, Alfredo Pirri, Michael Fried and Luc Delahaye invited to illuminate artistic systems of distancing and “thickening of the present”.

3- The “History shaped by the work of art” seminar, held at the Lyon Ensba in 2009 defined the axes of thinking of the new research unit that was constituted under the direction of Bernhard Rüdiger and Giovanni Careri. It works around the issue of “Contemporary Art and the Time of History” (ACTH), and proposes to study the relationships between certain productions of current art and “regimes of historicity” that it mobilizes.

4- The research unit met in Paris for a monthly conference at the EHESS inviting historians François Hartog and Sabina Loriga with their research group, l’Atelier International de Recherche sur les Usages Publics du Passé / the International Workshop of Research on the Public Uses of the Past (EHESS).

5- The Lyon Ensba has since hosted intensive conferences with artists Frédéric Moser and Philippe Schwinger and art historian Ralph Ubl.

6- In 2010 the ACTH research unit published Luciano Fabro, Habiter l’autonomie / Inhabiting Autonomy, edited by the Lyon Ensba, following the seminar “Luciano Fabro, the autonomy of the artist – new space or last entrenchment”? held in October of 2008.

7- In November of 2011, the research unit experimented a first shaping of its thinking with the experimental exhibition “Suspended Time / Le temps suspendu”, with works by artists from the unit, as well as “Diorama” by Candice Breitz, “Lunch Break” by Sharon Lockhart, “Wavelength” by Michael Snow and a reproduction of the board on September 11th of the Atlas by Gerhard Richter, in addition to a certain quantity of data, or links, trough various documents, visual and textual, organized in the form of a “table of contents” of pages from an atlas such as those done by Aby Warburg.

8- The conferences in the EHESS in the 2011/12 session were dedicated to theoretical elaboration and the development of this system.
The unit is currently working on a second edition of this experimental exhibition at the BAL of Paris in December 2013.

9- Since June 2012 the project “Suspended Time – History shaped by the work of art” of the ACTH research unit was selected by the CAP LABEX (Creation, Art, Heritage) with a subsidy going towards the publication of the results of the research. The ACTH research unit is supported by the Minister of Culture for the purposes of the 2013 call for projects of the Department of Visual Arts of the General Direction for Artistic Creation.

10- Publications by the ACTH research unit:
“Luciano Fabro – Habiter l’autonomie / Inhabiting Autonomy”, B.Rüdiger dir., with B.Corà, D.v.Drathen, L.Fabro, V.Goudinoux, G.Paolini, M.Montazami, E.Parendeau, Ph.L.Rousseau, M.Rowell, B.Seror, S.Tritz. Editions ENBA, Lyon, 2010.
“Face au réel. Éthique de la forme dans l’art contemporain”, G.Careri and B.Rüdiger, dir., a research conference with: P.Montani, A.Gunthert, Th.Schütte, L.Fabro, A.Sekula, E.v.Alphen and M.Bal. Bookstorming, Paris, 2008.

Lyon Ensba Publications
Multiple Publications

Lecture cycle every Wednesday
Research Seminars and Study days
Exhibitions in the Réfectoire
Exhibitions beyond the walls: Rendez-vous, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon and the Villeurbanne-Rhône-Alpes Institute for Contemporary Art, in the context of the Résonance programme, the Biennial of Lyon; Les enfants du Sabbat at the Creux de l’enfer – Center for Contemporary Art of Thiers…

Forty partner establishments in Europe and around the world.

– Le Réfectoire (The Refectory):
The Refectoire is the school gallery of the National Higher School of Fine Arts, Lyon. A space of exhibition, experimentation, learning and transmission, the Réfectoire affirms its particular situation within an art school, by approaching, as much in its functioning as in its events, certain aspects of the modalities of work and issues at work in a school of art. The Réfectoire is a place of artistic and curatorial exercise.
Two other places are dedicated to the presentation of students’ work:
– The cafeteria exhibition space
– The test Gallery on the 3rd floor

Publications, digital (computer and network equipment, sound, image and video workshops…), photography (black and white and color laboratory, film and digital, shooting plateau, printing…) volume (sculpture, wood, metal, foundry, resin…).

ANdEA, ADÉRA, APPÉA, Adèle-association des lieux de diffusion de l’art contemporain sur Lyon et sa région.

Emmanuel Tibloux Director
Gilles Levavasseur Associate dean – research, studies and academic affairs
Stéphanie Gressier Deputy Director, Resources
Valérie Grondon Education and schooling
Anabelle Pijot international exchanges & placement programmes
Elise Chaney communication & public relation
Corinne Vallin Responsible for the library

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