The French Public Higher Schools of Art

Angers

École supérieure d’art et design TALM | site d’Angers

about

The consolidation of the higher schools of fine arts of Tours, Angers and Le Mans into a Public Institution for Cultural Cooperation (EPCC) appears at first as the accomplishment of a pedagogical reform of which one of the objectives is to join European higher education, with the recognition of qualifications and in particular the Masters grade DNSEP qualification. The EPCC operates in a system of exchanges and of valorization of the teachings which facilitates the development of research departments.

The three sites, Tours, Angers and Le Mans, form a single establishment implanted in two regions, three departments and two cities which welcomes 550 students and brings together 105 teachers, artists and theoreticians. It is an associated member of PRES (The Center for Research and Higher Education) UNAM (The University of Nantes, Angers and Le Mans) and of the PRES Center – the University of Val de Loire.
The TALM Esba translates its openness and autonomy into trans-disciplinary practices and has developed, as a complementary mission, art education classes open to all.
The EPCC of the TALM Esba is an establishment for higher education awarding qualifications under the Minister for Culture and is part of the network of French Higher Art Schools.

Options:

– Art (featuring the mention Art Media): the art curriculum, geared towards the most current and innovative aspects of artistic creation, aims to introduce subjectivity and to implement a unique project by excluding all modeling. This option is defined essentially as a space for experimentation and dialogue. It has the principal vocation of training artists and researchers. The originality of the students can be uncovered through free and creative debates, proposed common experiments and a personalized monitoring of research, led by teachers who are themselves involved and active artists. The establishment awards a masters grade DNSEP in Art featuring the mention Art Media, following a 5 year curriculum.
– Design: the Space Design option develops a specific teaching with the goal of training designers with the ability to imagine and build “places” on a human scale, to intervene in the field of design at different spatial scales: from a confined space to the that of a landscape. These studies cover a period of 5 years and are completed by professional internships and lead to the obtaining of a masters grade DNSEP in Space Design which is recognized by the French Council of Interior Architects.
– Tapestry: this specific workshop situated on the Angers site provides technical training in weaving over a two or three year period and proposes experimentation in the domains of textiles and flexible objects. It is endorsed by the Municipal Weaver’s Diploma of the City of Angers. Those registered in this workshop do not have the status of students.

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options

Art
Design
Municipal Tapestry maker/ Weaver’s Diploma

qualifications

DNA  option Art
DNA  option Art mention techniques textiles
DNA  option Design
DNSEP  option Art
DNSEP  option Design

research units

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.

research programmes

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)
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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.

post-curricular or extracurricular activities

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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international cooperation

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

gallery

2 integrated exhibition spaces

specific equipment

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

administrative team

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

professors

Judith Abensour
Claire Alary
Dominique Allard
Marianne Barzilay
Thomas Bauer
Arnaud Bernus
Pierre Besson
Sophie Breuil
Denis Brillet
Bernard Calet
Alain Chudeau
Anne Couzon-Cesca
Camille Debrabant
Alain Declercq
Mathieu Delalle
David Enon
Julie-Christine Fortier
Catherine Geel
Andy Guérif
Gildas Guihaire
François Guindon
Philippe Hurteau
Sandrine Jousseaume
Régine Kolle
Roland Korenbaum
Christophe Le Gac
Isabelle Lévénez
Geoffrey Lowe
Alain Manceau
Grégory Markovic
Janig Merien
Laurent Millet
Hélène Mugot
Sandrine Pincemaille
Sébastien Pluot
Étienne Poulle
Patrick Querillacq
Pascal Riffaud
Jacqueline Riva
Julien Sirjacq
Evgenia Vanessa Theodoropoulou
Fabien Vallos
Élodie Verdier

contact

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

students

267 students