[spectre] LASER Paris - Dec 9 - "Bodies"

[Annick2]

Dear Spectrites,

and here, the info about the last LASER of the season in 
Paris (after that we hibernate!)

All the Best
Annick Bureaud

*"Bodies"*

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*LASER Paris*

*Thursday 9 December 2021*

*Cité internationale des arts*

(Auditorium)

*18 rue de l'Hôtel de Ville*

*75004 Paris*

19h00 - 21h30

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http://www.olats.org/laser/laser.php

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*With **Abdessamad El Montassir, Maflohé Passedouet, Eric 
Monacelli, Gladys Foggea**.***

Free admission, registration required

(https://tinyurl.com/hnnk528m)

and we start on time!

LASER Paris takes place in French

/Mask and Pass//are mandatory.///

*Programme*

*> **Abdessamad El Montassir*(artist) //

*"Human Psyche and Plant"*about the project */Résistance 
Naturelle/*//

Epigenetic heritage: Traumas, inscribed in the human psyche, 
are transmitted over several generations ; those that plants 
encounter are legible in their bodies, sometimes beyond the 
original plant.

Can a plant be an indicator of socio-political ratio of 
power in a given territory?

Taking as a starting point the right for forgetfulness, 
fictionnal and visceral stories, and the anticipatory 
trauma, Abdessamad El Montassir explores how imaginary 
memories, not based on actual lived facts, can build and 
legitimate a real memory. Simultaneously, he reflects on how 
those stories can affect citizens social behaviours and how 
they can be used for historicisation.

The artist uses as a metaphor and metonymy a plant, the 
daghmous, its evolution and resistance to the stress it 
faced in its environment, an environment that it shares with 
the human society in Western Sahara.

*>**Eric Monacelli**,*Professor at the Laboratoire 
d'Ingénierie des Systèmes of Versailles (University 
Paris-Saclay, UVSQ), President of the Centre d'Expertise 
National CEREMH, *Maflohé Passedouet*, artist,  compagnie 
Mobilis-Immobilis, and *Gladys Foggea*, dancer // (project 
supported by La Diagonale Paris-Saclay) // *"Activated 
Body",* about the project */À la Verticale de Soi./*

In some sports competitions, to "have a handicap" is a sign 
of excellence. For some of us, wearing a technological 
equipment is to be "augmented".

Professional dance, still largely perceived as the place of 
the "perfect" body, is however opening up, for many years 
now, to all kinds of bodies: smaller, thiner, fatter, 
taller, less fit, awkward, less virtuoso, older but the 
equipment of the body often takes the form of a constraint.

/À la Verticale de Soi/is reversing the proposal.At the 
border between art and research, performing art and 
technology, the project is based on the design of a solution 
to support an inclusive dance and the development of a new 
equipment for dancers with reduced mobility.

The choreography includes robotic prototypes with costumes 
and dance to propose a new futuristic vision about handicap. 
Invisible, the supports between the beings, the objects and 
the environment allow to turn difficulties into ability.

The scientific research is focused on the study and design 
of equipment based on soft robotics. It consists of flexible 
elements articulated by under-dimensioned pneumatic 
actuators. This approach intends to develop supports for 
dancers with reduced mobility that are light and safe. The 
dancer with reduced mobility can hence move without being 
blocked.

This project is carried by the Mobilis-Immobilis Cie (M. 
Passedouet)  and the LISV Research Laboratory. It has 
received the support of the Diagonale Paris-Saclay, UVSQ and 
the University Paris-Saclay.

>  Moderator : Annick Bureaud

Programme created by Leonardo/ISAST (www.leonardo.info 
<http://www.leonardo.info/>), *LASER (Leonardo Art Science 
Evening Rendez-vous*) (www.leonardo.info/laser 
<http://www.leonardo.info/laser>) is a sharing of 
experiences about art-science projects during semi-formal 
meetings.

Rencontre LASER Paris is co-organised Leonardo/Olatsa and La 
Diagonale Paris-Saclay 
(http://www.ladiagonale-paris-saclay.fr), in partnership 
with la Cité internationale des arts 
(https://www.citedesartsparis.net/ 
<https://www.citedesartsparis.net/>, the research team 
TEAMeD (https://teamed.univ-paris8.fr/ 
<https://teamed.univ-paris8.fr/>) of Paris 8 
Vincennes-Saint-Denis University and the Research University 
School ArTeC (https://eur-artec.fr/ 
<https://eur-artec.fr/>), with the support of the Daniel and 
Nina Carasso Foundation (https://www.fondationcarasso.org/ 
<https://www.fondationcarasso.org/>)and the programme 
Investissements d'Avenir.

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