WORKSHOP. SYLVIE MARCHAND
07-09.05.2010

Students are invited to study the estuary natural field both as an ecological reality to observe, and as the poetical metaphor of changing and mixing space and flow. This Estuary workhop is widely open to any tool and form of art: students are welcome to use the technology and form of restitution of their choice.

While traveling along the Gironde estuary in southwest France, the students will engage in a range of cultural research activities. They will meet French artists from Fabrique POLA, an artists colony in Bordeaux; they will visit the winery Le Wy, which merges old traditions of wine production and the arts; as well as Talmont-sur-Gironde, site of impressive Franco-Roman architecture.

Sylvie Marchand was born in France where she trained both as a circus artist and as an anthropologist. She graduated from La Sorbonne, Paris, with a PHD in anthropology, and from the Institut National de Langues et Civilisations Orientales with a “Diplome Supérieur de Langue Africaine” (Bambara). Through experimental and multimedia writings, Sylvie Marchand, a media artist with an anthropological point of view, tackles a transversal topic : the cultures of mobility in our contemporary world. www.gigacircus.net