Multidisciplinary Workshops Narration

Bac 1

Teachers : Caroline Godart, Stéphane Noël

Triad character - relationship - situation

The course embraces tools of classical dramaturgy, including the triad character, relationship, situation. This abstract way of dividing up a story is shown from the outset as an intellectual construction, but it allows the course to be divided into a series of short exercises which are all opportunities to build the story.

Concentrated dramatic structure and diffuse dramatic structure

The course switches between two moments: the first part of the year (generally the first quadrimester) is dedicated to "concentrated" dramaturgy, a moment during which the triad character, relationship, situation is covered for the first time with attention to the orthodoxy of its application. Far from being easy, it appears that a form of invention, beyond mechanical respect, is necessary. In the second half of the year, the triad is revisited, this time approaching it with a dissemination methodology. Far from having to be a simple abandonment of conventions (destroy the causal coherence of a sequence of events, for example), this revisit requires that we infuse the story with its own qualities. This balancing method is explained to students at the beginning of the year. “Focused” dramaturgy is always put into perspective of the tools of dissemination, and never considered the essential form of storytelling. The course imposes a fast pace of exercises (these are completed in one or two class sessions, and require little homework).

Bac 2

Teachers: Romane Armand, Joanna Lorho, Nicolas Wouters

The multidisciplinary storytelling workshop is a place for experimenting with different means of expression. The 2nd year of the bachelor focuses on the practices of storytelling in all forms of contemporary art;

- by exploring the multiplicity of contemporary practices of narration, sometimes far removed from classic narrative schemes;

- by leaving acquired references and already established reflexes to experiment with avenues that encourage students to gradually explore the limits of their comfort zones.

The multidisciplinary storytelling workshop encourages student autonomy, both by providing references, theoretical and practical, and by the choice to favor (from the 2nd year) personal projects. Emphasis is also placed on establishing a participatory framework for project monitoring and dialogue throughout the year, where everyone's progress. is taken into account according to their specific needs. The artistic projects proposed in the multidisciplinary workshop are designed so that the students confront themselves - in the most personal and unique way possible - with unexpected constraints. It is therefore the opposite of the docile application of a pre-established rule or a school-type request where one expects a specific result.

The 2nd year of studies in narration plans to broaden the notion of “narrative” by concretely experimenting with the many ways of producing narrative today. It features a series of projects that run throughout the year, focusing on different skills and areas of learning. These projects are intended to encourage students to experiment with new forms of expression, to hybridize them, to deepen them. The proposed projects assume, alternately, a rapid realization in one or two workshop sessions, others are more long-term.

The pedagogy is based on research, experimentation through doing within the framework of the student's personal project.

The Multidisciplinary Workshop seeks both to establish a group dynamic (work in small groups of student(s) brought together by affinity), and to encourage the singular approach of the students, by designing the periodic exercises such as titles carrying various possibilities according to each person's preferred media, and suitable for developing their personal thoughts on what art is for them, while framing them in relation to the sensitive issues of art contemporary.

Bac 3

Teachers : Denis Deprez, Inès Rabadan

A laboratory space, the multidisciplinary storytelling workshop is a place for experimenting with storytelling which is developed using a methodology of investigation/drift/survey and dialogue (between students/with teachers). The narrative forms produced from this investigation/drift/survey are multiple and multidisciplinary.

Collective and individual interviews punctuate the narrative research of the students. Texts, archives, documents, gestures become material supports to dig lines of narrative research.

It is a question of constructing research and laying the foundations of a field of experimentation for a narrative in the making. The emphasis is on the process, the use of protocols and the establishment of a narrative device.

The narrative device is tested/experienced in reality to anchor the narrative structure(s) in the fields of social, cultural, political, etc.

The academic year of the multidisciplinary storytelling workshop is devoted to the development of a personal/collective project.

The year is punctuated by meetings with practitioners in the field of contemporary practices, visual artists, filmmakers, writers, etc. Visits to exhibitions punctuate the year in emblematic places of contemporary practices. A regular sharing of references is done in the different fields that in one way or another irrigate the narratives and its experiments (publications, films, videos, etc., theories and practices).