'Narrative' Inquiry, Drift and Surveying

Teachers : Denis Deprez, Inès Rabadan, Anouchka Oler Nussbaum

A laboratory space, the multidisciplinary narrative workshop is a place for experimenting with narrative, based on a methodology of investigation/discovery/surveying and dialogue (between students/with teachers). The narrative forms produced as a result of this investigation/dive/survey are multiple and multidisciplinary.

Group and individual interviews punctuated the students' narrative research. Texts, archives, documents and gestures are used as material supports to explore the lines of narrative research.

The aim is to build a body of research and lay the foundations for a field of experimentation for a narrative in the making. The emphasis is on the process, the use of protocols and the setting up of a narrative device.

The narrative device is tested/experimented in the real world in order to anchor the narrative structure(s) in the social, cultural, political and other fields.

The academic year of the multidisciplinary narrative 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 and so on. Visits to exhibitions in places emblematic of contemporary practices punctuate the year. References are regularly shared in the various fields that in one way or another inform the narratives and experiments (publications, films, videos, etc., theories and practices).