Writing / Text and Narrative of Research

Teacher : Antoine Boute

This course proposes to explore what writing can do as a vehicle for "gestures of seeking" to be invented, both collectively and individually. Considering research as a gesture refers to the corporeal, sensory and sensitive basis of all human thought and language. It will therefore be a question of working on the emergence of forms of writing that are anchored in experience and its corporeal, material, imaginative, perceptual and affective dimensions. A writing at the antipodes, therefore, of the disembodied perfection proposed by artificial intelligences. A writing that is anchored in personal experience and its affinities, with what the research position implies in terms of discomfort, doubts, not knowing, lack of control, mysteries to be faced - but also the joys of exploration, whether concrete or imaginative, sensory or cognitive. A writing that, despite the difficulties, "enjoys persisting" in its efforts to achieve accuracy with regard to what it seeks, the language it uses, and the people to whom it is addressed; a writing that pays attention to tact in its delivery and reception, while allowing itself to question and thwart the linguistic formats that standardize the deployment of thought.

In order to foster the emergence of unique and relevant writings in their form, arrangement, and delivery, the course will consist of:

- writing suggestions to be built upon personally or collectively.

- collections of books, texts, sound objects, and various traces, constructed collectively, to be read, listened to, and viewed in ways that are explored.

- individual and group discussions.

- various explorations, experiences, excursions, publications, performances, and events.