Perceiving, Feeling, Building connection
By Delphine Wibaux
For this research class, Delphine Wibaux offers a space for experimentation that begins with the body—as a place of sensation, awareness, and a channel for emotions—which we can then weave into our artistic practice. Each day will be designed as a special opportunity to explore our capacity for attention and presence through various approaches, including some exercises to connect with oneself, one’s feelings, the environment, and others.
Each day we will focus on movement explorations, a chosen location with a specific atmosphere and sensations, inside or outside, depending on the weather, one of our senses, a keyword proposed as a focus for exploration and a suggested perspective, a time for personal experimentation, using one’s chosen artistic medium, a moment of sharing and discussion about personal practice and the day’s experience.
In the face of the potential for distraction and overload present in today’s world, this research class askes how we can make ourselves present to ourselves, to the moment, and to what is unfolding. Could we be here and not elsewhere? Would it be possible to find inner space and peace, and then connect with others? How can we draw on these individual and collective explorations to enrich our artistic practice?
Delphine Wibaux
A 2014 graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Marseille, Delphine Wibaux's work has been shown at the Jeu de Paume (Paris), the Collection Lambert (Avignon), the Fondation Luma (Arles), the Ateliers Medicis (Greater Paris), the Capucins (Embrun), the Musée Dauphinois (Grenoble), Art-o-rama (Marseille), Galerie Le Corridor (Arles), La Box (Réunion), and Domaine M (Cérilly).
At the Academy, Wibaux is conducting the two-year research project Otolitalgia: a visual exploration in the furrows of time. She wishes to question the temporal recording of living things through the figure of the otolith (a calcareous concretion located in the inner ear) and Solargraphs (solar imprints).
(Photo credit : Delphine Wibaux; Dancer in the wind : Alexandra Samarova)
>> This research class is part of the Research Week during the annual research festival ARTICULATE.
