{"id":95657,"date":"2021-04-28T09:46:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T07:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/?post_type=extra&p=95657"},"modified":"2021-07-02T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T08:11:09","slug":"b21","status":"publish","type":"extra","link":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/extra\/b21\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Etienne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00a0Le travail d\u2019Alexis Etienne, jeune artiste fra\u00eechement sorti du Master en Pratiques \u00e9ditoriales de l\u2019ArBA\u2011EsA, s\u2019est longtemps d\u00e9ploy\u00e9 autour d\u2019une pratique d\u2019\u00e9criture et de r\u00e9flexion autour de non\u2011\u00e9v\u00e9nements ou, plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, de la dramatisation fictionnalis\u00e9e de trames narratives issues du quotidien, filtr\u00e9es par la voix monocorde de l\u2019artiste.

Apr\u00e8s avoir travaill\u00e9 les codes du cin\u00e9ma des origines, du cin\u00e9ma \u00e0 effets sp\u00e9ciaux, du film d\u2019auteur voire du stand\u2011up, Etienne, ou son personnage de narrateur, s\u2019inscrivent ici en creux de l\u2019installation sonore Public Address #5<\/em>, qui rejoue plut\u00f4t les codes du documentaire.<\/span> Dans une v\u00e9ritable \u00e9conomie de moyens, l\u2019installation s\u2019articule autour d\u2019une suite d\u2019impressions sur papier gris ou recycl\u00e9 gris en A4 dans lesquelles l\u2019artiste a am\u00e9nag\u00e9 une d\u00e9coupe circulaire qui laisse appara\u00eetre la membrane d\u2019enceintes encastr\u00e9es dans la cimaise. Ces enceintes diffusent des extraits d\u2019un \u00e9change entre deux amies de l\u2019artiste, respectivement S et L, au sujet de leur projets de vie respectifs.<\/span> Pour l\u2019une, il s\u2019agit de raconter le projet avort\u00e9 de vivre en communaut\u00e9 mixte dans une maison selon des r\u00e8gles inspir\u00e9es par l\u2019\u00e9cologie et le f\u00e9minisme. Une communaut\u00e9 inspir\u00e9e par des lectures politiques fortement marqu\u00e9es \u00e0 gauche ou par les mouvements libertaires ou anarchistes. En marge m\u00eame de l\u2019\u00e9chec de sa concr\u00e9tisation, ce projet lui a permis de repenser plus globalement ses aspirations \u00e9cologistes, l\u2019id\u00e9e m\u00eame d\u2019action, de groupe constitu\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cart du reste du monde. Pour l\u2019autre, il s\u2019agit encore d\u2019un espoir communautaire d\u2019avenir, celui de vivre un jour en une communaut\u00e9 de femmes qui organiserait l\u2019\u00e9ducation des enfants de ses membres en autarcie. Son rapport \u00e0 la nature \u00e9volue, depuis son enfance \u00e0 la campagne avec un p\u00e8re v\u00e9g\u00e9tarien, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 sa vie aujourd\u2019hui inscrite dans d\u2019une capitale. Elle s\u2019occupe d\u2019abeilles, analyse leurs soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de ruches qui, en r\u00e9alit\u00e9, constituent \u00e9galement des communaut\u00e9s vivri\u00e8res d\u2019\u00eatres de sexe f\u00e9minin, elle mange \u00e0 nouveau de la viande, elle est un peu d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9e par les discours des n\u00e9o\u2011\u00e9cologistes avec l\u2019impression d\u2019\u00eatre en comparaison n\u00e9e dans un milieu qui a d\u00e9j\u00e0 avanc\u00e9 sur un grand nombre des questions qui semblent prendre de l\u2019importance aujourd\u2019hui. Le dispositif de Public Address<\/em> (litt\u00e9ralement \u00ab\u00a0interpellation publique\u00a0\u00bb) pose la question de la prise de parole publique et, en particulier, celle de femmes, et celle de l\u2019\u00e9coute et de l\u2019attention qui lui sont apport\u00e9es.<\/span> \u00c0 cet \u00e9gard, il n\u2019est assur\u00e9ment pas anodin que ces installations posent la question plastique de la surface imprim\u00e9e que le son traverse (grille de haut\u2011parleur, feuille de papier,…). Pour Etienne, l\u2019enjeu \u00e9tait aussi comme pour les spectateurs\u2011auditeurs, celui de se taire \u00ab\u00a0autant qu\u2019il pouvait\u00a0\u00bb.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

English<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alexis Etienne has recently graduated from the Master in Publishing Practices at ArBA-EsA, Brussels, His work has long been focused on a practice of writing and thinking in relation to non-events or, more precisely, the fictionalized dramatization of narrative threads taken from everyday life, filtered by the artist’s monotonous voice.

After having worked on the codes of original cinema, special effects cinema, auteur film and even stand-up, Etienne, or his character as a narrator, here become part of the sound installation Public Address # 5<\/em>, which rather replays the codes of the documentary.<\/span>  In a real economy of means, the installation revolves around a series of prints on grey or recycled grey paper in A4 format in which the artist has created a circular cut-out which reveals the membrane of speakers embedded in the picture rail. These speakers broadcast excerpts from an exchange between two friends of the artist, respectively S and L, about their respective life plans.<\/span> For one, it is about telling the abandoned plan of living in a mixed community in a house according to rules inspired by ecology and feminism. A community inspired by the political readings strongly influenced by the left or by the libertarian or anarchist movements. Even aside from its failure to actually be realized, this plan allowed her to more generally rethink her ecological aspirations, the very idea of action, of a group formed apart from the rest of the world. For the other, there is still hope for a community future, of living one day in a community of women who would organize the education of the children of its members in autarky. Her relationship with nature is evolving, from her childhood in the countryside with a vegetarian father, to her life today in a capital city. She takes care of bees, analyses their beehive societies which, in reality, also constitute food-producing communities of female beings, she eats meat again, she is a little exasperated by the discourses of neo-ecologists with the impression of being comparatively born in a milieu that has already made progress on many of the issues that seem to be gaining importance today. The display of Public Address <\/em>(literally “public interpellation”) raises the question of public speaking, and in particular that of women, and the question of listening and the attention given to it.<\/span> In this respect, it is certainly not insignificant that this installation poses the plastic question of the printed surface through which the sound passes (loudspeaker grille, sheet of paper). For Etienne, as for the spectators-listeners, the challenge was also to remain silent “as much as one could”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-95657","extra","type-extra","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/extra\/95657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/extra"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/extra"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centredelagravure.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}