FAIRES
by Jordi Galí
Premiere in 2025
FAIRES is a creation envisaged with a multiform and contextual format, which questions the making of the craft gesture, what surrounds it (the tools, the accessories, the clothes, the context or territory in which it takes place…) and the conditions of its reception.
Following the research-action process, the creative work will go through stages of observation and apprenticeship with craftspeople who, in particular, develop manual and traditional practices, and will also organise times dedicated to personal exploration and writing. This approach will make it possible to question the connections that exist between different craft gestures and the materials they shape, between the different kinaesthetic experiences produced, between the multiple creative improvisations that are the working gestures and ‘which make the craftsman an active being in a world of active materials’ in the words of Tim Ingold.
FAIRES is also a desire to reformulate and update the foundations that underpin our artistic approach.
It is the opening of a new cycle of artistic research, in which the aim is no longer to create works as finished formal and aesthetic objects, but to develop a process over time.
It’s the desire to pile up experiences that can feed off and respond to each other. Creating a foundation of attempts, tools and traces that are reinjected at every opportunity, inventing our own know-how.
It’s a slow process of maturation for artistic creation, while preserving intelligent and sensitive areas for sharing. On each occasion, with each partner and the specific features of the context in which it is set up, we will co-construct the contours, modalities, temporalities, durability and traces of the experience we are offering.
2023
_Preparations and meetings to respond to the Tridanse call for projects, of which FAIRES was ultimately the winning project in 2024.
_2 days of research on 19 and 20 .10, at ICI-CCN in Montpellier
2024 – As part of the Tridanse programme :
_ Residency from Mon. 08 to Thu. 19 July – Meeting with Jean-Marc Buckland, cabinetmaker, and work sessions with Juliette Franbourg, dancer, and Toma Dutter, visual artist – 3bisF, Aix-en-Provence (FR)
> 9, 10 & 11. – Workshop ‘Des traces : de la surface à la fiction’, Jordi Galí, 3BisF, Aix-en-Provence (FR)
> Sun. 14 – Performance, as part of the Fête artistique et citoyenne, 3bisF, Aix-en-Provence (FR)
_Residence from Fri. 27 September to Sat.05 October – Meeting with Anthony, fisherman, Residence at Citron Jaune CNAREP, Port Saint Louis du Rhône (FR)
> Saturday 05 – Performance as part of the ‘Artivisme! 4pm – Plage Olga (FR)
_ Residence from Monday 14 to Sunday 27 October – Meeting with Stéphane Roucheton, journeyman mason, Residence at Vélo Théâtre, Scène conventionnée pour le théâtre d’objet et le croisement des arts et des sciences, Apt (FR)
> Fri.25 – Restitution, 7pm – Vélo Théâtre (FR)
Design Jordi Galí
Collaborators (ongoing) Stéphane Roucheton (bricklayer), Anthony (fisherman), Jean-Marc Buckland (cabinetmaker), Maxence Duhamel (carpenter), Toma Dutter (draughtsman, painter), Juliette Franbourg (dancer)
Produced by Arrangement Provisoire
Confirmed co-productions : Dispositif Tridanse (Le Citron Jaune CNAREP, le Vélo Théâtre, 3BisF)
Research in progress