Workshop : Affective Erosion

Workshop led by two artists, Marie Ouazzani & Nicolas Carrier, as part of Diderot’s workshops launched by the Office of Cultural Affairs of the University Paris Diderot

On Tuesday, December 11th from 5 p.m. at 7 p.m., during a public restitution, participants and artists shows us their final works with screening and installations.

Artists Marie Ouazzani and Nicolas Carrier offer a workshop on the concept of love as seen through its connections with landscapes.

“To give attention, care, support, kindness and protection are different forms of love which we can transmit to one another. The participants will venture around the neighborhood surrounding the Paris Diderot University as in a foggy mystery novel, in which images will be the clues and the ecological suspects of a large-scale investigation of love. In this up-and-coming district, where new materials are used to erect countless buildings, a love of observation will be required – and applied to the architecture, the materials, the minerals, the river – while taking a stroll to uncover the erosion of feelings.”

The workshop will be divided into two stages: participants will first be asked to create collages with documents stemming from cinema, mineralogy, the nearby architecture school, urbanism, history and walks around the area, all of which will be used to make a video. They will then get involved in the filming of the video by inventing gestures, performances and actions which will be shot by the artists in different areas of the neighborhood.

Since 2015, Marie Ouazzani and Nicolas Carrier travel together to explore the relations between nature and culture. Their videos, photographic installations and infusions propose some fictions that mix pollution, ghosts, ruins and economics. From simple and daily situations, they confront environment and urbanization through History, stories and symbolic impact to rebalance those landscapes tensions.
Recently, their work has been presented in France at the art centers of Villa Arson and 3 bis f, 61th salon de Montrouge and Gaîté Lyrique, in Germany at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, in Ukraine at the 5th Odessa Biennale, in Jordan at Darat al Funun, in South Korea at Gyeonggy Creation Center and in China at Bazaar Compatible Program and C-Platform.