Study day: Body of the object, an art "objeu

This one-day event will explore the pairing of body and object in contemporary creation. The critical approaches raised by this association are obviously rich, and each path taken can open up highly diverse perspectives, at the crossroads of gesture and narrativity, and sometimes beyond the engagement of concrete bodies, especially if digital gestures are associated with them.
This relationship that the artistic field maintains between the body and the object is one of a kind. This relationship that the artistic field maintains with the body could pertinently displace the debate between content and form; idea and matter, and protect us from the commodification of artistic productions by cultural capitalism. This critical theory, unafraid of being contaminated by its objects, would envisage these cultural bodies - in a materializing contemporaneity as much as a post-material one - as an "objeu," a word coined by the poet Francis Ponge, to designate objects/body in circulation, in projected relation, even situated in the space of a poetic game, as a territory of the body.As Pierre Fédida puts it: "L'objeu"-the poetic object of play-is a space, or rather the spatial metaphorization of a time of encounter between words and things. It is the 'objeu' that defines what we call subjectivity. This rhythm between body and thing, the result of a spatial and temporal exchange, would not evacuate the possibility of contacts thought of as so many relational topologies.