︎selected works
Fleury-Mérogis, 2022-2023
_51_edition
Authors: Sophia Achouri, CS, Droite, Eliza, Farah, Gauche, Gitane, Italianka, Lisa Trinchese, Maria, PJ, Sabrina, SL
Editorial management and design: Jules Ramage
Co-creation of content, tooling and meetings in the field: Corinne Dutheil, Daisy Lambert, Marina Ledrein, Ingrid Liavaag, Margot Mourrier Sanyas, Jules Ramage, Johanna Rocard
Pre-modelling, editorial research: Daisy Lambert, Marina Ledrein, Margot Mourrier Sanyas, and all the authors
Proofreading: Marina Ledrein, Margot Mourrier Sanyas
Print design: la Martiennerie
With the support of: la Cité du Genre, IdEx Université Paris Cité, ANR-18-IDEX-0001, les Fondations Gulbenkian et Edmond de Rothschild, le laboratoire CERILAC (UPCité), la Faculté Sociétés et Humanités (UPCité), le laboratoire PHARE (Sorbonne Université), les Ateliers Médicis (Clichy), Bétonsalon-centre d’art et de recherche
Editorial management and design: Jules Ramage
Co-creation of content, tooling and meetings in the field: Corinne Dutheil, Daisy Lambert, Marina Ledrein, Ingrid Liavaag, Margot Mourrier Sanyas, Jules Ramage, Johanna Rocard
Pre-modelling, editorial research: Daisy Lambert, Marina Ledrein, Margot Mourrier Sanyas, and all the authors
Proofreading: Marina Ledrein, Margot Mourrier Sanyas
Print design: la Martiennerie
With the support of: la Cité du Genre, IdEx Université Paris Cité, ANR-18-IDEX-0001, les Fondations Gulbenkian et Edmond de Rothschild, le laboratoire CERILAC (UPCité), la Faculté Sociétés et Humanités (UPCité), le laboratoire PHARE (Sorbonne Université), les Ateliers Médicis (Clichy), Bétonsalon-centre d’art et de recherche
Designed and led with Marina Ledrein, this project is the winner of the 2022 Social Practice Arts Prize.
Initially titled Faille(s), the _51_ project is divided into 2 chapters: an éditorial objet and a performance.
In the summer of 2022, Jules Ramage sets up a working group at Fleury-Mérogis prison: women prisoners, queer researchers and artists are invited to collaborate for 2 months. Marked by the over-medication to which they are subjected, the participants wish to explore alternative care techniques circulating within the walls: self-sex as a pain killer, witchcraft, courage songs... Care cards are developed from this research ; until today, those tools circulate inside the walls.
In the summer of 2022, Jules Ramage sets up a working group at Fleury-Mérogis prison: women prisoners, queer researchers and artists are invited to collaborate for 2 months. Marked by the over-medication to which they are subjected, the participants wish to explore alternative care techniques circulating within the walls: self-sex as a pain killer, witchcraft, courage songs... Care cards are developed from this research ; until today, those tools circulate inside the walls.
51 care cards wrapped in a nylon stocking, 16.9x9 cm per card
Fleury-Mérogis, 2022-2023
_51_performance
Performance design: Marina Ledrein and the collective Mouvement(s)
With the choreographic complicity of: Nathalie Hervé
With advices by Pauline Guinard, Daisy Lambert, Jules Ramage
Performers: the members of the collective Mouvement(s) : Christian Daclinat – Aimée Dubuisson - Corinne Dutheil - Fanny Ingrassia - Marina Ledrein - Fabrice Neuhans - Jules Ramage
Sound design: Fanny Ingrassia, Benoit Navarret
Light design: Némo A.
Podcast: Nils Loret
With the support of: la Cité du Genre, IdEx Université Paris Cité, ANR-18-IDEX-0001, les Fondations Gulbenkian et Edmond de Rothschild, le laboratoire CERILAC (UPCité), la Faculté Sociétés et Humanités (UPCité), le laboratoire PHARE (Sorbonne Université), les Ateliers Médicis (Clichy), Bétonsalon-centre d’art et de recherche
With the choreographic complicity of: Nathalie Hervé
With advices by Pauline Guinard, Daisy Lambert, Jules Ramage
Performers: the members of the collective Mouvement(s) : Christian Daclinat – Aimée Dubuisson - Corinne Dutheil - Fanny Ingrassia - Marina Ledrein - Fabrice Neuhans - Jules Ramage
Sound design: Fanny Ingrassia, Benoit Navarret
Light design: Némo A.
Podcast: Nils Loret
With the support of: la Cité du Genre, IdEx Université Paris Cité, ANR-18-IDEX-0001, les Fondations Gulbenkian et Edmond de Rothschild, le laboratoire CERILAC (UPCité), la Faculté Sociétés et Humanités (UPCité), le laboratoire PHARE (Sorbonne Université), les Ateliers Médicis (Clichy), Bétonsalon-centre d’art et de recherche
Designed and led with Marina Ledrein, this project is the winner of the 2022 Social Practice Arts Prize. Initially titled Faille(s), the _ 51 _ project is divided into 2 chapters: an éditorial objet and a performance.
The corpus of remedies collected at Fleury-Mérogis women's prison forms the basis of a performative work carried out in the winter of 2022-2023 with Marina Ledrein and the collective Mouvement(s), composed of the treated and the caregivers of the Robert Ballanger psychiatric hospital. The performers of the collective respond to each of these strategies of resistance and solidarity, by dancing, singing or by contributing their own stories, echoing the testimonies of women prisoners.
The corpus of remedies collected at Fleury-Mérogis women's prison forms the basis of a performative work carried out in the winter of 2022-2023 with Marina Ledrein and the collective Mouvement(s), composed of the treated and the caregivers of the Robert Ballanger psychiatric hospital. The performers of the collective respond to each of these strategies of resistance and solidarity, by dancing, singing or by contributing their own stories, echoing the testimonies of women prisoners.
Performance: activating prison care cards. Variable duration
︎︎︎La Parole Errante, 2023
Fleury-Mérogis, 2022-2023
the bird
︎sequel for_51_
Performer: Gauche
With the women incarcerated in Fleury-Mérogis prison: Sophia Achouri, CS, Droite, Eliza, Farah, Gauche, Gitane, Italianka, Lisa Trinchese, Maria, PJ, Sabrina, SL
Artistic and technical team: Ana Elena Tejera, Juliette Barrat, Raphaël Zucconi, Ttale Haran, Lou Gallay, Jérôme Erhart, Alex Augier, Hazem Berrabah, Didier Sallustro, Arno Ledoux, Gaëlle Renaudin, Bianca Da Costa
With the support of: le Fresnoy, la Cité du Genre, IdEx Université Paris Cité, ANR-18-IDEX-0001, les Fondations Gulbenkian et Edmond de Rothschild, le laboratoire CERILAC (UPCité), la Faculté Sociétés et Humanités (UPCité), le laboratoire PHARE (Sorbonne Université), les Ateliers Médicis (Clichy), Bétonsalon-centre d’art et de recherche
With the women incarcerated in Fleury-Mérogis prison: Sophia Achouri, CS, Droite, Eliza, Farah, Gauche, Gitane, Italianka, Lisa Trinchese, Maria, PJ, Sabrina, SL
Artistic and technical team: Ana Elena Tejera, Juliette Barrat, Raphaël Zucconi, Ttale Haran, Lou Gallay, Jérôme Erhart, Alex Augier, Hazem Berrabah, Didier Sallustro, Arno Ledoux, Gaëlle Renaudin, Bianca Da Costa
With the support of: le Fresnoy, la Cité du Genre, IdEx Université Paris Cité, ANR-18-IDEX-0001, les Fondations Gulbenkian et Edmond de Rothschild, le laboratoire CERILAC (UPCité), la Faculté Sociétés et Humanités (UPCité), le laboratoire PHARE (Sorbonne Université), les Ateliers Médicis (Clichy), Bétonsalon-centre d’art et de recherche
This project is the continuation of _51_.
Once the cards developed, the working group of Fleury-Mérogis prison addresses the circulation of its stories outside the walls. Gauche volunteers as spokesperson: she is thus invited, at the end of her sentence, to perform in front of the camera. She re-interprets the diary she wrote daily in her cell, the texts collectively written in the workshop, the administrative documents that governed her days, testifying for the gender-based violence of French prisons.
Once the cards developed, the working group of Fleury-Mérogis prison addresses the circulation of its stories outside the walls. Gauche volunteers as spokesperson: she is thus invited, at the end of her sentence, to perform in front of the camera. She re-interprets the diary she wrote daily in her cell, the texts collectively written in the workshop, the administrative documents that governed her days, testifying for the gender-based violence of French prisons.
Vidéo HD, color, sound (Dolby Digital 5.1), 11’39
︎︎︎watch here
︎︎︎watch here
Poissy, 2019-2022
ghostmarkets
With the SEE collective: John Dow, Ben, Christophe, Brali, Sparafucile, Youssef Rhnima, Philippe T., Ilich
Co-production of content, tools and meetings: Olivier Royer-Perez, Melchior Simioni, David Rabouin, Sonia Manseri, Nadeera Rajapakse, Alice Mulliez, Laurence Mongin, Yang Yang
Artistic and technical team: Gaëlle Renaudin, Gabriel Gonzalez, Baptiste Evrard, Didier Sallustro, Sébastien Cabour, Brice Nougues, Julie Machin
Co-production of content, tools and meetings: Olivier Royer-Perez, Melchior Simioni, David Rabouin, Sonia Manseri, Nadeera Rajapakse, Alice Mulliez, Laurence Mongin, Yang Yang
Artistic and technical team: Gaëlle Renaudin, Gabriel Gonzalez, Baptiste Evrard, Didier Sallustro, Sébastien Cabour, Brice Nougues, Julie Machin
This project is co-constructed with the SEE: a group of men detained in Poissy prison, formed in 2015 as a research-action collective at the invitation of Jules Ramage. It takes as its starting point the ban on all transactions in prison spaces. In response, the collective committed to the establishment of a monetary production network inside the walls. They developed a currency of esteem marking debts of honor, made of melted sugar: the choice of material refers to pharmaceuticals, used inside the walls as alternative currencies.
A1 poster, color, recto verso
Poissy, 2019-2022
ghostmarkets
︎prequel
With the SEE collective: John Dow, Ben, Christophe, Brali, Sparafucile, Youssef Rhnima, Philippe T., Ilich
Co-production of content, tools and meetings: Olivier Royer-Perez, Melchior Simioni, David Rabouin, Sonia Manseri, Nadeera Rajapakse, Alice Mulliez, Laurence Mongin, Yang Yang
Artistic and technical team: Christophe Ramage, Michel Galindo, Marina Ledrein, Jean-Pierre Aubry
Co-production of content, tools and meetings: Olivier Royer-Perez, Melchior Simioni, David Rabouin, Sonia Manseri, Nadeera Rajapakse, Alice Mulliez, Laurence Mongin, Yang Yang
Artistic and technical team: Christophe Ramage, Michel Galindo, Marina Ledrein, Jean-Pierre Aubry
As the covid-19 crisis explodes, the first lockdown put an end to the fieldwork. As prisons were, more than any place, shut down and the communication cut with his detained collaborators, Jules Ramage decided to create a “ghost film” from the preparatory documents of the project: a radio performance including two days of readings and public talks about the links between bio-power,
surveillance techniques and public health disaster.
Radio performance: 2 days of readings and public talks
︎︎︎Bétonsalon art and research center, 2020
︎︎︎Bétonsalon art and research center, 2020
Poissy, 2019_2021
how2orderonline
With the SEE collective: Ben, Youssef Rhnima, Olivier Raoul, Nicolas
Co-production of content, tools and meetings: Olivier Royer-Perez, Thibault Collin, Lucas Morin
Artistic and technical team: Christophe Ramage, Didier Sallustro
Co-production of content, tools and meetings: Olivier Royer-Perez, Thibault Collin, Lucas Morin
Artistic and technical team: Christophe Ramage, Didier Sallustro
In French prisons, Internet
as well as exchanges between prisoners are strictly prohibited. To overcome
this obstacle, the inmates built a series of tools allowing them to carry items
and messages within the prison’s architecture, namely, the yo-yos, a mechanical
counterpart of the intranet with which they can “order online”.
Poissy, 2015-2019
field work
︎unreleased
With the SEE collective: Claude, Ben, JMC, S.A., Sparafucile, Youssef Rhnima, Philippe T., Tayeb Bezzazi
Co-production of content, tools and meetings: Olivier Royer-Perez, Thibault Collin, le LAAB
Co-production of content, tools and meetings: Olivier Royer-Perez, Thibault Collin, le LAAB
Our
earliest research focused on analyzing living conditions in the prison, shaped
by control technologies – be it medical, administrative, electronic,
architectural. We were then collaborating with archaeologists, architects,
geologists, botanists, and sociologists to analyze the constitution and history
of the prison walls and soils, as well as the bodily effects of incarceration –
such as loss of teeth, hair, high cancer risk.
Research
material - unreleased
︎︎︎Sampling and analysis (plants, walls and soil composition); space and objects photogrammetry; RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging), visual and audio testimonies...
︎︎︎Sampling and analysis (plants, walls and soil composition); space and objects photogrammetry; RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging), visual and audio testimonies...
Ile-de-France, 2015-2016
waiting for...
︎early works
With Alex Augier, Martin Howse, Olivier Royer-Pérez, residents, users, town planners and architects of the municipalities of Bondoufle and Fleury-Mérogis (Ile-de-France)
Waiting for the Barbarians documents the expansion of the cities of Fleury and Bondoufle, near Paris. The investigation combines the perspectives of archaeologists, developers, inhabitants and different users, uncovering the violent conflict caused by the construction project: farmers expropriation, long-term legal battles, attacks on archaeologists on the research/construction site...
10 collodion plates 70x100
cm, Eart Return Distorsion device, immersive sound environment
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