julesramage
︎artist/researcher
︎ contact@julesramage.com︎selected works 2013-2025
︎︎︎version françaiseFrom 2013 to 2025, Jules Ramage has conducted collaborative fieldwork in various prisons, implementing protocols for co-creation and research. Together with his incarcerated co-workers, they questioned the links between control institutions, gender violence and medical care. They worked in the logic of expanded cinema, producing films but also, when made impossible for legal or ethical reasons, activating their content through other artistic forms.
Fleury-Mérogis, 2022-2023
_51_
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
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
A project conceived and carried out by Marina Ledrein and Jules Ramage, winner of the Social Practice Arts 2022 Prize.
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
Cards views @C.Ramage
Cards views @C.Ramage
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), CAC Brétigny,Bétonsalon-centre d’art et de recherche, la Parole Errante, l'Atelier des désaxé.es, la librairie Michel Firk, DRAC IDF, SPIP 91
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 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
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.
With the support of: le Fresnoy-studio national des arts contemporains, la Cité du Genre, IdEx Université Paris Cité, ANR-18-IDEX-0001
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: Gabriel Gonzalez, Baptiste Evrard, Didier Sallustro, Sébastien Cabour, Brice Nougues, Julie Machin
Poster graphic design: Gaëlle Renaudin
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: Gabriel Gonzalez, Baptiste Evrard, Didier Sallustro, Sébastien Cabour, Brice Nougues, Julie Machin
Poster graphic design: Gaëlle Renaudin
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.
With the support of: le Fresnoy-studio national des arts contemporains, la Cité internationale des arts, la Monnaie de Paris, Bétonsalon-centre d’art et de recherche, la fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, l’INRAP, le laboratoire CERILAC (UPCité), la Faculté Sociétés et Humanités (UPCité), le laboratoire PHARE (Sorbonne Université), la DRAC IDF, le SPIP 91
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
Installation views @Bétonsalon/C.Ramage
︎︎︎Bétonsalon art and research center, 2020
Installation views @Bétonsalon/C.Ramage
With the support of: la Cité internationale des arts ; la plateforme de recherche-action européenneTransmaking
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”.
With the support of: Shifter Production, DRAC IDF, SPIP 91, DAP, DISP Paris, INRAP Centre-IDF
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...
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