Combat with teenagers, lycees gutenberg. April 2009
Combat with teenagers
I was invited to work with 32 teenagers ( 31 girls and 1 boy).They were between15 to 18 years old,
Many of them have divers country of origins.
The teachers decided to go with this project because there were girl's fights and some other problems and wanted each person to realize there is another way of combat and bring more unity to the class.
The organizer of the project ask me to try to give them an idea that there is more than exterior being to them.
We worked on the idea of identity, self image, gestures and what surrounds us. Most of them were welcoming, friendly, intelligent and curious.
I learned many things from them about life.
Thanks to them i came to a new stage of my work.
MARKS... THE CLICHÉS OF A METAMORPHOSIS: "Combat" PROJECT OF MIKI NITADORI
Within the framework of its policy of cultural action in the direction of the partner establishments, Mac wished to facilitate the meeting, the stake in concordance between the work of the artist photographer Miki Nitadori and a class of second SAN of the secondary school Gutenberg of Créteil.
Thanks to the ludique structure of the photographic project, the pupils opened in this quest, confronted with the aesthetic values and with the questions of the image of one-self.
In a progressive way, the project took place in several phases of meetings and mutual taming, the pupils were able to seize in real time, the artistic practice of Miki Nitadori. She is very sensitive to the relationship to the others, to the emotion which provokes the apprehension of the intimate space, particularly when the construction of the image of self is in progress.
Through the construction and the implementation of a collective project out of strictly educational field, Our aim was to give a value and to put into perspective the identity of participants .
All the girls of the group did not wish to appear on the post as they found it difficult to see their image circulating. It was up to them to choose.
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Team: Miki Nitadori: Artist / Yvan Dagenais and Mireille Barucco: Layout /
Stéphanie Pelard, public relation./ Anne Mary Simon, Exhibition. |
The Mac wishes to pursue this project with the other partner establishments.
Text by Mac creteil |
