Workshop AA visiting school / ENSAPVS

PRESENT PRESENT The Aultian body between nature and culture participants:

Camille Cieutat Sebastjan Cvelbar Domagoj Osrečak

mentors: Aljoša Dekleva / dekleva gregoric architects Christian Pottgiesser / christian pottgiesser architecturespossibles co-mentor: Jakob Travnik Architectural Association School of Architecture, London in collaboration with ENSA PVS, Paris, AA Visiting School nanotourism, Ault 2017 Programme Head AA Aljoša Dekleva / Programme Head ENSA PVS Christian Pottgiesser / Programme Assistant Jakob Travnik

one representative IMAGE

INTRODUCTION

Talking about things I don’t truly understand, but they nevertheless seem true... Present. Thinking, maybe the only place I am really present. Am I present through the things I have? How present is my presence? Understanding the place. What does that even mean? Is reality a blurred mixture of subjective and objective? Between facts and fiction? Between logical and improbable?

- What do you mean exactly?

- I mean, but not exactly.

Look within! Within what? And why? I don’t understand! What is presence? When are you? I am! I just am! Where? Here? Here?

Here? Is there one Here?

Argh! I don’t know!

NATURE

Wind

What does wind mean to us? An asset?

Temperature

How does the naked body deal with the nature?

Water

How does it feel to be a pebble?

Tides

How do we measure the tidal speed? With pebbles?

Sound

How can we enhace hearing? By using devices.

Sight

How can we partly block or enhance sight?

Touch

What does the beach and strand feel like?

Comfort

using devices to experience comfort on the beach

Natural definition of the Aultian body

The Aultian body is everyone who is experiencing Ault’s environment and is being influenced by it.

how to relate it to the users?

CULTURE

Why do we need the Aultian body?

The Aultian body is needed to experience the place through interactions with the culture of Ault and its users.

how to relate it to specific places?

Aultian culture

Guillaume Brac

Victor Hugo

representative Aultian culture to us

Daft Punk

From culture to activity

watching

reading

listening

experience

listening

dancing

basic activities related to culture

From activity to experience

experience

listening

dancing

alternated reality

alternated vision

alternated bodies

imaging new experiences of the city

From experiences to specific places

alternated reality

alternated vision

alternated bodies

movie scenes

footsteps of Victor Hugo

photoshooting places

relating to specific places

Possible combinations specific places

cultural points

new experience

activities

cliffs

experience

beach

dancing footsteps of Victor Hugo

alternated reality

center

listening Brac’s movie

alternated vision

casino

watching Daft Punk’s photos

alternated bodies

rue st Valery

reading

dry harbour

listening

choosing Guillaume Brac’s movie as our attach

Cultural definition of the Aultian body

The Aultian body as an extension of our own body and mind gives us new possibilities of thinking and acting in Ault.

how to embody it

EVOLUTION

From physical body to prosthesis

Prothesis to experience Ault’s culture

Prototyping

testing different positions of use

Material catalogue

pvc pipe

copper joints

canvas

ropes

cable tie

tools

using as little elements as possible

Movable screen

being able to walk around Brac’s scenes

Adjustable screen

one prototype fits different body sizes

Adjustable helmet

allowing one axis of adjustability

CONCLUSION

Movable movie theater as a participative experience

giving the prototype to the city

“Cinema is not the history of the 20th century, but the 20th century is the history of cinema�

Jean-Luc Godard

FACTS /

PHOTOGRAFIC / GRAPHIC REFERENCES

TITLE: WHAT: WHERE:

Present present - the Aultian body Aultians

provider: WHEN: start: type of FOR WHOM:

local tourist office

DESCRIPTION:

Experiencing Ault through double reality by watching scenes from Guillaume Brac’s “Un monde sans femmes” in the scenery where they were actually filmed.

May 2017 as long as Aultians accept it anybody who wants to experience Ault

CHARACTERISTICS / PARTICIPATORY the Aultian body allows multiple spectators to share the experience

BOTTOM UP from Aultian nature and experience to the Aulti

SOCIAL oriented towards everyone who wants to experience the double reality of Ault

CRITICAL dealing with Guillaume Brac’s movie and the philosophy of Jean-Luc Godard

RESPONSIBLE not really

LOCAL showing local sceneries through double reality

SITE-SPECIFIC specific sites in Ault chosen through analysis of local culture INVENTIVE it just is inventive... we think

EDUCATIVE not really intensity/ extreme

higly

medium

low

none

Credits Music : Sudden throw, Olafur Arnalds Movie : Un monde sans femmes, Guillaume Brac Special thanks to Sound editing, pictures, ideas : Sven Jirka Video encoding : Matej Tili