Interacting directly & symbolically with vernacular environments and communities at the intersection between life and aesthetics, art is experienced as a social & collective engagement.
Interagir directement et symboliquement avec des environnements et les communautés vernaculaires qui les compose. Le tout à l’intersection entre vie et esthétique, la relation est appréhendée comme un geste créatif mobilisant un engagement social et collectif.
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2021
Le collectif Pendant que les champs brûlent déclare à la préfecture un rituel à carractère revendicatif, sous l’initiative d’Activismes Ésotériques : une foule, munie de bannières et d’étendards vierges et monochromes, forme une unité de corps visible et non-identifiable, unie et non-séparable. À la fois homogène et hétérogène, la manifestation fait le gage de vœux […]
2021
L’artiste Cynthia Montier et la chercheuse Sophie Prinssen du collectif Activismes Ésotériques organisent un travail collaboratif questionnant les liens existants entre soin, corps et pouvoir. À partir des récits des urgentistes et des recherches des artistes sur l’ésotérisme, l’action consiste à réaliser une performance artistique collective avec les soignants et les soignantes, au sein des […]
2021
activism, activismesesoteriques, coven, curatorialdispositive, esoterism, ritual, urbanintervention, workshop
Activismes Ésotériques – Magie · Performance · Résistances est un travail de création et de recherche (solstice d’hiver 2020 – équinoxe d’automne 2021) à la croisée du rituel, du workshop, de la performance et de l’intervention dans l’espace public.
[En résidence : 49° Nord 6° Est Frac Lorraine]
https://activismes-esoteriques.net/
2021
The Magic-Mediation Tarot is a non-divinatory and performative tarot designed by Cynthia Montier.
*Contact [email protected] for a reading
*Get yourself one copy on http://editionscartonpate.com/
[Each purchase of Tarot Magie-médiation includes a tarot reading]
2020
edition, interventionart, magiemediation, mediation, odylus, residency, ritual, sainteodile, tarot, workshop
The Magic-Mediation Tarot is a non-divinatory and performative tarot designed by Cynthia Montier.
*Contact [email protected] for a reading
*Get yourself one copy on http://editionscartonpate.com/
[Each purchase of Tarot Magie-médiation includes a tarot reading]
2020
edition, interventionart, magic, odylus, residency, ritual, rockgraffiti, sainteodile, sigil, stones, talisman, urbanintervention
A series of talismans as key rings from the pebbles on the Sainte-Odile site with Odylus residents, who are temporarily occupying places. Doubles are then shaped and decorated with an engraving of the Kenaz rune. This rune shaped in a corner of a roof symbolises the domesticated fire, the torch, the flame, in connection with the hearth or the household: in the past, the population was counted in number of « fire » or luminous « hearths », therefore readable at night. Kenaz, lined and inverted to form a cross, corresponds to the rune Gebo which means hospitality, gift or attachment.
*Get yourself one on http://editionscartonpate.com/
2020
On one side, a series of precious, fetish or sacred objects, on the other, views from the rooms of the former Sainte-Odile clinic.
The ensemble is as much a whole as a mediation to operate in a collective egregore of personal belongings, amulets, talismans, gri-gri, family jewellery, or objects of burden or good luck charms collected with the residents and retranscribed in the form of building site banners to cover, adorn or adorn as an offering the dress and scaffolding of the former Sainte-Odile chapel.
The banners are hung with the residents in complicity with the site workers.
2020
Ritual workshop & performative urban visit at Université de Lorraine24 Septembre 2020, Jeudi des Quatre Temps The Tuesday of the 4 times, 4 groups of anonymous citizens gather to form a collective egregora, a political and spiritual body. The 4 groups wander through the city « traveling in spirit » with 4 tools to 4 diferent sites […]
2020
The encounter between residents & workers of the construction site of past clinic Sainte-Odile gives place to a collective launch of paper wishes through the windows of the now temporary social & artistic residency.
2020
External Promises is a simultaneous urban and astral visit through different cities. External Promises — Fortune guide for disaffected places addresses the issue of disaffectec space, as a way of rethinking intimate space (assigned space, sacred space or conquered space) from a post-confinement perspective by applying it to the affective and political relationship to public space. What […]
2020
The Workers of Nineteen Hundred Long is a video walk with the complicity of a public road worker. The latter proposes an archaeo-geological visit of the Meinau Technical Centre (Strasbourg, FR) and its various materials recovered, indexed and inventoried from the different sites of the city: cuttings from the cathedral, fragments from the Kleber square, remains of the Finkwiller bridge, fossils and debris of workers from « mille neuf cent longtemps » (nineteen hundred years ago).
2020
Donne moi un mot qui te donne de la force, je vais l’écrire comme un sort. ESPOIR
2020
Tu me donnes un mot ? SEUL
2020
“Private is political“ is an online dispositive of conversation between women artists and researchers. Using chating or browsing apps, women invited meet virtually to exchange visual references about domestic art as work condition and about the presence of women in public sphere regarding intimacy and spirituality. This gathering is readable from both physical and digital […]
2020
Of Stones and Days is an intervention in an elementary school in Bischwiller taking the form of a workshop. During a week-long meeting, children from two classes of CM1 and CM2 are invited to understand the space of the playground through the notion of psychogeography, and to experience its geological dimension. Equipped with pencils and invented cartography, the children walk around this space, excavate and analyze it with the accompaniment of artist Cynthia Montier.
The last stage of the workshop is an introduction to the editing and production of fanzines that transcribe the work done collectively and its journey.
2020
To come out with one’s head covered with a veil or face concealed is an act of faith as much as an act of protest that draws its sources from vernacular practices of blackening the face as much as from mortuary rituals, social, political or religious practices. The collective invention of historie.es veils / scarves / banners will be an opportunity to reflect together on the political power of textiles and the symbolisation and representation of struggles.
2020
esotericogeography, Grenoble (FR), group show, hopscotchritual, performance, residency, ritueldemarelle, workshop
Ritual of hopscotch – esotericogeographical attempt is a ritual initiated by Cynthia Montier & Ophelie Naessens, and activated from November 30 to December 01 on the occasion of the Rituals season of the Magasin des Horizons in Grenoble during autumn 2019.
2019
The Research Tarot is a non-divinatory tarot composed of 78 cards (80×145 mm) for as many figures. In contrast to the traditional Tarot de Marseille, the Tarot de Recherche draws on creative gestures and militant postures that predate it. Each reading engages an intervention: a research, an interview, or a performative gesture.
2019
S.F.B. kit est un ensemble d’auto-éditions, entre le fanzine vernaculaire et le multiple d’artiste, co-réalisé avec les ouvriers d’un chantier Strasbourgeois, dont la société de construction est maintenant fermée. Ce corpus éditorial restitue une résidence de travail clandestine et généreuse sur le chantier en question, mise en place grâce à la complicité des ouvriers.
2018
Mise en Pli is the result of a residency initiated clandestinely with the maintenance staff of the Hotel Chicoutimi in Winter 2017: Corps et Manies, domestiquer la tache. This document is a video performance that transcribes the household scores of a comfort attendant working in the rooms of the Hotel, in real time thanks to a Gopro camera. The video document is then broadcast simultaneously on the hotel’s television sets, a vernissage is organized and a booklet is produced for the occasion.
