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Panneau de signalisation dans le centre du Caire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A l’origine de ce blog, il y a la recherche d’Isis Fahmy (mise en sc\u00e8ne) et Beno\u00eet renaudin (designer) sur les nouvelles utopies au Caire, en Egypte, d\u00e9but\u00e9e depuis janvier 2020. Il devient aujourd’hui une plateforme \u00e0 l’occasion de City Volume. Cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement a \u00e9t\u00e9 cr\u00e9\u00e9 en lien avec le d\u00e9partement Arts Visuel de l’American University in Cairo et du Tahrir Cultural center \u00e0 l’occasion de cette recherche. Il se d\u00e9cline sous la forme d’une exposition du 8 au 19 avril 2021 au TCC au Caire et d’un programme de performances sonores qui a \u00e9galement lieu au TCC le samedi 10 avril. Les articles publi\u00e9s rendront compte des travaux d’artistes participant \u00e0 City volume qui expriment tous une vision particuli\u00e8re des repr\u00e9sentations de la ville contemporaine \u00e0 travers leur pratique artistique sonore. (version anglaise ci-contre).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the origin of this blog, there is the research of Isis Fahmy (director) and Beno\u00eet renaudin (designer) on the new utopias in Cairo, Egypt, started since January 2020. It becomes today a platform on the occasion of City Volume. This event was created in conjunction with the Visual Arts department of the American University in Cairo and the Tahrir Cultural center on the occasion of this research. It will take the form of an exhibition from April 8 to 19, 2021 at the TCC in Cairo and a program of sound performances that will also take place at the TCC on Saturday April 10. The published articles will report on the work of the artists participating in City Volume, all of whom express a particular vision of representations of the contemporary city through their sound art practice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isis Fahmy et Beno\u00eet Renaudin sondent les sons du Caire depuis 2015 lors de r\u00e9sidences successives notamment \u00e0 Artellewa avec le soutien de Pro Helvetia Cairo pour d\u00e9velopper les projets Kairo[s] qui ont pris la forme de diverses installations sonores pr\u00e9sent\u00e9es dans plusieurs festivals. Ces sons provenaient d\u2019enregistrements effectu\u00e9s dans la rue, captant des instants embl\u00e9matiques du Caire, d\u2019interviews d\u2019artistes, d\u2019activistes et de discussions plus intimes dans les salons, les taxis, les caf\u00e9s. Ils proposaient \u00e0 l\u2019auditeur, un concentr\u00e9 kal\u00e9idoscopique de sons et de sensations dans un espace r\u00e9duit de l\u2019immensit\u00e9 d\u2019une ville comme le Caire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cette fois, le duo revient dans le cadre d\u2019une recherche HES-SO Mena Leading House en partenariat avec l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Am\u00e9ricaine du Caire pour collaborer avec des artistes, des chercheurs et des professeurs dont les recherches artistiques questionnent les repr\u00e9sentations d\u2019une ville insaisissable comme Le Caire et enrichissent son appr\u00e9hension par la cr\u00e9ation d\u2019objets performatifs et d\u2019installations sonores. De ces rencontres et discussions sont n\u00e9s deux projets. Le premier \u00e9tait un atelier p\u00e9dagogique men\u00e9 en mars 2021 en collaboration avec Professeur Shady El Noshokaty et m\u00e9langeait des \u00e9tudiants du Master Media Design de la HEAD – Gen\u00e8ve (CH) et du Master Mise en sc\u00e8ne et sc\u00e9nographie de La Manufacture \u00e0 Lausanne (CH). Le second, en partenariat avec Professeur Duncan MacDonald vient du d\u00e9sir de mettre plusieurs artistes en dialogue sur l\u2019usage du son comme vecteur de connaissance ou d\u2019exp\u00e9rience pour appr\u00e9hender la m\u00e9galopole du Caire en mutation permanente lors d\u2019un \u00e9v\u00e9nement d\u00e9di\u00e9 : City Volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour l\u2019exposition, Isis Fahmy et Beno\u00eet Renaudin choisissent de pr\u00e9senter <\/em>Cairotopies, un cycle de recherche compos\u00e9 de diff\u00e9rents projets artistiques : des installations sonores qui interrogent l\u2019urbanisme au Caire dans la galerie Margo Veillon du Tahrir Cultural Center, une performance-visite dans un bus qui roule en centre du Caire et un blog qui relate l\u2019ensemble de leurs exp\u00e9riences et rencontres. Ils ont \u00e9galement collabor\u00e9 avec une jeune artiste, \u00e0 la fronti\u00e8re du design et de l\u2019architecture, Sara El Barkouky qui au fil d\u2019une ann\u00e9e pand\u00e9mique de visioconf\u00e9rences a design\u00e9 une s\u00e9rie d\u2019images et a particip\u00e9 \u00e0 la cr\u00e9ation de deux des pi\u00e8ces expos\u00e9es.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u2019ensemble de ces \u0153uvres provient d\u2019une premi\u00e8re hypoth\u00e8se, celle de pouvoir comprendre la ville \u00e0 partir des sons des klaxons qui envahissent la ville, en imaginant qu\u2019ils sont une clef de lecture et poss\u00e8dent le potentiel insoup\u00e7onn\u00e9 de modifier notre fa\u00e7on de percevoir la ville. Collectionner, classifier, \u00e9tudier pour mieux montrer, modifier, imaginer, d\u00e9noncer, r\u00eaver des possibles, des utopies cairotes, des cairotopies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

English version.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isis Fahmy and Beno\u00eet Renaudin have been probing the sounds of Cairo since 2015 during successive residencies, notably at Artellewa with the support of Pro Helvetia Cairo, to develop the Kairo[s] projects, which have taken the form of various sound installations presented in several venues. These sounds came from recordings made in the street, capturing emblematic moments of Cairo, interviews with artists and activists and more intimate discussions in living rooms, taxis and caf\u00e9s. They offered the listener a kaleidoscopic concentration of sounds and sensations in a reduced space of the immensity of Cairo\u2019s city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time, the duo comes back to Cairo for a HES-SO Mena Leading House research project in partnership with the American University in Cairo. Their main goals are to collaborate with artists, researchers and professors whose artistic research questions the representations of an elusive city like Cairo and enriches its apprehension through the creation of performative objects and sound installations. From these meetings and discussions, two projects were born. The first was a pedagogical workshop conducted in March 2021 in collaboration with Professor Shady El Noshokaty and mixed students from the Master Media Design of HEAD – Geneva (CH) and the Master Mise en sc\u00e8ne et sc\u00e9nographie of La Manufacture in Lausanne (CH). The second, in partnership with Professor Duncan MacDonald, came from the desire to put several artists in dialogue on the use of sound as a vector of knowledge or experience to apprehend the megalopolis of Cairo in permanent mutation during a dedicated event: City Volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this event, Isis Fahmy and Beno\u00eet Renaudin chose to present Cairotopies, research cycle composed of several artistic projects: sound installations that question urbanism in Cairo in the Margo Veillon Gallery of the Tahrir Cultural Center, a performance-visit in a bus that drives through the centre of Cairo and a blog that relates all their experiences and encounters. They also collaborated with a young artist, at the boarder of design and architecture, Sara El Barkouky, who over the course of a pandemic year of videoconferences, designed a series of images and participated in the creation of two of the pieces on display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these works stem from an initial hypothesis, that of being able to understand the city from the sounds of the horns that invade the city, imagining that they are a key to reading Cairo and have the unsuspected potential to modify our way of perceiving the city. Collecting, classifying, studying in order to better show, modify, imagine, denounce, dream of possibilities, of Cairo utopias : Cairotopies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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