Nameless Freedom at CRAC Alsace

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Artists: Sven Augustijnen, Nicolas Clair, Fernand Deligny, Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez (in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur), Vidya Gastaldon, Beatrice Gibson, Daniel Jacoby, Irene Kopelman, Felipe Mujica, Johanna Unzueta

Exhibition title: Nameless Freedom

Curated by: Elfi Turpin

Venue: CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France

Date: October 10, 2016 – January 15, 2017

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and CRAC Alsace

In the late 1960s, in the space-time void of the Cévennes region, French poet and pedagogue Fernand Deligny established a territory for autistic children and their speaking carers. In doing so he set up the context for hitherto unheard of events through the interweaving of unpremeditated relationships between all concerned.

In order to observe and grasp this process, Deligny used as recording tools not only film, but also drawing; the latter enabled the mapping onto this territory of the trajectories, acts and spatial displacements of the mute subjects and their speaking educators. These maps, known as the Lignes d’erre du réseau des Cévennes (the Cévennes Network Wander Lines), built a way of seeing on strata of silent, invisible relationships, instead of traversing them blindly. The point was to avoid misunderstandings and to enter the children’s field of vision in a way that enabled a communal life outside of language.

Deligny’s original contribution was “to do without doing”: to make possible – with no prior suppositions, imaginings or ideations – modes of being conducive to the surfacing of reality. A tricky matter which, over and above experimental education and alternative experiences of transmission, bears directly on this exhibition: one intended to be free, and devoid of presupposition, and to this end convening artists who themselves also tend to bring an unimaginable reality to the surface.

What goes on in an exhibition? What goes on between its inhabitants? Between the artists, the works, the curators, the carers, and the visitors with their myriad language registers? How to avoid crushing its developing, invisible relationships? How to avoid ploughing blindly through an exhibition? How to enter the field of vision of the works? How to live outside of language?

E.T., September 2016.

* La liberté sans nom (Nameless Freedom) is the title of an essay in Fernand Deligny, L’Arachnéen et autres textes (Paris: Editions L’Arachnéen, 2008).

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Nicolas Clair, Pinocchio, 2011-2014

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Nicolas Clair, Pinocchio, 2011-2014

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Nicolas Clair, Pinocchio, 2011-2014

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Nicolas Clair, Pinocchio, 2011-2014

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Nicolas Clair, Pinocchio, 2011-2014

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Nicolas Clair, Pinocchio, 2011-2014

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Irene Kopelman, Crab Pellets, 2014

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Irene Kopelman, Crab Pellets, 2014

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Irene Kopelman, Crab Pellets, 2014

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Irene Kopelman, Crab Pellets, 2014

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Irene Kopelman, Crab Pellets, 2014

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Irene Kopelman, Crab Pellets, 2014

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Vidya Gastaldon, White Mixcoatl (Shadok), 2016

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Vidya Gastaldon, White Mixcoatl (Shadok), 2016

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Vidya Gastaldon, White Mixcoatl (Shadok), 2016

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Vidya Gastaldon, White Mixcoatl (Shadok), 2016

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Vidya Gastaldon, White Mixcoatl (Shadok), 2016

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Beatrice Gibson, Solo for Rich Man, 2015

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Beatrice Gibson, Solo for Rich Man, 2015

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Beatrice Gibson, Solo for Rich Man, 2015

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Beatrice Gibson, Solo for Rich Man, 2015

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Beatrice Gibson, Solo for Rich Man, 2015

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Beatrice Gibson, Solo for Rich Man, 2015

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Fernand Deligny, Lignes d’erre de Binou et de Cornemuse, 1973

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Fernand Deligny, Lignes d’erre de Binou et de Cornemuse, 1973

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Fernand Deligny, Lignes d’erre de Binou et de Cornemuse, 1973

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Fernand Deligny, Lignes d’erre de Binou et de Cornemuse, 1973

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Fernand Deligny, Lignes d’erre de Binou et de Cornemuse, 1973

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
Felipe Mujica, Huecos e Indigo, 2016

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
Felipe Mujica, Huecos e Indigo, 2016

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
Felipe Mujica, Huecos e Indigo, 2016

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
Felipe Mujica, Huecos e Indigo, 2016

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
Felipe Mujica, Huecos e Indigo, 2016

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
Felipe Mujica, Huecos e Indigo, 2016

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
Felipe Mujica, Huecos e Indigo, 2016

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
Felipe Mujica, Huecos e Indigo, 2016

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
Felipe Mujica, Huecos e Indigo, 2016

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
Felipe Mujica, Huecos e Indigo, 2016

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
Felipe Mujica, Huecos e Indigo, 2016

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
Felipe Mujica, Huecos e Indigo, 2016

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Johanna Unzueta, 1-April 2016 NY / 2-May 2016 NY / 3-June 2016 NY, 2016
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Daniel Jacoby, Eversion, 2016

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Daniel Jacoby, Eversion, 2016

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Daniel Jacoby, Eversion, 2016

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Daniel Jacoby, Eversion, 2016

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Daniel Jacoby, Eversion, 2016

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Daniel Jacoby, Eversion, 2016

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Daniel Jacoby, Eversion, 2016

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Daniel Jacoby, Eversion, 2016

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Sven Augustijnen, L’école des pickpockets, 2000

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Sven Augustijnen, L’école des pickpockets, 2000

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Sven Augustijnen, L’école des pickpockets, 2000

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Sven Augustijnen, L’école des pickpockets, 2000

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Daniel Jacoby, Eversion, 2016

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Daniel Jacoby, Eversion, 2016

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Daniel Jacoby, Eversion, 2016

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Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur, Sugata Sanshiro, 2016

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Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur, Sugata Sanshiro, 2016

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Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur, Sugata Sanshiro, 2016

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Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur, Sugata Sanshiro, 2016

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Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur, Sugata Sanshiro, 2016

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Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur, Sugata Sanshiro, 2016

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Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur, Sugata Sanshiro, 2016

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Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur, Sugata Sanshiro, 2016

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Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur, Sugata Sanshiro, 2016

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Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur, Sugata Sanshiro, 2016

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Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur, Sugata Sanshiro, 2016

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Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez in collaboration with Lê Huy Cửu and Sébastien Leseigneur, Sugata Sanshiro, 2016

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