OTACC Chair Cultural Days 26

A warm welcome for participants

Cultural Days opening speech by the OTACC Chair team

Round Table | Memory and Heritage in the Mediterranean

This round table will explore the question of memory in the Mediterranean from a number of different angles, bringing together specialists from a variety of disciplines. In keeping with an open, participatory approach, the audience will have a key role to play, with everyone invited to contribute to the discussion. Indeed, collective memory cannot be decreed: it must be built and shared.

As an area of circulation and encounters, but also of tensions and ruptures, the Mediterranean gives rise to a plurality of heterogeneous narratives. These multiple memories shape identities and influence the way we represent our past. Often selective, sometimes conflicting, they deserve to be examined in their construction and transmission processes.

This round table is intended as a space for dialogue and collective reflection, to envision the conditions for shared futures.

Speakers :
To be announced

Organizing team: Arnold Emilia, Vincent Salomé

Workshop 1: Taste and smell

This immersive workshop offers a sensitive exploration of Mediterranean memories through the senses, combining sensory experience and culinary insight.

• Part 1 - Touch & memory: Blindfolded, participants are invited to handle and smell various products from the Mediterranean region. Based on these sensations, each participant is free to evoke the memories, images, objects, dishes or music that these elements bring to mind.
• Part 2 - Smells & culinary creation: A chef will share his approach to essential oils and explain how he uses these aromas in both gourmet and everyday cooking.
  - Part 3 - Taste & recognition: Participants will taste Mediterranean flavors in the form of gels or purées, in order to identify them purely by taste, detaching themselves from the usual references linked to texture, shape or color.

Between sensory experience, sharing and evocation of memories, this workshop invites us to explore in a new way the links between taste, memory and Mediterranean cultures.

Organizing team: Brebis-Mathias Delphine, Boi Frieh Eloïse

Workshop 2: Visual / hearing

This workshop explores the dynamics of the circulation of Mediterranean heritages through the visual and the auditory, combining artistic creation and sensitive experience. The session will feature a screening of Mohamed El Khatib's documentary 504, followed by a video presentation by director of photography Yohanne Lamoulère, who will explain the work's aesthetic and narrative choices.
During the screening, participants will be invited to record their emotions, impressions, memories and thoughts about the film on a set of handouts. These individual contributions will give rise to the creation of a "wall of memories", an evolving and participatory device that will be visible throughout the event, helping to bring out a collective memory that is plural and in motion.
At the frontier between artistic experience and collective reflection, this workshop invites us to question the way in which images and sounds contribute to the transmission and transformation of Mediterranean memories.

Organizing team: Bouali Malek, Dabich Juliette, Joubert Emma, Notarangelo Lucie, Pareja Romane

Workshop 3: Touch

This workshop offers a sensitive, offbeat experience of encounters with works of art, mobilizing a sense rarely called upon in the visual field: touch.
By re-creating paintings in the form of tactile supports, participants will be invited to explore the works in a different way, freeing themselves from the gaze to make way for an alternative sensory apprehension. Beyond the experience, the workshop opens up several avenues for reflection:

• memory through touch and how it is anchored ;
• issues of accessibility to art, particularly for the visually impaired;
• more broadly, the conditions of access to the visual objects that structure so much of our shared culture.

The choice of works on offer will also allow us to question historical representations of the Mediterranean world, by putting into discussion inherited imaginations: between narratives, aesthetic constructions and logics of power (colonialism, exoticization, fetishization). This workshop invites us to rethink our relationship with images, memory and Mediterranean cultural legacies.

Organizing team: Capmas Marilou, Chauveau-Chavy Maya, Ichiki Amaré Sakura, Lapeyroux Anton

Workshop 1: Taste and smell

This immersive workshop offers a sensitive exploration of Mediterranean memories through the senses, combining sensory experience and culinary insight.

• Part 1 - Touch & memory: Blindfolded, participants are invited to handle and smell various products from the Mediterranean region. Based on these sensations, each participant is free to evoke the memories, images, objects, dishes or music that these elements bring to mind.
• Part 2 - Odors & culinary creation: A chef will share his approach to essential oils and explain how he uses these aromas in both gourmet and everyday cooking.
  - Part 3 - Taste & recognition: Participants will taste Mediterranean flavors in the form of gels or purées, in order to identify them purely by taste, detaching themselves from the usual references linked to texture, shape or color.

Between sensory experience, sharing and evocation of memories, this workshop invites us to explore in a new way the links between taste, memory and Mediterranean cultures.

Organizing team: Brebis-Mathias Delphine, Boi Frieh Eloïse

Workshop 2: Visual / hearing

This workshop explores the dynamics of the circulation of Mediterranean heritages through the visual and the auditory, combining artistic creation and sensitive experience. The session will feature a screening of Mohamed El Khatib's documentary 504, followed by a video presentation by director of photography Yohanne Lamoulère, who will explain the work's aesthetic and narrative choices.
During the screening, participants will be invited to record their emotions, impressions, memories and thoughts about the film on a set of handouts. These individual contributions will give rise to the creation of a "wall of memories", an evolving and participatory device that will be visible throughout the event, helping to bring out a collective memory that is plural and in motion.
At the frontier between artistic experience and collective reflection, this workshop invites us to question the way in which images and sounds contribute to the transmission and transformation of Mediterranean memories.

Organizing team: Bouali Malek, Dabich Juliette, Joubert Emma, Notarangelo Lucie, Pareja Romane

Workshop 3: Touch

This workshop offers a sensitive, offbeat experience of encounters with works of art, mobilizing a sense rarely called upon in the visual field: touch.
By re-creating paintings in the form of tactile supports, participants will be invited to explore the works in a different way, freeing themselves from the gaze to make way for an alternative sensory apprehension. Beyond the experience, the workshop opens up several avenues for reflection:

• memory through touch and how it is anchored ;
• issues of accessibility to art, particularly for the visually impaired;
• more broadly, the conditions of access to the visual objects that structure so much of our shared culture.

The choice of works on offer will also allow us to question historical representations of the Mediterranean world, by putting into discussion inherited imaginations: between narratives, aesthetic constructions and logics of power (colonialism, exoticization, fetishization). This workshop invites us to rethink our relationship with images, memory and Mediterranean cultural legacies.

Organizing team: Capmas Marilou, Chauveau-Chavy Maya, Ichiki Amaré Sakura, Lapeyroux Anton

Workshop 1: Taste and smell

This immersive workshop offers a sensitive exploration of Mediterranean memories through the senses, combining sensory experience and culinary insight.

• Part 1 - Touch & memory: Blindfolded, participants are invited to handle and smell various products from the Mediterranean region. Based on these sensations, each participant is free to evoke the memories, images, objects, dishes or music that these elements bring to mind.
• Part 2 - Odors & culinary creation: A chef will share his approach to essential oils and explain how he uses these aromas in both gourmet and everyday cooking.
  - Part 3 - Taste & recognition: Participants will taste Mediterranean flavors in the form of gels or purées, in order to identify them purely by taste, detaching themselves from the usual references linked to texture, shape or color.

Between sensory experience, sharing and evocation of memories, this workshop invites us to explore in a new way the links between taste, memory and Mediterranean cultures.

Organizing team: Brebis-Mathias Delphine, Boi Frieh Eloïse

Workshop 2: Visual / hearing

This workshop explores the dynamics of the circulation of Mediterranean heritages through the visual and the auditory, combining artistic creation and sensitive experience. The session will feature a screening of Mohamed El Khatib's documentary 504, followed by a video presentation by director of photography Yohanne Lamoulère, who will explain the work's aesthetic and narrative choices.
During the screening, participants will be invited to record their emotions, impressions, memories and thoughts about the film on a set of handouts. These individual contributions will give rise to the creation of a "wall of memories", an evolving and participatory device that will be visible throughout the event, helping to bring out a collective memory that is plural and in motion.
At the crossroads of artistic experience and collective reflection, this workshop invites us to question how images and sounds contribute to the transmission and transformation of Mediterranean memories.

Organizing team: Bouali Malek, Dabich Juliette, Joubert Emma, Notarangelo Lucie, Pareja Romane

Workshop 3: Touch

This workshop offers a sensitive, offbeat experience of encounters with works of art, mobilizing a sense rarely called upon in the visual field: touch.
By re-creating paintings in the form of tactile supports, participants will be invited to explore the works in a different way, freeing their gaze to make way for an alternative sensory apprehension. Beyond the experience, the workshop opens up several avenues for reflection:

• memory through touch and how it is anchored ;
• issues of accessibility to art, particularly for the visually impaired;
• more broadly, the conditions of access to the visual objects that structure so much of our shared culture.

The choice of works on offer will also allow us to question historical representations of the Mediterranean world, by putting into discussion inherited imaginations: between narratives, aesthetic constructions and logics of power (colonialism, exoticization, fetishization). This workshop invites us to rethink our relationship with images, memory and Mediterranean cultural legacies.

Organizing team: Capmas Marilou, Chauveau-Chavy Maya, Ichiki Amaré Sakura, Lapeyroux Anton

The Carnet de routes méditerranéennes proposes a cartography of sensitive territories: a collective representation of the Mediterranean as it is lived, felt and practiced by its inhabitants. In the course of the contributions, the map becomes a collective work: we hope to discover unexpected intersections, common attachments and richer circulations than those found on a classic atlas.

Organizing team: Peres Celiane