Study day: Body of the object, an art "objeu

This one-day event will examine the pairing of body and object in the light of contemporary creation. The critical approaches raised by this association are obviously rich, and each path taken can open up highly diverse perspectives, at the crossroads of gesture and narrativity, and sometimes beyond the engagement of concrete bodies, especially if they are
associated with digital gestures. associated with digital gestures.
This relationship between the artistic field and the body is apt to displace the debate between content and form, idea and matter, and to protect us from the commodification of artistic production by cultural capitalism. This critical theory, unafraid of being contaminated by its objects, would envisage these cultural bodies - in a materializing contemporaneity as much as a post-material one - as an "objeu," a word-valise coined by the poet Francis Ponge to designate objects/body in circulation, in projected relation, even situated in the space of a poetic game, as a territory of the body.
As Pierre Ponge puts it, "the body is the object, the object is the body". In the words of Pierre Fédida: "L'objeu"-the poetic object of play-is a space, or rather the spatial metaphorization of a time of encounter between words and things. It is the 'objeu' that defines what we call subjectivity. 1 This rhythm between body and thing, resulting from a spatial and temporal exchange, does not evacuate the possibility of contacts thought of as relational topologies.