A new series of workshops with the Reims Museum of Fine Arts
Recording audio capsules of artwork commentary is a workshop we have been offering for six years now. This allows visually impaired individuals to discover heritage artworks through the involvement of amateur readers. However, for some time now, we have been considering the idea of recording subjective commentaries on artworks. Subjective commentary involves an everyday person speaking to us about a work of their choice. In principle, why not? But how can we help people feel at ease when facing a blank page, and then a microphone? Thanks to the contribution of Muriel Michaux, an actress and playwright, we developed a writing workshop. This structure / constraint / instruction—call it what you will—allows everyone to choose a work and write about it. By letting emotions lead the way, the anxiety of the blank page completely disappears. With the Reims Museum of Fine Arts and its Nomadic Museum project, we followed a group of adults from the Orgeval community center in Reims every week for five weeks. They chose, wrote, read, breathed, and recorded these six capsules. Their texts possess as much emotion and beauty as the chosen artworks. Listen to them urgently here.
With Catherine, Gilles, Claudine, Nadège, Yves, and Lucile, authors and readers of their own texts.
With Muriel Michaux, actress and author.
