Antoine Devillet is a researcher in philosophy within the Bureau des guides of the GR2013, at the intersection between philosophical, landscape and artistic investigations and the creation of collective territorial communities of citizens. He graduated in Philosophy of Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles following the defense of his thesis on artificial reefs as a technical trajectory showing changes in conservation biology practices.
Bio-artist specializing in hybrid and antagonistic landscapes
If the starting point of Camille Goujon’s work is anchored in reality, her plastic creations give shape to the imagination, a pretext for telling stories where the articulation between reality and fiction is so tenuous that it allows her to deal with serious subjects with humor.
It was during a school exchange between the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and the Art Center college in Los Angeles in 2004 that Camille Goujon began an investigation into the history of water in Los Angeles. .
Her work on the disappearance of water, geological collapses, networks, environmental disasters linked to human activity is gaining momentum.
In 2018, Camille Goujon decided to move to Marseille, a city where she found many similarities with Los Angeles. Due to its light, its Mediterranean climate, its vegetation, the aridity of its landscapes, the confrontation between mineral and architecture, the very extent of this city spread out between sea and mountains, the diversity of its population …
The research that she is currently developing in Marseille is part of the continuity of her investigation into collapses, disappearance, underground networks, the highlighting in the minuscule of serious issues that reveal the political, economic and ecological history of ‘a territory’.
Photographer of being, of things and of places
In his photographic practice, Grégoire Édouard’s main concern is questions relating to the place of man within the biosphere. His photographic practice is guided by numerous steps, and tries to restore the links that bind us to beings, things and places. It is born in the meeting of the ordinary and tries to celebrate its presence. Fragmented, without artifice, the writing draws its strength from the sensoriality combined with the experience of the outside as a movement from the inside to the outside (and vice versa). His approach requires time, a time to fully live the artistic experience and free from everything superfluous, it lies in the accomplishment of a practice: immersive stays, daily walks, the simplification of his work tools and the quest for greater freedom to act. In his latest work Bruissement, he attempts to deconstruct the dichotomy between nature and culture, by offering a multiple, sensory and living approach, which reweaves relationships between humans and the rest of life.
http://www.gregoireedouard.com/
Artistic proposals on the GR2013 during the European Capital of Culture. The year 2013 was the year of approval of the GR2013 but also of a series of projects to explore the metropolitan territory with the artist-designers of the trail, as well as international guest artists.
The GR2013 is :
A 365 km long public space
Cultural facilities crossing 37 municipalities
1 territory of 3000 km2
100,000 visitors in 2013
Metropolitan hikes for those involved in public planning
On the edge of the urban and territorial consultation organized by the Interministerial Mission for the Metropolitan Project, the GR2013 Bureau des guides offered teams four days of territorial exploration along the metropolitan path: day walk’s punctuated by discussions and exchanges, meals facing the landscapes shared with the members of the teams but also with the interministerial mission, the elected officials, the participants in the worksites, the inhabitants.
The opportunity to showcase our knowledge prior to the project and pass on to the teams accumulated years of metropolitan culture patiently developed over the course of explorations carried out from 2011, as well as during the projects organized by the prefect Laurent Théry.
Beyond the gesture of hospitality in the invitation to embark on this grand metropolitan hiking project, there was the opportunity to create the GR 2013 project which, from its inception broke with strict cultural frameworks by providing an instrument for reading the territory and then for planning.
Having completed 80 km of walk in the elevated parts of the metropolis, the team placed the themes of landscape, the relationship of city to nature, the spectacular dimension, at the heart of the consultation. Until a few years ago, these themes hardly existed in public discourse, nor at the scale of Marseille, and even less so within the metropolis.
Revealing the high ground of the metropolitan area by show-casing them through the menu, and on the ground, in all their historical dimensions, has forged a concrete bond with the teams. It explains their importance in their proposals and activities.
“We especially remember, thanks to the metropolitan hikes, two characteristic aspects of the territory: its spectacular side, the great points of view that can be discovered while passing from one valley to another, but also its side“ live happily, live hidden ” which leads to improbable cohabitations between activity zones, river, micro beach… ”David Mangin, SEURA team“Metropolitan hikes have really made it possible to make the temptation of planning of the town planner obsolete, and to make him the bearer of stories about the territory.” Fabienne Boudon, Project Manager, LIN team
© Camille Fallet
© Camille Fallet
© Camille Fallet
A one-year, 365 km walking trip through the 38 (37?) municipalities crossed by the GR2013.
Every other Friday in 2013, CARAVAN brought together the architects of CAUE13 and the artists of GR2013 for a day’s walk. Mayors, elected officials, experts and inhabitants of the municipalities linked by the trail. This trip was an opportunity to discover and invent a territory together.
The discussions and exchanges that animated the trajectory allow us now to better understand its history and its geography, to read its landscapes, to discover how it is inhabited and witness its overall planning. Through the caravan’s story, we learn to look at the places we live in with the desire to re-explore them so we might reinvent them.
This year of surveying, discovering and meeting has been recorded, step by step. In each corresponding sound episode – the visitor can browse the logbook of this exploration and begin with CARAVAN the inventory of the heritage of the municipalities, these districts of the “Provençal Hyper-Village”.
CARAVAN is a CAUE13 project, co-produced by Radio Grenouille, in partnership with Wildproject editions and the Cercle des Marcheurs.
Itineraries with overnight stays, to live in the peri-urban area.
Accompanied by walking artists, the observation of the landscapes leads little by little to the creation of a bivouac and time for a vigil.
© AtTEnTIOn à La mArcHE !
© L'exploration d'un mirage - Benoit Guillaume
© Benjamain Bechet - Bivouac ENSAM
© AtTEnTIOn à La mArcHE !
© Benjamain Bechet - Bivouac ENSAM
© AtTEnTIOn à La mArcHE !
© Benjamain Bechet - Bivouac ENSAM
Wild expeditions and conferences
Chronology of the main artistic and civic actions around the rediscovery of the stream
1994 – Launch of the Experimental Integrated Conservation Mission by Christine Breton within the City of Marseille.
2005 – First public walks during the European Heritage Days.
2008 – Launch of Urban Revelation Workshops around the river by ADDAP 13 (youth prevention).
2013 – Le Belvedere project by Ruedi Baur and Civic city, sustainability of heritage walks and release of Le Livre du Ruisseau as part of MP2013.
2016 – Creation, in the wake of the Urban Revelation Workshops, of the integration project of the Cascade des Aygalades led by I’APCAR (City of street arts).
2017 – The rise of the stream, artistic expedition offered by the GR2013 guides office.
2018 – Creation of a monthly meeting “Un dimanche aux Aygalades” by the Cité des arts de la rue, La Cité de l’Agriculture and the Bureau des guides du GR2013, articulating conferences around the river, farmers’ market, walks and artistic programming.
2019 – Creation of the Collectif des Gammares which organizes Operation Plastic Valley, the first collective action of the springs at the mouth of the stream.
2020 – Release of the first edition of La Gazette du Ruisseau by the Gammares collective.
The Bureau des guides takes the time to bring together the knowledge of residents and experts, in order to find the true measure of the place, to recognize this unique piece of territory and to share the story of these field studies. After the first expedition in 2017 with IMBE, as part of Euromediterranée survey, the explorations created a series of events which culminated in 2019, in the birth of a new collective: Les Gammares. Bringing together numerous associations and actors active along the stream, in order to take care of this urban river; promoting better knowledge sharing, linking initiatives and territories in the stream’s watershed, and initiating common actions.
