ALFRED LESECQ. UNE RELATION AVEC LES CLOCHES | HALLE AUX SUCRES | DUNKIRK (FRANCE)
Alfred Lesecq has played carillon for over 40 years. From Saint-Amand-les-Eaux to Dunkirk, via Hondschoote, he reveals his musical journey to us. Enriched by the interventions of his former students, Catherine Vermeulen and Aldo Specque, and that of Michel Théry, president of the CCRD from 2001 to 2016, the film tells the story of a man passionate about bells. The contemplative views on the minutia of his gestures, both funny and touching testimonies, highlight the one who from the top of the Dunkirk belfry rings the bells over the city.
On the occasion of the closing concert of the Carillon festival in Flanders, the CMUA - Dunkirk Archives invites you to the presentation of Élodie Merland’s film: Alfred Lesecq. Une relation avec les cloches. See you on Saturday 7th September 2024 at 3:00 p.m. at the Halle aux sucres auditorium to attend the screening of the film followed by a meeting in the presence of Élodie Merland and Alfred Lesecq, carillonneur in Dunkirk.
Screening on Saturday 7th September 2024 at 3:00 p.m. Duration of the film: 26 minutes Free entrance Halle aux sucres ➢ Route du quai Freycinet 3 - Môle 1, 59140 Dunkirk, France
J'ÉCRIS DONC JE SUIS | GALERIE ROBESPIERRE | GRANDE-SYNTHE (FRANCE)
Exhibition open from Monday 16th September to Friday 11th October 2024 Private view on Friday 13th September 2024 at 6:30 p.m., with the performance See my breath by Élodie Merland Free entrance Galerie Robespierre ➢ Place de l'Europe, 59760 Grande-Synthe, France Open Monday to Friday from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
THE CHALK PATH/LE CHEMIN DE CRAIE | FOLKESTONE (UNITED KINGDOM) & ESCALLES (FRANCE)
The Chalk Path is a bilingual self-guided audio walk through Folkestone Warren (UK) and Cap Blanc-Nez (FR). You are invited to walk down through deep time; reflect on the past and reimagine the future; and consider the enormity of time and it’s relationship to our own human existence and impact. Our two lands were once one, the Sea has been here for less time than it has not, and North has not always been North… where do we fit into this cycle and what layer do we want our story to leave?
A project by Alison Neighbour in collaboration with Élodie Merland, Gemma Riggs, Sébastien Cabour.
On Saturday 21st September we meet the Autumn Equinox with an artist-led journey on two halves of the same land, at two edges of the same day. Join us for this special occasion where Alison Neighbour and Élodie Merland will lead a ceremonial version of the walk for a small group to make the journey together at sunrise in England and sunset in France. Starting at Folkestone’s East Cliff at 6.30am, we witness the sunrise together before descending through the chalk cliffs to meet the sea. After a breakfast picnic in the Warren, you might wish to cross the channel to France* to complete the journey with us in the evening, setting off from Cap Blanc Nez at 6pm and ending with a sunset ritual and gathering on the beach looking back the way we have come and forwards to the future. This event will be in English and French on both sides of the Channel. *Travel from the UK to France is not supported.
Walks accessible free of charge from July to October 2024
Performance on Saturday 21st September 2024 at 6:30 a.m. in Folkestone and 6:00 p.m. in Escalles These events requires booking: Sunrise – Folkestone Sunset – Cap Blanc-Nez
“Nearly ten years later, Élodie Merland returned to the places where she narrated her descriptions (One hour galleries); not a single telephone box. The artist then took a photograph of these spaces freed of their cramped edifices. The artist’s photographs evoke that which has been erased rather than buried. Moreover, they do not refer to History’s tragic events, but rather to the histories of the billions of non-recorded conversations, deemed unimportant and inenarrable, that were shared through hundreds of thousands of now obsolete telephone boxes.” Arnaud Dejeammes, Waiting, attentiveness (extract), 2021.
Hors service, book of 52 photographs, 20x29cm, 72 pages, 2021 200 copies numbered and signed Photographs: Élodie Merland, preface: Arnaud Dejeammes, translation: Erika Ferrand Cooper, book mockup: Philippe Robert, printing: Escourbiac.
This project was made possible thanks to the support of the Région Hauts-de-France by benefiting from a grant to aid creation. The images were digitized with the help of Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, in its photographic laboratory.
Hors service is on sale for 30 € in the shop of this website as well as in bookshops.
