Raising a sourdough, listen here.
20’40, 2023

Marie Preston with Cécile Berthellot, Jean-François Berthellot, Julie Bertrand, Émile Blaque, Vincent Dufresne, Stéphane Marrou, Lucas Mersh, Delphine Sicard, Lauriane Mietton, Kristel Moinet, Marie Preston, Delphine Sicard, Axel Wurtz, Denis Cassan and Camille Vindras.

Production and editing: Marie Preston
Sound recording: Mathilde Chenin
Sound design: Collective performance orchestrated by Denis Cassan and Marie Preston.

“Raising a sourbough” was produced following a year of participatory research called “CO3 Levain”, bringing together researchers, bakers, facilitators, trainers, craftspeople and artists associated with INRAe, biocivam 11, Triptolène, the CFA des compagnons du devoir and the Teamed/AIAC research team at the University of Paris 8, as well as Marie Preston’s artistic residency at the Bermuda workshops.

This sound montage gives an account of our collective research process, sharing our motivations for doing participatory research, our relationship with sourdough and our practices of mutual maintenance, the political perspective from which we view our practices and our joint research, our reflections on its transmission and the research question that will accompany us over the next few years. The cooperative artistic dimension has been an integral part of our year’s work, and has played a part in the research itself. Various forms have emerged, this being one of them.

Thank you to the Bermuda workshops (Bénédicte le Pimpec, Guillaume Robert, Maxime Bondu and Mathilde Chenin), to Myriam Treiber, to the participants in the three workshops of the emerging Levain project, and to the Co-Construction of Knowledge (CO3) scheme. This work (ID2200-020) was supported by LabEx AGRO 2011-LABX-002, part of the Isite Muse project coordinated by Agropolis Fondation.

Fanzines created by the publics during Stéphane Prigent's exhibition ‘Fais-le toi-même si t’es pas content (FLTMSTPC)’ at the 19, Crac from 29 September 2023 to 14 January 2024.

Video archive of the fanzines here

Video produced as part of a workshop with a class of ninth graders (3ème in France)
Duration: 1 min 15.

To mark the opening of the Box du Noël and the work Fugitive by Émilie Soumba, 19 Crac was delighted to host three concerts programmed by Stéphane Prigent, curator of the exhibition Fais-le toi-même si t’es pas content: Secret Signals (Paris), État Glaise (Mulhouse) and LordxGonzo (Belfort) for an evening of electronic, noise, ambient and sound poetry.

Concerts recorded by Mulhouse experimental radio P-Node on Friday 1 December 2023.
Listen again here: https://p-node.org/broadcasts/fltmstpc


Photo credit Émeline Henckel.

Invitation au 19 is a programme produced by Duuu Radio in partnership with 19 Crac, Centre régional d’art contemporain de Montbéliard.
This episode was produced on the occasion of the résidence Visual artists in high school led by Alexandre Caretti with students and teachers from the Valdoie CFA and the Saint-Joseph des Fontenelles agricultural college in March 2023. The programme will be broadcast as part of l’exposition Casabella at the Ecole d’art de Belfort from 26th October to 19th December 2023.

Visual artists in high schools is a scheme run by the Région and the DRAC Bourgoogne-Franche-Comté.
<Duration: 13 minutes

Editing: Elen Huynh / Mixing: Noé Mignard

Invitation au 19 is a programme produced by Duuu Radio in partnership with 19 Crac, Centre régional d’art contemporain de Montbéliard.
This episode was produced on the occasion of the project Mémoire Vive led by the artist Ségolène Thuillart between March and July 2023, as part of the exhibition Des coiffes et nous. Mémoires de territoire*, presented at the Hôtel Beurnier Rossel Museum of Art and History in Montbéliard.

The “Living Memory” project was carried out in partnership with 19 Crac, the Montbéliard Museums and the Pays de Montbéliard Urban Area, as part of the “Colours of the Urban Area” programme.

The artist and the art centre would like to thank the residents of Montbéliard, Valentigney and Saint-Julien-lès-Montbéliard for their participation.
The programme will be broadcast at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Hôtel Beurnier Rossel during the European Heritage Days on 16 and 17 September 2023.

Duration : 12 minutes.