The 19, Crac invites you to celebrate spring during a day of encounters and sharing around objects and their uses.
On the programme: a round table with researchers, a Home Parties workshop, concert, quiz, snacks and conviviality.

FULL PROGRAMME
✱ 10am–12:30pm: Home Parties Workshop
Artist and second-hand dealer Georges J. Ayrault offers an anti-waste workshop with a décor trend twist. Create a wall light from old containers: Tupperware, glasses, trays, carafes… With the artist, select shapes, play with colours, and make a lamp with real character. The lamps will be on display in the afternoon… then take yours home!
— Adult workshop, free with registration via action@le19crac.com or 03 81 94 26 28

✱ From 2:30pm, ongoing:
Object Swap
Bring one or two objects to the Art Centre to exchange (mementos, boxes, curiosities, odds and ends). Come and tell their story and swap them with others!

Sound Workshop Showcase
Discover the work carried out by Arthur Marche with Year 3 pupils, in collaboration with the 19, Crac public programme team. A sound story told and recorded using object-based sound effects, inspired by the exhibitions.

✱ 2:30pm: Round Table on the life and use of our objects
with Jeanne Guien and Georges J. Ayrault, moderated by Hélène Zanin.
Philosopher and independent researcher specialising in the history of obsolescence, disposable products and consumerism, Jeanne Guien is notably the author of Le Consumérisme à travers ses objets, a book that analyses our everyday overconsumption through ordinary objects.
Georges J. Ayrault, artist-researcher, develops a practice based on a collection of salvaged shapes and materials sourced from second-hand markets. With affection and unease, they reshape these objects, which become the primary resource for installations, sculptures and spatial variations at varying scales.
Art historian specialising in the 19th century and lecturer in contemporary art at the University of Franche-Comté (Besançon), Hélène Zanin has conducted research on the biography of objects and co-edited a publication on these issues in the Cahiers de l’École du Louvre.

✱ 4pm: Concert Showcase
from the Conservatoire du Pays de Montbéliard
Students from the Sound Exploration module at the Montbéliard Conservatoire will present their creation inspired by the works of Silvana Mc Nulty. Silvana offers a fresh perspective on everyday objects by giving them unexpected meaning. The module’s instrumentalists apply the same approach, exploring the sonic possibilities of their instrument “in ways other than usual.”
Work led by Keiko Murakami in collaboration with 19, Crac.

✱ 4:30pm: Snack break
lovingly prepared by the 19, Crac team!

✱ 5pm: Mystery Objects Quiz
Let’s end the day on a high, with a game centred on famous objects, improbable inventions and forgotten discoveries from the 1950s to today.

In dialogue with the exhibitions Le Vide en Main by Silvana Mc Nulty and Le cyclope n’avait qu’un œil mais c’était le bon from the Frac Franche-Comté collections.