Poésie Plateforme with Lauren Tortil and Mylène Pardoen
Hosted by poet and teacher Jérôme Mauche for the past ten years, the ‘Poésie Plateforme’ (Poetry Platform) meetings provide an opportunity for unexpected dialogue. These invitations bring together an artist and an exchange partner from a wide range of practices - poets, novelists, and some of the most stimulating researchers - in close proximity to their approach and work, creating a back-and-forth between uses, temporalities and invention, through the prism of an art that questions the possible and builds worlds.
This ‘Poésie Plateforme’ conference invites two leading sound creators, Mylène Pardoen, landscape and heritage archaeologist, and Lauren Tortil, artist, to take part in a unique dialogue. Their respective research, in extremely diverse ways, aims to make history heard, by restoring or evoking subtle and suggestive forms of it. Based on their investigative situations, from the conditions of the launch of the TPS-L2 Walkman by Sony in Tokyo in 1979 to the recent restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris, the aim is to discover their methods and approaches, and to reflect on the social uses and modes of circulation that their productions encounter.
Mylène Pardoen has a PHD in musicology and is a research engineer at the CNRS, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme-LSE in Lyon. An archaeologist of sound heritage, she has focused her research on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage: the sensoriality of craft gestures - the ESPHAISTOSS project and its digital twin, the MENECHME project. She is involved in the CHRONOSPEDIA project: safeguarding and restoring the watchmaking heritage. Then, as an archaeologist of the soundscape, she specialised in the study and reproduction of historical soundscapes. She worked on the Bretez project, a 5D reconstruction of 17th-century Paris, and was a scientific expert on the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris. Her pioneering work in digital humanities has won her numerous awards, including the CNRS Crystal Medal in 2020 and a Care d'Or in 2023 (Research and Application).
Lauren Tortil is a sound artist and doctoral student at EUR CAPS in Rennes 2. Influenced by sound studies and media archaeology, she is interested in listening processes through the prism of sound technologies and the environments they generate. Her approach - which also incorporates a visual and sculptural dimension - is manifested in the iconographic and theoretical research that feeds her protean visual practice: performances, installations, printed objects and so on. She is the author of the book Une généalogie des grandes oreilles, Tombolo Presses, 2019. Her work is regularly shown in France, including at the FRAC Ile-de-France, Bétonsalon, the Centre Pompidou, the Pernod Ricard and Louis Vuitton Foundations, the ADAGP, and the Villa du Parc in Annemasse; and abroad at the Musée d'art de Joliette, Canada; the Igloo Sound Gallery in Jihlava; the 11th São Paulo Architecture Biennial, etc. She was awarded the Villa Kujoyama with the support of the Institut français, the Institut français of Japan and the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller in 2024.
