english translation of géjuma-do

LANDKUNST ((( ARCHITECTURES OF THE POSSIBLE

This architecture is inspired by the strawballs and the sawmills which are part of the thoré's valley's landscape.
It's built in an "in between" space, on a slope where not so many people go to, between a road, a path and a military field.
It proposes another way to experience the site and the landscape : inviting people to stop here, a place where they usually don't go or just go throw.
It has been built on a place where the box makes a nutural arch, a shape which can remind us the one of the cave, situated at the beginning of the limestone plateau.

It's a space to experience : feel free to take time to inhabit it !

Do we need to build walls around us to be able to feel free, and ourselves ?
Can we make spaces, micro architectures, open spaces, without any functions, except the one to propose a space full of possibility ? A space where we can link ourselves to the deeper inner inside of ourselves, and, as the same time, really be part of the world, without any separation ; at the present time ?
It's around these questions that Charlotte Louen and Julie Chaumette made an "architecture of the possible" in Best (a small dutch town), during an art residency in a LANDKUNST festival. Landkunst, art and land.
Inspiring themselves from the residency place (a farm), people linving in there, and its history, they had to make a work of art. The "architecture of the possible" project, or (((, was born.
They had the wish to link this project with the places where they were coming from : Remagen, in Germany and Caucalières, in France, in order to open this experience and offer what could be the beginning of a "map of opened architectures". To do so, they invited Friedreich Louen (forest sudent) and Pierrick Lacord (artist) to work with them on the Remagen's and Caucalières' projects.

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LANDKUNST ((( ARCHITECTURES DU POSSIBLE

Cette architecture est inspirée des ballots de paille et des scieries que l'on trouve

dans la vallée du Thoré.

Située dans un "espace entre", pentu et peu fréquenté, entre une route, un chemin

et un terrain militaire, elle propose au visiteur une appréhension autre du paysage.

Elle a été construite à l'endroit où les buis formaient une voûte naturelle, forme qui

peut rappeler celle de la grotte de l'ermite, située à l'entrée du causse.

C'est un espace à vivre : soyez libres de prendre le temps de l'habiter !

A-t-on besoin de construire des murs autour de soi pour pouvoir se sentir en sécurité,

soi, libre ?

Peut-on envisager des lieux, modules, petites architectures ouvertes, sans fonctions

particulières si ce n'est celle de proposer à tous un espace de possible, où l'on puisse

se relier au plus profond de notre être, tout en étant vraiment dans le monde, sans

séparation : au présent ?

C'est autour de ce questionnement que Charlotte Louen et Julie Chaumette ont proposé

une "architecture du possible" à Best (une petite ville hollandaise), dans le cadre d'une

résidence d'artiste lors d'un festival appelé LANDKUNST. Landkunst, art et paysage.

S'inspirer du lieu de résidence (une ferme), des personnes qui l'habitent et de son

histoire pour créer une œuvre.

Le projet des architectures du possible, ou (((, était né.

Elles ont eu envie de relier ce projet avec les lieux d'où elles venaient : Remagen, en

Allemagne, et Caucalières, en France ; afin d'ouvrir cette expérience et proposer ce

qui pourrait être le début d'une carte des architectures ouvertes. Ainsi, elles ont invité

Friedrich Louen (étudiant forestier) et Pierrick Lacord (artiste) à travailler sur les projets

à Remagen et Caucalières.

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jeudi

The opening !

Great !

A french/english opening, to keep in touch with the european project !

วันพุธ

D-1 !!!

TOMORROW… AT 7PM… IT'S THE FRENCH OPENING !!!

/// DEMAIN… à 19H… VERNISSAGE AU LARDICOU !!!

at the old lardicou 81200 Caucalières !

///au vieux lardicou 81200 Caucalières

the end of the causse' path

///tout au bout du causse…

See you all there !

火曜

دوشنبه.

A shower of sawdust at the sawmill : smells good !

The mesh of the strawballs' textile are really wide… How can we manage with this ?

Need to meet a farmer tomorrow.

Κυριακή

We have the place — the structure — but something's missing.

How to let emerge the intuition of life ?

How a work could touch the volatil part — the core of the human beeing ?

laugardagur

Gaëtan's tools… Morning surprise ! The owner of the place put his tools on the car in the early morning for us.

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the french working place !

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fredag

The form of this gate was inspired by the sunken roads of the region - it is the same, but turned around. Fragmentation was as important in the making process as it is in the work. By using the different parts of a gate along a stretched distance, the time of passage becomes longer than usual movement through an entrance would take. Maybe the experience of present time appears changed to the visitor.

))) ending september, 21

štvrtok

The field doesn't seem to be the right place : too much far from everything : in a way, a closed place.

Looking for something open.

A place between a road and a path — a "non site" easily reachable by a walker.

This is it !

štvrtok

THE OPENING OF THE GERMAN PART !

štvrtok

TONIGHT… AT 7 PM…

IT'S THE GERMAN OPENING !!!

at the path parallel to the Heimersheimer Pfad in Remagen

See you all there !

…and you'll have a week to travel to Caucalières and be on time, on thursday the 29th, at 7 PM for the french opening !

ுதன் கிழமை

the field where the french part is working in !

by a cloudy day…

الثلاثاء

The hermit's cave — 4km far from the field where we work.

An old architecture which has been at the human being's service.

What about today ? What about the field ?

A shape is getting out… something refering to this cave and to the works in De Hagelaar (NL) and Remagen (D).

الثلاثاء

Working around a path in the forest.
Sunken road. Open gate.

الثلاثاء

You can read history from some of the paths around here. This is one of them : cut in the landscape by carriages and therefore sunken in comparison to the surrounding fields .

montach

This is where we are working on the German part ! (Well, the barley is long gone, of course.)

(barley - Gerste / orge)

montach

first tests in Caucalières…

not really satisfied…

a chair push you to watch in one direction and to sit in one specific way : we want something more open !

nedjelja

Last evening at De Hagelaar : tomorrow, we are going back to France and Germany !

Keep working there : 2 other architectures of the possible in each of our place, responding to the one here.

There, we'll work with two other people : Friedrich Louen in Remagen, and Pierrick Lacord in Caucalières.
We'll let you know for the making process and the openings there !

nedjelja

nedjelja

This 3D flying sketch above the cornfield refers to two buildings in the area by its dimensions and building materials : a wooden shed in a cornfield 200 meters from here and a greenhouse at De Hagelaar. Observing and improvising have been the most important ways of acting during realization. The process of making was to be as open to life as the resulting work itself. The displacement of the floor (2 meters higher than usually) puts the building in another space, and maybe you will experience another sense of time there.

The artists Julie Chaumette and Charlotte Louen aimed to leave it as a sketch, like something drawn in a sheet's corner, a structure built very spontaneously in three days, with the life around, and where the most important part is to be lived by the viewers.

The work is one of three realized in different places. The two others are being made in Remagen (D) and Caucalières (F), the places where the artists come from. Invited by the artists to work together, Friedrich Louen (D) and Pierrick Lacord (F) have propsed an architecture in their area based on the idea of an open space devoted to life.
An edition of the three projects will be published, presenting the research of two weeks on the architecture of the possible.

You're welcome to ascend the platform.
Parents should hold their children's hand, and only two people can be upstairs at the same time in order to have a well experience of the space.

Visiting at own risk.

nedjelja

Ice cream and wheelbarrow.

Hailstones and corn.

THE OPENING !!!

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the secret story :

Immediately after the opening, the place is occupied by a couple, as a romantic picnic place.

Yes !

People feel comfortable and safe in this architecture without walls…
The best gift we could have had.

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For the pictures above, © Photographs: Bob Driessen, Stinkfinger producties Eurolandart, BKKC.

nedjelja

Finishing.
2 meters of rope on the floor.
Cleaning the area.


15:00 Sébastien, Robert and Diego's opening.
Lost in the forest. 2 min. of music.

szombat

A clap of thunder.
Running back to our shed.


Rain.
Rain.
R a i n r a i n r a i n
rainrainrainrainrainrainrainrainrainrainrainrain

hagel
grêlons//hagel///hagel//hailstones///hagel/hagel//hailstones//hagel///grêlons//hagel//grêlons///
HAGELHAGELHAGELHAGELHAGELHAGELHAGELHAGELHAGELHAGELHAGELHAGEL


Wind, rain, hailstones, branchs and trees flying away.

Storm, macarena and barbecue at the tourist's site.

rainr a i n r a i n r a i n . . .

Fog.

The cornfield — completely broken by the ice.

The structure is still there.

Only the textile has been moved — it's better like this.

A white changing landscape, moving with the wind, conversing with the devastated field.