<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Spectrites,</div><div><br></div><div>We are pleased to announce this new LASER meeting taking place (hopefully) on November 19th at 6 pm at the Cité internationale des arts.</div><div>All info below</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best to All</div><div>Annick</div><div><br></div><div>* * * * *</div><div><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red"></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red">
</span></b><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:center;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">"Bodies"<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">LASER Paris<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Thursday 19 November 2020<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Cité
internationale des arts<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">(Auditorium)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">18 rue
de l'Hôtel de Ville<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">75004
Paris<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">18h00 - 19h30<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"><a href="http://www.olats.org/laser/laser.php">http://www.olats.org/laser/laser.php</a><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red">With </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red">Abdessamad El
Montassir, Maflohé Passedouet, Eric Monacelli, Gladys Foggea</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red">.</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:15pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Free admission </span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">in the limit of available seats,
registration required <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">(</span><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book""><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y4hud53x">https://tinyurl.com/y4hud53x</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:13pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">and we start on time!<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:13pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">LASER Paris takes place in French<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;line-height:13pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book""><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Due to the sanitary measures and the
corfew our normal schedule has been modified and we are not able to held our
usual unformal conversation around the drinks & snacks after the
presentations and discussions. <span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">W</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">earing a protection mask is mandatory.</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"><span></span></span></i></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red">Programme<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"><span> </span></span><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red">> </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red">Abdessamad El Montassir</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"> (artist) // <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">"Human
Psyche and Plant"</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"> about the project </span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red">Résistance Naturelle</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></i><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Epigenetic
heritage: Traumas, inscribed in the human psyche, are transmitted over several
generations ; those that plants encounter are legible in their bodies,
sometimes beyond the original plant.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Can a
plant be an indicator of socio-political ratio of power in a given territory?<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Taking
as a starting point the right for forgetfulness, fictionnal and visceral
stories, and the anticipatory trauma, Abdessamad El Montassir explores how
imaginary memories, not based on actual lived facts, can build and legitimate a
real memory. Simultaneously, he reflects on how those stories can affect
citizens social behaviours and how they can be used for historicisation.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">The
artist uses as a metaphor and metonymy a plant, the daghmous, its evolution and
resistance to the stress it faced in its environment, an environment that it
shares with the human society in Western Sahara.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:justify;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red"><span> </span>></span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red"> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red">Eric Monacelli</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"> Professor at the Laboratoire
d'Ingénierie des Systèmes of Versailles </span><span style="font-family:Avenir;color:black">(University Paris-Saclay, UVSQ)</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">, President of the Centre d'Expertise National
CEREMH, </span><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red">Maflohé
Passedouet</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">,
artist, compagnie Mobilis-Immobilis, and </span><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red">Gladys Foggea</span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">, dancer </span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">// (project
supported by La Diagonale Paris-Saclay) // <b>"Activated
Body",</b> about the project </span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:red">À la Verticale de Soi.</span></i></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Demo-performance with the robot<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">In some sports competitions, to
"have a handicap" is a sign of excellence. For some of us, wearing a
technological equipment is to be "augmented".<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">Professional dance, still largely
perceived as the place of the "perfect" body, is however opening up,
for many years now, to all kinds of bodies: smaller, thiner, fatter, taller,
less fit, awkward, less virtuoso, older but the equipment of the body often
takes the form of a constraint.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">À la Verticale de Soi</span></i><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"> is reversing the proposal.</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:rgb(29,30,31)"> At the border between art and research, performing
art and technology, the project is based on the design of a solution to support
an inclusive dance and the development of a new equipment for dancers with
reduced mobility.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:rgb(29,30,31)">The
choreography includes robotic prototypes with costumes and dance to propose a
new futuristic vision about handicap. Invisible, the supports between the
beings, the objects and the environment allow to turn difficulties into ability.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:rgb(29,30,31)">The
scientific research is focused on the study and design of equipment based on
soft robotics. It consists of flexible elements articulated by
under-dimensioned pneumatic actuators. This approach intends to develop
supports for dancers with reduced mobility that are light and safe. The dancer
with reduced mobility can hence move without being blocked.</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:rgb(29,30,31)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:rgb(29,30,31)"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:rgb(29,30,31)">This project is carried by the <span>Mobilis-Immobilis Cie (M. Passedouet) and
the LISV Research Laboratory. It has received the support of </span>the Diagonale
Paris-Saclay, UVSQ and the University Paris-Saclay.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><span></span></span></p>
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Moderator : Annick Bureaud<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">LASER Paris
is co-organized by</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book""> </span><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Leonardo/Olats </span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">(<a href="http://www.olats.org">www.olats.org</a>) and <b>La Diagonale Paris-Saclay </b><span style="color:black">(<a href="http://www.ladiagonale-paris-saclay.fr">http://www.ladiagonale-paris-saclay.fr</a>) </span></span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">in collaboration with the hosting venue, the </span><b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Cité internationale des arts </span></b><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">(</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book""><a href="https://www.citedesartsparis.net/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span class="gmail-Hyperlink0" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://www.citedesartsparis.net/</span></a><span class="gmail-Hyperlink0" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">)</span></span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book""><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">LASER
Paris is supported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. (<a href="https://www.fondationcarasso.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://www.fondationcarasso.org/</a>).
The LASER Paris meeting of November 19th is part of the "Roots and Seeds
XXI" project which has received the support of the Creative Europe
programme of the European Union.<span></span></span></p>
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