Action

Responsable(s)

Rémy Campos

Équipe

Partenaires

Yvane Chapuis, La Manufacture

Christophe Kihm, HEAD Genève

Alexandre Dimos, Editions B42

Date de début: 2020

Présentation du projet

The 3rd phase of the ACTION project has the aim of preparing for the publication of a work that brings together the results of the first two phases. The dossier that will be collected in the future work will include written work and studies produced as part of the analysis of human behaviour, both verbal and non-verbal, by a team of researchers and theoreticians from the fields of communication, anthropology, psychiatry, and linguistics (Mead, Bateson, Birdwhistell, Scheflen, Brosin).  The main focus will be on the manuscript: Natural History of an Interview (1956-1971), consisting of the study of an interview filmed between Gregory Bateson and the mother of a young child (1956), an example of the problems raised by an observation and a description that are on greatly reduced scales.

The work will pursue a two-pronged objective:
1. understand and draw up systems for reading and understanding human or animal behaviours;
2. update what observation and description do to action, in a very pragmatic way, by submitting descriptions and scores of gestures and movements that are tested by being recomposed, by engaging in work with performers, who rework them.  

Promotion

For three years, the ACTION project has made it possible to expand data collection, experimentation, and translations of key texts, and has given rise to several publications that set out the first results of the research. The promotion phase presented here will consist of the publication of a work that systematically combines, and in several forms (written, fixed images, videos) a dossier containing written works and studies produced in the context of the analysis of human behaviour, both verbal and non-verbal, by a team of researchers and theoreticians from the fields of communication, anthropology, psychiatry, and linguistics (Mead, Bateson, Birdwhistell, Scheflen, Brosin).  The main axis of the work will be the manuscript: Natural History of an Interview (1956-1971), combining contributions by several researchers around an interview filmed between Gregory Bateson and the mother of a young child (1956), an example of the problems raised by an observation and a description that are on greatly reduced scales.

Published in partnership with the B42 publishing house, the work will make it possible to:
1. understand and draw up systems for reading and understanding human or animal behaviours that apply to the artistic domain;
2. update what observation and description do to action, in a very pragmatic way, by submitting descriptions and scores of gestures and movements that are tested by being recomposed, by engaging in work with performers, who rework them.