On Saturday, May 17 from 12pm to 6pm R.A.S: Retour Aux Sources, 276km 700m, a launch day for a collective publication and artistic workshops focusing on the river III in Altkirch, by art students of the Enquêter, raconter group from HEAR Mulhouse-Strasbourg.
CRAC Alsace is pleased to invite you to R.A.S: Retour Aux Sources, 276km 700m, a launch day for a collective publication on the river III in Altkirch, created by art students of the Enquêter, raconter group from HEAR Mulhouse-Strasbourg. Visitors are also invited to take part in art workshops led by students throughout the afternoon.
"Since a place is always invented in its location, in a clearing, on the water's edge, the students of the Enquêter, raconter group invite visitors to discover a collective publication and take part in workshops, enabling them to experience and interact with documentary and anticipatory narratives inspired by the region's history. Traces of these exchanges will accumulate and feed this collective publication, enriched with images and texts, where points of view and expertise will converge.
It's impossible to know in advance all the imaginary worlds that a place can conjure up. And yet, when it comes to telling the story of a particular place and map, there's no one best way to do it. With this in mind, we set out to pull out one by one the strings of what, in the experience of a territory, lies in a form of oblivion, latency, sleep. From then on, surprise and astonishment are allowed at every moment to discover anew what seems to be given in a form of evidence, and which, for this reason, we no longer see.
It was at the end of a journey along the Ill river that, over the months, we tried to tell the story of the human and non-human perspectives that merge there. That's how we came to ask the questions we need to answer. What if fiction opened the way to futures other than the predicted ecological apocalypse? What if science fiction, by inventing new narratives, rekindled our desire to imagine other possibilities?"
—Art students of the Enquêter, raconter group from HEAR Mulhouse-Strasbourg, 2025.
Program:
*Station Ill : écouter l’eau conter
Creation of a radio documentary with Lise Herdam & Camille Maupas, from 1pm to 3pm.
*L’eau a coulé sous les sons
Automatic writing guided by Lila Bouvier, from 2pm to 4pm.
*Diagnostic du désir désir
Discussion and questionnaires with Louis Moreau Avila, from 4pm to 6pm.
*Avec les zozios d’à côté
Sound-nap by Lila Bouvier, from 5pm to 5:30pm.
*Et près des rivières il fait toujours frais Et près des rivières il fait toujours frais
Sound-nap by Louis Moreau Avila, all day.
*Floor drapery with Florine Rouhault & Louise Thummel, all day.
*Qui sème la tempête récolte le déluge
Continuous puppet procession by Bertille Debanne.
*Sous la surface écho d’un monde
Photography and sound with Louise Bultez & Sacha Brunet-Jailly, all day.
*Relaxation and creative hypnosis by Joey Lees-Cantel & Emilie Mallard, all day.
Join us at the parking lot at 18 rue Saint-Morand in Altkirch, then follow the river Ill.
This project, organized in collaboration with CRAC Alsace, is associated with the Festival du Rhin, des fleuves et des rivières de la HEAR, Mulhouse-Strasbourg and Ill. A collaboration with the river between CEAAC, La Kunsthalle and CRAC Alsace, from March to October 2025.
