HEALING IN THE LAND OF THE GODS
It is Véra Frossard who will give us the pleasure, after having presented La nuit du shaman, to project and comment her film
HEAL In the land of the Gods.
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Photographs from De long en large Ladakh by Jean Mansion - Édition Findakly. Copyright Lise Mansion
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Video evening
The ARCH association meets every month in rue Visconti for debate evenings on subjects related to the Himalayan area, whether cultural or societal. The problems linked to the coronavirus led us to organise evenings through Zoom. This formula has the advantage of broadening our audience, which becomes international, just like our speakers. These public events, with a multidisciplinary vocation, allow us to bring together amateurs and professionals: lecturers presenting films or photographs, curators commenting on their exhibitions, authors signing their works, should allow us to confront our knowledge on subjects that we wish to be as diverse as possible.
Initially dedicated to the Himalayas and their cultures, we are now extending our interventions to other areas that may shed light on or have points in common with our initial project.
- Title: HEALING IN THE LAND OF THE GODS
- Dates: FEBRUARY 6, 2019
- Duration: 27:47
- Keywords: VERA FROSSARD
RELIGION AND POLITICAL STRUGGLES
Jean Delmas will present to us
Religion and political struggles in Indian chromolithographs
With the arrival in India of the first chromolithographic printing presses at the end of the 19th century and then the wide diffusion of religious "chromos", Indian painters brought the gods down from their skies to join the small family altars of the faithful and look them straight in the eyes, as equals.
As if they were posing in a bourgeois photography studio decorated with trompe l'oeil decor, the deities, then dressed in an almost ordinary humanity, are shown wearing small mustaches or modern saris just edged with golden braid. Thus descending into the human arena, the gods were associated with the fight of Gândhî and the Freedom Fighters against the British imperial yoke. This is how countless posters were distributed throughout the subcontinent showing a god delivering an explicit or cleverly subliminal anti-English message to deceive colonial censorship.
The greatest Indian painters, Ravi Varma, R. G. Chonker, Narottam Narain Sharma... participated in this movement by submitting their works to virtuoso printers like Ravi Varma Press, Chitrashala or S. S. Brijbasi.
- Title: RELIGION AND POLITICAL STRUGGLES
- Dates: DECEMBER 5, 2018
- Duration: 1:05:24
- Keywords: JEAN DELMAS
ALEXANDRA DAVID NEEL
Jeanne Mascolo de Filippis will present her film on Alexandra David-Néel.
She has just published a book: Alexandra David-Néel - Cent ans d'aventure which she will comment and sign.
- Title: ALEXANDRA DAVID NEEL
- Dates: JANUARY 24, 2019
- Duration: 1:12:25
- Keywords: Jeanne Mascolo de Filippis
RESTAURATION D'UN THANKA
Margaux Ruon will present her final dissertation concerning the restoration of a thanka that we had entrusted to her.
This 350-page memoir details painting cleaning and restoration techniques. He was presented to the Condéen school with a view to obtaining the title of Restorer-Conservator of Heritage.
- Title: RESTORATION OF A THANKA
- Dates: NOVEMBER 7, 2018
- Keywords: Margaux Ruon
PANAUTI, A CITY IN NEPAL
On the occasion of the republication of "Panauti, a city in Nepal", by Vincent Barré, Patrick Berger, Laurence Feveile and Gérard Toffin (1981) published by Vajra books, Kathmandu, in 2017.
Laurence Feveile, emeritus teacher-researcher at ENSA Paris-Val de Seine and at CRH-LAVUE, UMR 7218 CNRS, and Gérard Toffin, emeritus research director at CNRS, will speak on October 3, 2018, on the theme:
"Panauti revisited, some lessons from ethno-architectural research from the end of the 1970s".
- Title: PANAUTI, A CITY IN NEPAL
- Dates: October 3, 2018
- Duration: 1:27:52
- Keywords: Vincent Barré, Patrick Berger, Laurence Feveile et Gérard Toffin
SERVE THE GODS
Presented by LORRAINE BERTIER
SERVING THE GODS - SERVING HISTORY - RESTORATION OF PATAN
on the restoration of the city after the earthquake
- Title: SERVE THE GODS
- Dates: September 13, 2018
- Duration: 47:11
- Keywords: Lorraine Bertier
THE WESTERN "PHURBU"
- Title: THE WESTERN "PHURBU"
- Dates: September 12, 2018
- Duration: 34:22
- Keywords: François Pannier
THE NIGHT OF THE SHAMAN
Véra Frossard will present her film
La nuit du Shaman
followed by an interview.
Music used in this video
Title: Stop Foolin' Around
Artist: Quiksound
Album: Stop Foolin' Around
Écrivains: Shawn Stockman
Licensed to YouTube by : The Orchard Music (au nom de TWISTED Records, Inc.); BMG Rights Management (US), LLC, SOLAR Music Rights Management et 5 sociétés de gestion des droits musicaux.
- Title: THE NIGHT OF THE SHAMAN
- Dates: Thursday, JUNE 7, 2018
- Duration: 12:26
- Keywords: VERA FROSSARD
- Publisher : CNRS éditions