CAE “ I am the guide “

Mediators from the FRAC (a museum in Dunkirk) visited the high school to present to the class the works created by women in the “Chaleur humaine" exhibition, organised in 3. "The sources of progress" presents the different sources of energy and then questions the notion of progress : the works show the consequences of their exploitation on society and the environment. "Des corps sans fatigue" refocuses the subject of energy on the human being, as both energy seeker and energy source, and questions our share of humanity in a robotised society. “Ressourceshumaines” is a look at the forces that drive us, which machines cannot replace, but also at ecofeminism, which denounces the links between male oppression and the environmental crisis. Groups of 2 or 3 students were then formed, with each group choosing to study 3 works in greater depth by researching the artist, writing a description of each work and developing a personal thinking on each of them. A week later, they went to the FRAC to discover the works they had chosen and to train to present them to the mediators and the students in the class. Then on 16 September, on the occasion of the European Heritage Days, they offered visitors a guided tour of the museum, presenting their research and thinkings.

The newly formed class at the beginning of the school year has developed team spirit by engaging in the animation of a cultural event. They discovered together a museum whose mission is to constitute public collections of contemporary art and to disseminate them to any public, to invent forms of awareness of current creation. More particularly they discovered and appropriated an exhibition aimed at showing what the energy challenges that appeared since the end of the «Thirty Glorious» have done to art and what the different artistic forms have brought to the discourses, energy and ecological representations and issues.