Conferences

Editorial | What stories for our time?


“We are made of movement.

Everything moves around and inside us at various speeds, incalculable, in all directions.
Our world does not stop moving, changing and constantly challenges us with new stories, new fictions to follow this incessant movement, to live there and continue to move and live together.

In 2023, our StoryTANK research lab is dedicated to exploring these stories. We invite researchers, thinkers, dressmakers, writers, storytellers to ask the questions that the construction of Narratives requires for our time.”

— Yann Apperry, Nicolás Buenaventura, Vassili Silovic

CONFERENCES


How Can Narratives Change the Lives of Beings?

How do fictions act in our lives, what fictions can we stand for?
How can stories guide our steps, permeate our bodies?

Nancy Murzilli philosopher and theorist of literature
David Le Breton anthropologist and sociologist
Aurélie Valat French-Greek screenwriter and script consultant
& Hubert Allignol and Valérie Le Dorven Rennes Police Headquarters


Stories for Healing?

While the stories of a world in crisis are hitting us, how can we not fall into madness?
Can we think of stories as way to re-weave ourselves, as an individual and collective reconstruction?

Roberto Beneduce ethnopsychiatry and anthropologist
Julie Budtz Sørensen Danish screenwriter
Tamara Russell neuroscience and martial arts specialist
& Mathilde Delespine Midwife, coordinator of the Maison des femmes Gisèle Halimi at Rennes University Hospital


Map the Imagination

Stories build complex worlds in which we find ourselves projected. In the footsteps of the “Theory of the Rhizome”, imaginary as a space of co-elaboration, a space of proliferation of possibilities…

Anne Querrien sociologist and urban planner
Nancy Murzilli philosopher and theorist of literature
Bohdan Piasecki Polish poet and professor of creative writing
& Manue Gaquère PE teacher


Storytelling: Everybody’s Concern?

Neuroscience sheds new light on the myth of Creative Genius.
Would we all be able to create streams of imaginary worlds and wild stories?

Samah Karaki neuroscience researcher
Tamara Russell neuroscience and martial arts specialist
Jan Schomburg German screenwriter and director
& Thomas Rose Osteopath



Meetings & Interviews moderated by

Yann Apperry Screenwriter, Playwright and Novelist 
Nicolás Buenaventura Writer-director and Storyteller 
Vassili Silovic Writer and Director of documentary films  

Filmed by

Guillaume Desjardins Writer-director, member of Les Parasites 
Jérémy Bernard Writer-director, member of Les Parasites 

Photograph

Brigitte Bouillot