Annick HurstLa Couverture Vivante
L. Schmitt, femme-volcan © Les Brasseurs de Cages, 2007
Residency October 24 to November 26, 2007
Initiated by Doris Buttignol for the artist collective Les Brasseurs de Cages, La Couverture Vivante invites women from around the world to express their world views through fabric self-portraits. These self-portraits are then brought together in a larger symbolic object: a quilt of hope. The Internet portal Les Étonnantes Paroles du Monde, created by Annick Hurst, couples the self-portraits with cultural information, woven into an interactive timeline. One of the project’s objectives is to promote an alternate world map. Les Étonnantes Paroles du Monde and the Daoula project stand together in their support of viable planetary alternatives. [A.H.]
L. Schmitt, femme-volcan © Les Brasseurs de Cages, 2007
Annick Hurst is a documentary and fiction film editor who has worked on many films which have marked human history, including Jocelyne Lemaire Darnaud’s film Paroles de Bibs [“Bibs Speak”], which made it possible for the “Bibs” (Michelin employees) to set up their association, recover their rights and win their battle in the courts against Michelin. Annick Hurst has also worked on Jo Béranger and Doris Buttignol’s Voyage en mémoires indiennes [“A Journey through Indian Memories”], reflexion on identity through the exploration of stolen generation’s story.