BATTAIS Léa

Contact details

lea.battais@hotmail.com

Functions

Contingent president doctoral contract in partnership between AMU and FRAC Sud

Supervisor: GIREL Sylvia (co-supervisor)

Academic work

Title : Forms of engagement: artistic interventions in urban space in the Mediterranean since the 1980s

University course
- June 2021 - September 2021: Summerschool, The Knowledge of the Curator III: Curating Art & Nature, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
- 2017 - 2019 : Master II de Recherche en Histoire de l'Art Contemporain, Aix - Marseille Université - Casabella et Alessandro Mendini (1970 - 1976) under the supervision of Mme Rossella Froissart, Professeur des Universités, defended in June 2019, Mention Bien.
An analysis of the editorial, aesthetic, ideological and artistic evolution of an architecture magazine under the direction of a master of Italian design. Examination of the links between design and the neo-avant-garde in a magazine, its communication, its network of collaborators and the debates surrounding the actions of its director. My
This study looks at the emancipation of design by the neo-avant-garde in the 1970s.
- 2016 - 2017 : Master I de Recherche en Histoire de l'Art Contemporain, Aix - Marseille Université - Déconstruire pour mieux reconstruire : récupérations, détournements et langages du Superstudio (1966 - 1973) sous la direction de M. Alexandre Quoi, Maître de conférences, soutenu en Juin 2017, mention Bien.
Analysis of the recuperation and misappropriation of the visual and popular arts in architecture. Observation of the use of photographic and cinematographic media in a protest and innovative reformulation of architecture and design during the 1960s and 1970s in Italy.
- 2015 - 2016 : BA 3 History of Art and Archaeology, Roma Tre University.
- 2014 - 2015 : Licence 2 History of Art and Archaeology, Aix - Marseille University.
- 2013 - 2014 : Licence 1 History of Art and Archaeology, Aix - Marseille University.

Professional experience and work placements
- July 2020 - December 2021 : Assistant curator, Rue d'Alger, Les Parallèles du Sud, Manifesta 13, Marseille.
- September 2019 - March 2020: Editor for Artdhistoire.com, Santiago, Chile.
- August 2018 - February 2019: Scientific mission under contract to the Marseille Museums Department, Marseille: Help with research and the organisation of temporary exhibitions at the Marseille Museums Department (Par
hasard 2019 and Le Surréalisme dans l'art américain 2021).
- November - December 2016: Internship with Documentsdartistes PACA, Marseille: Online publishing and design of artists' files. Interviews with artists as part of the creation and development of personal files, updating of the website and database, design of a mock-up to promote meetings, exhibitions and studio visits.
- May - August 2014: Internship under the supervision of Claire Brochu, a graduate of the Institut supérieur de Conservation et de Restauration (IsCR de Rome), technical expert and art restorer specialising in the restoration of wall paintings, paintings on wood and canvas. Participation in the restoration of paintings on wood, learning about the tendering and expert appraisal system, the concept of conservation and restoration and participation in case studies at the CICRP.

Productions

Publications
- Work notes: "Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani", "Agathe Rosa & Emma Grosbois", "Alessandra Ferrini", in Alessandro Gallicchio (ed.), Rue d'Alger, cat. exp., Paris, Editions MF, 2021, p. 37, 45, and 75.
- Work notes: Hans Arp, Edgar Degas, Jackson Pollock, Max Ernst, Victor Hugo, Man Ray, Gustave Moreau, François Morellet, Aurélie Nemours, Odilon Redon, Stéphane Mallarmé, George Sand, Kurt Schwitters, August Strindberg, Antoni Tapies, in Guillaume Theulière (ed.), Par hasard, cat. exp., Paris, Editions RMN-GP, 2019, p. 35, 39, 51, 55, 56, 61, 83, 87, 95, 103, 109.

Research seminars and study days

- 4 - 6 December 2023: International Conference of Photography Studies: Photography and Site - Routes, Cartographies and Drifts, Colégio dos Jesuitas, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal, Portugal, with the support of ICNOVA - Instituto de Communicaçao da Nova/ EVAM Observatory and the University of Madeira / DEpartamento de Arte e Design.
"Materiality, fascination, and accessibility: the evolution of photography in Lara Almarcegui Wasteland project "

- 21 January 2023: Round-table discussion "Aesthetic strategies for social mobilisation", Marseille, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (in partnership with FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur, AMU, Mesopolhis, UMR 7064, AMU, Sciences Po, CNRS, TELEMMe, UMR 7303, AMU, CNRS, CAER, LESA), as part of the international colloquium "Archive vitale de la révolte. Dissident aesthetics of the Chileno Octubre".

- 2 June 2022: Round table "RepresentationsDiscussant: Stéphane Cermakian (IREMAM), participants : Stéphane Baquey (CIELAM), Léa Battais (Mesopolhis, TELEMMe), Gwladys Bernard (EHEHI), Kamel Chachoua (IREMAM), Taoufik Jmiai (Université Sfax) and Claudio Milanesi (CAER), as part of the 1era meeting of the GlobalMed network (MMSH, ARKAIA, SOMUM), Aix-en-Provence, MMSH.

- 27 April 2022: Mesopolhis-Telemme inter-laboratory round table, Mesopolhis, UMR 7064, AMU, CNRS, Sciences Po Aix; TELEMMe, UMR 7303, AMU, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, MMSH.
"The postcard: what uses and practices on the Web and in contemporary art" (with Pauline Saveant)

- 10 April 2019: CNRS - UMR TELEMME study day co-organised by Elisabel Larriba (head of the S'informer et informer en temps de crise group) and Rossella Froissart (head of the Objets et savoirs group): Faire feu de tout bois - Formes et supports de l'information en temps de crise - "Alessandro Mendini et Casabella (1970-1976): écrire et représenter la crise de l'architecture au début de la prise de conscience écologique".
- 26 June 2018: Participation by selection in the Master/Doctorant workshop organised by Hélène Védrine and the European Society for Periodical Studies, Paris - Sorbonne: "Etude sur les périodiques" as part of the 7th ESPRit international colloquium from 27 to 29 June 2018, Paris - Sorbonne - "Casabella et Alessandro Mendini (1970 - 1976)". Presentation of the research method and problematic axes developed in Master II. Confrontation and conversation with the specialist moderators of the European Society for Periodical Studies (Hélène Védrine, Laurel Brake, Anne-Rachel Hermetet, Matthew Phillpotts, Evanghelia Stead, Céline Mansanti).
- 30 January 2018: Master I Research in Art History seminar at Aix - Marseille Université: "Art reviews: approaches and methods. The example of Casabella" organised by Rossella Froissart, University Professor.

List of publications on HAL

Presentation at a conference

Léa Battais, Pauline Savéant. The postcard: what uses and practices on the Web and in contemporary art? Mesopolhis-Telemme inter-laboratory round table, Mesopolhis, AMU- CNRS - Sciences Po Aix; TELEMMe, AMU - CNRS, Apr 2022, Aix-en -Provence, France. ⟨hal-03879116⟩

Léa Battais. Alessandro Mendini and Casabella (1970-1976): writing and representing the crisis of architecture. Supports de l'information et pratiques d'écriture en temps de crise (XIXe - XXIe s.), TELEMMe, AMU - CNRS, Apr 2019, Aix-en -Provence, France. ⟨hal-03878996⟩

Book chapter

Léa Battais. Alessandra Ferrini. Gallicchio, Alessandro. Rue d'Alger, Editions MF, pp.37-38, 2021, 2378040393. ⟨hal-03554796⟩

Léa Battais. Emma Grosbois & Agathe Rosa. Gallicchio, Alessandro. Rue d'Alger, Editions MF, pp.37-38, 2021, 2378040393. ⟨hal-03554733⟩

Léa Battais. Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani. Gallicchio, Alessandro. Rue d'Alger, Editions MF, pp.75-76, 2021, 2378040393. ⟨hal-03554745⟩