HAQUET Appoline

Contact details

appoline.haquet@univ-amu.fr

As a doctoral student in sociology at MESOPOLHIS, I'm interested in the career development of visual artists through participatory practices involving the public.

Functions

2025: Doctoral student invited to INRS - Centre Urbanisation Culture Société (January to May).

2024-2025 : Education Officer (CME), Department of Sociology, ALLSH, AMU: "Introduction to sociological enquiry" (L1, 40h), "Sociological paradigms" (L2, 24h).

2023-2024 : LecturerDepartment of Sociology, ALLSH, AMU: "L'enquête et ses méthodes: L'entretien" (L2, 20h), "Initiation à l'enquête sociologique" (L1, 20h).

 

2025: Elected doctoral student representative, ED 355, AMU.

2021-2024: Elected as a User College member of the UFR ALLSH council, AMU.

Academic work

2023 - in progress : Doctoral student in sociology, under the supervision of Sylvia Girel, ED355 "Spaces, Cultures, Societies" (AMU classic doctoral contract 2023-2026).

Provisional title of thesis: "The construction of artists' careers: social work versus contemporary art institutions, a case study of contemporary visual artists".

Areas of research

Interdisciplinary approach: sociology, art history, aesthetics

Sociology of arts and culture

Cultural and scientific mediation

Scientific coordinator, programme manager

2025: Co-organisation of colloquium 452 "Between cultural vitality and organisational constraints: artists' collectives in today's society", ACFAS CongressMontreal.

2024: Co-organisation of the "Third-Party Places in the City" study day with Observatory of cultural audiences and practices

Speaker at Certificate of Training as a Plastic Artist Practitioner (CFPI), Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, Institut National Supérieur d'Enseignement Artistique Marseille-Méditerannée (3h).

2023: Research assistant, public survey with the Observatory of cultural audiences and practices for the "Beautiful Science" exhibition, Ecole Centrale Marseille. Communication of results at the event Scientifica #2.

2021 : Research assistant, sociological survey for the "Tremplins" project, Saint-Gabriel social centre in Marseille.

Productions

2025: Communication to theISA 5th Forum of SociologyBeing an artist in Marseilles: entering the field of contemporary art through participatory practices involving the public", Rabat, Morocco.

Communication for the Brulau 2025 "Who takes care of whom? Who takes care of what? Penser le travail invisible du care en projet artistique collaboratif", Marseille, France.

Paper for the critical geography network at UQAM, "Choisir un camp"? Du terrain en projet participatif et interdisciplinaire à l'écriture académique", Montreal, Canada.

Communication to theACFAS "Being a visual artist in Marseille. Study of a collective as a response to the participation market", Montreal, Canada.

2024: Paper presented at the Mesopolhis 2024 conference "Working 'with' and not just for artists. A return on the difficult conciliation of a sociological practice into a collaborative artistic project", Aix-en-Provence, France.

2022 : Alice Brière-Haquet, Appoline Haquet, Women artists, as seen by a teenager and her sister, published by Poulpe Fictions.

List of publications on HAL

Conference poster

Appoline Haquet. Art workers, care workers, professionalising through artistic intervention in the 21st century in a neo-liberal context. 8th ED 355 Scientific Day, Jun 2025, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨hal-05226657⟩

Report

Sylvia Girel, Alexia Koressian, Appoline Haquet. Tremplins, l'art à portée du territoire - Summary of the study. Aix Marseille University. 2022. ⟨hal-04292005⟩