HAQUET Appoline

Contact details

appoline.haquet@univ-amu.fr

As a doctoral student in sociology, I am interested in the professional trajectories of contemporary visual artists involved in artistic interventions in institutional contexts (detention centres, schools, hospitals, etc.).

Functions

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

2024-2026 : Education Officer (CME), Department of Sociology, ALLSH, AMU: «Initiation à l'enquête sociologique» (L1, 80h), «Paradigmes sociologiques» (L2, 44h).

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

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

2026: Co-organisation of the «Marseille, ville ordinaire? Urban realities and counter-hegemonic narratives, at the Musée d'histoire de Marseille.

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

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

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

2026 : Paper presented at the international Francophone doctoral school in gender studies (Brulau) at the University of Bucharest, «S'autoriser à être artiste: étude des trajectoires de plasticiennes intervenantes au prisme du genre et de la classe", Bucharest, Romania.

Review of Mélio Villemot's book «Les artistes peuvent-iels faire autre chose que de l'art? Enquêter auprès de créateurs démissionnaires des réseaux de l'art contemporain, éditions l'Harmattan, article accepted by the review Art critic

«Gagner des sous et rendre l'art utile»: l'intervention artistique, une économie morale chez les artistes plasticiens modestes, article accepted by the magazine Symbolic goods 

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.

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

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

Presentation at a conference

Appoline Haquet, Jules Cartier. Being a visual artist in Marseille. Study of a collective as a response to the participation market. 92nd ACFAS Congress, May 2025, Montreal, France. ⟨hal-05632284⟩

Report

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