- workshop
architecture and documentary film workshop: when guests become ghosts
msj invites :
Rachel Clara Reed
Date :
31st october to 3rd november 2024
In a time when our attention is distracted, stolen, and hurried, we must learn to see again. To see not just art and beauty, but a new way of inhabiting space and inhabiting our own bodies and stories. In the first year of the msj art residency, we present a workshop in which participants are invited to explore personal and collective narrative artmaking through building intimate relationship with space and place. We look at space as a living being – we each pass through Maison Saint Joseph as a guest and in doing so, become a part of the life of the space. Together, we explore the histories and individual narratives that “haunt” Maison Saint Joseph, and add our own narratives to the story of the place, all within the context of the cycle of life and death, endings and beginnings, grief and joy.
Facilitated by architect and artist Éléonore d’Hauterives and documentary filmmaker and death doula Rachel Clara Reed, we will cultivate presence, attention, and analysis using storytelling tools from architecture and documentary film. This is a workshop that is co-created with the participants – together we choose our focus area and create an experimental visual, tactile, and audio soundscape to present at the closing exhibition of the msj residency in December.
*Within the context of the first year of the opening of the msj art residency. This trial session is part of the recruitment campaign for the 2025 cohort of the collective unnamed at msj.
rachel clara reed
Rachel Clara Reed is a mixed-race Chinese-American independent documentarian and trained death doula. She’s interested in the intersections of identity, resilience, grief, personal history and culture. Her first feature documentary, All We Carry, which she edited and co-produced, follows an asylum-seeking family from Honduras as they navigate the daily joys and grief of setting up life in a new place, while facing the trauma they carry with them. It won the Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights at the 2024 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Rachel hosts death dinners—facilitated gatherings gently exploring our personal relationships with death and dying in order to live more deeply into life—from her home in East London.
- Creative workshops
- Demi-Pension [3 breakfasts, 2 dinners*, afternoon snack] *wine included
- Sleep 3 nights**
- Access to a shared kitchen and living areas, and discovery of the countryside
- 50 euros registration fee to msj
French and English
4 packages based on accommodation**
- Stay at Maison Saint Joseph
- Stay in a Private Room: Double bed with private bathroom and toilet. Rooms: Lichen or Acacia – €580,00 per person
- Stay in a Shared Loft: 2 double beds (includes kitchen, bathroom, toilet, and living space) : Canopée – €433,00 per person
- Stay at La Petite Maison
- Stay in a Shared Room: 3 single beds (includes kitchen, shared bathroom abd toilet, and living space) – €445,00 per person
- Stay in a Private Room: Double bed (includes kitchen, shared bathroom and toilet, and living space) – €502,00 per person
1 Package Without Accommodation
- €352,00 per person
For more information about the room details, please visit :
lamaisonsaintjoseph.com
We are passionate about supporting arts and artists, and our entire msj team has volunteered tirelessly to make the opening of this art residency a reality in 2024. Our pricing reflects the true cost of running a young art residency that supports emerging artists, ensuring that everyone involved is fairly compensated for their expertise. Our pricing reflects this commitment, covering artists’ fees and operational costs, thanks in part to the support of Maison Saint Joseph, which offers us favorable rates for room rentals. To successfully run each workshop, we require a minimum of participants. We’re confident in your support to help us bring this incredible program to life!