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ASPÉRITÉS EN MOUVEMENTS ⎟ FORME, ESPACE, CORPS, SCULPTURE, PÉDAGOGIE

This book brings together five texts written between 1996 and 2000. Through spiralling movements—expanding or contracting—they explore different ways of allowing certain rough edges of the world to come toward us, gently drawing on the thread they extend, watching them grow into the space they occupy, and accepting the ways they reshape our own. This attitude of trust in the movements of things and beings also underpins a pedagogy that invents itself through people, contexts, and materials.

Pedagogy of Form (journal, 1996–1997) pays particular attention to form in the search for new modes of perception. The way this daily practice continually returns to sculpture leads naturally to the text The Body of Sculpture (1997), an unfinished meditation that opens onto a new path. In the City, the Man Who Walks (published in Presències en l'Espai Públic Contemporani, Barcelona, Fall 1998) continues this exploration. The Movement of Place (published in Mobilité et résonances, DARE-DARE, 2000) conveys the experience of a body inhabiting place and space. This reflection continues in the final text, He Dances Space (written for the journal Contredanse, Dance and Architecture, Brussels, 2000).

Jean-François Pirson (Belgium, 1950) is an architect, Doctor of Fine Arts (University of Barcelona), and an artist, walker, and educator whose practice spans multiple disciplines. He is a professor at the Lambert Lombard Institute of Architecture (ISAI) in Liège. He has led workshops and seminars in France, Spain, and Quebec. His publications include La structure et l'objet and Le corps et la chaise.

DARE-DARE gratefully acknowledges the support of its members. DARE-DARE receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Conseil des arts de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

ASPERITÉS EN MOUVEMENTS is published by La lettre volée (Kanal 20, 20 Boulevard Barthélemy, 1000 Brussels, Belgium) and distributed by ABC Livres d'art Canada (372 Sainte-Catherine Street West, Suite 230, Montréal, QC H3B 1A2, Tel.: 514-871-0606, Fax: 514-871-2112).