StoryTANK | What stories for our times?
Le Groupe Ouest & LIM | Less is More unveil the 4th season of StoryTANK
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Stories
To project
To open up
To connect
To regenerate
Stories for understanding
Powered by Creative Europe — MEDIA, the StoryTANK creates an organic link between the world of research and the world of storytellers. Each season aims to bring a new perspective to the exploration around the notions of storytelling – both its physiological function and its social role – through a dialogue between researchers and creators including writers, screenwriters and playwrights.
This 2024 summer and until the end of the year, StoryTANK unveils its 4th and new season: What stories for our times? This season explores and questions the practice of fiction writing at a time when storytelling is being transformed by digital revolutions, from artificial intelligence to algorithms, and when our social, political, and ecological reference points are shifting.
The first three seasons delved into the creative processes behind storytelling, examining how narratives support our imagination and help us construct or deconstruct our perceptions.
For its new season, StoryTANK took place at Les Champs Libres in Rennes (Brittany, France), to create a cross-dialogue between writers and researchers on the construction of these Stories for Our Times. The presence of witnesses from the civil society added a striking and unusual dimension to these discussions. These individuals—from child protection officers to midwives, teachers, and physical therapists—dedicate their lives to caring for others, engaging with real-life stories, and shed light on the narratives that shape our world.
There will be 4 lectures / round tables, 6 interviews with researchers and 3 interviews with scriptwriters, all of which will be revealed over the coming weeks and months on the StoryTANK web platform and YouTube channel.
Images of the Event in Rennes
What stories for our time?
We are made of movement. Everything moves around and inside us at various speeds, incalculable, in all directions. Our world does not stop moving, changing and constantly imposes on us the challenge of new narratives, new fictions to follow this ceaseless movement, to continue to move and live together. This year more than ever, we want to dedicate the StoryTANK Research Lab to exploring these stories. We invite researchers, thinkers, writers, storytellers to ask the questions that the construction of Narratives for our time requires.
Yann Apperry, Nicolás Buenaventura & Vassili Silovic – editorial direction of StoryTANK Season 4
The new StoryTANK Season was recorded on 1 & 2 December 2023 in Rennes, at Les Champs Libres, and brought together:
6 screenwriters:
Julie Budtz Sørensen Danish screenwriter
Bohdan Piasecki Polish poet and professor of creative writing
Jan Schomburg German screenwriter and director
Aurélie Valat French-Greek screenwriter and script consultant
6 researchers:
Roberto Beneduce ethnopsychiatry and anthropologist
Samah Karaki neuroscience researcher
David Le Breton anthropologist and sociologist
Nancy Murzilli philosopher and theorist of literature
Anne Querrien sociologist and urban planner
Tamara Russell neuroscience and martial arts specialist
5 witnesses from civil society:
Hubert Allignol Head of the Personal Offences Department, Rennes Police Headquarters
Valérie Le Dorven Head of the Minors’ Brigade, Rennes Police Headquarters
Mathilde Delespine midwife, coordinator of the Maison des femmes Gisèle Halimi at Rennes University Hospital
Manue Gaquère PE teacher
Thomas Rose osteopath
3 moderators:
Yann Apperry Screenwriter, Playwright and Novelist
Nicolás Buenaventura Writer-director and Storyteller
Vassili Silovic Writer and Director of documentary films
filmed by:
Guillaume Desjardins Writer-director, member of Les Parasites
Jérémy Bernard Writer-director, member of Les Parasites
Trailer of StoryTANK Season 04
Programme
How can narratives change the lives of beings?
How do fictions act in our lives, what fictions can we stand for?
How can stories guide our steps, permeate our bodies?
While the stories of a world in crisis are hitting us, how can we not fall into madness?
Can we think of stories as way to re-weave ourselves, as an individual and collective reconstruction?
Stories build complex worlds in which we find ourselves projected. In the footsteps of the “Theory of the Rhizome”, imaginary as a space of co-elaboration, a space of proliferation of possibilities…
Storytelling: Everybody’s Concern?
Neuroscience sheds new light on the myth of Creative Genius.
Would we all be able to create streams of imaginary worlds and wild stories?
