Reversal : the sharing of speeech as a sensible, aesthetic and political experience ; Reversal : le partage de la parole comme expérience sensible, esthétique, et politique
Artistic interventions within organizations meet the issue of their political stance and their critical ability. Can the art intervention foster a humanization of the organization and lower the arbitrary and authoritarian regime? My own experiments through the mean of a discussion device and a protocol based on the rule: "you choose who you listen to, you cannot choose who you talk to", strive at opening a more egalitarian sharing of the speech on the organizational stage. Drawing on Rancière's aesthetic and politic theories, I investigate two cases where my intervention resulted in an increased enforcement of power and a restriction of the freedom to speak. By describing the internal logics underlying the actors' experience of the sensible, I outline a conception of a dialogism not so much concerned with the right to speak and the claim for acknowledgement, as with the inevitable authoritarian quality of listening. The critique of my intervention and my art device and the consideration of the manners in which the actors perceive the heterogeneous dimensions of speech delineate an art form of intervention as an aesthetic education. Training a dissensual listening would mean knowing how to discern any voice among the rustling others, and knowing how discernment is arbitrary. I conclude by circumscribing which ethic responsibility I need to assume in order for my art approach towards organizations to qualify as a true political aesthetics in the sense of Rancière. ; Les interventions artistiques dans le monde des entreprises soulèvent la question de leur capacité critique, et de leur posture politique. L'artiste peut-il contribuer par son intervention à humaniser l'organisation, et diminuer l'exercice de l'autorité arbitraire qui s'y exerce ? Mes propres expériences au moyen d'un dispositif de discussion particulier, basé sur le principe « on choisit qui on écoute, on ne choisit pas à qui on parle », tentent d'instaurer un partage de la parole plus égalitaire sur les scènes ordinaires de la vie organisationnelle. ...