On October 23, 2025, Sophie Halart will take part in the study day Contested Heritages, Future Patrimonies at the IMERA – Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University. The event is organized by Mathieu Corp, Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts and Latin American Studies at Aix-Marseille University.
Image – Monumento Honor a la Patria, Antofagasta, Chile. Image taken from the Inventario Iconoclasta de la Insurrección Chilena.
All day
Iméra, 2 place Leverrier, 13004 Marseille
This study day aims to explore the conflictual nature of heritage in public space through the intersecting perspectives of scholars and artists. The discussions will focus on the gestures, practices, and imaginaries that challenge monumentality and dominant historical narratives, while opening speculative spaces to imagine new forms of transmission and belonging.
Among the speakers, Sophie Halart, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Nantes, will give a talk on hegemonic conceptions of nature in contemporary Chile, approached as a heritage to be contested. Through a critique of dominant visual regimes, she will examine how certain aesthetic and ecological imaginaries contribute to the naturalization of environmental and social inequalities.
The day will alternate between lectures, performances, and collective discussions centered on the themes of memory, monumentality, and future heritages.
Programme
- 9am: Welcome to participants.
- 9.30am: Presentation of the day by Mathieu Corp.
- 10am – 11am: Presentations by Sophie Halart and Ana Devic.
- 11am: Enfants de colon*nes (Children of settlers) by Sophie Lapalu
- 11:30am: Mémoires de plomb by Lisa Place.
- 11.45am – 12.30pm: Group discussion on the conflictual nature of heritage.
Group lunch from 12.30pm to 2pm.
- 2pm: Bust Talk with the statue of Alphonse Lamartine by Thomas Geiger in Parc Longchamp.
- 2.45pm – 5pm: Presentations by Andrés Durán and Mathilde Dewavrin.
- 5pm – 6pm: Group discussion on future heritage.
