During Feral, Fanny Cohen Moreau will be recording a special live edition of her podacst, Passion Médiévistes, with artist and researcher Amalia Laurent as a guest. It will focus on Amalia Laurent's thesis, a historical and anthropological study of the ways in which liturgical performances are constructed and developed in contemporary times. It follows on from the research she initiated during her masters at the EHESS, which looked at the links between architecture, music, iconography and spirituality in Javanese culture, and led to approaching images both through the notion of spatial performativity and through way they develop within a space conceived “in depth”. If we state that performance, with its organisation and rhythm, is an object that develops in time and space, then it produces an object that is in itself spatio-temporal. In other words, the site of the performance is a spatial crystallisation that accumulates in depth and over time.

Fanny Cohen Moreau (FR)

Fanny Cohen Moreau studied journalism and history. After working in french national media (France Inter, France Télévisions, Europe 1...), she became a podcaster in 2017 and produces podcasts on a freelance basis such as Passion Médiévistes, Passion Modernistes and Passion Antiquités. She also works freelance for others and offers podcast training for all kinds of audiences.

Amalia Laurent (FR)

Amalia Laurent is a visual artist. She graduated from the EHESS (Paris, FR) in 2023, from the Royal College of Art (London, UK) in 2018 and from the École des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg (FR) in 2015. She is currently completing a PhD on the links between architectural arrangements and processional practices at the EHESS and is also a resident at the Villa Médicis (2024-2025) in Rome.