Association ChiFouMi

Exercise proposed by Eugene Riousse according to the following constraint : ” Draw around the sausages “…. Yummy!

Authors are definitely inspired. Here another exemple of this creativity.

A few days ago, strange paper constructions appeared on the desk…Eleonor Davies was thinking about something.

Yesterday, we finally discovered what she was elaborating. She launched a new exercise : the “Secret City”.

The principle is fascinating : authors have to draw on bristol without showing anyone what they’re doing.

They stick it on a black cardboard so that only a portion of the sketch will be visible through a little window.  There will be a hidden secret part forever.

All put together, black cardboards build a “city”. Nobody will ever know the whole thing, each author’s got a secret in it…

To fulfill the “act of poetry”, the authors might burn this Secret City at the end of the residency…

Yesterday and today, authors and students did the classic “24 minutes” exercise (kind of the grand-grand-son of the 60 minutes et 30 minutes exercises). They will do it every day of the week, they have to adopt the routine!
They have to produce 3 pages in 24 minutes time only. Each page contains 6 frames. One frame has to be produced in 4 mn by 3 authors working together…Ok, to be clear, they have to draw in the rush to finish in time.

Authors and students during the “24 minutes” exercise.

One of the 3 “24 minutes” by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, Max de Radiguès and Eleanor Davies.

One of the 3 “24 minutes” by Pierre Ferrero, Brandon Hugues and Lisa Hanawalt.

One of the 3 “24 minutes” by Leigh Luna, Lilli Carré and Geneviève Castrée.

Time’s up, ladies and gentlemen!

Crazy, crazy evening.
At first, after a long day of working on plenty of many exciting exercices, all the PFC#4 residents went over downtown, for some Meet & Greet little talk offered by the French Alliance, which is one of our precious partners for our little adventure here.
Most of students PFC#4 related class were also here, and people from ChiFouMi did their best for showing and explaining what PFC was all about to the thousands of francophiles who came, and most of our various actions : screenings of exhibitions, meetings, workshops, residency and all were done, including some the two shorts films that our great friends at Kaméléon Prod in Besançon and Aurélien Pou7 Jeanney did a few years ago.
Seing pictures of La Saline, here, in Minneapolis, was something quite moving for us, we gotta admit. While we’re on this subject, we would like to take this opportunity to say hello to our friends from ChiFouMi in France : Lionel, Pablo-Paquito-Ramon, Charline, Alcor, Marina, Max, Nadine, Bob, Juliette, Mathilde, Emilie, Marie, Philippa, Steve, Nancy, Christophe, Florence, Caro, Adeline, Bruno, Chloé, Anne, Fabien, Nono, Raph, Raph 2, Auria, Stéphanie, et of course to all the people who helped in one way or another our various actions. And of course, we wanna make a big hug to our loved president Gil-Loup. We think about you everyday here, dear friends.

Oh ! And Geneviève Castrée helped us on the english translation, too. Thanks to her once again !

After this, Benoit Preteseille did a little presentation of the ION Exhition happening there :

But ! This stirring tuesday was just at its beginning : after the meeting at French Alliance, everybody crossed the Mississipi river and went up north east for getting into the opening of the “Jugglers” exhibition that Anders Nilsen planned for months at this super cool Co-Exhibitions place.

What can we say ? Combining so many talented artists in this dope place was the idea of the year.
“From Sculpture to Animation and Songwriting to Design: An exhibition of 10 cartoonists from two continents. with music by Zak Sally’s Pretty Ladies”. Well, we were supposed to know how great it got to be. And well, it was !

And all of this finished with some impressive live act courtesy of Zak Sally and Shawn Walker : together, they’re Pretty Ladies. And they did a set that we’ll probably remember for a long time, including some contribution from the public that was asked to draw on some paper wall made for the occasion. The music was a great source of inspiration. And still is.

Thanks to Anders, Zak and her Pretty Ladies.
And PFC#4 is still gettin hot and hot ! Check us 24/24 online here…
Insane technology !  Crazy cartoonists ! Free coffee !
Let’s go.

We have the incredible pleasure to get some of the best silkscreen printers ever aboard !
Aesthetic Apparatus will print the amazing collective book that everybody work on since monday morning. You can get a reminder of what it’s all about here, and for being sure this accordeon book will kick ass, we didnt took any risks and asked Dan, one of the great guys at Aesthetic Apparatus, to come visit us to tell about the technical specifics, and he was kind enough to comes over here.

Can’t wait for seing the whole result !
And we got a thought for our friend Nono and the Demouj’mouj’ family, yo !
More soon.