Clémentine Vaultier relates to House of Practices* through the question of how to practice collectively, within and surrounding the art world, making new ways for relating to others, with central notions of inclusivity and commoning. With her research on warmth, she asks how can a research process influence one another and invite for collective extensions, for new types of relationships and knowledge production ? 

By guiding Caveat*'s reading room #15 in July 2021, she had the chance to use her workbook -- a research on rising warmth with a few detours -- and its content to experiment with sharing knowledge, questions, inspirations, artworks and other manifestations for reflecting together: on the one hand on the whole research and on the other what a transmission process actually is.

During the Caveat Reading Room #15 people spent 2 hours ‘being with the book’ and, to round up, Clémentine Vaultier offered all 'readers' some special wine found in France.

The ongoing project, gathering a collection of personal interests and experiments around the notion of warmth—physical and social— invites people to come together and connect to this from their own perspective. When organising it, there was the discussion of how such gathering is a pedagogical-curatorial question…

The workbook is a PDF-collage rather than a text. It is structured by categorizing material following how it relates to heat, let's say 'by degree'. Another characteristic is that the book has as many updated versions than it has readings. 

During the reading session as well as during the drink there was some helpful feedback and suggestions formulated for how to organise further readings. For a next session Clémentine would propose to 'read' the book by taking turns in describing what we see... page for page… 

“I am curious about the way every single reader describes the type of sources they are confronted to, such as Google images, excerpts of texts, personal archives, sketches, ceramic experiments, all are sharing content and making links between them, while being of very different nature and contexts… How do people read those different languages throughout the workbook, with which rhythm, what types of keywords will pop out, how all of this will affect the general narrative I proposed.” 

^{* House of Practices is exploring permeability: how to make space in existing places? In dialogue, through their practices and those of guests, Simone Basani, Hans Bryssinck, Heike Langsdorf and Miriam Rohde, want to come closer to what the transformative power of a physical place can be: What does a place with its specific history, former and current inhabitants/users allow for? What makes it relational and permeable and for whom? How do our practices create closeness and distance to one another? What of it contributes to the making of community, and what to avoiding or even destroying it?}

^{** Caveat is a research on the ecology of artistic practice, organized by Jubilee:}

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