Being a shaman. Corine Sombrun is a writer, ethnomusicist and specialist in Mongolian shamanism, trained in trance by Mongolian shamans. She is a travel writer. Her books, largely autobiographical, as well as the interviews and conferences she gives, testify to her journey into shamanism and her participation as a subject and co-author of scientific research on shamanic trance.
She dialogues with Alain Berland.
Penser le Présent is produced with the support of Société Générale.
Philippe Descola talks with the philosopher Emmanuel Alloa on the occasion of the publication of his latest book, Les formes du visible : une anthropologie de la figuration.
Exhibition design, design exhibition
Matali Crasset is an internationally renowned French designer.
Since her training at the Ateliers-ENSCI in the 1990s, she has defended a design at the crossroads of artistic, anthropological and social practice.
She works for a design of creation, of the living and the everyday: how can design contribute to living together and accompany us in the contemporary world? It is from this simple yet committed premise that she thinks and works "in motion".
On the occasion of the exhibition "Inhabiting the interstices, Beirut, the artists and the city" at the Michel Journiac gallery of the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, round table with the two curators of the exhibition, Françoise Docquiert and Nayla Tamraz, and some of the artists of the exhibition: Nadim Asfar, Sirine Fattouh, Mireille Kassar, Marwan Moujaes and Maha Yammine
Nicolas Bourriaud is a curator and art critic. He directs Radicants, a "curatorial cooperative" that will begin in 2022. He founded and co-directed the Palais de Tokyo from 1999 to 2006, before becoming Gulbenkian Curator for Contemporary Art at the Tate Britain in 2007, and leading the creation of the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev. In 2010, he was called upon to head the Ministry of Culture's Department of Inspection for Artistic Creation and then directed several cultural institutions until 2021.
The taste of the ugly
French-British fashion journalist Alice Pfeiffer talks with Alain Berland on the occasion of the publication of her essay Le goût du moche (The taste of the ugly) published by Flammarion.
This essay, in the form of a personal account, touches on what is foreign about loving what does not fit into the norms of good taste.
Is ugly a new trend? Is it a simple pleasure to displease that to display the ugly on oneself? Could the ugly be a political, radical gesture, an act of resistance in an ultra-filtered virtual world?
Books, posters, prints, postcards, gift items at exceptional prices.
Among the latest releases: Breathing in the shadow by Giuseppe Penone, Patrick Faigenbaum's coloring album, 1081 Paintings by Nina Childress, Reflection on color by Carlos Cruz-Diez, Humor! by Georges Wolinski...
Books, posters, prints, postcards, gift items at exceptional prices.
Among the latest publications: Memoirs of John Giorno, Baalbek, Le grand voyage au Liban, Félicités 2022 - Pour en finir encore, Les Louanges de Raban Maur, Eva Jospin, dessins pour un jardin, Respirer l'ombre de Giuseppe Penone, 1081 Peintures de Nina Childress...
In order to pay tribute to Huang Yong Ping who passed away in October 2019 and on the occasion of the exhibition Is Paris Burning? 2019 by Huang Yong Ping and Shen Yuan, an exceptional round table is organized by the gallery kamel mennour and the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
