2pm | Écrire en spirale
Writing workshop with Douce Dibondo
Writing as trance and ecstasy. Find the balance between exteriority (trance) and ecstasy (interiority) with exercises in side stepping, stepping back and merging with our surroundings.
On the occasion of the publication of his monograph La Fin du Banal published by the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the artist Thomas Lévy-Lasne looks back on twenty years of artistic practice.
During this meeting, Phia Menard talks about her practice, the founding of her company “Non nova”, her precept “We don't invent anything, we just see it differently”, and her latest shows. This meeting is part of the « Troubles, alliances et esthétiques » chair coordinated by Fabrice Bourlez and Madeleine Planeix-Crocker.
Over the past fifteen years, the term “post-photography” has come to dominate the field of photographic creation. It refers to a radical evolution in our relationship with images, which the first and second digital turning points have only accentuated. But it seems to cover a wide range of realities: appropriationism, the multiplication of images on social networks or, more recently, augmented photography and the algorithmic image.
California-based art historian John C. Welchman discusses his research into the Royal Book Lodge project, an international network of artists initiated in Montreuil by Véronique Bourgoin and Juli Susin, with the artist's book at its core.
The works of some forty artists are displayed over 3,500 m² in the Grande Halle de la Villette, in a scenography composed entirely of salvaged elements from previous events.
This conference explores the relationship between art and philosophy at a time of environmental change in the humanities. Philosopher Mohamed Amer Meziane will draw on his two books Au bord des mondes and Des empires sous la terre. He will highlight some of their resonances with the current practices of several artists and curators in contemporary art worlds, between Europe and America, Africa and Asia.