Around the exhibition Chère Melpomène

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.

« Non nova, sed nove »

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.

Post-photography

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. 

The Royal Book Lodge adventure with Véronique Bourgoin et Juli Susin

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.

Beaux-Arts de Paris is delighted to take part in the 7th edition of 100% L'EXPO, which opens the Grande Halle de la Villette to young artists who have recently graduated from French art schools

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.

To coincide with the publication of issue no. 9 of Transbordeur. Photographie histoire société, which focuses on “Algorithmic Images”, and the exhibition “Le monde selon l'AI”, which opens at Jeu de Paume in April, Christian Joschke talks to Antonio Somaini and Ada Ackerman, curators of the exhibition. 

Dragons beneath the earth.
Art, the invisible and philosophy today 

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.