We Don't Record Flowers, Said the Geographer.

SATURDAY 2 October / THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT

:: 12am – 2am: Projection of Wang Bing’s film, Crude Oil (2008) ( in the frame of the exhibition We Don’t Record Flowers, Said the Geographer).

SATURDAY 9 October / OPENING

:: 2pm – 9pm: Opening of the exhibition We Don’t Record Flowers, Said the Geographer.

Artists: Lara Almarcegui, Louidgi Beltrame, Ursula Biemann, Julien Blanpied, Wang Bing, Tacita Dean, Ellie Ga, Michael Höpfner, Ruth Kaaserer, Yves Mettler, Trevor Paglen, Carson Salter, le Silo, Triple Canopy and José Cerrillo

An exhibition by: bo-ring (Virginie Bobin and Julia Kläring)

:: 5pm - Artist’s talk by Michael Höpfner, in conversation with exhibition co-curator Julia Kläring (in english)

:: 6pm - Arctic Circles: Ten Till Two, lecture-performance by Ellie Ga

WEDNESDAY 13 October , 7 – 9pm

:: 7pm - The Hybris of Nomadism, lecture-performance by Carson Salter, artist and writer. (in english)

:: 8pm - Counter-Geography in the Sahara, artist talk by Ursula Biemann

FRIDAY 12 and TUESDAY 16 November

2 programs of screenings organized by le Silo, collective for research in cinema and contemporary arts

:: Friday 12th November, at 6.30pm : Le désert du réel .
"Desert Rose" Cordelia Swann, 1996.
A "Fifth Dimension" episode.
A selection of documentary and fiction film excerpts.

:: Tuesday16th November, at 6.30pm : Espaces désertés .
Inger Lise Hansen, "Travelling Fields", 2009.
Walter de Maria, "Hardcore", 1969 (to be confirmed).
A selection of documentary and fiction film excerpts.

Projections at the INHA
Institut national d’histoire de l’art
Auditorium, Galerie Colbert
2, rue Vivienne /6, rue des Petits Champs 75002 PARIS
Metro station: Bourse (line3), Palais Royal/Musée du Louvre (lines 1 and 7)

Le Silo, a proposition by Marie Canet, Teresa Castro, Evgenia Giannouri, Lúcia Monteiro, Clara Schulmann, Jennifer Verraes.

SATURDAY15 January , 2 - 7pm
Closing party and launch of the exhibition catalogue with the g.u.i.

:: 5 pm - Lecture by Julien Blanpied, assistant curator at MAC/VAL.

:: 6 pm - Lecture-performance by Yves Mettler, artist