Workshop "Contained Measures of Shifting States" by Otobong Nkanga
L’Académie vivante (Living Academy), a new co-directed experimental research space run by The Epigenetics and Cell Fate Unit (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot) and Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, is organizing a three day workshop around the artwork Contained Measures of Shifting States by Otobong Nkanga presented at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from the April 11 to June 13, 2016.
Directed by Otobong Nkanga, the workshop took the form of an intensive multidisciplinary program of investigations and exchanges between artists and researches from various theoretical horizons.
The workshop, open to all profiles, was a privileged moment to share and create narratives and forms surrounding the images comprised in the artwork Contained Measures of Shifting States (2012). Created as a result of an invitation by The Tanks (Tate Modern, London), the artwork consists of an installation of three tables that present images exploring notions of transient states and metabolism – in the fields of geology, art, political science and genetics.
The objective was to offer throughout the three days, in the presence of the artist, different formats of exchange (external interventions, field trips, round tables, speculative activations of images etc.) to channel and collectively create a discourse that can be shared with visitors the Centre Pompidou.
The participants have the opportunity following the workshop to take part in the activation of the work, which will be presented for the first time in France, on the occasion of Museum ON/OFF at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, from April 11 to June 13, 2016.
Bétonsalon sought to bring together a small group of young artists and researchers who are curious to work on discursive, scientific speculation and concepts of transformation, metabolism, transient states, either in philosophy, geology, genetics, art and other disciplines.
Download the workshop program (in French)
More information on Otobong Nkanga and Shifting States
Read the contribution of Otobong Nkanga in the second issue of Qalqalah
More information on Qalqalah
Offsite extension
Activation of the artwork Contained Measures of Shifting States by Otobong Nkanga
Under the framework of Museum ON/OFF at the Centre Pompidou (Galerie 0)
From April 11 to June 13, 2016.
- Otobong Nkanga, Contained Measures of Shifting States, 2012, installation in The Tanks (Tate Modern, London). Image: Tate Photography/ Gabrielle Johnson
The participants of the workshop continue the dialogue initiated by activating the artwork Contained Measures of Shifting States in the exhibition Museum ON/OFF (Centre Pompidou)
Thursday and Friday from 6 to 8 pm and Saturday from 11am to 3pm.
With : Sarah Bendaoud, Tiphaine Calmettes, Thelma Cappello, Elina Chared, Caroline Delhom, Mally Diallo, Arthur Dokhan, Rony Efrat, Suzannah Henty, Céline Pelcé, Céline Perier, Julie Perot, Marisol Rodriguez, Tanya Sauli, Caroline Sebilleau, Nadine Wanono Gauthier, Jonathan Weitzman, You Xilun, Floriane Zapata.
More information on the exhibition Museum ON/OFF
- Workshop "Contained Measures of Shifting States" by Otobong Nkanga, Lucas Semeraro participating in the intervention by Otobong Nkanga, April 7 2016, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris.
- Workshop "Contained Measures of Shifting States" by Otobong Nkanga, workshop on the different states of glass with Guillaume Thoraval, Wednesday April 6, 2016, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris
- Workshop "Contained Measures of Shifting States" by Otobong Nkanga, description and interpretation of images with Céline Chicoineau, Thursday April 7 2016, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris.
- Workshop "Contained Measures of Shifting States" by Otobong Nkanga, description and interpretation of images with Céline Chincoineau, Thursday April 7, 2016, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris
- Workshop "Contained Measures of Shifting States" by Otobong Nkanga, workshop on the transformation of metal with Samuel Landré, Friday April 8, 2016, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris
- Workshop "Contained Measures of Shifting States" by Otobong Nkanga, visit of Galerie 0 installation with curator Alicia Knock, Friday April 8, 2016, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris
- Workshop "Contained Measures of Shifting States" by Otobong Nkanga, the materialisation of the image with Céline Chicoineau, Thursday April 7, 2016, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Paris.
Otobong Nkanga Workshop at Bétonsalon from Bétonsalon on Vimeo.
Céline Chicoineau and Otobong Nkanga Workshop for Académie vivante from Bétonsalon on Vimeo.
The Académie vivante is supported by the Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso.
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