Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
FROM MARCH, 23rd TO MARCH, 30th, 2019
Workshop Shapes of the Radical
As part of Position latérale de sécurité (Lateral Recovery Position) (January 29-April 20, 2019), the one-week gathering with a group of contributors from all sectors of society is comprised of daily sessions involving analyses and discussions about the curatorial decisions, conceptual constellations, and individual artworks, in addition to close readings of accompanying discursive and publishing programs. The workshop will focus on verbal exchanges and physical practice in order to elaborate a shared reflection on visible and invisible affects at work in the exhibition. The program will include a series of daily workshops led by writer and theorist Ana Teixeira Pinto around the question of cryptofascism, Kung Fu introduction classes led by Michelle Cameron, and exchanges and conversations with the artists and curators of the exhibition.
The workshop Shapes of the Radical is centered on the exhibition itself end encourages a dynamic exchange with the Bétonsalon — Center for Art and Research staff, curators, contributors, and participants. The program takes as its primary subject matter the parameters, resources, and tools offered by the exhibition Position latérale de sécurité (Lateral Recovery Position) itself and examines the exhibition as a complex network of material, political, and aesthetic contingencies. It focuses on it visible and invisible alliances and relations, using the exhibition as a site of encounter and study.
All the contributors will receive the detailed workshop program after registration.
INVITED RESPONDENTS
The workshop Shapes of the Radical acts as a close reading of the exhibition, with unique interjections from selected respondents. The guests include: Michelle Cameron, Thelma Cappello, Xinyi Cheng, Alice Diop, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Adrian Mabileau Ebrahimi Tajadod, Hamid Shams, and Patrick Staff.
PUBLIC SESSIONS
Wednesday, March 28th 2019 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Screening Vers la tendresse (Towards Tenderness)
Alice Diop in conversation with Guslagie Malanda
Saturday, March 30th 2019
From 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Patrick Staff in conversation with Guslagie Malanda & Lucas Morin
From 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Final discussion with the contributors & Ana Teixeira Pinto
All public events are held in English and French and offer free admission.
You have to register by sending an e-mail to this address: publics@betonsalon.net.
All the contributors will receive the detailed workshop program after registration.
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Ana Teixeira Pinto is a writer and cultural theorist based in Berlin. She is a lecturer at the DAI (Dutch Art Institute) and a research fellow at Leuphana University, Lüneburg (Germany). Her writings have appeared in publications such as Frieze, Afterall, Springerin, Camera Austria, e-flux journal, art-agenda, Mousse, Domus, Inaesthetics, Manifesta Journal, and Texte zur Kunst. She is the editor of The Reluctant Narrator (Sternberg Press, 2014) and, together with Eric de Bruyn and Sven Lütticken of a forthcoming book series on counter histories, to be published by Sternberg Press.
Alice Diop, born in 1979, is a documentary filmmaker, who makes films about contemporary French society. Daughter of Senegalese parents, she began studying history and sociology. Her films such as La permanence (2016) or La Mort de Danton (2011) were rewarded by numerous prizes. Her film Vers La tendresse (Towards Tenderness) won the best short film award at the French César Awards in 2017. It is about feeling of love among young males in the Paris suburbs.
PAST EVENT
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2019, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Artist talks
For the unlucky ones who can’t make it to the opening of Lateral Recovery Position, come and meet artists Dala Nasser, Rehana Zaman, and the Liverpool Black Women Filmmakers on Wednesday, January 30th at Bétonsalon. They’ll gather for an evening of short talks, conversations, and screenings.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2019, from 7 to 8 p.m.
Le Petit Tour (A Short Ride) #2 Greece
Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research hosts Le Petit Tour (A Short Ride): Europe, landscape or territory? for a performed presentation of the publication by its members and authors. Le Petit Tour (A Short Ride) connects research and investigation, bringing together students, academics, artists, philosophers, historians… working on the question of the territory they operate on, namely: Europe.
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