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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