A proposal conceived by the Parisian committee of The Public School for The Public School Paris
RDV 7, 11 and 12 // 18 and 19 // 25 and 26 September at Bétonsalon – centre for art and research

September is a series of talks, workshops, lectures, classes, performances, readings and diverse interventions, whose aim is to think in acts, by combining theory and practice, about the conditions and forms of production of the research in art, about their deployment and about their sharing.

During three successive week-ends, we will launch a Pickpocket Almanack in Paris, we will organize several seminars of The Public School and we will study research projects borrowing tools and methodologies from pedagogy (discursivity, collective experimentation, auto-organization, open-source practices, transmission methods…).

In parallel, artist Carson Salter will invest the physical space of Bétonsalon, installing a workstation for his project The Teachable File in the permanent public Library of bétonsalon, conceived in 2009 by artist Katinka Bock in collaboration with bookshop castillo/corrales. This will be the first activation of the Bétonsalon’s Library, which will now be officially open.

With:
* Pickpocket Almanack, a project by Joseph del Pesco with Franck Leibovici (artist), Sébastien Pluot (art critic), Vivian Rehberg (art critic), Eric Périer (curious) and Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (artist)
* The Public School and seminars 12 gestures with Renzo Martens, Communism’s afterlives by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Elena Sorokina, Performing Memory by Virginie Bobin and Julia Kläring with Franck Leibovici
* The teachable file by Carson Salter
* Activations of discourse in the European dance scene, a proposal by Alice Chauchat
* The Workers Punk Art School Berlin
* A LOUER # 3 by Emilie Parendeau

The Public School is a project to propose seminars for Bétonsalon. The Public School website enables to post a proposal and registrer for others. The Public School Paris committee members choose to organize some seminars.

The Public School was initiated by Telic’s Director, Sean Dockray, in 2007. It operated in Los Angeles for a year before new schools, enacting the same model, were started in Chicago and Philadelphia in 2009. In fall of 2009, Telic and common room received a fellowship from the Van Alen Institute to launch The Public School (for Architecture) New York. At the beginning of 2010, the school moved into 177 Livingston in Brooklyn with Triple Canopy and Light Industry and the "(for Architecture)" was dropped from the name. Also in the fall of 2009, Telic traveled to Bétonsalon in Paris and Komplot in Brussels to help start new schools there. Since then, The Public School has also popped up in Helsinki (supported by the multipurpose space, Ptarmigan) and San Juan (with Betalocal). The Public School Paris committee members are Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (artist), Virginie Bobin (free-lance curator), Mélanie Bouteloup (director of Bétonsalon – centre for art and research), Grégory Castéra (codirector of Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers), Sean Dockray (founder of The Public School), Nicolas Fourgeaud (art critic), Sandra Terdjman (director of Kadist Art Foundation), Mathilde Villeneuve (co-director at ENSA Paris Cergy).