Logo revisité du film Retour vers le futur en version française, 1985.
Logo revisité du film Retour vers le futur en version française, 1985.
actions ~ scores: returns to the futures
Notations, protocols, scripts, drawings, diagrams, archives, assemblages, narratives… What if every performance were essentially bound to forms of writing? And what if these traces of an uncertain past contained within them the possibilities of distant futures ?
In this lecture series, we will question the relationship between action and score across different fields of practice: artistic, institutional, activist. Artists will come to speak about their relationship to archives as performance scores; activists, about the techniques they use to transmit their actions; curators and archivists will present the tools they deploy to preserve them; exhibition curators will discuss the know-how they develop to (re)activate them.
Clélia Barbut
Clélia Barbut is Associate Professor of Art History at Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis and a researcher at the Arts des Images et Arts Contemporains (AIAC) research unit. Her research focuses on performative artistic practices, which she first studied in her doctoral work (The Rebirth of Wonder. Emergence of Performance Arts during the 1970s in France and North America, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2025), and which she now examines through the lens of questions of memory and transmission. In her current work, she specializes in archives—particularly oral archives—and scores; projects she develops at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, where she holds a fellowship to study protocol-based performances; within the research program Awaiting Scores (2025–26); and through the database Performance Sources.
Lecture series at Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis in partnership with Bétonsalon.
Archives Nationales
Lucile Douchin, archivist, Archives Nationales
Session reserved for Paris 8 students
at Université Paris 8, room A283
Lecture by Euridice Zaituna Kala, as part of the lecture series “Action ~ Scores: Returns to the Futures,” curated by Clélia Barbut, in partnership with Université Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis.
at Bétonsalon - Art and Research Center
“Archives as tools. When lesbian archiving practices teach us ways of working and living” – Louise Toth, PhD candidate, Bordeaux Montaigne University
Bétonsalon
“Bringing the Archives Out of the Closet: Sharing Queer Histories Between Activist and Artistic Practices”; Faustine Besançon, performer and PhD student, Paris 8 University
at Bétonsalon - centre of art and research
“When ghosts roam the Internet: cyborg memory, technologies, and intimate storytelling” – lecture by No Anger, artist
