Events

This exhibition takes the form of a series of collective practices carried out by the guest artists over two-week periods. These practices give rise to times of sharing, performances and activations of Sonic Meditations by Pauline
Oliveros, open to the public:

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Wednesday, December 13, from 2:30pm to 4:30pm: Ghost-visit of the exhibition « Un·Tuning Together. Practicing listening with Pauline Oliveros » led by students from Paris XIII

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Past events:

Sunday, September 17, from 2pm to 5pm
Lauren Tortil
For a Helter Skelter Rain
An environmental concert along the Canal Saint-Martin
Event curator: Elena Lespes Muñoz

Boarding: 2pm, Port de l’Arsenal, Paris 12th arrondissement
Arrival: 5pm, Parc de la Villette, Paris 19th arrondissement

Inaugural performance of the exhibition "Un·Tuning Together. Practicing listening with Pauline Oliveros" at Bétonsalon – center for art and research, 20.09 - 02.12.23

Free, mandatory booking → FULLY BOOKED

The number of seats on board is limited, but the performance is also accessible from the docks.

For a helter skelter rain is an environmental concert by Lauren Tortil that takes place along the Canal Saint-Martin, blending in with the polyphony of the city. Through a succession of scattered sound apparitions – ship horns, saxophone, voices... – performed from the docks by accomplices and composed to echo the canal’s soundscape, this performance is an invitation to thwart our perceptions and decentre our senses. Aboard the Arletty or from the docks, listen carefully and let yourself be surprised by everything that happens beneath the surface of the audible. Along the water, over the course of an afternoon, the experience un-folds in a singular listening context to collectively exercise our attention to the urban environment. The score for this concert is inspired by an extract from Virginia Woolf’s Diary, in which she describes the impact of rain on a pond. Like an initiation rite, this composition sounds like a call for rain.

With the complicity of the resident sailors of the Port de l’Arsenal and the Halte de la Villette, Pierre Thévenin (saxophonist), Claire Serres with the Sirène Song choir, Aymeric de Tapol (composer), Jérémy Barrault (graphic designer) and Simon Ripoll-Hurier (video recording).

This performance is part of the Bétonsalon "Sunbathed ears" programme, supported by the Drac Île-de-France, on the occasion of the Odyssée with Petit Bain and the Journées Européennes du Patrimoine 2023. It is co-produced with *Duuu radio as part of the Artistes et Sportifs Associés de la Ville de Paris 2023 program, and in collaboration with Canauxrama. Lauren Tortil received support from ADAGP for the recording.

Wednesday, September 20, from 3pm to 6 pm
Workshop of collective translation of texts and scores by Pauline Oliveros

Thursday, September 21,
from 3pm to 6pm : Deep Listening with Ximena Alarcón, Sylvie Decaux and Lisa Barnard Kelley
from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm: Screening of Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros, (2022), by Daniel Weintraub, in the presence of IONE at the Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard

Friday, September 22, from 4pm to 9pm
Exhibition opening

Saturday, September 23
from 4pm to 5pm : Deep Listening followed by The World Wide Tuning Meditation with IONE
from 5pm to 6pm : discussion with IONE
from 6pm to 7pm : exhibition presentation by Maud Jacquin and Émilie Renard

Tuesday, September 26, at 7pm
Launch of Marie de Brugerolle’s book, Post Performance Future, ed. T&P Publishing

Friday, September 29, from 3pm to 6pm
Béton Book Club : survey session of Sounding Out. Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality, by Martha Mockus (2008, text in English).
Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality examines the musical career of the avant-garde composer, accordionist, whose radical innovations of the 1960s, 70s and 80s have redefined the aesthetic and formal parameters of American experimental music. While other scholars have studied Oliveros as a disciple of John Cage and a contemporary of composers Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Gordon Mumma, and Robert Ashley, Sounding Out resituates Pauline Oliveros in a gynecentric network of feminist activists, writers, artists and musicians. This book shows how the women in Oliveros’s life were central sources of creative energy and exchange during a crucial moment in feminist and queer cultural history. Crafting a dynamic relationship between feminism and music-making, this book offers a queerly original analysis of Oliveros’s work as a musical form of feminist activism and argues for the productive role of experimental music in lesbian feminist theory.

Sounding Out combines key elements of feminist theories of lesbian sexuality with Oliveros’s major compositions, performances, critical essays, and interviews. It also includes previously unpublished correspondence between Oliveros and Edith Guttierez, Jill Johnston, Annea Lockwood, Kate Millett, and Jane Rule.

Saturday, September 30, from 3pm to 5pm : Sharing session with Emily Mast

Saturday, October 7, from 3pm to 5pm: Sharing session
and from 5pm to 6pm: Sonic Meditation with Emily Mast

Monday, October 9, at 7pm
Launch of the collective translation of Trans*. Brève histoire de la variabilité de genre by Jack Halberstam, ed. Libertalia with Jack Halberstam and the dansmalangue collective.
Over the past few decades, public discourse surrounding trans lives has multiplied. Even though this increased visibility sometimes comes with new rights, it also means regulation and exposure to increasingly virulent anti-trans movements. The desire to transition, once considered to be a rare and unfortunate condition, has now become a new topic of political activism.

In Trans*, Jack Halberstam explores the meaning changes at work in gender representation, and explores the possibilities for multi-gendered futures, invoking several cultural productions (movies, series, novels, installations) alongside figures such as Prince, the Monty Pythons, Judith Butler, José E. Muñoz, Paul B. Preciado or Susan Stryker.

Saturday, October 14, from 3:30pm to 5pm : discussion with Clara Schulmann and participants
and from 5pm to 6pm: Sonic Meditation with Anna Holveck

Saturday, October 21, from 5pm to 6pm: Palm mask, performance by Anna Holveck

Saturday October 28, from 3:30pm to 4:30pm: Sonic Meditation with Violaine Lochu

Saturday, November 4, from 2pm to 7pm: Système/Berceuse, performance with Violaine Lochu

Saturday, November 11, from 4pm to 7pm : Sound bath with Julia E Dyck and Diana Duta, Claire-Sophie Dagnan, maïte álvarez

Thursday 9, Friday 10, Thursday 16, Friday 17 November, from 7pm to 8:30pm : Mind Bath, hypnosis sessions with Julia E Dyck and Diana Duta

Drawing from the cleansing, relaxing, ritual and transformative potential of both public bathing and collective sonic experiences, Julia E. Dyck is approaching the gallery as a public sound bath house. Dyck will host collective practices including sound bath, noise meditation, group hypnosis and participatory workshops using sound and voice to relate to and care for others. 

Using her training in hypnotherapy, Dyck will offer hypnosis sessions with live soundscapes to small groups - addressing collective issues, in opposition to traditional one on one therapy. These group hypnosis sessions are an attempt at collective queer healing, transcendence and connection through combining the practice of hypnotherapy with the synergy of voice, electronics, and resonant instruments in an installation setting. These sessions invite you to access the power of the trance state and potential of the subconscious mind to cultivate fantasy, comfort and sensuality.

The sessions will take place in French and English
Maximum 10 participants per session
Please RSVP: on reservation:publics@betonsalon.net

Saturday, November 18, from 3pm to 4pm : Sonic Meditation
and from 4pm to 7pm : Sound Bath with Julia E Dyck and Arunee Verlaenen, Zosia Hołubowska, Betty Pomerleau

Wednesday, November 22, at 7pm
Opening of "Earth Ears, écouter la Terre avec Pauline Oliveros", at l’Aperto, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, an echo exhibition open until February 20, 2024.

Friday, November 24 and Saturday, November 25, from 2pm to 6:30pm
« The Listening Effect »: Space Brain Laboratory, with IAC, Villeurbanne: study days with No Anger, Hartmut Rosa, Christopher Willes, Emma Bigé, Lisbeth Libari, Roberto Barbanti, Anne Zeitz, Leah Bassel

Wednesday 22, Thursday 23, Wednesday 29, Thursday 30 November and Friday, December 1, from 3pm to 5:30pm: Work sessions open to the public with Christopher Willes, Ellen Furey and Brendan Jensen

Tuesday, November 28, from 7pm to 8pm : Sharing session with Célin Jiang and Université Paris Cité students.

Saturday, December 2, from 3:30pm to 5pm: Sharing session with Christopher Willes, Ellen Furey and Brendan Jensen
and from 5pm to 6pm : Sonic Meditation