Events
If you require the presence of a foreign or sign language interpreter, please let us know at least 4 days ahead of the event that interests you, at the following e-mail address:
publics@betonsalon.net
PAST EVENTS
Saturday 25 September, 6pm to 8pm
HYPHEN#1 ABOUT REFUSAL
(Feminist economies in a prison environment)
Testimonials around the project designed by Julie Ramage,
conducted in collaboration with:
Farah, Gitane, Kitty, Marina Ledrein, Bénédicte Ledru, Lola, Mimi, Sara Ouhaddou, Hélène Périvier, Julie Ramage, Gaëlle Renaudin, S.B., Mamie Sexy, Annie Vanderstein
Major luxury brands sub-contract production activities related to textile and leather working to convicts at the Fleury Mérogis women’s prison. The women working in these workshops have set up an underground exchange network, based on their production tools and the skills acquired through their activity, to repair their own worn-out clothing. The development of these circular economies, or solidarity networks, tolerated by the penitentiary administration, conjoins the history of the gestures of weaving, braiding, and knitting, activities traditionally associated with femininity. According to Silvia Federici they shifted to the sphere of unpaid domestic work during the transition to capitalism. The history of feminist struggles against this economic oppression is enriched by reappropriations of these practices by women ranging from witches to today’s eco-feminists.
Supported by: SPIP 91, DISP, DRAC IDF, Cité internationale des arts, Bétonsalon – centre d’art et de recherche, Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, Ateliers Médicis, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Cité du Genre, Faculté Sociétés et Humanités de l’Université de Paris, laboratoire CERILAC d’Université de Paris, laboratoire PHARE de l’Université Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Monday 27 September & Tuesday 28 September, at 11am, 1pm, 3pm & 4.30pm
The Book Club, extended version.
With Alkis Hadjiandreou, Julie Laporte, Myriam Lefkowitz, Simon Ripoll Hurier and Yasmine Youcef
One hour sessions at 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 4:30pm
One of the three sessions at 11:00 am and 3:00 pm will be in English; one session at 1:00 pm and 4:30 pm can be in French or English, as desired.
The Book Club proposes a reading experience in the form of a dialogue between an artist and a visitor who is invited to lie down and close his or her eyes for an hour, a form of attunement that takes its source in the sharing of a modified state of attention, close to hypnotic induction.
Gathering a corpus of texts bringing into play specific alliances between humans and non-humans, The Book Club is a collective experiment that speculates on a form of reading where thinking, feeling, imagining, dreaming, being moved... are associated and generate an alternative mode of understanding and thinking, as many new faculties to apprehend the world that comes.
Conception: Myriam Lefkowitz and Cécile Lavergne, in collaboration with the artists Alkis Hadjiandreou, Julie Laporte, Florian Richaud, Yasmine Youcef, and in discussion with Igor Krtolica.
One-hour sessions, registration required here.
Saturday 2 October, 8pm to midnight
Zizanies, a polyphonic vigil for the Nuit Blanche 2021
A proposal by Clara Schulmann, with Phoenix Atala, Sheila et Aïcha Atala, Maïder Fortuné, Victoire Le Bars, Clotilde Le Bas, Anne Le Troter, No Anger, Gaëlle Obiegly, Cécile Paris, Prichia, Rosanna Puyol, Eden Tinto Collins, etc.
The polyphonic vigil, Zizanies brings together the voices of artists, writers, singers, researchers, beatboxers, etc. who decide collectively to think aloud. During the vigil, the guests can participate one after the other in this ephemeral community of voices, creating a long collective and festive performance.
More about this event
sophie rogg, Il faut se lever tôt, si tu veux voir un monde sans couleurs, gouache, 2021
Monday 11, 18 & 25 October, from 4pm to 7pm
The reversal experience
A series of workshops and events associating students, collectives, and speakers, designed by Duncan Driffort, Alexandra Mallah, Laure Manissadjian, students from the Ensa Paris-Val de Seine, in collaboration with Guillaume Meigneux, university lecturer, architect and video maker, a Bétonsalon Academy project.
Monday 11 October, 4pm - 7 pm, at Bétonsalon – centre d’art et de recherche
Creative workshop on messages you can wear – by Bouillons – atelier
In this creative workshop, the participants will compose a message on the themes of feminism and intersectionality, and then apply it to a piece of clothing to give it a new lease of life. They will reappropriate the techniques of embroidery, sewing, patchwork— traditional women’s work techniques—to compose a message they believe in, and can wear with pride. There will be a first period of reflection on style and content, then a second phase of creation using recovered materials (threads, beads, sequins, fabric), which may loosen ties and tongues.
The participants are requested to bring a garment (shirt, jacket…) from their wardrobe, to give it a new lease of life! Everyone will leave with their garment manifesto.
No sewing or embroidery skills are required.
Given the limited number of places available, registration is mandatory: publics@betonsalon.net
Bouillons – atelier
Bouillons is a design workshop committed to current ecological issues, both environmental and social. The members of this workshop have different and complementary skills: craft paper, natural dyes, ceramics, manual weaving and sewing. We invest these skills in moments of creation, encounters, sharing and transmission that we set up in different contexts with a range of audiences. We enjoy introducing design and creation in sectors that do not see themselves as the recipients of these skills., just as we enjoy it when other worlds and professions insert themselves into our activity. We like mixing our skills with the skills of others who belong to a committed ecosystem. Bouillons is also a production workshop for objects and ideas: we start with scrap materials to create something beautiful and to sensitize various audiences to reuse and transformation.
Saturday 23 October, 5pm to 6pm
Talk on Alina Szapocznikow’s work by Valentin Gleyze, followed by a conversation with Jagna Ciuchta.
Alina Szapocznikow, Fotorzeźby [Photosculptures] (detail), 1971/2007, twenty original gelatin-silver prints and a collage with text on papier, 24 x 30 cm and 30 x 24 cm (each). Shot : Roman Cieslewicz © ADAGP, Paris, 2021. Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Piotr Stanislawski / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris / Hauser & Wirth
The Polish sculptress Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973) settled in Paris in 1963, in a particularly rich context. She mentored other artists, was friends with art critics, frequented art dealers, visited exhibitions, read widely, and was involved in passionate debates. For a few years while she was there, she continued the work she had begun just after the Second World War, experimenting with representations of the body in volume, using traditional (plaster, stone, or bronze), and new materials (synthetic plastic materials derived from oil). Then, right at the beginning of the 1970s, going against her earlier approach, Szapocznikow began to experiment with conceptual art. The series Photosculptures (1971) presented in Jagna Ciuchta’s exhibition The Fold of the Cosmic Belly, is particularly representative of this. Here, the sculptress presents twenty black and white photographs of a chewed-up piece of chewing gum, where her body only exists to provide a sense of scale. The conference will be followed by a conversation with Jagna Ciuchta, which will be an opportunity to discuss Szapocznikow’s career more freely, revealing how her work resonates with this exhibition.
“The experience of reversal” a cycle of events designed by Duncan Driffort, Alexandra Mallah, Laure Manissadjian, students at the Ensa Paris-Val de Seine school of architecture, as part of the Bétonsalon académie programme, supported by the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation.
Monday 25 October, 5pm - 7 pm, at Bétonsalon – centre d’art et de recherche
Off the beaten track. Discussion on ecofeminism between Constance Rimlinger, sociologist, and Stéphane Arnoux, film maker and art-therapist.
In the face of the social, environmental, existential, and political crisis, what utopias actually exist? How do we give meaning to and become part of a sustainable future?
The temptation of going back to the land, with a feminist and libertarian perspective, will be the starting point for a discussion at the crossroads of sociology and cinema. Constance Rimlinger, author of a thesis on ecofeminism within the back to the land movement, will be in discussion with Stéphane Arnoux, filmmaker and art therapist, whose last documentary follows the bifurcations and questionings of a queer feminist activist. The discussion on ecofeminism, its imaginary and its potential for transformation, will be based on images, narratives from the field, clinical cases and echoes of struggles.
“The experience of reversal” a cycle of events designed by Duncan Driffort, Alexandra Mallah, Laure Manissadjian and students at the Ensa Paris-Val de Seine architecture school, in the context of Bétonsalon Academy, supported by the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation.
After a master’s at Sciences Po in International Relations, specialising in human rights and humanitarian action and a Master’s in gender studies, Constance Rimlinger, a doctoral student in sociology at the EHESS, wrote a thesis titled: “Féministes des champs. L’espace de la cause écoféministe au sein du mouvement de retour à la terre. France, États-Unis, Nouvelle-Zélande.1970-2019” – “Field Feminists. The space of the ecofeminist cause within the back to the land movement France, United States, New Zealand. 1970-2019”). She is also a yoga teacher and is studying permaculture.
Stéphane Arnoux has directed four feature films, both fiction and documentary, that question the connection between the intimate and the political. He is also a musician, photographer, art mediator at a day centre for people in situations of social vagrancy, and an art-therapist.
Saturday 30 October, 5pm to 6pm
Collective sound performance by Anna Holveck.
Word of Mouth/Bouches à oreilles
From one mouth to the next, the repeated words slowly lose their precision. The rapid flow of this simultaneous translation requires complete attention. Syllable after syllable, whispered into an ear, the words chip away at each other and are distorted, the vowels are elongated and deformed. Simultaneously words of a song, a score and a protocol, the text inhabits the collective hum with its dynamics, its tempo, its images and the grey of its typography. Despite intense concentration, the chewed-up words are gradually altered to emerge as song.
With: Avec la participation de : Ebbane Augé-Visa, Lola, Benjamin Bahloul, Margot Bonnery, Anne-Lise Danloup, Garance Dufeutrelle, Anna Emelianenko, Isaure Lefebvre, Claire Garrot, Odile Gheysens, Sacha Grolleau, Aurélie Manesse, Gilles Fra, Sephora Metry, Mathilda Mikulic, Sacha Morzy, Julie N’Guyen, Alice Quérel, Loïc Risler, Lamia Tazi, Chloé Vieyra, Sébastien Walczyszyn, Anaëlle Zana.
Anna Holveck is a visual artist, composer, and singer. She lives and works in Paris. At the crossroads of several disciplines, she weaves connections between the experience of sound, performance, voice, video, writing and musical composition. By confronting these practices with the environment and different contexts, she reflects upon how the nature of a space influences the morphology of sound, gives rise to a specific reading, responds to the composition, and resonates with the body. Her performances are interpreted by the artist herself or groups of performers, whom she initiates into her approach to voice, the body and space. Several of her pieces have recently been included in the Frac Île-de-France public collection and were included in the Frac Franche-Comté collection in 2017. Her work has been performed at various places including the Centre Pompidou, the Pernod Ricard Foundation, Creux de L’enfer, chez Pauline Perplexe and Actoral, the contemporary poetry festival. At the beginning of the academic year 2021, she joined the Art Contemporain et Temps de l’Histoire (Contemporary Art and History) team in Lyon. Her work will soon be performed at La Vitrine du Plateau in Paris and at Panorama’s Nuit Verte (Green Night) to be held in Bordeaux, in 2022.
Thursday 18 November, 6.30pm to 8pm
S’assouvrir (The Satisfaction of Opening up) a performance designed and directed by Eden Tinto Collins with Nicolas Worms, Nicolas Vair and Céline Shen.
Screening of the film by Suzanne Husky, Earth Cycle Trance, led by Starhawk.
Eden Tinto Collins, Proposition d’image pour s’assouvrir, 2021 © Eden Tinto Collins
S’assouvrir
In the guise of an operetta or a release party, the performance
S’assouvrir invites Medea, the destructive matrix figure, into Jagna Ciuchta’s exhibition The Fold of the Cosmic Belly. Her story, recalling the destiny of the divas of yesterday and today, is re-set to music in original creations and rearranged compositions from Nuages by Claude Debussy to Chemins d’amour by Jean Anouilh and Francis Poulenc, and vibes by Ariana Grande, Beyoncé, or Toni Braxton.
S’assouvrir is a musical interpretation that seeks to make use of the dramaturgy employed in the Numin project, initiated by Eden Tinto Collins. Numin oscillates between poetry, net-art, in situ performance and space opera. Seen as a strange object by the members of the project who do not really want to set it to music,
S’assouvrir is like a techno hit, yet another highly feminine pop hymn
Suzanne Husky
Earth Cycle Trance, led by Starhawk , 2019, Video, 32’, commissioned by the 16th Istanbul Biennale, produced with the support of Berrak & Nezih Barut
An ecofeminist activist, permaculture teacher and American author, willingly claiming the title of witch, Starhawk (born in 1951) speaks candidly to Suzanne Husky. The interview takes place during a ritual, like those she has been conducting since the 1980s at political demonstrations, congresses and during retreats. A fixed frame against a black background, holding in one hand a drum on which she plays a few captivating notes, she guides the audience through a narrative that traces a cycle of growth and life, decomposition, and death then renewal. Her springboard is an organic and sensory experience of matter that transcends inter-species relations. For Starhawk, ritual is a political and collective mechanism, to be reappropriated as a tool and a means of action.
Commissioned from the Franco-North American artist, Suzanne Husky, for the 16th Istanbul Biennale in 2019, this film is part of her multidisciplinary practice, which incorporates and mingles sculpture, weaving, ceramics, and video, with agricultural techniques and garden landscaping.
Eden Tinto Collins
Poetess, video maker, visual artist, performer and singer, Eden Tinto Collins develops a hyper media practice rooted in collaboration and the circulation of words, images and motifs. Often co-signed with other artists, her creations take different forms, but share a rhythm and a principle of superposition borrowed from obsessive digital scrolling. Not without humour, her short films borrow clichés from superhero and horror films, or from tutorials, enhancing these homages with commentaries on racist and ableist discrimination, and on feminist issues. Eden Tinto-Collins pays attention to language, its codes and its polysemy; across different mediums she reuses and transforms a continuity of textual elements and references, along with her alter ego figures Layla Numin and Jane Dark.
For Jagna Ciuchta’s exhibition The Fold of the Cosmic Belly, she invented a performance using Medea, the matrix and destructive figure as her starting point.
Eden Tinto Collins (born in 1991) developed her artistic practice studying at the École nationale des beaux-arts in Paris-Cergy (2011-2018) and during an internship in Ghana (2015) at New Morning managed by Bibie Brew. A hyper media “poetician”, she collaboratively explores the idea of networks and interdependency, f.r.ictions and mythologies. The relational and noetic (connecting thought and mind) mechanisms she uses are deployed across the spectrum of performance and experimental cinema. She is part of several groups like the le Gystère live Gang, the Black(s) to the Future Collective and Yoke, and has appeared in several films, shows and performances. With Nicolas Worms, she is developing the group project Numin, that oscillates between poetry, net art, in situ performance and space opera.
Suzanne Husky
Suzanne Husky is an artist, gardener, and mother, she has taught landscape history and ethnobotany in the School of Art and Design in Orleans (France), and Plant Matters at the San Francisco Art Institute. For the past 20 years, Suzanne Husky has developed a mixed-media creative practice focused on human, plant, and earth relations. She’s a founder of the artistic french duo Le Nouveau Ministère de l’Agriculture that creates artwork on agribusiness and agtech but also regenerates soil and plants forest gardens. Suzanne Husky studies agroecology and agroforestry and implements it inland she stewards and spaces she’s invited to landscape as an artist. Suzanne Husky’s podcast called Mother Goose and other earth stories threads connections between mythology, agroecology, and earth knowledge, it’s broadcasted on Point Reyes Radio Station. She currently volunteers weekly at Alemany, a farm dedicated to food justice in San Francisco.
Céline Shen
Céline Shen is a French artist and designer. Trained in Paris, she studied philosophy at the Sorbonne University. Her passion for fashion and dance led her to train as a designer at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, while studying choreography at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Her collection is inspired by the traditional bridal trousseau and couture craft techniques learnt at the fashion house Alaïa. Between art and fashion, her creations are at the crossroads of several disciplines: digital arts, photography, performance, installation, video and choreography.
Nicolas Vair
After graduating from the sound section of the ENS Louis Lumière in 2016, he cultivated his interest in various fields of sound that evolve in parallel and sometimes meet. Mixing and musical production, sound creation and expertise for businesses specialising in sound, are some of the domains that keep him busy since he graduated. Since 2019, he has been working with Eden Tinto Collins on several projects involving sound (radio play, short films, musical pieces and stage projects…).
Nicolas Worms
Born in Paris in 1993, Nicolas Worms, attracted by the relationship between music and dance, composes and plays on stage for choreographers like Radhouane El Meddeb and Bruno Bouché. Alongside composition, his activity as a music arranger has led him to work with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, l’OFJ and numerous festivals while composing for classical ensembles. He has also orchestrated and recorded original soundtracks for feature films by Christophe Honoré, Eric Judor, Christian Schwochow and Quentin Dupieux. He is currently working on “Numin”, a space opera, in collaboration with the artist Eden Tinto Collins and “l’Île de Pâques”, a music-fiction.
Saturday 27 November, 5pm to 6pm
Conversation between Jagna Ciuchta, Émilie Renard and Mathilde Belouali-Dejean.
For the last day of the exhibition The Fold of the Cosmic Belly, in conversation with Mathilde Belouali-Dejean and Émilie Renard, Jagna Ciuchta will look at the processes implemented in her work, and her position as artist and curator intervening at the scale of the exhibition. She will also discuss her relationships with the artists and authors she invites, her visual archives, and maybe the metamorphoses taking place in her work.
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