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    9 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet

    75013 Paris
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    Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research
    Université de Paris
    5 rue Thomas Mann
    Campus des Grands Moulins
    75205 Paris Cédex 13
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    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


    Saturday, July 23, from 5 to 6pm
    Discussion between Tiphaine Calmettes, Émilie Renard and Mathilde Belouali-Dejean

    After more than two months of opening and nearly 2000 mugs of herbal tea, kom­bucha or soup served, this dis­cus­sion will be an oppor­tu­nity to look back on the trans­for­ma­tions of the exhi­bi­tion over time, on the atten­tion and team­work it required on a daily basis, and on what it pro­duced as a sen­si­tive expe­ri­ence, which unfolds and extends in bodies beyond the walls of Bétonsalon.


    Partial view of the exhi­bi­tion "Primordial Soup" by Tiphaine Calmettes, Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research, 2022 © Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo: Pierre Antoine.


    PREVIOUS EVENTS

    Thursday, June 9, from 6 to 8pm
    Living ecolo­gies, deviant ecolo­gies
    Discussion between Cy Lecerf Maulpoix and Julie Sermon

    Julie Sermon and Cy Lecerf Maulpoix are the authors of two books, pub­lished in 2021, which cross ecology with other prac­tices and fields of research: per­forming arts (Julie Sermon, Morts ou vifs. Pour une écologie des arts vivants, éditions B42, 2021) and LGBTQI strug­gles (Cy Lecerf Maulpoix, Écologies déviantes. Voyage en terres queer, Cambourakis, 2022).

    Within the exhi­bi­tion Primordial Soup by Tiphaine Calmettes at Bétonsalon, they will dis­cuss their approaches and method­olo­gies, and put their work into per­spec­tive with the issues and some­times the con­tra­dic­tions of con­tem­po­rary artistic prac­tices.


    Partial view of the exhi­bi­tion Primordial Soup by Tiphaine Calmettes, Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research, 2022 © Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo: Pierre Antoine.

    Cy Lecerf Maulpoix has been part of LGBTQI and cli­mate jus­tice col­lec­tives since COP21. As a free­lance jour­nalist, he covers social strug­gles through inter­views, inves­ti­ga­tions and arti­cles pub­lished in the gen­eral and spe­cialised press. As an author and trans­lator, he is cur­rently devel­oping sev­eral pro­jects on the his­tory and prac­tices of minority ecolo­gies. He pub­lished Ecologies Déviantes (Cambourakis, 2021) and Edward Carpenter et l’Autre nature (Le Passager Clandestin, 2022).

    Julie Sermon is a pro­fessor of his­tory and aes­thetics of con­tem­po­rary the­atre (University of Lyon 2), director of the lab­o­ra­tory Passages Arts & Littératures (XX-XXI), within which she leads the "Environmental Humanities" axis. She is the author of sev­eral works devoted to the renewal of lan­guages, forms and prac­tices that mark the the­atrical and puppet field, and she is par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in the phe­nomena of decen­tring (the­o­ret­ical, aes­thetic, acto­rial) that they imply.
    Since 2017, she has devoted most of her teaching and research activ­i­ties to the two-way rela­tion­ship that can be estab­lished between the per­forming arts and ecology - reflec­tions of which she offers a first inven­tory in Morts ou vifs. Contribution à une écologie sen­sible, théorique et pra­tique des arts vivants (edi­tion B42, June 2021).


    From Wednesday 22 to Saturday 25 June
    Treize’Estival, fes­tival of cul­tural venues in the 13th arrondisse­ment


    Wednesday 22, Thursday 23, Friday 24, Saturday 25 June, from 1 to 2pm
    Soup and tour by Tiphaine Calmettes

    The artist Tiphaine Calmettes wel­comes you to her exhi­bi­tion Primordial Soup for a guided tour. In her com­pany, dis­cover sculp­tures where you can sit and taste a tear of kom­bucha, drink a flower tea kept warm in a gar­goyle’s stomach or help your­self to broth from the belly of a fellow belly with ele­phant legs. A unique and priv­i­leged oppor­tu­nity to listen to the artist’s voice, the sto­ries and anec­dotes that have nour­ished his work, and espe­cially to ask her ques­tions!


    Visit of the exhi­bi­tion Primordial Soup with the artist Tiphaine Calmettes, at Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research, 2022 © Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo: Lucien Poinsot.


    Wednesday, June 22, from 2.30 to 4.30pm, and Saturday, June 25, from 2 to 4pm
    Assemblage - Landscape
    Workshop by Mathilde Cameirao 

    With col­lages, the aim will be to artic­u­late the large and the small, the inte­rior and the exte­rior, the real and the imag­i­nary of the land­scape that sur­rounds or inhabits us, based on views of the exhi­bi­tion, pho­tographs of the Pierre Vidal-Naquet esplanade, draw­ings made by the par­tic­i­pants and plant ele­ments gleaned from the sur­round­ings.

    Free work­shop, on suscrip­tion: public­s@­be­ton­salon.net


    Friday 24 June, from 2pm to 6pm
    Materiality of living matter, explo­ration of bac­te­rial cel­lu­lose
    Kombucha work­shop by Vivien Roussel, artist, biode­signer and researcher

    Kombucha is a nat­u­rally fer­mented drink, pre­pared with a sym­bi­otic cul­ture of bac­teria and yeast immersed in a sweet tea solu­tion. It is also a dried kom­bucha starter (a mush­room) with sin­gular prop­er­ties: more or less thick and elastic, this mate­rial is full of promise. During this the­o­ret­ical and prac­tical work­shop, Vivien Roussel invites you to explore the secrets of this mate­rial made by com­bining mycelia and bac­teries, an oppor­tu­nity to ask ques­tions with him about the scarcity of resources, energy saving or the sus­tain­ability of "desir­ables futures".

    Vivien Roussel explores myths that expose the links we have with tech­no­log­ical tools and how these nar­ra­tives shape forms of indi­vid­u­ality. Around 2008, he became inter­ested in the figure of Robinson Crusoe in order to ques­tion our moder­nity and later ven­tured into the world of makers, co-founding mak­erspaces and fablabs. Between 2011 and 2018, he devel­oped ped­a­gog­ical research, co-invented tools and com­mu­nity prac­tices - dis­cov­ered the Chinese industry and making or did "inser­tion through dig­ital" in the neigh­bour­hoods on his return. Following these human and tech­nical adven­tures, he turned to the living from bio­hacking as an ambiva­lent arte­fact, car­rying new col­lec­tive meaning to be built. Since 2017, he has been making living mate­rials in com­pan­ion­ship with mycelia and bac­teria, ques­tioning with them the scarcity of resources, the energy economy or the sus­tain­ability of "desir­able futures". Vivien Roussel also col­lab­o­rates on the design of com­plex pro­to­types mixing bio­ma­te­rials, elec­tronics and dig­ital fab­ri­ca­tion with dif­ferent people and col­lec­tive.

    Free work­shop, on reg­is­tra­tion: public­s@­be­ton­salon.net


    Photo: Vivien Roussel


    Saturday, June 25, from 4 to 5pm
    I’ll spread my sto­ries over theirs
    Storytelling visit by Clotilde Lebas, appren­tice sto­ry­teller

    An anthro­pol­o­gist, Clotilde Lebas became a sto­ry­teller. To the tales gleaned here and there, she artic­u­lates sto­ries col­lected in dif­ferent parts of the world (Algeria, France) to build a reper­toire pop­u­lated by women, intrepid and wise, witches, blue-haired men, red wolves... In the middle of the exhi­bi­tion Primordial Soup, by invoking Selkia (woman-husk), Guliverte, Poucette (herbal­ists) and Iuvia (woman-rain), she will invite to mul­tiply the views on the sen­sory sculp­tures of Tiphaine Calmettes.


    View of the exhi­bi­tion Primordial Soup by Tiphaine Calmettes, Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research, 2022 © Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo: Pierre Antoine.


    Saturday, June 25, from 5 to 7pm
    Something of the living kind
    Lecture by Léo Mariani, food anthro­pol­o­gist, researcher at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle

    In the exhi­bi­tion Primordial Soup, things, mate­rials and foods (soup, infu­sion and kom­bucha) are held in a level of inde­ter­mi­nacy that demands the audi­ence’s atten­tion. Tiphaine Calmettes thus ques­tions the ener­gizing power of uncer­tainty and, through it, the tur­moil that under­lies the rela­tion­ship of hos­pi­tality, between a chal­lenge and a pro­posal to share. Léo Mariani will dis­cuss this equiv­o­ca­tion, its avatars and impli­ca­tions, in rela­tion to his past researches (on gen­erosity and giving) and pre­sent researches (on the rela­tion­ship with the living in the wine industry).


    Partial view of the exhi­bi­tion Primordial Soup by Tiphaine Calmettes, Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research, 2022 © Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo: Pierre Antoine.

    Léo Mariani is an anthro­pol­o­gist, teacher at the Muséum national d’his­toire naturelle and at the University of Liège, and a research asso­ciate at the UMR Eco-anthro­pologie (MNHN, CNRS, Université Paris Cité). He is inter­ested in the future of cer­tain plant foods in France and Asia, using an onto­ge­netic approach that ques­tions the pro­duc­tion of worlds in space and time. His work com­bines the anthro­pology of knowl­edge and nature. He is the author of sev­eral arti­cles and books. The latest of these is enti­tled Le Goût des pos­si­bles. Enquêtes sur les res­sorts sym­bol­istes d’une crise écologique (Presses uni­ver­si­taires de Paris Nanterre, 2022).

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