Events
Wednesday, January 18, from 4 to 7 pm at Bétonsalon,
and from 6 to 9 pm at the Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris
Opening of the exhibition by Katia Kameli,
"Yesterday is returning and I can hear it"
Friday, January 20, from 5 to 6 pm
Visit of the exhibition at the ICI Stephenson
with Katia Kameli and Bérénice Saliou
From Monday, January 23 to Thursday, February 2nd, in the hall of Grands Moulins, building A
Short films program proposed by the students of the association Cinésept
In partnership with the Culture Department of Paris Cité University
As part of the exhibition Yesterday is returning and I can hear it by Katia Kameli, the students of the association Cinésept offers a selection of short films echoing the artist’s research on the place of images in individual and collective memories (in french ony):
- Ulysse, Agnès Varda (1983) - 22’03
- Kwa Henri Mandima, Robert-Jan Lacombe (2010) - 10’30
- [sic], Éric Baudelaire (2009) - 15’01
- Dad’s Stick by John Smith (2012) - 5’
Saturday, January 28, from 2:30 to 5:30 pm
TaxiTram, in partnership with the ICI, on registration: taxitram@tram-idf.fr
Meeting at Bétonsalon at 2.30 pm, visit of the exhibition with the artist
then shuttle to the ICI for the rest of the exhibition visit. With Katia Kameli, Emilie Renard and Florence Marqueyrol
Saturday, February 25, from 5 to 7 pm
Meeting on Assia Djebar’s cinematographic writing
with Marie Kondrat, researcher in comparative literature and teacher at the University of Geneva and Akila Kizzi, teacher and researcher in gender studies at the University of Paris 8
Marie Kondrat is a researcher in comparative literature and a specialist in theories of the image.
Her book on the concept of off-screen (“hors-champ”), currently being published, was awarded of the Barbour Prize in Literary and Aesthetic Criticism and the Latsis University Prize 2022.
She writes in French, Ukrainian and English, and reads in Italian and Russian.
Her current research project focuses on women with a double activity, as filmmaker and writer.
Akila Kizzi is a lecturer in department of Gender Studies at University of Paris 8. She is a member of gender studies and sexuality Research Laboratory. Her research work focuses on women writers and artists in North Africa, and translating ethnicity and subjectivity into art.
In her doctoral research, she worked on the intellectual and political career of the first north African woman writer Taos Amrouche in a colonial and postcolonial context, published by Fauves Passions et déchirements identitaires chez Taos Amrouche (2019).
She also wrote a chapter in a collective book Under the skin: Feminist art from the middle east and north Africa today on Indigenous Algerian Women Artists in the French Landscape: Baya Mahieddine and Taos Amrouche, published by British Academy in 2020.
Saturday, March 11, from 6 to 8 pm
La Nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua by Assia Djebar (1977)
Screening followed by a discussion with Katia Kameli and Ahmed Bedjaoui, producer of the film
Ahmed Bedjaoui is a journalist, producer and professor of communication at the University of Algiers 3. He holds a PhD in literature.
Laureate of the "Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques" (IDHEC - Paris), he is the artistic director of the Algiers Festival of Engaged Film, and also President of the Algerian Film Fund.
He produced and presented the program "Télécinéclub", broadcast for 20 years on the Algerian national channel and produced for it about 76 films, among which the two films of Assia Djebar, Nahla by Farouk Beloufa, or How much I love you by Azeddine Meddour.
Ahmed Bedjaoui has published dozens of articles in international journals and Algerian newspapers.
He is the author of five books including: Cinema and Arab Literature, Cinema in its Golden Age, published in November 2018 and most recently Cinema and Algerian War of Independence.In 2015, UNESCO awarded him the Federico Fellini Medal for his contribution to world film culture. In 2019, he presides the fiction jury at the fiftieth anniversary of FESPACO.
Saturday, March 25, from 5 to 7 pm
Meeting with Sawsan Noweir, actress in La Nouba, and Mireille Calle-Gruber, professor of literature and aesthetics at La Sorbonne Nouvelle, author of the book Assia Djebar, le manuscrit inachevé (2021)
Born in 1946 in Egypt, Sawsan Noweir is a retired professor of architecture.
She studied architecture and Egyptology in Egypt and France. After two years in France, she met Assia Djebar in 1975 in Paris. From 1976 to 1978, she spent two years in Algeria, for Assia Djebar’s film La nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua, and as a professor of architecture at the Institute of Architecture of Constantine.
Mireille Calle-Gruber, Professor of literature and aesthetics at La Sorbonne Nouvelle and writer supervised the publishing of Oeuvres Complètes de Michel Butor (La Différence, 2006-2010), wrote with Butor Le Chevalier morose (story script), co-supervised the Dictionnaire Universel des Créatrices (des Femmes, 2013 - digital since 2016).
She co-organised the Colloque de Cerisy, Assia Djebar, littérature et transmission, (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2009) and published two monographies : Assia Djebar, la résistance de l’écriture (Maisonneuve & Larose, 2001), Assia Djebar, une surabondance dans le coeur (Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, 2006). Mireille Calle-Gruber is life member of the Academy of Arts, Letters and Humanities of The Royal Society of Canada, and she is docteur honoris causa of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
She recently published Assia Djebar, le manuscrit inachevé (PSN, 2021).
Thursday, April 13, from 6 to 8 pm
Conferences by Nabil Djedouani, director, actor and researcher, founder of the Digital Archives of Algerian Cinema, and Natasha Marie Llorens, writer, independent curator and professor of art theory at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm
Nabil Djedouani is a director, actor and researcher. After studying cinema at the University Louis Lumière in Lyon, he co-directed a documentary film with Hassen Ferhani entitled Afric Hôtel (2010). He then worked with filmmaker Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche as assistant director and actor for the films Histoire de Judas (2015) and Terminal Sud (2019). In 2012, he created the website Archives Numériques du Cinéma Algérien to make available to everyone on his Facebook page and YouTube channel forgotten Algerian cinematographic works that he collects and restores. He began a work of research and dissemination around the music of Algerian expression via the platform Raï & Folk. In 2019, he directed a documentary essay entitled Rock Against Police.
Natasha Marie Llorens is a writer, independent curator, and professor of art theory at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.
She writes about contemporary art and film with a focus on the representation of violence and decoloniality in the arts and its institutions. Llorens’s writing has been featured in publications including Arab Studies Journal, art-agenda, Artforum, ArtReview, BOMB, Contemporary Art Stavanger, CURA, frieze, Ibraaz, the Journal of North African Studies, Kunstlicht, PARSE Journal, Modern Painters, La Belle Revue, World Policy Journal, and the WdW Review, among other arts publications and catalogues.
She has been a fellow at the American Institute for Maghrebi Studies, at the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), the French-American Cultural Exchange (FACE Foundation), and the Jan van Eyck Academie. Graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, she also holds a PhD in modern art history from Columbia University. She won the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2022 for short-form writing. Llorens is currently working in collaboration with Tours-based artist Massinissa Selmani on a two-year artistic research project about “1,000 Socialist Villages,” an urban planning initiative launched in Algeria in the mid-1970s. The first exhibition associated with this project will open in Algiers in rhizome spring 2023.
Saturday, April 15, from 5 to 6 pm
Discussion with Katia Kameli, Bérénice Saliou and Émilie Renard
Parallel events:
Friday, January 27, February 24, March 24, Wednesday, March 8, from 6 to 8:30 pm
Cap pour l’île des vivantxs: a programming around lesbian and queer writings, with Monique Wittig and beyond
A proposal by Mathilde Belouali-Dejean, in collaboration with Les Ami·es de Monique Wittig, Suzette Robichon and Stéphanie Garzanti
First encounter on Friday 27 January at 6pm at Bétonsalon: collective reading of Le Corps Lesbien (in French), presented by Catherine Ecarnot, and preceded by "J/E", a radio broadcast by Syn Guérin and Eugénie Kuffler
Thursday, February 2, from 1 pm to 2 pm
Midi-deux: meeting by and for students
Talk with the students of the Cinésept association for the closing of their program of short films presented in echo of Katia Kameli’s exhibition from from January 23th to Febuary 2nd in the hall of the Grands Moulins, Building A, with the films Ulysse by Agnès Varda, Kwa Henri Mandima by Robert-Jan Lacombe, [sic] by Éric Baudelaire and Dad’s Stick by John Smith
Friday, February 3, April 7, from 6 to 8:30 pm
Writing with mittens: writing workshop on and around, for, with, under and alongside art
Can you write about art with mittens? Having your hands full of plaster? Having you nose to the grindstone? What does the color of the exhibition floor, a rumbling stomach, boredom or the bus ride to get here do to our perception of artworks? So many important questions that may not be answered.
Friday February 17, from 3 to 6pm
Béton Book Club : collective surveying session around Edward Saïd’s book, L’Orientalisme. L’Orient créé par l’Occident (1978)
From Aeschylus to Kissinger, from Marx to Barrès, the West has had a discourse on the East (the “Orient”). But, since the “Orient” does not exist, where does this discourse come from and how can its astonishing stability through the ages and ideologies be explained? This surveying session will be devoted to the collective reading of the book of the Palestinian-American literary theorist and his critical archeology of the discourse on the "Orient"
Thursday, March 2, April 6, from 12 to 2 pm
Midi-deux: meeting by and for students
Friday, March 10, from 3 to 6 pm
Parties prenantes : retrospectives on the history of Bétonsalon
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