Events
Wednesday, May 10, from 5pm to 10pm
Opening of the exhibition
Thursday, June 1st, from 12pm to 2pm
Midi-deux: Flash visits of the exhibition and free lunch with the Résoquartier solidarity foodtruck
Friday, June 2, from 3pm to 6pm
Béton Book Club : collective reading session (in French) around the books Les subalternes peuvent-elles parler? by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1985) and Les Arabes peuvent-ils parler? by Seloua Luste Bulbina (2008)
Thursday 15, Friday 16, Wednesday 21, Thursday 22 and Friday 23 June, from 2 to 3 pm
Tour of the exhibition with the Bétonsalon team, during the Treize’Estival
The Bétonsalon team welcomes you for a guided tour. Over a cup of mint tea, come and wander through the landscapes, plants and voices that populate the works of the artist, who hails from the Sahara in southern Morocco. In response to the collective amnesia that haunts the Saharan territory, Abdessamad El Montassir invites us to listen to the silent parables, the resisting poetry, the winds and the sand. A unique and convivial opportunity to talk together and immerse ourselves in his work!
Saturday, July 1st, 7 pm
Galb’Achalay, sound performance by Abdessamad El Montassir and Matthieu Guillin
Composer Matthieu Guillin will be performing two sound pieces created in collaboration with Abdessamad El Montassir: Galb’Achalay (2023), on show in the exhibition at Bétonsalon, and Al Amakine (2020). He will then perform his composition Micro-Shock (2022).
Programme of performances :
• Abdessamad El Montassir and Matthieu Guillin, Galb’Achalay, 2023
5.1 sound piece, 24’
Composition: Matthieu Guillin; Poetry: Badi Wel M’hamed Salem; Voices: Wel Sidi Coproduction: DRAC Occitanie, Maison Salvan, Studio éole, La Biennale Toulouse
Composed from poems from the Sahara, Galb’Achalay is a sound performance that borrows from the little-known songs and stories of the Sahara while drawing on its architectural forms and ruins, to open up an unprecedented gap that allows a dominated history to emerge and unfold.
• Abdessamad El Montassir and Matthieu Guillin, Al Amakine, 2020
8.1 sound piece, 11’
Composition: Matthieu Guillin; Voice: Wel Sidi Coproduction: Le Cube - independent art room, Chroniques platform coordinated by SECONDE NATURE and ZINC and the gmem-CNCM-Marseille.
Al Amakine revives the micro-histories and non-material archives of the Sahara in southern Morocco, which have been rendered invisible. Transmitted orally by local people in a poetic language, these testimonies recount important political, cultural and social events that took place in this geographical area and constitute essential historiographical material.
• Matthieu Guillin, Micro-Shock, 2022, 8’.
Inspired by the theories of Canadian philosopher Brian Massumi and his concept of micro-shock, this sound piece looks at the micro-perceptions and interruptions that populate our daily lives, the daytime moments of reverie necessary for assimilation, fantasies, reorientations, hope and projections, with their fading nature and slightly psychedelic sweetness.
Tuesday, July 4, 7 pm to 8 pm
Berber literary space and eco-activism
Conference by Daniela Merolla, professor of Berber literature and art at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco).
Due to the long history of cohabitation and conflicts in North Africa, multiple languages have met and given rise to literatures that have created multilingual and multimedia literary spaces. In her talk, Daniela Merolla will address the Amazigh (Berber) "literary space" and examine how oral poetry is reactivated in the context of an ecological documentary, also operating the visual arts.
Thursday, July 13, 7pm to 8pm
Discussion with Abdessamad El Montassir, Émilie Renard and Mathilde Belouali-Dejean
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