Events

Saturday 22 July, 6pm
Opening of the exhi­bi­tion "Semblable à un petit os de seiche",
by the soap col­lec­tive with Anna Giner, Audrey Prédhumeau, Claire Gitton, Hélène Janicot, Juliette Ayrault, Marine Ducroux-Gazio, Michelle Feeley, Nicole Mera, Nina Azoulay and Victor Andrea González.

The cura­to­rial group soap is made up of stu­dents from the Master 2 Professionnel "L’art con­tem­po­rain et son expo­si­tion" at Sorbonne University, accom­pa­nied by Elfi Turpin, director of CRAC Alsace. The exhi­bi­tion will be pro­duced in col­lab­o­ra­tion with stu­dent artists from Sarah Tritz’s studio at the École des arts déco­ratifs de Paris and Dominique Figarella’s studio at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Sunday 17 September, 2pm to 5pm:
Pour une pluie désor­donnée
Environmental con­cert by Lauren Tortil on the Canal Saint Martin, as part of the exhi­bi­tion "Un Tuning Together - Practising lis­tening with Pauline Oliveros".

Past events :

Friday 16, Wednesday 21, Thursday 22 and Friday 23 June, from 2pm to 3pm
Tea visits to the exhi­bi­tion "Trab’ssahl" with the Bétonsalon team, on the occa­sion of the Treize’Estival - cul­tural fes­tival of the 13th arrondisse­ment and as part of the exhi­bi­tion "Trab’ssahl" by Abdessamad El Montassir.

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 Sahrawi ter­ri­tory, Abdessamad El Montassir invites us to listen to the silent words, the resis­tant poetry, the winds and the sand. It’s a great oppor­tu­nity to get together and talk about his work!

Saturday June, 17, from 5pm to 6pm
L’écho du silence - Une explo­ration acous­tique de la cité
Sound walk by Célin Jiang from Bétonsalon, as part of Treize’Estival - the 13th arrondisse­ment’s cul­tural fes­tival

The sound walk is a way of sur­veying the city, lis­tening to the sounds and sto­ries that pop­u­late its inter­stices. According to Edgar Morin, there is no such thing as a path - it’s the walker who builds it as he walks. No more than the sound­scape exists at the outset, it is the lis­tener who com­poses it. Guided by the artist Célin Jiang, we’ll be testing our lis­tening skills with the slightest noises, and even making mate­rials found on the spot ring out in our own way.

Friday June, 30, 3pm to 6pm :
Béton Book Club, col­lec­tive sur­veying ses­sion based on the essay Lancer comme une fille: Une phénoménologie de la motilité et de la spa­tialité du corps féminin, by the American fem­i­nist philoso­pher Iris Marion Young (1980).

In her essay, Iris Marion Young seeks to describe the lived expe­ri­ence of women by artic­u­lating a phe­nomeno­log­ical approach and social cri­tique. Lancer comme une fille draws on the results of sev­eral empir­ical sur­veys con­ducted among young girls and boys in the 1970s to achieve this. One of these revealed that five-year-old girls, when asked to throw a ball, tended to use their bodies dif­fer­ently: unlike boys, who spon­ta­neously used their whole bodies and were fully com­mitted to the move­ment, girls were gen­er­ally more hesi­tant and less mobile, using only the strength of their arms. On the basis of these results, Young puts for­ward the idea that this con­tra­dic­tory bodily expe­ri­ence has its ori­gins in the fact that women expe­ri­ence their bodies not pri­marily as a power to act, but as an object under the male gaze, in a world where activ­i­ties are defined from the male point of view.

Iris Marion Young (1949-2006) is a North American polit­ical science pro­fessor, philoso­pher and fem­i­nist. She taught at the University of Chicago and is a leading figure in the Center for Gender Studies.

Saturday 1 July, 7pm
Galb’Achalay, sound per­for­mances as part of the exhi­bi­tion "Trab’ssahl" by Abdessamad El Montassir
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).

Performance pro­gramme:
• Abdessamad El Montassir and Matthieu Guillin, Galb’Achalay, 2023
Sound piece 5.1, 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 pop­u­la­tions 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 moments of day­dreaming nec­es­sary for assim­i­la­tion, fan­tasies, reori­en­ta­tions, hope and pro­jec­tions, with their faint nature and slightly psychedelic sweet­ness.