Events

This exhi­bi­tion takes the form of a series of col­lec­tive prac­tices car­ried out by the guest artists over two-week periods. These prac­tices give rise to times of sharing, per­for­mances and acti­va­tions of Sonic Meditations by Pauline
Oliveros, open to the public:

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Saturday, October 7, from 3pm to 5pm: Sharing ses­sion
and from 5pm to 6pm: Sonic Meditation with Emily Mast

Monday, October 9, at 7pm
Launch of the col­lec­tive trans­la­tion of Trans*. Brève his­toire de la vari­abilité de genre by Jack Halberstam, ed. Libertalia with Jack Halberstam and the dans­malangue col­lec­tive.
Over the past few decades, public dis­course sur­rounding trans lives has mul­ti­plied. Even though this increased vis­i­bility some­times comes with new rights, it also means reg­u­la­tion and expo­sure to increas­ingly vir­u­lent anti-trans move­ments. The desire to tran­si­tion, once con­sid­ered to be a rare and unfor­tu­nate con­di­tion, has now become a new topic of polit­ical activism.

In Trans*, Jack Halberstam explores the meaning changes at work in gender rep­re­sen­ta­tion, and explores the pos­si­bil­i­ties for multi-gen­dered futures, invoking sev­eral cul­tural pro­duc­tions (movies, series, novels, instal­la­tions) alongside fig­ures such as Prince, the Monty Pythons, Judith Butler, José E. Muñoz, Paul B. Preciado or Susan Stryker.

Saturday, October 14, from 3:30pm to 4:30pm : Sonic Meditation with Anna Holveck
and from 4:30pm to 6pm: dis­cus­sion with Clara Schulmann and par­tic­i­pants

Saturday, October 21, from 5pm to 6pm: Palm mask, per­for­mance by Anna Holveck

Saturday October 28, from 3:30pm to 4:30pm: Sonic Meditation with Violaine Lochu

Saturday, November 4, from 2pm to 7pm: Système/Berceuse, per­for­mance with Violaine Lochu

Thursday, November 9, from 12pm to 2pm
Midi-deux : Flash tours of the exhi­bi­tion and free lunch with Résoquartier

Saturday, November 11, from 4pm to 7pm : Sound bath with Julia E Dyck

Thursday 9, Friday 10, Thursday 16, Friday 17 November, from 7pm to 8:30pm : Mind Bath, hyp­nosis ses­sions with Julia E Dyck
on reser­va­tion:public­s@­be­ton­salon.net

Saturday, November 18, from 3pm to 4pm : Sonic Meditation
and from 4pm to 7pm : Sound Bath with Julia E Dyck

Wednesday, November 22, at 7pm
Opening of "Earth Ears, écouter la Terre avec Pauline Oliveros", at l’Aperto, Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, an echo exhi­bi­tion open until February 20, 2024.

Friday, November 24 and Saturday, November 25, from 2pm to 6:30pm
« The Listening Effect »: Space Brain Laboratory, with IAC, Villeurbanne: study days with Tarek Atoui, No Anger, Christopher Willes...

Tuesday, November 28, from 7pm to 8pm : Sharing ses­sion with Célin Jiang and Université Paris Cité stu­dents.

Wednesday 22, Thursday 23, Wednesday 29, Thursday 30 November and Friday, December 1, from 3pm to 5:30pm: Work ses­sions open to the public with Christopher Willes, Ellen Furey and Brendan Jensen

Saturday, December 2, from 3:30pm to 4:30pm: Sharing ses­sion with Christopher Willes, Ellen Furey and Brendan Jensen
and from 4:30pm to 7pm : Sonic Meditation

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Past events:

Sunday, September 17, from 2pm to 5pm
Lauren Tortil
For a Helter Skelter Rain
An envi­ron­mental con­cert along the Canal Saint-Martin
Event curator: Elena Lespes Muñoz

Boarding: 2pm, Port de l’Arsenal, Paris 12th arrondisse­ment
Arrival: 5pm, Parc de la Villette, Paris 19th arrondisse­ment

Inaugural per­for­mance of the exhi­bi­tion "Un·Tuning Together. Practicing lis­tening with Pauline Oliveros" at Bétonsalon – center for art and research, 20.09 - 02.12.23

Free, manda­tory booking → FULLY BOOKED: waiting list

The number of seats on board is lim­ited, but the per­for­mance is also acces­sible from the docks.

For a helter skelter rain is an envi­ron­mental con­cert by Lauren Tortil that takes place along the Canal Saint-Martin, blending in with the polyphony of the city. Through a suc­ces­sion of scat­tered sound appari­tions – ship horns, sax­o­phone, voices... – per­formed from the docks by accom­plices and com­posed to echo the canal’s sound­scape, this per­for­mance is an invi­ta­tion to thwart our per­cep­tions and decentre our senses. Aboard the Arletty or from the docks, listen care­fully and let your­self be sur­prised by every­thing that hap­pens beneath the sur­face of the audible. Along the water, over the course of an after­noon, the expe­ri­ence un-folds in a sin­gular lis­tening con­text to col­lec­tively exer­cise our atten­tion to the urban envi­ron­ment. The score for this con­cert is inspired by an extract from Virginia Woolf’s Diary, in which she describes the impact of rain on a pond. Like an ini­ti­a­tion rite, this com­po­si­tion sounds like a call for rain.

With the com­plicity of the res­i­dent sailors of the Port de l’Arsenal and the Halte de la Villette, Pierre Thévenin (sax­o­phonist), Claire Serres with the Sirène Song choir, Aymeric de Tapol (com­poser), Jérémy Barrault (graphic designer) and Simon Ripoll-Hurier (video recording).

This per­for­mance is part of the Bétonsalon "Sunbathed ears" pro­gramme, sup­ported by the Drac Île-de-France, on the occa­sion of the Odyssée with Petit Bain and the Journées Européennes du Patrimoine 2023. It is co-pro­duced with *Duuu radio as part of the Artistes et Sportifs Associés de la Ville de Paris 2023 pro­gram, and in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Canauxrama. Lauren Tortil received sup­port from ADAGP for the recording.

Wednesday, September 20, from 3pm to 6 pm
Workshop of col­lec­tive trans­la­tion of texts and scores by Pauline Oliveros

Thursday, September 21,
from 3pm to 6pm : Deep Listening with Ximena Alarcón, Sylvie Decaux and Lisa Barnard Kelley
from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm: Screening of Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros, (2022), by Daniel Weintraub, in the pres­ence of IONE at the Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard

Friday, September 22, from 4pm to 9pm
Exhibition opening

Saturday, September 23
from 4pm to 5pm : Deep Listening fol­lowed by The World Wide Tuning Meditation with IONE
from 5pm to 6pm : dis­cus­sion with IONE
from 6pm to 7pm : exhi­bi­tion pre­sen­ta­tion by Maud Jacquin and Émilie Renard

Tuesday, September 26, at 7pm
Launch of Marie de Brugerolle’s book, Post Performance Future, ed. T&P Publishing

Friday, September 29, from 3pm to 6pm
Béton Book Club : survey ses­sion of Sounding Out. Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality, by Martha Mockus (2008, text in English).
Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality exam­ines the musical career of the avant-garde com­poser, accor­dionist, whose rad­ical inno­va­tions of the 1960s, 70s and 80s have rede­fined the aes­thetic and formal param­e­ters of American exper­i­mental music. While other scholars have studied Oliveros as a dis­ciple of John Cage and a con­tem­po­rary of com­posers Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Gordon Mumma, and Robert Ashley, Sounding Out resi­t­u­ates Pauline Oliveros in a gyne­cen­tric net­work of fem­i­nist activists, writers, artists and musi­cians. This book shows how the women in Oliveros’s life were cen­tral sources of cre­ative energy and exchange during a cru­cial moment in fem­i­nist and queer cul­tural his­tory. Crafting a dynamic rela­tion­ship between fem­i­nism and music-making, this book offers a queerly orig­inal anal­ysis of Oliveros’s work as a musical form of fem­i­nist activism and argues for the pro­duc­tive role of exper­i­mental music in les­bian fem­i­nist theory.

Sounding Out com­bines key ele­ments of fem­i­nist the­o­ries of les­bian sex­u­ality with Oliveros’s major com­po­si­tions, per­for­mances, crit­ical essays, and inter­views. It also includes pre­vi­ously unpub­lished cor­re­spon­dence between Oliveros and Edith Guttierez, Jill Johnston, Annea Lockwood, Kate Millett, and Jane Rule.

Saturday, September 30, from 3pm to 5pm : Sharing ses­sion with Emily Mast