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    Thursday September 8, 2011
    Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research
    Opening & per­for­mance
    6pm - Opening of the exhi­bi­tion "Jikken Kobo 実験工房" Experimental Workshop
    8pm - Performance “Be a Speaker. So be it...” Ei Arakawa, Sergei Tcherepnin, Gela Patashuri

    Ei Arakawa: Born in 1977 in Iwaki, Japan, lives and works in New York. His work, never shown in France to date, has been pre­sented at many inter­na­tional art events and venues, such as Frieze Projects (London, 2010), The Power Plant (Toronto, 2008), The Yokohama Triennial of 2008, the New Museum (New York, 2008), MUMOK (Vienna, 2008). Ei Arakawa stages cul­tur­ally inves­tiga­tive group per­for­mances, standing on the brink of random chaos. His chore­ographed actions have included semi-impro­vised shows including the rapid con­struc­tion and decon­struc­tion of a stage, a per­for­mance or an art­work.
    Sergei Tcherepnin: Sergei Tcherepnin, born is 1981, is a com­poser and per­former based in Brooklyn, New York. His music has been played in the USA and abroad in venues such as Merkin Concert Hall, Chelsea Art Museum, Dia Beacon, National Olympic Stadium (Tokyo), and at fes­ti­vals such as the Look and Listen Festival in St. Petersburg, the Moscow Autumn Festival. Tcherepnin recently held a res­i­dency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts where he worked with Master George Lewis, focusing in par­tic­ular on the theory and prac­tice of impro­vi­sa­tion. He per­forms reg­u­larly as a member of the syn­the­sizer col­lec­tive Analogos.
    Gela Patashuri: Gela Patashuri, born in 1973 is a Georgian artist who lives in Tbilisi. In 2006, he met Daniel Baumann and par­tic­i­pated in the Tbilisi Biennale. He has par­tic­i­pated sev­eral times in pro­jects by Ei Arakawa, such as the Chalet de Tokyo in Edinburgh (2008); MAVOE/Shindisi Autocenter in New Jersey (Basel, 2009) and also during the Hurt Locker Instruments at Casco in Utrecht in June 2010. In 2011, he organ­ised and col­lab­o­rated to the exhi­bi­tions Gastmahl Zweyer Berge and Without Wall at Contemporary Art Space Center of Shindisi.

    Thursday September 22, 2011
    CAC Brétigny
    Opening
    6pm - Bus departs from Paris Bibliothèque, 104 avenue de France, 75013 Paris (booking nec­es­sary)
    7pm - Opening of the exhi­bi­tion “Be a Speaker. So be it...” Ei Arakawa, Sergei Tcherepnin, Gela Patashuri
    7.30pm - The Ensemble Performance with Gela Patashuri

    Saturday September 24, 2011
    CAC Brétigny / Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research
    Lecture & Visit
    2pm - Bus departs from Paris Bibliothèque, 104 avenue de France, 75013 Paris (booking nec­es­sary)
    3pm - Lecture at CAC Brétigny : « Broken Mirror. Propos sur la musique japon­aise dans ses marges de 1945 à aujourd’hui » by Michel Henritzi
    5.30pm - Bus departs from CAC Brétigny to Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research
    6.30pm - Visit of the exhi­bi­tion at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research by Mélanie Mermod
    8pm - Bus returns to CAC Brétigny

    The musi­cian and music critic Michel Henritzi will give a lec­ture enti­tled “Broken Mirror. Propos sur la musique japon­aise dans ses marges de 1945 à aujourd’hui”. It is part of a cycle of lec­tures on exper­i­mental music enti­tled “The expe­ri­ence of exper­i­men­ta­tion” organ­ised by Les Instants Chavirés, in part­ner­ship with IDEAT, the Institut d’Esthetique des
    Arts et Technologies (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne, CNRS UMR 8153) and the Music depart­ment of University Paris 8. This cycle is directed by Matthieu Saladin (a researcher attached to IDEAT).

    Saturday October 8, 2011
    CAC Brétigny / Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research by RER C
    Performance and Concert
    5pm - Concert-per­for­mance : The Ensemble Performance with Sergei Tcherepnin at CAC Brétigny
    8pm - Concert by Aki Takahashi, with the par­tic­i­pa­tion of Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin at Bétonsalon

    Aki Takahashi: a pianist cel­e­brated world­wide, espe­cially for her inter­pre­ta­tions of Morton Feldman et Iannis Xenakis, she will per­form in Paris a recital of com­po­si­tions by the Jikken Kobo, as well as works by com­posers close to their research such as Arnold Schönberg and John Cage. This con­cert will take place in the exhi­bi­tion space, since Aki Takahashi wishes to extend the spirit of exper­i­men­ta­tion desired by the col­lec­tive, by using some of their works as musical scores.

    Saturday October 15, 2011
    CAC Brétigny / Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research / Maison de la cul­ture du Japon à Paris
    By Taxi Tram : édition “Hos­pi­tal­ités” – Performance, Visit, Cinema
    11.15am: rendez-vous at 104 av. de France, métro Bibliothèque F. Mitterrand (line 14*)
    11.30am: depar­ture towards CAC Brétigny
    12.30 – 1pm: CAC Brétigny : The Ensemble Performance with Ei Arakawa
    1pm-2.30pm: bar­becue at CAC Brétigny
    2.30pm: depar­ture from CAC Brétigny
    3.30-4.30pm: Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research: visit of the exhi­bi­tion Jikken kobo
    4.30pm: depar­ture from Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research
    5.30pm: Maison de la cul­ture du Japon : “Au­tour de Ginrin” exper­i­mental film screening
    Independent return : closest metro: Bir-Hakeim, line 6 or Champs de Mars, RER C

    Hospitalités, an orig­inal event of con­tem­po­rary art, organ­ised by the Tram net­work and linking 31 spaces throughout the Île-de-France, pre­sents 12 unique routes from 24 September to 10 December. Every Saturday, two or three spaces join together on a specific pro­gramme where artistic pro­posals ques­tion each other and develop a dia­logue. This third edi­tion of Hospitalités, rich in meet­ings and exchanges, explores in par­tic­ular ques­tions related to travel, inter­na­tional migra­tions, the world over­seas, archi­tec­ture and sub­urban land­scape.

    Wednesday October 19, 2011, 7pm-9pm
    Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research
    Conference with Reiko Tomii (art his­to­rian, NYC) and Joji Yuasa (com­poser, Japan, member of Jikken Kobo)

    Reiko Tomii is an art his­to­rian, researcher and curator, whose area of spe­cial­i­sa­tion is the his­tory of post-war Japanese art. She was notably the co-curator of the exhi­bi­tions Global Conceptualism (Queens Museum of Art, 1999) and Century City (Tate Modern, 2001). She co-wrote with Eric C. Shiner Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York (Japan Society, 2007) and is the co-founder of PoNJA-GenKon, a net­work and dis­tri­bu­tion medi­ator of a research group spe­cialised in con­tem­po­rary Japanese art.

    Joji Yuasa (born in Koriyama in 1929) is a com­poser and member of the Jikken Kobo. After studying medicine, Yuasa turned towards music and studied com­po­si­tion at the Experimental Workshop in Tokyo (1951-1957). The most impor­tant Japanese com­poser of his gen­er­a­tion after Takemitsu, Yuasa played a cru­cial role in the devel­op­ment of electro-acoustic music of his country throughout the 1950s, and remains one of the most influ­en­tial mem­bers of the exper­i­mental Japanese move­ment to the pre­sent day.

    Friday October 28, 2011, 7pm
    Maison de la cul­ture du Japon à Paris
    « Autour de Kiné cal­ligraph », exper­i­mental film screen­ings

    On the occa­sion of the first Jikken Kobo ret­ro­spec­tive, the Maison de la cul­ture de Japon à Paris is hosting two screen­ings of exper­i­mental films, most of which have never been shown in France before. Each screening is artic­u­lated around one of the two sur­viving films by Jikken Kobo, Ginrin (1955) and Kiné cal­ligraph (1955) and pre­sents sev­eral films, doc­u­men­taries and exper­i­mental ani­ma­tions linked to the activ­i­ties and col­lab­o­ra­tions of the mem­bers of the Jikken Kobo. The second screening will pre­sent two exper­i­mental films from the 1930s by Ogino Shigezi, the reels of which were found in 2010 in Japan.