• Julien Creuzet: La pluie a rendu cela possible depuis le morne en colère, la montagne est restée silencieuse. Des impacts de la guerre, des gouttes missile. Après tout cela, peut-être que le volcan protestera à son tour. – Toute la distance de la mer (…)
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    EAU PALIMPSESTE

    A series of read­ings, con­ver­sa­tions and per­for­mances curated by Mawena Yehouessi.
    “Fol­lowing Julien Creuzet’s invi­ta­tion to echo the back-washing of his works and words, I wished to acti­vate a series of read­ings, con­ver­sa­tions and per­for­mances which, each in their own way, would convey/dis­si­pate those words: There are sto­ries of waters between us.”

    At Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research

    Les eaux flux-web : Marée Noire, M.Y, 2017. From a selection of videoclips: Treasure, PURE, 2017 / Woza, MAMI WATA, 2017 / Overcome, LAURA MVULA, 2016 / Brujas, PRINCESS NOKIA, 2016 / Dawn in Luxor, KAHLIL JOSEPH, 2014 / River, IBEYI, 2014

    PAST EVENTS

    At Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research

    Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018


    I.e. « Emules-appâts »
    Performances
    at 7:15 p.m.
    Eau palimpseste, a re-writing by Mawena Yehouessi

    at 8:15 p.m.
    Alter et Mézigue, a per­for­mance by Fallon Mayanja with Aminata Labor, Sarah Melloul, Yanisse Lalouci and Christian Kimena.


    Thursday, March 1st, 6:30 p.m.


    In con­ver­sa­tion
    lac­ri­mo­nial cor­ro­sivity: the bitter waters’ ebb.
    Aman Iwan (col­lec­tive) x Emanuele Coccia

    The Aman Iwan col­lec­tive con­cerns itself with neglected ter­ri­to­ries and pop­u­la­tions in a trans­dis­ci­plinary and col­lab­o­ra­tive manner. Through pub­lishing, archi­tec­ture and con­struc­tion, they take into account the var­ious forces bal­ancing a ter­ri­tory and fight against the dis­ap­pear­ance of local tra­di­tions and forms of knowl­edge.

    Emanuele Coccia has been teaching at EHESS, Paris, since 2011. He was guest researcher and guest pro­fessor at the uni­ver­si­ties of Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, Columbia, and Freiburg-im-Breigau. His bold philo­soph­ical works focus on the nar­ra­tives of reli­gious nor­ma­tivity and aes­thetics, notably on the power and onto­log­ical status of images in fashion and adver­tising, as well as on building new meta­physics of sen­si­bility.

    Performance
    SALIVA - Inès di Folco

    Inès Di Folco was born in 1993 and studies at the Paris school of Fine Arts. She works with painting and drawing. Additionally, she plays in var­ious music groups that focus on impro­vi­sa­tion in the RnB and rock genres: Pira Pora, Rose Mercie, La Ligne Claire and Inéès.

    Wednesday, March 21st, 6:30 p.m.


    At 6:30 p.m.
    Performance:
    LIQUORS - Josèfa Ntjam



    Josèfa Ntjam / She uses writing to decon­struct the founding myths and nar­ra­tives of his­tory, which she par­al­lels with alter­na­tive and sin­gular his­to­ries. Her works and research high­light dis­qui­eting zones left by colo­nialism and its mis­lead­ings. She ques­tions the method­ology of his­tory and the pro­duc­tion of nar­ra­tives using post-colo­nial theory, afro­fu­turism, “fu­turi­bles”, science-fic­tion, writing, video, and instal­la­tion.

    At 7 pm.
    In con­ver­sa­tion
    till the milk of laughter: p.e/a.nser les courants obscurs.*
    Nana Adusei-Poku x Daniela Yohannes

    Nana Adusei-Poku / Independent scholar (PhD) and edu­cator. Her work pri­marily cen­ters around three themes: • Cultural shifts and how they inter­sect with art, pol­i­tics and pop­ular cul­ture, • Artistic pro­duc­tions from the Black dias­poras, and crit­ical ped­a­gogy in rela­tion to decolo­nial aes­thetics. • She artic­u­lates these inter­ests through her aca­demic work, the devel­op­ment of per­for­ma­tive lec­tures and work­shops, as well as cura­to­rial pro­jects.

    Daniela Yohannes / Eritrean and Ethopian artist whose prac­tice mixes painting, col­lage, and illus­tra­tion. A painter of the Invisible, her work is a mys­tical, sen­sible and sharp echo to the often intan­gible dimen­sions of exis­tence. She cre­ates new myths, explores the obscure mul­tiple dimen­sions of dreams, of the occult, and of the cosmos. Her char­ac­ters are all inter­faces towards the unknown.

    Saturday, April 14th, 3 p.m.


    In con­ver­sa­tion
    H2O 3.0: floating and flooding across flu­idity.*
    Anaïs Duplan x Tabita Rezaire
    * in English

    Anaïs Duplan is a curator and author of a full-length poetry col­lec­tion, Take This Stallion (2016) and a chap­book, Mount Carmel & the Blood of Parnassus (2017). These prac­tices led her to found the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist res­i­dency pro­gram for artists of color in Iowa City. She is cur­rently the joint Public Programs Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

    Tabita Rezaire is a French video artist of Guyanese and Danish des­cent, a health-tech-politix prac­ti­tioner, and a Kemetic/Kundalini Yoga teacher. Navigating archi­tec­tures of power - online and offline - her prac­tices unearth the pos­si­bil­i­ties of decolo­nial healing through the pol­i­tics of tech­nology. She is also a founding member of the artist group NTU, half of the duo Malaxa, and mother of the house of SENEB. She is rep­re­sented by the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.

    Performance
    SWEAT - Olga Mouak

    Olga Mouak - From Orléans to Bordeaux; Mouak grad­u­ated from ENSAD Montpellier in 2016. As a come­dian, she worked with stage direc­tors Eva Doumbia and Milo Rau. She is cur­rently working on her first solo show, which will revolve around the themes of genealogy, the per­cep­tion of self, and notions of belonging.

    At Fondation d’entreprise Ricard

    Thursday, Feburary 8th, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.


    In con­ver­sa­tion
    the sea roars: to our with­standing ghosts.
    Pascale Monnin x Célia Sadai
    Performance
    BLOOD - Bocar Niang