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    FRIDAY, MARCH 6th AND SATURDAY, MARCH 7th 2020, 11am-5pm

    Ève Chabanon, Untitled, 2018, for The Colt is Youth and Hatred, DOC, curated by Cédric Fauq
    Image : Paul Nicoué

    Collective trans­la­tion work­shop
    The Undercommons : Fugitive Planning & Black Study (2013), by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney – Chapter 6 “Fan­tasy in the Hold”, part ‘Hapticality, or Love’ (3 pages)
    By Cédric Fauq and Rosanna Puyol

    Time and pro­gramme to come
    Reservation at info@­be­ton­salon.net

    “In the economy of the rela­tion­ship I have been enter­taining with Ève for sev­eral years now, I am in debt. I exactly owe her, to this day, £196.43. That debt fol­lowed the pro­duc­tion of a work she had made in response to our col­lab­o­ra­tion on the group exhi­bi­tion Le Colt est Jeune et Haine (The Colt is Youth and Hatred) which took place at DOC (Paris) back in 2018 (…). I could escape, but my face is also every­where in the doc­u­men­ta­tion of one of Ève’s most ambi­tious pro­ject: The Anti-Social Social Club: Episode One, The Chamber of the Dispossessed (2017) (…).

    These var­ious instances of trans­ac­tion and trans­la­tions, which make up the foun­da­tion of Ève’s prac­tice, but also define our cur­rent rela­tion­ship, are what led me to invite inde­pen­dent pub­lishing house Brook – via Rosanna Puyol – to lead, together, a two-day trans­la­tion work­shop, to develop fur­ther the pro­ject of making avail­able, in French, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (2013).

    That this specific book was – and still is – a shared object of fas­ci­na­tion and inter­ro­ga­tion for me, Ève and Rosanna, only con­vinced me of the rel­e­vance of such event within Ève’s latest pro­ject. We three (French) also share the speci­ficity of having lived in London simul­ta­ne­ously. But Rosanna and Ève didn’t know each other’s then. The prox­imity in dis­tance, and the dis­tance in prox­imity, are thus enacted by that three­some rela­tion­ship, while echoed in the trans­la­tion pro­cess, which is always an exer­cise in lin­guistic inti­macy and semi­otic sen­su­ality.

    It is all the more apt that we, as a chorus, decided to focus on a sub­sec­tion (the last) of Chapter 6 - “Fan­tasy in the Hold” titled “Hap­ti­cality, or Love”; which delves into ques­tions of touch, feeling and close­ness and their rela­tion to black pol­i­tics. We thus hope that, at the end of these two days, people who would have joined, for any amount of time, will come out a bit closer to becoming “philoso­phers of the feel” with us, and get a better under­standing of the dif­ferent states of debts in which we are, together.”

    - Cédric Fauq, “Touché : A Debt on Display”, text written for Ève Chabanon’s exhi­bi­tion The Surplus at Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, 2020.

    The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study’s orig­inal English text is avail­able online on Minor Compositions’ pub­lisher web­site.

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    Cédric Fauq (born in 1992) is a Nottingham-based French curator. He works as curator of exhi­bi­tions at Nottingham Contemporary, where he has been working since September 2017, devel­oping exhi­bi­tion pro­jects (Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance; Sung Tieu: In Cold Print; Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio), per­for­mances (Okwui Okpokwasili; Steffani Jemison; Lou Lou Lou Sainsbury) and pub­li­ca­tions. He also writes, and develops free­lance pro­jects [DOC, Paris (2018); Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna (2018); Nir Altman, Munich (2019); Cordova, Barcelona (2020); Litost, Prague (2020)]. He co-directed clearview.ltd in London (2016-2018); and was a member of the Baltic Triennial XIII cura­to­rial team (2017-2018).

    Rosanna Puyol (born 1991, Paris, France) is a pub­lisher, a poet and col­lab­o­rates with artists on exhi­bi­tion pro­jects, video pro­grams and per­for­mances.
    Co-founder of Brook press, she pub­lishes trans­la­tions of Laura Mulvey, Shulamith Firestone, Cecilia Pavón, José Esteban Muñoz, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, texts related to art, fem­i­nism, anti-racism, post­colo­nial and queer studies. Her research work focuses on poetic writing and inter­sec­tion­ality, and includes the orga­ni­za­tion of reading groups and trans­la­tion work­shops.

    FRIDAY, MARCH 6th AND SATURDAY, MARCH 7th 2020, 5pm-7pm

    Détails de l’œuvre Le surplus de Ève Chabanon, 100 pièces, grès et porcelaine émaillés, dimensions variables, 2019-2020. Image © Aurélien Mole.

    Launch of sale of Ève Chabanon’s ceramic cups from the exhi­bi­tion The Surplus

    This corpus con­sti­tutes "the sur­plus", a mate­rial and spec­u­la­tive over­flow, which gives the exhi­bi­tion its title. It is made up of cups, sup­ports of new formal and plastic research, hand-made by the artist in stoneware and enamelled porce­lain.

    During the exhi­bi­tion, Ève Chabanon replays the sales pro­cess, which is her pri­mary source of income, while sub­jecting it to new rules. The price of the pieces goes up in pro­por­tion to their destocking, according to an expo­nen­tial curve drawn by Sophie Cras, senior lec­turer in art his­tory and eco­nomics grad­uate. If the first cup is put on sale at €20, the cost price, the prices of the fol­lowing cups rise slowly at first, then accel­erate to reach prices that are those of craft pieces or works of art. This approach, which points out the absur­dity of a system of values, joins and pro­longs Ève’s artistic ques­tioning eco­nomic pro­cesses on a per­sonal and global scale.

    The sale will begin at the end of the col­lec­tive trans­la­tion work­shop of the book The Undercommons by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten orga­nized by Cédric Fauq and Rosanna Puyol, on March 6 and 7, 2020 from 11am to 5pm.
    It will con­tinue until the end of the exhi­bi­tion on Saturday 25 April 2020, during the opening hours of Bétonsalon - Centre d’art et de recherche: Wednesday to Saturday from 11am to 7pm.

    Payments are accepted by credit card only.

    FRIDAY, JULY 24th 2020, 5-7PM

    Vue de l’exposition Chapter 3 de Ève Chabanon, Westfälischer Kunstvererein, 2020 © Westfälischer Kunstverein.

    Chapter 3. Footnotes and Annotations"
    French-German online panel on the occa­sion of Ève Chabanon’s exhi­bi­tion Chapter 3 at Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster

    The event will be held in English. Sign up here

    The exhi­bi­tion "Chapter 3" by French artist Ève Chabanon (b. 1989) pro­vides an insight into her long-term pro­ject, her work with a col­lec­tive of inter­na­tional cul­tural workers who are in exile.
    On the occa­sion of this exhi­bi­tion we invite French and German experts to join us for an online dis­cus­sion. Short pre­sen­ta­tions will high­light the var­ious core themes of Chabanon’s artistic prac­tice: inter­cul­tural and col­lab­o­ra­tive work, (arts &)craft vs. art, value and sur­plus of art and artistic work.

    Guest speakers:

    Sophie Cras, art his­to­rian and economist, Paris
    Abdulmajeed Haydar, scriptwriter, member of Ève Chabanon’s col­lec­tive, Paris
    Johanna-Yasirra Kluhs, dra­maturge, Interkultur Ruhr, Essen
    Ingrid Luquet-Gad, writer, Paris Inès Mesmar, director La Fabrique NOMADE, Paris

    Co-hosts:

    Ève Chabanon, artist
    Mathilde Belouali-Dejean, Exhibitions coor­di­nator, Bétonsalon - Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris
    Kristina Scepanski, director, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster