Bivouac #1 / Ghostmarkets, Julie Ramage

FRIDAY 11 AND SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2020

Ghostmarkets was born out of a research-cre­ation pro­ject that began in prison in September 2019. Taking as a starting point the ban on cur­rency in the prison space, economists, anthro­pol­o­gists, archae­ol­o­gists and chore­og­ra­phers were then invited to col­lab­o­rate with a working group set up inside the prison walls.

The research quickly evolved towards the way in which exchanges influ­ence the rela­­tion­­ships between bodies: trust or dis­­trust, provo­­ca­­tion or com­­plicity mark the prison chore­o­gra­­phies. The par­tic­i­­pants pro­­pose the cre­a­tion of a "cur­rency of esteem" made of sugar and con­crete, whose face value is indexed to the greeting rituals of deten­­tion; it guar­an­­tees, when entrusted to a peer, loy­alty and assis­­tance in all sit­u­a­­tions.

Following the inter­rup­tion of the pro­ject in March 2020, the idea was born to create a "ghost film" from the prepara­tory doc­u­ments of the aborted shooting: a living archive deploying the dia­logue out­side the walls, to place it in the con­text of the eco­nomic and health crisis we are going through.
Radio Commons is part­nering with artist Julie Ramage to offer a rein­ter­pre­ta­tion of this work during an after­noon of radio dis­cus­sions and read­ings.

Project man­age­ment and per­for­mance: Julie Ramage
Installation: Julie Ramage, Marina Ledrein, Jean-Pierre Aubry

With: Mouhad.S., JDH, Younès, Kapo, J-Marie Koeta, Habib, Silva, Ben, Christophe, Brali, Sparafucile, Youssef Rhnima, Philippe T., Ilich, John Dow, Olivier Royer-Perez, Melchior Simioni, David Rabouin, Sonia Manseri, Nadeera Rajapakse, Alice Mulliez, Van-Kim Tran, Laurence Mongin, Christophe Ramage

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PROGRAMME

Friday 11 and Saturday 12 September 2020, 11am-7pm.

ATTEND THE PERFORMANCE

The instal­la­tion, as well as the per­for­mance, are open to spec­ta­tors in free wan­dering friday 11 and sat­urday 12 from 11am to 7pm.

TAKE PART IN PERFORMANCE

Ghostmarkets is a filming device - ini­tially planned within the walls of Poissy’s prison in the spring, then deployed out­side the walls - that func­tions as a space for inti­mate and unscripted exchanges between the artist and a spec­tator. They dia­logue within an immer­sive instal­la­tion, ques­tioning the health and eco­nomic crisis we are going through, elab­o­rating together a living archive of our ways of exchanging, touching each other, helping each other, being together.

The meeting includes a tour of the instal­la­tion and a dis­cus­sion with the artist during which she will ques­tion you in order to ini­tiate a dis­cus­sion on how you expe­ri­enced the period of health crisis.

Some meeting slots will be ded­i­cated to dis­cus­sions between the artist and anthro­pol­o­gists, archae­ol­o­gists, chore­og­ra­phers, economists who have par­tic­i­pated in the pro­ject.

All dis­cus­sions are public and filmed.

Registrations for a dis­cus­sion with the artist are closed.

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Julie Ramage (1987, France) is a visual artist and doctor in History and Semiology of Text and Image. She explores the com­plex rela­tion­ships between humans and the places they occupy.
Her work has been pre­sented in France (Centre Pompidou, Cité Internationale des Arts, CENTQUATRE, Musée de l’Homme, Chapelle des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Le Cube, Maison Européenne de la Photographie...), the United States, Argentina and Spain. In 2018, she is the winner of the FoRTE fel­low­ship. She is cur­rently in res­i­dency at the Cité inter­na­tionale des arts de Paris and was named "Coup de coeur du jury" in the con­text of the Prix le Bal de la Jeune Création.

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This pro­ject was car­ried out with the sup­port of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, the Monnaie de Paris, the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, the PHARE lab­o­ra­tory of the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, the Centre d’Études et de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Lettres Arts Cinéma (CERILAC) of the Paris Diderot University, the Service Pénitentiaire d’Insertion et de Probation des Yvelines, the Poissy cen­tral prison, the Bois d’Arcy remand centre, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, the Île-de-France Regional Department of Cultural Affairs and the Fondation Un Monde par Tous. Offsite Cité inter­­na­­tio­­nale des arts de Paris.

This pro­gram is part of the Académie de Bétonsalon sup­ported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation.

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Images

Installation view of Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020. 

Installation view of Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020. 

Installation view of Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020. 

Detail from Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Detail from Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Detail from Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Detail from Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Opening of Julie Ramage’s instal­la­tion, Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Opening of Julie Ramage’s instal­la­tion, Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Filmed per­for­mance with Julie Ramage, Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Julie Ramage during the instal­la­tion, Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Marina Ledrein during the instal­la­tion, Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.