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Workshop Trajal Harrell & Cécilia Bengolea

with Stéphanie Moisdon, Shirin Yousefi

In practice, Trajal Harrell will introduce participants to runway categories and dance techniques, guiding them through warm-up exercises and curated music playlists that shape his artistic approach. Meanwhile, Cecilia Bengolea will explore the concepts of self-presentation and performativity, inviting participants to engage in a dynamic investigation of identity, whether real or constructed. Through movement and expression, she aims to question the fluidity of identity and the ways in which it can be shaped or reimagined in a performative context.

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Symposium - Worldbuilding in an era of extreme fragmentation

with Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Stéphanie Moisdon, Shirin Yousefi

This one-day conference is an interdisciplinary event taking as its starting point the fragmentation thesis, based on the observation that our political conversations online – in forums, social media platforms, or discussion sites – are secluded into ideologically uniform groups. This tendency towards homophily is nothing new yet it has dramatically taken speed recently, to the point that it can be seen as a planetary condition of our times. The infrastructural changes in our digital networks – privatization, tracking, and algorithmic rationality – are not the sole explanatory factors. Finance capitalism, genocidal conflicts, climate crisis, as well as ambient anxiety all trigger responses that tend to favor withdrawal strategies.

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Readings with Gilles Furtwängler

with Gilles Furtwangler

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Workshop Vittorio Brodman & Mathis Altman

with Stéphanie Moisdon, Shirin Yousefi

The POOL workshop focuses on interdisciplinary practices and involves a wide variety of mediums. Its core is rooted in the ideas of sculpture and painting, as seen in the work of Mathis Altmann and Vittorio Brodmann. The two artists explore techniques for embedding narrative structures, highlighting representational elements while investigating how abstraction can lead to distortion, the grotesque, and the fantastical.

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FILM STUDIES

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FILM STUDIES

Archive as a Creative Act: The Absolute Cinema of Gregory J. Markopoulos and the Temenos Utopia

with François Bovier

Artists who produce archives from their own work approach archival activity as a creative gesture: here, the archive literally becomes a work of art. In parallel with the “archival impulse” that has run through contemporary art since the 1960s, this research project examines the “performative agency” of archives when they are constituted from “image acts”. The selected corpus is based on an extremely singular case, the cinematographic work of Gregory J. Markopoulos (1928-1992) and the Temenos archives.

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The Raving Age. Histories and figures of youth

with Vincent Normand, Stéphanie Moisdon

This research project questions what has come of youth – a conceptual, aesthetic, and political figure that was born with modernity – in the visual arts, popular culture, and the humanities. Conversely, the project addresses what the problematic category of “youth” has brought about in contemporary art and thought.

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Macula Workshop avec David Douard

with David Douard

Questionner l’économie des images et l’idée d’authorship à travers un exercice de manipulations d’images digitales vers un objet physique. Remettre en question le rapport d’une génération artistique « Google » qui se servait volontiers dans un gouffre d’image internet pour les manipuler à foison. Aujourd’hui ce rapport est contesté par de nouvelles technologies servant et à donner une valeur et une authenticité au détournement ( NFT ) David Douard propose ainsi un workshop de sérigraphie sur 3 jours comme un moment de jouissance productive où les enjeux seraient l’appropriation par la superposition. C’est une réflexion sur l’image à capturer et sur la potentialité subjective d’une image à travers le rapport au texte, la poésie ou le langage.

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HOW SOON IS NOW? HISTORIES AND FIGURES OF YOUTH

Symposium : HOW SOON IS NOW? HISTORIES AND FIGURES OF YOUTH This symposium is the first stage of the research project How Soon Is Now? Histories and Figures of Youth. It questions “youth” as a conceptual, aesthetic, andpolitical figure born with modernity in the visual arts, popular culture, and the humanities. At the same time, this project proposes to examine the implications ofthe problematic category of "youth" in contemporary art and thought. By exploring the processes in which youth is constituted through its forms of representation, thisproject intends to render intelligible the aesthetic and political dimensions of youth, and to grasp it as a historical allegory allowing for a reconsideration of thecontemporary in the light of its most lively site. What image(s) does the notion of youth carry with it? What idea does it have of itself? How can we talk about it beyond ingrained ideas and the fantasies that society projects on it (at least in Western culture), making it simultaneously a force, a market, an age, a culture, a piece of a history which which we only began writing inthe twentieth-century, and which today has reached its critical stage? In recent history, the notion of youth has so often been conflated with “bringing down the house” that we now expect everything from it: to reinvent us, to shake us up, to carry us, to succeed in what others have failed at (establishing the most open communities possible), to build bridges for the future, to be radical, to be uncompromising where anyone outside of youth has already given up, to be desirable where others are overwhelmed. But with what means? If not those that young people make themselves, for themselves, with elements that they alone will have chosen? With their culture, their places, their clandestinity. Because that which is not yet over happens in the shadows of the world. Youth is a secret. “How Soon Is Now?”, The Smiths once asked. When is it, now?

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Keramicos

with Matthew Lutz Kinoy, Natsuko Uchino

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Talk given by Camille Henrot

Camille Henrot, Plasticienne, New York www.camillehenrot.fr Née en 1978, Camille Henrot vit et travaille à New York. L’artiste française développe une pratique variée qui mêle film, dessin, sculpture et installation. En puisant ses inspirations et ses sujets dans la vie quotidienne et dans la littérature, la mythologie, le cinéma et l’anthropologie, l’oeuvre de Camille Henrot reconsidère avec acuité les typologies d’objets et les systèmes de pensées établis. En 2013, dans le cadre de la Smithsonian résidence à Washington DC, elle réalise le film  Grosse Fatigue , avec lequel elle remporte le Lion d’argent à la Biennale de Venise. Lauréate du Prix Nam June Paik 2014 et du Edvard Munch Art Award 2015, Camille Henrot a également participé aux Biennales de Lyon, Berlin et Sydney et a bénéficié d’expositions personnelles dans des lieux prestigieux tels que le Schinkel Pavillon à Berlin, la Kunsthalle de Vienne, le New Museum à New York ou encore au Palais de Tokyo à Paris pour une carte blanche en 2017. Ses prochaines expositions majeures auront lieu à Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2019) et à la National Gallery of Victoria de Melbourne (2020).

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Symposium with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Avec ce workshop, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster prolonge sa réflexion sur les apparitions et les transfomations qu’elle pratique depuis 2012 (M.2062 et QM.15) autour du cinema, de l’opéra et de la littérature avec des personnages réels ou fictionnels qui représentent chacun un point de vue sur l’art, la représentation et l’existence. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (born in 1965) is a French artist and an in influential figure in international contemporary art. She is known for her great variety of work in video projection, photography, and spatial installations. Recent solo exhibitions include “1887–2058” at Centre Pompidou, Paris and K.20 in Dusseldorf (2015/2016), “Temporama” at Mam, Rio de Janeiro (2015), “Splendide Hotel” at the Palacio de Cristal/Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid (2014), “Chronotopes and Dioramas” at the Dia Art Foundation, New York (2009); “TH.2058” in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2008). She also participated in Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007) and Documenta XI, Kassel (2002). Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has also staged “M.2062” in London, Amsterdam, Dublin, Kyoto and Paris between 2012 and 2014, and QM.16 in Paris in 2016. Her most recent films are “Otello 1887”, “Vera and Mr Hyde” and “Lola Montez in Berlin”.

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Workshop with Georgia Sagri

Georgia Sagri

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Los Angeles 2016

by Virginia Ariu, Catarina Bota Leal, Charlotte Bourgeois, Loucia Carlier, Gabriele Garavaglia, Sarah Abigail Janjic, Vinzenz Meyner, Matteo Pomati, Ilaria Vinci, Shirin Yousefi

Summer University 2016, Los Angeles Stephanie Moisdon, Bei Schlingelhoff, Will Benedict, Emanuele Marcuccio. Studio visits, galleries and institutions: Oscar Tuazon. Lari Pittman, Silke Otto Knapp, Piero Golia studio monument with Andrew Berardini, Paul Pascal Theriault, Alex Hubbard, Nikolas Gambaroff, David Lennard, Gary Leonard, Chris Kraus, Puppies Puppies, CalArts with Darcy Huebler and Thomas Lawson, 356 Mission rd with Alexandra Tuttle, Tom of Finland Foundation, LACMA, MOCA, Regen Project, Maccarone, Sprüth Magers, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel.

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Workshop with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy

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Exhibition Life is a Bed of Roses (un roman)

From Wednesday, May 27, 2015 to Saturday, July 4, 2015. A project devised by  Stéphanie Moisdon , with the participation of the Master’s course students and teachers. In the form of a  Bildingsroman  (“education novel”) about imagination, or about imagination of education, the exhibition is the venue for a theatre and a choir,  a set, and appearances of forms, objects and characters. The evolving path of this “education novel” has been gradually formed, over a whole year, around an Alain Resnais film, and the unfurled memory of Comte Forbek’s castle, in the spirit of mediaeval times, the spirit of craftsmen of all times. For several pens to write this light and modern tale of youth, it was important to rely on a few oblique strategies, and travel between experience and immaturity, talent and craft, between personal predispositions and collective ideal. Workshops led by  Valentin Carron , Sylvie Fleury , Tristan Garcia , Stéphane Kropf , Fabian Marti , in collaboration with  Lucile Dupraz . Scenography realized by Denis Savary with Ruben Valdez , and opening credits video by  Lisa Stein . With works by  Jérôme Baccaglio, Tina Braegger, Lena Brudieux, Francesco Cagnin, Lucas Erin, Jean Etchevers-Bourgois, Arthur Fouray, Antoine Goudard, Thea Govorchin, Emanuele Marcuccio, Francesco Nazardo, Giulio Scalisi, Tomaso Semenzato, Konstantinos Sotiriou, Lisa Stein, and Linda Voorwinde . Photo credit :  Aurélien Mole .

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Exhibition and book Vertiginous Parallels