Symposium
At Villa Vassilieff
May 26–28
“Autohistorias”
The “Autohistorias” symposium will be a moment of reflection regarding the role of arts institutions in a world tormented by nationalist polarizations, a world shattered by new borders and debates on identity that further separate individuals from one another.
“Autohistorias” will convene about 40 professionals engaged in re-writing art history. We will elaborate collectively a new shared narrative, building on a multiplicity of artistic forums (art spaces, schools, collectives, or events) and individual itineraries, focusing on artists who navigated through several cultures and intellectual spheres over the 20th and 21st centuries.
Together, we will look into how institutions and museums can best embody this diversity, while developing research programs and working jointly with a variety of civil society actors. We will question the production, classification, and dissemination of heritage, archives, and museum collections. Experimenting with teaching and knowledge transmission, “Autohistorias” will shape a space amenable to inventing utopias and alternative ways of life.
With (among others): Anahi Alviso-Marino (political scientist), Antariksa (historian and co-founder of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia), Eric Baudelaire (artist), Neil Beloufa (artist), Jean-François Boclé (artist), Mélanie Bouteloup (director, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research and Villa Vassilieff), Yann Chateigné (Head and Professor of the Visual Art department, HEAD-Genève, Switzerland), Marc Cheb Sun (journalist), Mathias Danbolt (art historian), Myriam Dao (artist), Gallien Déjean (curator, Treize, Paris, France), Andrey Egorov (head of research department, curator, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia), Kristine Khouri (independent researcher, writer and photographer based in Beirut, Lebanon), Koyo Kouoh (curator and director, RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal), Inga Lāce (curator, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia), Franck Leibovici (poet, artist), Morad Montazami (research-curator for the Middle East and North Africa, supported by the Iran Heritage Foundation, Tate Modern, London, UK), Franck Ogou (archivist and supervisor, École du Patrimoine Africain, Porto-Novo, Benin), Timothy Perkins (artist), Sarah Rifky (co-founder of Beirut and founder of Cairo International Resource Center for Art, Cairo, Egypt), Sumesh Sharma (co-founder of Clark House Initiative, Bombay, India), Omar Slaouti (anti-racist activist), Françoise Vergès (political scientist, Global South(s) Professorship, MSH, Paris), Michelle Wong (researcher, Asia Art Archive, Hong-Kong), Nikita Yingqian Cai (chief curator, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China).
Exhibitions
At Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research
Until July 1
Emmanuelle Lainé, Incremental Self: Transparent Bodies
September 6–December 23
Candice Lin, A Hard White Body
At Villa Vassilieff
Until May 6
One of Many Stories: Art Worlds in Yemen
Curator: Anahi Alviso-Marino
May 20–June 24
Pan Yuliang: A Journey to Silence
Hu Yun, Huang Jing Yuan, Pan Yuliang, Marc Vaux, Wang Zhibo, Yu Miao
Curator: Nikita Yingqian Cai
July 1–July 22
Ndidi Dike, In the Guise of Resource Control
September 9–October 7
Koki Tanaka, Histories of Places
October 14–November 18
Nirode Mazumdar
Curator: Samit Das
November 25–December 23
Akadémia: Performing Life
Curator: Inga Lāce
Residency and research programs
At Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research
L’Academie vivante (Living Academy) with among other artists Emmanuelle Lainé and Candice Lin
At Villa Vassilieff
Pernod Ricard Fellowship with artists Koki Tanaka (March, September and October 2017), Mercedes Azpilicueta (April 2017, January and February 2018), Samit Das (May, November and December 2017) and Ndidi Dike (June–August 2017)
Global South(s) Professorship, MSH with Antariksa (historian and co-founder of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
ADAGP grant, soon to be announced
FNAGP grants, soon to be announced
Publications
36 Short Stories
36 Short Stories, co-edited with Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, gathers a selection of texts that have been published, displayed or collected in relation to events organized by Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research.
Qalqalah
In 2015, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research and the Kadist Art Foundation Paris launched Qalqalah, a bilingual (French/English) online publication. Qalqalah features international voices who might not be heard enough in France.
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