Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains
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59202 Tourcoing cedex
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20 years of contemporary art, of technologies, of science, of society, of movements and of ideas
Created in Tourcoing in 1997 by Alain Fleischer, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains celebrated its tenth birthday with the exhibition Dans la nuit, des images at the Grand Palais, Paris. Today, it is celebrating its first 20 years with a series of events held throughout the 2017/18 season.
This birthday programme will celebrate French and international recognition of Le Fresnoy for its excellence as an institution providing training and supporting experiment and production in the field of art and audiovisual work.
20th birthday events:
Le Rêve des formes- Art, science, etc.
(The Dream of Forms. Art, science, etc.)
Exhibition
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
June 14–September 10
The exhibition brings together contemporary artists and scientists around the way they are now rethinking their relationship with the living world, and raising questions about the forms that inanimate or living matter can take, from the scale of the infinitely small to the infinitely big.
The exhibition is based on a proposal by Le Fresnoy – Studio national
Curators: Alain Fleischer, Claire Moulène
Multidisciplinary arts/sciences symposium
Collège de France, Paris
September 5–7
By exploring the dreams that can be inspired by forms, perhaps we might be tempted to anticipate the moment when the latter break free of their referent and become signs devoid of all meaning, signs that would then start dreaming themselves, in a more literal way than we are usually inclined to understand.
Then, instead of “What do forms make us dream of?” or “What forms do we dream of?” we would ask, “What do forms dream of? What is the dream of forms?”
Exhibition: Panorama 19
Le Fresnoy – Studio national, Tourcoing
September 23–December 31
Opening: Friday, September 22
This annual event, which this year has invited Jean de Loisy, president of the Palais de Tokyo, to curate, will be inaugurated at almost the exact date of the anniversary, 20 years after the arrival of the first intake.
Additional event: programme of films from Panorama 19
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk
Performance: I.D, Arnaud Petit
Théâtre de l’Idéal, Tourcoing
October 20–21, 8:30pm
A young woman, Mimi, is confronted with her own image. Having got over the initial surprise, she enters into a dialogue, and this confrontation with her double will gradually reveal the hidden details of a life that she had forgotten. She engages in a kind of personal archaeology.
I.D. is an opera because Mimi is a singer, and so is her wholly technological and virtual double. On stage, a mime embodies this “ethereal” being (as they would have put it in the 19th century) of Mimi’s double, like a technological puppeteer. A small ensemble of seven musicians accompanies and controls the unfolding of this opera.
And also:
Là où va le cinéma programme
mk2 Beaubourg cinema, Paris
Until June 2017, discovering films by artists from Le Fresnoy
Frankfurt International Book Fair
October 11–15
Prix StudioCollector programme
Fundação Leal Rios, Lisbon
April–June 2017
Film programmes, meetings, photographic productions, mixed programmes and other events throughout the year:
Académie de France, Rome / Lincoln Center, New York / IRCAM, Paris / Le 104, Paris / Jeu de Paume, Paris / Festival de Pantin / MUba, Tourcoing / Conservatoire de Tourcoing / Médiathèque de Tourcoing / and other international partners with the support of the Institut Français
Yann Robin: Symétriades/Extension
For double bass and aural and visual electro-digital device
Orchestre national de Lille—October 2018
