CELLAR DOOR
AN EXHIBITION BY LORIS GREAUD
February 14 – April 27, 2008
Opening February 14, 2008
8pm to midnight
13 avenue du Président Wilson
75116 PARIS
33 (1) 47 23 54 01/36 86
Open everyday from noon to midnight, except Monday.
4000m square, 30 YEARS OLD, 3 MONTHS
Loris Gréaud’s CELLAR DOOR marks a unique occasion in the history of the Palais de Tokyo. For the first time, its entire 4000 square meter surface will be occupied by a French artist under 30. This daring wager demonstrates the Palais de Tokyo’s commitment to emerging artistic creation in France and to Loris Gréaud, who has considerably upped the ante with his already impressive body of work.
SPACE OPERA
CELLAR DOOR is an ambitious artistic enterprise: a colossal organism engendered by an original music score that distends through space and time. This mutant form of exhibition is guided in real time by a studio and an engineer located at the heart of the display; they activate the artworks, produce the assemblage of sounds, and prompt its accelerations and retractions.
WELCOME TO CELLAR DOOR!
Where gigantic fireworks are shot off underground… Where perspectives crumple like paper balls… Where stars draft intergalactic drawings calculated in light-years… Where spatio-temporal rifts split open beneath your feet… Where sculptures form before your very eyes!…
THURSDAYS /
ON THE IMMATERIAL
CELLAR DOOR
Meeting with Loris Gréaud,Thomas Roussel, Raimundas Malasauskas,
Aaron Schuster, Marc Dölger, Damien Ziakovic.
FEB 21, 2008 / 7:30pm
DES IMMATERIAUX
Legacy of Jean-François Lyotard, with Bernard Blistène, Stéphanie Moisdon, Orlan and Daniel Soutif. Debate preceded by the screening of Paule Zajdermann and Daniel Soutif Les Immatériaux (1985).
FEB 28, 2008 / 7:30pm
PULSAR
Screening of Klonaris and Thomadaki.
MARCH 6, 2008 / 7:30pm
FILMS / SLAMS / SONS
Lead singer of Diabologum in the 1990’s and of Programme, Arnaud Michniak comes forward with a performance mixing videos, music, poetry and new songs from his last album Poing Perdu.
MARCH 13, 2008 / 8:30pm
GREY GOO
A talk on nanosciences of Christian Joachim and Laurence Plévert
On the occasion of Nanosciences, la révolution invisible (Editions du Seuil) publication.
MARCH 20, 2008 / 7:30pm
INTOX / GOSSIP / BLUFF
Une rumeur de l’esthétique
An idea of Claire Moulène and Mathilde Villeneuve.
MARCH 27, 2008 / 7:30pm
AUDIOGUIDE
A guided tour through Cellar Door with Bruno Latour and guests. By Jean-Max Colard,
in partnership with Les Inrockuptibles.
APRIL 3, 2008 / 8:00pm to midnight
GLOBAL PARANOÏA
Two days of lectures on surveillance technologies programmed by Eric Sadin and Ec/arts.
FRIDAY 11 APRIL – SATURDAY 12 APRIL, 2008 / 2pm to 8pm
BORDER LINE
Pascal Rousseau invites Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis – Myth, Magic and Mysticism
In the Age of Information.
APRIL 17, 2008 / 7:30pm
BUCKY
Posterity of Buckminster Fuller. Valérie Châtelet invites Antoine Picon, architecture teacher at Harvard and Michael Hays, the Buckminster Fuller exhibition curator, Starting the universe (Whitney, June 2008). Skylab programming.
TUESDAY 22 APRIL, 2008 / 7:30pm
CELLAR DOOR / CD
The recording of Cellar Door Opera, composed by Thomas Roussel, on a libretto by Raimundas Malasauskas and Aaron Schuster, performed by the Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France (direction: Jean Deroyer. Soprano: Marie Devellereau). La Manufacture du disque.
CELLAR DOOR / LIBRETTO
Cellar Door booklet / published by JRP Ringier
