2018 ADAGP Grant : Liv Schulman
ADAGP & Villa Vassilieff, sharing common vocations - working closely with artists, highlighting visual heritages and art history - co-created a research program that aims at developing the work of an artist on the circulation and reproduction of images, in relation to the research on the Marc Vaux archive led with Centre Pompidou.
This research grant will enable artists to undertake the production of new works in a context favorable to the dissemination of knowledge. This program is conceived as an artistic research platform dedicated to the experimentation of non-linear models of knowledge production and distribution between researchers, contemporary artists, associations, cultural institutions and the general public.
This research can be part of the field of art (rereading of art history, exploring unknown and marginalized life journeys, reflecting on the actual production of images...) but also in the wider field of the production of images in a world saturated with information (political, economic, scientific, journalistic...). The 20,000 euros of this grant are intended for covering the artist’s fees, their production budget, the costs of supporting their project and (if necessary) their accommodation costs in Paris.
Liv Schulman, Formal Economy, 23 Minutes, Alt_Cph, Copenhagen, May 2018 © Rine Rodin
2018 Laureate : Liv Schulman
Liv Schulman’s project consists of writing and directing a film that will tell a story of feminist art. Based on the Marc Vaux fund (Bibliothèque Kandinsky, MNAM-CCI, Centre Pompidou), Liv Schuman wants to produce a documentary fiction which highlights women, lesbians and forms of dissident corporality that existed between 1930 and 1970. The film produced will not be a realistic movie nor a vintage fiction but an art film where speeches, images and forms of words become characters. With this project, Liv Schulman wants to propose a committed and anti-patriarchal art history as well as a new way of telling this story: not by retracing falsely universal linear events but rather by creating a narrative that brings together different stories, images and thoughts. For Liv Schulman, this film is an opportunity to create new representations of artists: fictitious images and real images that will blend, in confused timeframes, in a doubtful present. Through 60 years or more of superimposed stories, Liv Schulman wants to work on many artists’ destinies (present or not in the Marc Vaux collection) such as Marie Vassilieff, Esther Carp, Marcita Bloch, Marthe Delacroix, Maria Blanchard, Carol Rama , Florence Cointreau, Veronique Filozof, Olga Sacharoff, Solange Lecaron or Helen Lemprière. To create her characters, the artist will bring together a group of actresses (who can embody several artists at a time) who will collaborate on the writing of the film and its realization.
About Liv Schulman
Liv Schulman’s work focuses on the ability of language to affect body. In the form of film fictions, theatrical performances or novelistic writing, she creates characters and collectives that utter discourses borrowing from the vocabulary of art, liberal economics, Marxist critical theory or psychotherapy. trying to recreate the affects in the economy under which we live. These distinct forms of discourse become absurd and crazy tools of a paranoid interpretation of the social world, based on the alienation of bodies, the devaluation of identities and the frustrations of the search for meaning. Liv Schulman was born in 1985. She grew up in Buenos Aires (Argentina). She lives and works in Paris. She studied at ENSAPC, Cergy, at Goldsmith University of London (UK), at UTDT (Buenos Aires). Liv Schulman recently took part in the Biennale de Rennes en 2016, in the series of exhibitions at the Galerie, Centre d’art contemporain de Noisy–le-Sec in 2017, at the National Gallery (SMK) Copenhagen), at Phakt Rennes, at CCK Buenos Aires, at Alt Cph (Copehangen). She has had solo exhibitions, including SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark (2017), Piedras Gallery, Buenos Aires (2018), Zoo Galerie, Nantes (2017), Big Sur Gallery, Buenos Aires (2015), at the Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo (2015). She published the Infinite Bet books with the RSS publishing house in Copenhagen, « Que faire avec Liv Schulman? » with Inmixtion Books Marseille, El Metodo Covensky and El Camino del CNTRL with Tammy Metzler publishing house in Buenos Aires.
2018 Artistic committee :
Each year the grant is awarded by an artistic committee formed of with professionals from the art world. This year, the committee brings together:
Neïl Beloufa (artist)
Mélanie Bouteloup (director Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Villa Vassilieff)
Emilie Renard (director La Galerie Noisy-Le-Sec)
Didier Schulmann (curator at National Museum of Modern Art, Kandinsky Library, Pompidou Center)
Dirk Snauwaert (Director of WIELS, Brussels)
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