Autohistorias symposium

Free entrance upon reser­va­tion before May 16, 2017. Registration: here

Marc Vaux, Pan Yuliang in her studio with Zhou Ling and Guo Youshou, 1950s © Centre Pompidou – Mnam – Bibliothèque Kandinsky – Fonds Marc Vaux

The Autohistorias [1] 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.

The sym­po­sium lan­guages will be English and French. Simultaneous trans­la­tion will be avail­able.

Organization: Mélanie Bouteloup, Camille Chenais, Boris Atrux-Tallau and Mathilde Assier

In par­allel: Samit Das’ Pernod Ricard Open Studio

Program

Friday, May 26

Moderated by Mélanie Bouteloup (Director, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research & Villa Vassilieff)
at 9:45 am: Doors open
10-10:30am: Introduction by Mélanie Bouteloup
(Director, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research & Villa Vassilieff)
10:30am-11am: Franck Leibovici (poet, artist)
A morning crowd sourcing for some insti­tu­tions on standby
11-11:30am: Mia Yu (Art his­to­rian)
Corporeality, Space and Archive: When Art Historical Research Meets Artistic Research
11:30-12: Antariksa (Historian & Co-Founding Member, KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Away from Home: Japanese Artists Abroad during the War
12-12:30pm: Inga Lāce (Curator, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia)
Akademia. Performing Life
12.30-2.30pm: Lunch break
2:30-3pm: Michelle Wong (Researcher, Asia Art Archive, Hong‑Kong)
Undisciplined Practice: Researching the Ha Bik Chuen Archive
3-3:30pm: Franck Komlan Ogou (Archivist and Supervisor, École du pat­ri­moine africain, Porto-Novo, Benin)
The Appropriation of Images on Africa: on the Necessity to Preserve the
Photographic Productions of the Continent
3:30-4pm: Morad Montazami (Adjunct Research Curator for the Middle East and North Africa, Tate Modern, London,UK)
Fugitive Volumes: Faouzi Laatiris and the Tetouan National Institute of Fine Arts
4-4:30pm: Break
4:30-5pm: Anahi Alviso-Marino (Political Scientist)
Personal Archives in the Social History of the Artists from the Arabic Peninsula and the Arabic Persian Gulf
5-5:30pm: Andrey Egorov (Head of Research Department and Curator, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia)
Collecting and Storytelling: The Experience of the Moscow Museum of
Modern Art
5:30-6pm: Kristine Khouri (Independent Researcher, Writer, Beirut, Lebanon)
From Catalog of/to Exhibition: The International Art Exhibition for Palestine, Beirut, 1978
6-6:30pm: Samit Das (Artist, Pernod Ricard Fellow 2017)
Idea of Excavation and Search of Visual Vocabulary

Program Saturday, May 27

at 9:45am: Doors open
10-12:30pm: Workshop « Around Marc Vaux »
with Nikita Yingqian Cai (Chief Curator, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China), Michelle Wong (Researcher, Asia Art Archive, Hong-Kong) and Camille Baudelaire (graphist designer)
12:30-2:30pm: Lunch break
Roundtable with:
2:30-3pm: Mathias Danbolt (Art Historian and Theoretician)
Political Deep Listening: Sonic Meditations on the Institutions of Critique and Questions of Repair
3-3:30pm: Sarah Rifky (by skype) (Co-Founder of Beirut & Founder of Cairo International Resource Center for Art, Cairo, Egypt)
beirut, beirut: state, scale, story
3:30-4pm: Gallien Déjean (Curator, Treize, Paris, France)
La Talvera
4-4:30pm: Break
4:30-5pm: Sumesh Sharma (Co-Founder, Clark House Initiative, Bombay, India)
When was the Era of the Conceptual Modern?
5-5:30pm: Guillaume Désanges (Independent Curator and Art Critic)
Other Histories: Curating as an Aesthetic and Historical Necessity
5:30-6pm: Neïl Beloufa (Artist)
Epimenides of crete, graucho marx, and us
6-6:30pm: Vanessa Desclaux (Curator, Teacher, Invited Curator at
La Galerie, CAC de Noisy-le-Sec, France) &
Géraldine Gourbe (Philosopher, taking part in the pro­gram of La Galerie, CAC de Noisy-le-Sec, France)
Problems of the Greek type: Institutional Critique by Amateurs

Program Sunday, May 28

at 2pm: Doors open
3-3:15pm: Presentation of the after­noon by Françoise Vergès (Political Scientist, “Global South(s)” Professorship, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris)
3:15-4pm: Discussion with: Stéphanie Airaud (Head of the Public Programs and Cultural Action, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France), Samia Amar Bensaber (teacher), Kader Attia (artist), Jean-François Boclé (artist), Marc Cheb Sun (writer and editor), Myriam Dao (artist), Véronique Decker (teacher), Corinne Digard (Founder and Director, Orange Rouge), Yo-Yo Gonthier (artist), Rabah Haouchene (Principal Educational Adviser), Miki Nitadori (artist), Timothy Perkins (artist, archi­tect, teacher, activist), Omar Slaouti (anti-racist activist), Sherine Soliman (teacher), and many others (artists, teachers, par­ents, edu­ca­tors, stu­dents and museum pro­fes­sionals).

More infor­ma­tion : info(at)villavas­silieff.net

This sym­po­sium is part of the 40th anniver­sary of the Centre Pompidou. It is the high­light of debates and dis­cus­sions that occurred in the con­text of the Autohistorias pro­gram that has been deployed in our two sites of activity; Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research and Villa Vassilieff, over the course of 2017.

This event is spon­sored by the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication and by ADAGP Society of the Authors of Graphic and Plastic Arts. The ADAGP man­ages the rights of authors working in the field of visual arts (painters, sculp­tors, pho­tog­ra­phers, draughtsmen, archi­tects, ...) and ded­i­cates part of the fees col­lected for pri­vate copying to the cre­ation and dis­sem­i­na­tion of works.