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    Tuesday September 19

    11am
    Life of Plants
    Daily care of Villa Vassilieff’s plants. Coffee and tea will be served.

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    11am – 5pm
    MUSEUM OF/AS RESISTANCE (TIMELINE)
    Workshop & public pre­sen­ta­tion

    With par­tic­i­pants in the MA Curatorial Practice pro­gramme, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, including Sara Greavu, Torill Østby Haaland, Rick Herron, Rose Jepkorir Kiptum, Tatiana Lozano, Mack McFarland, Eszter Szakács, Tove Aadland Sørvåg, Hanns Lennart Wiesner and Associate Professor Anne Szefer Karlsen. Guest: Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez

    The work­shop and public pre­sen­ta­tion are sup­ported by Curatorial Practice, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen.

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    1pm – 2pm
    Collective Lunch

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    6 - 9pm
    LAUNCHING OF LA PERMANENCE
    COCKTAILS, PLAYLIST & POTTED PLANTS

    Wednesday September 20

    11am – 1pm
    Ghost Marmalade
    Organized by Council
    (by invi­ta­tion only)

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    1pm – 2pm
    Collective Lunch

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    1 – 4pm
    Work meet­ings

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    2.30 – 4.30 pm
    Children drawing work­shop
    (reg­is­tra­tion is closed)

    Thursday September 21

    1pm – 2pm
    Collective Lunch

    Friday September 22

    10.30am – 6.30pm
    Work meet­ings

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    1pm – 2pm
    Collective Lunch

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    5-7pm
    Feeling Uneasy - On Aesthetics of Transgression
    Projection and dis­cus­sion orga­nized by Marie Sophie Beckmann (Goethe Institut Fellow 2017)

    "Since there is no after­life, the only hell is the hell of praying, obeying laws, and debasing your­self before authority fig­ures, the only heaven is the heaven of sin, being rebel­lious, having fun, fucking, learning new things and breaking a many rules as you can. This act of courage is known as trans­gres­sion.“ (Nick Zedd, The Cinema of Transgression Manifesto, 1985)
    An intro­duc­tion to the films, writ­ings, music, and art that arose from New York’s under­ground cul­ture of the 1980s and an invi­ta­tion to dis­cussing trans­gres­sion and excess as strate­gies of resis­tance.

    Saturday September 23

    11am – 12.30
    COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION IN NATURE
    Talk and dis­cus­sion with Jean-Philippe Varin (animal trainer)
    How can ani­mals and plants behaviour serve as models to ame­lio­rate the way we work and com­mu­ni­cate ? In French.

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    1pm – 2pm
    Collective Lunch

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    3 – 4.45pm
    Discussion with Flora Katz     (art critic, curator and researcher)
    On the role and methods of artists and cura­tors to address iden­tity pol­i­tics within the art insti­tu­tion. In French.

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    5 – 7pm
    Engaging as Intellectuals: A problem from the 20th cen­tury – what about today ?
    Discussion with Patrice Maniglier (philoso­pher)
    In French.

    Tuesday September 26

    1pm – 2pm
    Collective Lunch

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    4 – 6pm
    Conversation with Leopold Lambert     (The Funambulist), Sinthujan Varatharajah (doc­toral stu­dent in polit­ical geog­raphy) and Eve Chabanon (artist). In English.

    The Funambulist is a printed and online magazine asso­ci­ated to a blog and a pod­cast, which are all ded­i­cated to exam­ining "the pol­i­tics of space and bodies." Every two months, a new issue pro­poses texts, pho­tographs, maps, and stu­dent pro­jects around a cer­tain topic. The magazine started in September 2015 and has recently pub­lished its thir­teen issue, ded­i­cated to "Queers, Feminists & Interiors."

    Léopold Lambert is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist and the author of three books ded­i­cated to the polit­ical instru­men­tal­iza­tion of archi­tec­ture’s intrinsic vio­lence, in par­tic­ular in Palestine and in the French colo­nial con­tinuum.

    Sinthujan Varatharajah is a doc­toral stu­dent in polit­ical geog­raphy at University College London. He is the founder of Roots of Diaspora, a mul­ti­media sto­ry­telling pro­ject on refugee­hood and migra­tion.

    Wednesday September 27

    11am – 3pm
    Work meet­ings
    The audi­ence is invited to eave­drop the team’s work meet­ings.

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    1pm – 2pm
    Collective Lunch

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    7.30 – 10pm
    Disputing the urban « friche »
    Screening of the doc­u­men­tary film La friche by Magali Roucaut, fol­lowed by a dis­cus­sion with Saskia Sassen (soci­ol­o­gist), Magali Roucaut (film-maker), Catherine Visser (archi­tect), Sébastien Penfornis (archi­tect). In French.
    More infor­ma­tion here.

    This event was con­ceived by Catherine Visser in the frame of her research in Paris for the Global Street pro­ject led by Saskia Sassen within chaire Villes Globales at the Collège d’études mon­di­ales, FMSH. With the sup­port of Collège d’études mon­di­ales, FMSH.

    Thursday September 28

    1 – 6pm
    Make A Living
    With Alessandro Gallicchio (PhD in History of Contemporary Art) and Magali Le Mens (Lecturer in Contemporary Art History in University of Geneva)

    Make A Living is a col­lec­tive expe­ri­ence which try to dis­cover, explore and ana­lyze dif­ferent models of resis­tance. Starting with the his­tor­ical example of Montparnasse and the School of Paris, we will develop a diachronic reflec­tion on evoca­tive power of
    micro­his­tory. Examples of ban­quets, par­ties and sales will be dis­cussed as inti­mate and joyful strate­gies of sur­vival.

    Seating is lim­ited. Please book     at the Villa’s recep­tion desk, at +33 1 43 25 88 32 or via email : publics (at) villavas­silieff (dot) net

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    1pm – 2pm
    Collective Lunch
    Make A Living / Marie Vassilieff’s Canteen
    Reactivating Marie Vassilieff’s Banquet (a pro­posal by Alessandro Gallicchio)
    Seating is lim­ited. Please book at the Villa’s recep­tion desk, at +33 1 43 25 88 32 or via email : publics (at) villavas­silieff (dot) net

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    2 – 3pm
    Make A Living / Talk : Geography of the Crisis

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    3 – 6pm
    Make A Living / Montparnasse Walkspace

    Friday September 29

    1pm – 2pm
    Collective Lunch

    Saturday September 30

    11am – 1pm
    Work meet­ings
    The audi­ence is invited to eave­drop the team’s work meet­ings.

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    1pm – 2pm
    Collective Lunch

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    5 - 6pm
    RANDO TRAM

    More infor­ma­tion here.

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    5 - 7pm
    No hos­pi­tality, but Bar
    A pro­posal by Atsushi Sugita (art critic, director of ’art & river bank’ (alter­na­tive space in Tokyo), pro­fessor at Joshibi univ. of art and design)

    "This bar has been opened in Japan a few times. Its pur­pose is to create a place where to talk to each other more casu­ally, like in a back stage, at a bus sta­tion, on the street, in a ’bar’ and so on. "It ends just only making sit­u­a­tions of being together" is pointed out in some crit­i­cisms of rela­tional aes­thetics. Is it cor­rect? In for­eign coun­tries, we some­times sit in a restau­rant sur­rounded by people speaking in a lan­guage we don’t know. They rec­og­nize us, and so do we. Isn’t it mean­ingful? On the con­trary, we can ask, "Do gath­ered people have to do any­thing?" Maurice Blanchot said, when com­mu­ni­ties want to be func­tional, it will start rot­ting. Alphonso Lingis thought about the pos­si­bility of a com­mu­nity of people who don’t have any­thing in common. We have to rethink ’togeth­er­ness’ from other view points. This is what the bar will be for. There is no hos­pi­tality, but a bar. And only some orig­inal cock­tails are served. It’s a kind of trigger for con­ver­sa­tions or silences. Please forget the com­mu­ni­ties that you are joining now and imagine that you are one for­eigner…"
    Atsushi Sugita