Events
Past events
From September 20 to 25 – Student workshop
Collage d’Archives with Paris 8 university
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Wednesday, December 16, 6.30pm
Online event: Listening Session: Geographies of Sound
Conversation with Léopold Lambert, Robert Machiri and Euridice Zaituna Kala
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Saturday, December 19, 11am, at Villa Vassilieff –
Instagram Live: Le silence des archives
Conversation with Amandine Nana and Euridice Zaituna Kala
Inscription required by mail at : info(at)villavassilieff.net
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Student Workshop, Archive Collage with Paris 8 University
- Workshop from the 20th to the 25th of September 2020 - Euridice Zaituna Kala with fine arts Master’s students from Paris 8 University, Visit at the Villa Savoye
From September 20 to 25, Euridice Zaituna Kala invited students from Paris 8 University to immerse themselves in her work for the exhibition I, the Archive presented at Villa Vassilieff, in order to collect personal and collective stories. From urban wanderings, they were able to each create a sound piece, exploring their own area of interest.
The notion of otherness is at the heart of the artist’s work, and it is therefore in the relationship with others that the project is inscribed. Sound becomes the vibrating space between two bodies; the fragments of sound collected, modeled and merged, create a bridge between oneself and the other, making it possible to rethink the collective.
Working with a question: "how to build a world that suits me? ", The students have appropriated pieces of the city and left a part of themselves there.
The visits to Montparnasse, to the Villa Savoye, have led us on the traces of a past that can be guessed through a moving architecture, a living architecture. The archive is there, all around, revisited over time. It is inscribed in our intimate relationship with architecture, inviting us to merge with it, to become it, to be the archive.
All of the works made by the students during the workshop are available on the website made by the artist and the students.
- Workshop from the 20th to the 25th of September 2020 - Euridice Zaituna Kala with fine arts Master’s students from Paris 8 University, Work Session at Villa Vassilieff
- Workshop from the 20th to the 25th of September 2020 - Euridice Zaituna Kala with fine arts Master’s students from Paris 8 University, Sound recording at Villa Savoye
- Workshop from the 20th to the 25th of September 2020 - Euridice Zaituna Kala with fine arts Master’s students from Paris 8 University, Sound recording in front of Bal Blomet
Online Event – Listening Session: Geographies of Sound
Conversation between Léopold Lambert and Robert Machiri, moderated by Euridice Zaituna Kala.
Wednesday, December 16 at 6:30pm
On December 16, 2020 at 6:30 pm, Euridice Zaituna Kala will moderate an online conversation with Léopold Lambert, editor-in-chief of The Funambulist and Robert Machiri, co-creator of the collaborative project Pungwe. This time of discussion will be an opportunity for the participants to reflect on their projects and the how integral sound is in each other practices.
They will interrogate the geographies and the architecture of sound, exploring the political implications of sound and its relations with post-colonial and personal narratives. Are sounds inscribed in particular geographies? Where are we when we listen to the sounds of somewhere else?
The session will feature fragments of podcasts, infiltrating the conversation’s interstices in a way to propose a non-linear approach to listening, echoing with Euridice Zaituna Kala’s sound piece for her exhibition I, the Archive.
To register for the online conversation, click here.
The conversation will be in English.
Before the event, you are invited to listen to the following episodes:
The Funambulist
Podcast n°129 There Is Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in South Africa with Tshepo Madlingozi (in English)
Podcast série Quartiers Populaires n°7 Les potagers, Nanterres with Mabrouka Lahbaïri, Boubakar Mazari, Mogniss H. Abdallah and Cherif Cherfi (in French)
Pungwe
Listening to a listening, Pungwe, Capetown (in English)
Listening to a listening, Pungwe, Chalewote Accra, Ghana (in English)
About the participants
Léopold Lambert was trained as an architect and is the editor-in-chief of the English-speaking magazine The Funambulist, which he created in 2015. His research focuses on the political dimension of space and bodies in different geographical contexts, particularly in Palestine and within the French colonial continuum. He is the author of the books Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence (2012), Topie Impitoyable: Les politiques corporelles des vêtements, du mur et de la rue (2015) and La politique du bulldozer: La ruine palestinienne comme projet israélien (2016). His next book, États d’urgence: Une histoire spatiale du continuum colonial français, will be published in 2021 by Premiers matins de novembre (PMN).
The Funambulist is a magazine that engages with the politics of space and bodies. Our hope is to provide a useful platform where activist/academic/practitioner voices can meet and build solidarities across geographical scales. Through articles, interviews, artworks, and design projects, we are assembling an ongoing archive for anticolonial, antiracist, queer, and feminist struggles. The print and online magazine is published every two months and operates in parallel with an open-access podcast and a blog.
Robert Machiri, Chi aka Chimurenga (b. 1978 Robert in Zimbabwe) is a DJ and hoarder of things inspired by his music collection and interest in objects related to sound. Machiri is based in Johannesburg. His work exists at the juncture of two streams of practice; his curatorial concepts and a multi-disciplinary ideas that draw on de-colonial discourses presented through embodied critique, learning and unlearning, interweaving sound, music and image making. His most notable project PUNGWE is an inter-disciplinary project circling African soundings with related contemporary arts discourses and spaces. Pungwe has produced collaborative works PUNGWE NIGHTS, Listening to a listening at Pungwe and Sugar free///Pungwe. His current work is presented through a dialectic between object and subject, with inter-medial experiences of sound and image.
Listening to a Listening : A conversation between Memory Biwa and Robert Machiri , is a collaborative project where we re-listen to the use of voice, language, instruments, bodily movements and sound technology in recordings, both archival and contemporary. We activate these sonic moments through installations and performances, as a way of deconstructing colonial archival practices, re-positioning subjects, and re-orienting sonic practices from our regions. We propose new publics, so as to collectively hear/feel/create a new knowledge about the space and time in which we live.
Le silence des archive
Conversation with Amandine Nana and Euridice Zaituna Kala
Saturday, December 19, 11am
Instagram Live
On the 19th of December at 11am, join Euridice Zaituna Kala and Amandine Nana on Instagram for a conversation around the exhibition I, the Archive, where they will share experiences and conceptual approaches on the matter of history’s neglected black genealogies. This discussion time will be an occasion to go back to Euridice Zaituna Kala’s work on the Marc Vaux archive. Of which (hi)story is this photographic archive the name of and why did it spark her interest? Which protocols and research methods did she set up? Does this work of rereading through marginalized (hi)stories really subvert the power of the center? They will also touch upon questions around the black models and the anonymized black subjects whom the artist met during her research, and how she is looking to give them back a form of agency, intertwining the archives’ silences with her personal (hi)story.
To participate, register at : info(at)villavassilieff.net
The conversation will be in French
Amandine Nana is an independent author, curator and editor based in Paris. Winner of the Prix Dauphine pour l’art contemporain 2020, she created Transplantation, a rhizomatic entity that is at the same time an improvised production/publication/dissemination organ, and archive which context includes diasporic practices and objects, joining her personal investigation on critical black grammars. In parallel, she studies art history at ENS Ulm and Paris 1 and at the Urban School of Science Po Paris.
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