OTHER GESTURES : USES OF HERITAGE #2 - About the Marc Vaux Archives, and other investigations
OTHER GESTURES : USES OF HERITAGE #2
About the Marc Vaux Archives, and other investigations
Friday May 13 and Saturday May 14
At Villa Vassilieff and Centre Pompidou
Continuing the enquiries addressed in the first eponymously titled seminar at Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research in 2014, Other Gestures: Uses of Heritage #2 (The Marc Vaux Archives and other investigations), continues to examine the modalities of creating, storing, circulation and interpretation of archives and heritage — notably through digitization. The seminar invites curators, artists, researchers and others interested in examining the issues raised in the Marc Vaux Archives to share methodologies, practices and research; as well as questions and doubts encountered when working towards activating art histories and rethinking the relationships between heritage and the concerns of our present—both in and beyond the institution.The role of photography—as a heritage object, as a document, as a witness, as an artwork, and as an evidence —is at the heart of the seminar, understood within a series of enquiries. Imagined as a truant, the seminar will move from one place to another (archives of museums, exhibition spaces, cinemas…) from one image to another, from one story to another, in an an attempt to imagine other gestures and other usages of heritage that are inseparable from our present.
- Séminaire "D’autres gestes : usages des patrimoines #2"
Friday May 13
2pm – 3pm: Visit of the exhibition Groupe Mobile at Villa Vassilieff
With Virginie Bobin and Mélanie Bouteloup (co-curators of the exhibition) and Ellie Armon Azoulay (associate researcher of the exhibition)
The visit will discuss certain investigations realized from and around the Marc Vaux Archives, as well as the way in which the Archives can be invested and updated by researchers and participating artists.
Languages: French / English
3pm – 4pm: Images Studies
3pm – 3:20pm: Ellie Armon Azoulay (researcher associated to the exhibition) : “Navigating in the Archive, gestures, materiality and intuition ». Through some pictures drawn from the Archives and linked to the participants, Ellie Armon Azoulay will discuss question of access not as a right to enter, but as an challenge while facing the excessiveness. How to find point of entries, how to by pass hierarchy and cannon, how to give presence to forgotten memory or anonymity ?
Languages: French / English
3:20pm – 3:40pm: Laura Benhayoun, Gabriela Lupu, Livia Melzi and Julio Perestrelo, students in the Photography & contemporary art Master from Paris 8 University will present some thoughts about exhibition photography, by playing with Suki Seokyeong Kang’s artwork Jeong 井 (2014-2015), shown in Groupe Mobile.
Language: French
3:40pm - 4pm : Florian Kleinefenn (photographer) : « Photography seen as transport, a decoy of objectiveness ? ». Through his own observations on relationships between artworks, artists and photographers, made during his professional career as a photographer, Florian Kleinefenn will offer reflections about objectiveness, expected standards, the artist will to possess his work, photogeny, glibness and total subjectivity.
Language: French
4pm – 4:20pm: Discussion
4:20pm – 4:30pm: Break
4:30pm – 5:30pm: Presentation of investigations on the fictional artist Sophie La Rosière
By Iris Häussler (artist), Catherine Sicot (curator), Michel Menu (head of the research department, C2RMF) and Philip Monk (director, Art Gallery of York University). With the participation of students from the European Academy of Art in Bretagne Brest-Lorient-Quimper-Rennes.
The project Sophie La Rosière, initiated by the artist Iris Häussler is rooted in the history of Parisian modernity: the fictional artist lived in Paris in the early twentieth century, where she frequented the sisters Jeanne and Madeleine Smith, founders of the National Foundation for Graphic and Plastic Arts (which holds a notable photographic collection). For the project, Iris Häussler gathers various experts (art historians, curators, conservationists), to discuss the artist Sophie La Rosière, assessing the evidence of her existence, employing methodologies within the canon of art history to design the contours of this fictitious artist. This discussion will bring forward the character of Sophie La Rosière and investigate the way fiction can turn into a methodology for art history.
Language: French (to be confirmed)
5:30pm – 6pm: Bahman Mohassess : 60 Pieces of a Lost Body
By Morad Montazami (Art historian, curator, researcher of art from the Middle East and the Maghreb at the Tate Modern)
Presentation of Mitra Faharani’s film Fifi hurle de joie (2013) about the iranian artist Bahman Mohassess, and of Morad Montazami’s book about the artist and his work.
Bahman Mohassess (1931-2010), painter, sculptor, and director, was a mythical figure of modern art in Iran. One of the only artists in his generation to explore the human body, Mohassess did so in the face of the criticism of progress and the fetishism of destruction existing in this time. How then can this spirit of iconoclasm plunge us into an archeological investigation — as a way to edit an approximate body of works around which the artist claimed a right of life and death. We have attempted, if not to answer this enquiry, to at least put ourselves to the test, following the anti-retrospective exhibition, organized in Tehran in May 2015, entitled Bahman Mohasses: 60 Pieces of a Lost Body.
Languages: French / English
6pm – 7pm: Discussion and drinks
8pm – 10pm: Projection of Fifi Hurle de Joie by Mitra Farahani, followed by a discussion with Mitra Farahani (artist) and Morad Montazami (Art historian, curator, researcher of art from the Middle East and the Maghreb at the Tate Modern).
Fifi hurle de joie (2013) shows the two last months of the legendary Iranian artist Bahman Mohassess’ life. This curious contemporary Diogene is preparing to accomplish his last artwork after a thirty years voluntary exile. This work was commissioned by two admirors, Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh – themselves renown contemporary artists. The plot gradually converges to the story of this “unknown masterpiece”.
Language: Farsi, subtitled in French.
Offsite: at cinema Les 7 Parnassiens (98, bd du Montparnasse).
Full price : 9.80 and 8.80 € - Half price : 7.20 €
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- Séminaire "D’autres gestes : usages des patrimoines #2"
Saturday May 14
2:30pm – 5:30pm: Law, access and usages of heritage
2:30pm – 3:30pm: Elaine Lin (collection manager, Asia Art Archive) (including 10 minutes for questions) :
Kaleidoscopic Contemporary: the case of Asia Art Archive Collection
In 2012, Asia Art Archive (AAA) published its second issue of e-journal Fieldnotes, proposing the archive as a method to illustrate the way in which initiatives are taking it to counter, complicate, and reimagine systems in which narratives of modern and contemporary art are being produced, circulated and understood. If archive is a method, what methodologies can one adopt to tease out these multiple narratives amidst the pool of data and memories? How can archive be generative? This presentation will prompt these questions with case studies from AAA’s collection.
Language: English (a translation to French will be offered)
3:30pm – 4:30pm : Sumesh Sharma (curator, Clark House Initiative) (including 10 minutes for questions). “Mythmaking to decode Visual Archives »: how do we read an animate archives without those in it to tell the story ?
Language: English (a translation to French will be offered)
4:30pm – 5:30pm: Conclusion of the seminar, by Arno Gisinger (photographer) and Virginie Bobin (head of programs, Villa Vassilieff) - followed by a discussion
Language: French (a translation to English will be offered)
5:30pm – 7pm : Discussion and drinks
- Séminaire "D’autres gestes : usages des patrimoines #2"
- Séminaire "D’autres gestes : usages des patrimoines #2"
- Séminaire "D’autres gestes : usages des patrimoines #2"
PARTICIPANTS
Ellie Armon Azoulay - researcher
Writer and a researcher, born 1987 (Paris, FR). Her research evolves around different archives while using variety of historical approaches and experimental forms of visual research. She studied history and philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and she is currently completing an MRes in Exhibition Studies in Central Saint Martin, London. In 2016 she was associate researcher at Villa Vassilieff. Between 2009-2014 she was an art correspondent for Haaretz newspaper (IL) and she still is freelance writer for various art magazines and publications. As an independent curator, she initiated in 2013 a conference and series of short documentary films by artists for television dealing with the idea of journalism within contemporary art. She is currently based in Paris (FR) and recently published Local Wind, an essay book about catalogues and books published by Israeli artists in the 1970s and 1980s (Tel Aviv: Public School Editions, 2014).
Mitra Farahani - artist
Born in Iran, she works between Paris and Roma. Former student of the ENSAD in Paris, her first documentary Juste une femme focuses on a transsexual person in Teheran and has been selected for Berlin’s festival in 2002. In 2004, she directed a documentary about love and sexuality in Iran ; in 2006, Behjat Sadr : le temps suspendu revolves around a major figure of the Iranian modernity. Her last film, Fifi hurle de joie (2013) has been selected in Berlin’s festival, won the SCAM Prize (cinema du Réel) and the Grand Prize of La Rochelle’s documentary film festival in 2014. Her sort-film David et Goliath n°45 (filmed at Villa Borghese in Roma) and her drawings serie were shown in the exhibition United (2014) at Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris and at MAXXI in Roma. In 2015, she developed her on-going project A Vendredi Robinson at Académie de France à Rome, Villa Médicis.
Iris Häussler - artist
Born in Germany in 1962, Iris Häussler graduated from the Fine Arts Academy of Munich and currently is based in Toronto, Canada. Häussler’s immersive installations trace the tension between history, imagination and memory. Through detailed accounts of fictitious stories, Häussler plays with the boundary of reality and fiction, underscoring the temporal weave of history.
Florian Kleinefenn - photographer
Born in Germany, Florian Kleinefenn is a photographer who lives and works Paris. Specialized in recording art, architecture and theatre, he works frequently for major French and international institutions. Recently, he also produced social reportages for industrial museums such as Musée des Beaux Arts et de la Dentelle de Calais and Musée de la Mine de Saint-Etienne. His artistic productions were exhibited at De Appel (Amsterdam), Dokumenta 8 (Kassel), Berlinische Galerie (Berlin) or Villa Gillet (Lyon).
Elaine Lin - Collection Manager, Asia Art Archive
Graduated from University College London (UCL) and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) with a history of art degree, Elaine Lin joined Asia Art Archive (AAA) in 2010 and over the years moderated the organisation’s numerous archival initiatives in the region, as well as the development of both the library and archival collection. Lin has given digital archiving workshops in Hong Kong and in Yangon, Myanmar.
Morad Montazami – art historian
Adjunct research-curator at Tate Modern for the Middle East and North Africa, supported by the Iran Heritage Foundation, he is the author of several essays on artists such as Jeremy Deller, Jordi Colomer, Allan Sekula, Farid Belkahia, Eric Baudelaire, Walid Raad, Hamed Abdalla Farid Belkahia, Bahman Mohassess, Behjat Sadr, Francis Alÿs, Zineb Sedira. He was a co-curator for the exhibition Unedited History: IRAN 1960-2014 at Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris and MAXXI, Rome in 2014-2015 ; and a curator for the exhibition Fugitive Volumes : Faouzi Laatiris and the Institut national des beaux-arts de Tétouan at the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat, 2016. He runs the journal Zamân as well as the publishing house ZAMAN BOOKS, which covers Middle Eastern and North African studies, visual culture, modern and contemporary art.
Sumesh Sharma - curator
Sumesh Sharma co-founded the Clark House Initiative in Bombay in 2010, where he presently is the curator along with being the invited curator to the biennale of African contemporary art - Dak’Art 2016 (Senegal). His practice deals with alternate histories that are informed by the Black Arts movement, Socio-Economics, Immigration in the Francophone and Vernacular Equalities of Modernism. He will curate a project at the Showroom (London) and the Centre George Pompidou in 2017 and this year at the Athr Gallery in Jeddah and the New Gallery in Paris. He has curated exhibitions at the Kadist Art Foundation (Paris), Para Site (Hong Kong), Villa Vassilieff (Paris) and Stedelijk Museum Bureau (Amsterdam). He has been a resident at Manifesta Online Residency, San Art (Vietnam), Cité des Arts (Paris), and was the ICI Fellow for Senegal in 2014.
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