Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 6:00 PM
Launch of the book : A pragmatic poetics – Reflections on the work of franck leibovici
at Villa Vassilieff – Pernod Ricard Fellowship
Free Entrance
Talk with : Rahma Khazam (editor and author), David Zerbib (author), Julien Seroussi (co-author with franck leibovici of bogoro), Adrien Ledoux et Maxime Matias (graphic designers, Rimasùu studio), Rebecca Dolinsky (artist), Patricia Brignone (art historian and art critic).
franck leibovici’s projects involve the most heterogeneous disciplines and materials. For example, Bogoro is a book of experimental poetry also used as a textbook in law seminars. Others of his works apply protocols or notation systems from music, dance or science studies to poems of war, among other materials.
A pragmatic poetics – Reflections on the work of franck leibovici Art critic Rahma Khazam brings together a heterogeneous collection of authors (Rahma Khazam, Raphael Cuir, David Zerbib, Yaël Kreplak, Virginie Bobin) offering a variety of interpretations on the work of artist and poet franck leibovici.
Daily Program :
Introduction by Rahma Khazam, editor and author
Talk with David Zerbib, author
Talk with Julien Seroussi, co-author with franck leibovici of Bogoro
Talk with the graphic designers Adrien Ledoux and Maxime Matias (Rimasùu studio)
Reading by Rebecca Dolinsky, artist
"This book is the latest in a series of publications produced on the occasion of the annual AICA France Award for Art Criticism, which we launched in 2013. It is the fifth book in a voluntarily heterogeneous series, our aim being that each publication should reflect the intentions of the prize winner, working in collaboration with the selected artist, whatever those intentions might be.
The art critic Rahma Khazam is the winner of the 5th edition of the AICA France Award for Art Criticism (2017). The book reflects the way in which she wanted to approach the work of Franck Leibovici, the artist whose work she presented at the Pecha Kucha at the Palais de Tokyo. She decided to commission texts from a range of authors in order to offer readers a variety of interpretations on the work of Franck Leibovici.
Art criticism may be defined as the interpretation of works of art, in the sense that art critics translate the artwork into a structured language, only ever providing one interpretation among many potential others. As Michel Foucault used to say, since Nietzsche, Freud and Marx, interpretation has become an infinite task. We always interpret an interpretation. The late Arthur Danto went a step further when he affirmed in The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art: “If interpretations are what constitute works, there are no works without them”. The Nietzschean Marcel Duchamp put it yet another way when he famously stated that it is the viewer who makes the artwork.
It is no coincidence that the texts gathered here by Rahma Khazam, including her own, offer complementary approaches to franck leibovici’s work. Indeed, his pieces highlight the vertiginous wealth of interpretations opened up by the infinitude of a task open, as Georges Didi-Hubermanputs it, to all the winds of meaning. It is thus important to underline, with Yaël Kreplak, that franck leibovici is as much an artist as an art theorist. If art critics interpret works of art that are themselves an interpretation of the artist’s thought interpreting his imagination and/or the real, then the work of franck leibovici, as shown in the texts gathered here, deploys a kind of heuristics of the mise en abyme of the work of the art critic and of the artist. I basically agree with Bruno Latour’s statement that the art critic is the friend of interpretable objects—a statement that we can also apply to artists."
Raphael Cuir
- {A pragmatic poetics – Reflections on the work of Franck Leibovici}, Les presses du réel, 2018
A pragmatic poetics – Reflections on the work of franck leibovici, Les presses du réel, 2018 :
Edited by Rahma Khazam.
Preface by Raphael Cuir.
Texts by Rahma Khazam, David Zerbib, Yaël Kreplak, Virginie Bobin.
Graphic design: Rimasùu studio.
Published with AICA France.
Published in June 2018
Bilingual edition (English / French)
14 x 21 cm (hardcover, cloth binding)
224 pages (b/w ill.)
For this occasion, the book will be available for sale at the cost of 15 euros.
Dr. Rahma Khazam is a researcher, art historian and art critic. She received her Ph.D. in aesthetics and art theory from the Sorbonne Paris I, having previously studied philosophy and art history. Her research interests span contemporary art and architecture, contemporaneity, modernism, image theory, speculative realism and sound art. She has published numerous essays and articles in exhibition catalogues, specialized journals, edited volumes and contemporary art magazines such as Frieze and Springerin, organised or co-organised conferences on the relations between art and architecture or art and politics and regularly presents papers at international conferences. She is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) and EAM (European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies) and received the AICA France Award for Art Criticism in 2017.
franck leibovici (born 1975, lives and works in Paris) is a poet and artist. He has participated in various events, in France and abroad, and collaborates with different artists or researchers, including the Brazilian sculptor Ernesto Neto or the musician Tal.
Patricia Brignone is a historian and art critic, with a keen interest in scenic practices at the crossroads of various disciplines. This is evident not only in many of her articles for artpress, Mouvement, Critique d’Art, but also in works such as Ménagerie de Verre, Nouvelles pratiques du corps scénique (edn. Al Dante, 2006); Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes (Villa Arson, Les presses du réel, 2009); Du dire au faire (edn. Museum of the MAC / VAL of Vitry-sur-Seine, 2012); La performance : vie de l’archive et actualité (edn. Les presses du réel, 2013); Uchronia - Duplicate Do not create - Infiltrate - Do not exhibit ..., Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet [the people of Uterpan], (Sternberg Press, 2017) and many collaborations with Esther Ferrer (including Esther Ferrer, MAC / VAL - Frac Bretagne -2014 or Todas las variaciones son válidas, incluida esta, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid 2017-2018). Co-curator of the exhibition SIGMA at the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux (2013-2014), she is also co-author of a film, along with Pascale Cassagnau, around the artists of the gallery Eric Fabre: La parade des objets.
She also teaches history and the theory of the arts at the Grenoble School of Art and Design.
Rebecca Dolinsky, a multidisciplinary artist born in New York, works between text and image. She creates networks of artists, for whom she imagines performances and creative acts.
www.rebeccadolinsky.com
Rimasùu, based in Paris, is a multidisciplinary creative studio specializing in graphic design and photography. Founded in 2014 by Maxime Matias and Adrien Ledoux, the studio works with cultural institutions and private partners in the fields of art and culture in order to offer new narratives. The form, alternately photographic, typographic, editorial or scenographic, confronts the sense and the aesthetics to build a sincere response.
Rimasùu collaborated with the AICA, the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, the School of Arts Déco, the publisher Corraini, ENAMOMA, and was awarded the artistic residency "Création en Cours" in 2017. The works of the studio were exhibited at the ZweiDrei Raum (Berlin), the Grand Perfume Museum and the Museum of Decorative Arts (Paris), and at the Stroom (The Hague).
www.rimasuu.com
Julien Seroussi is a doctor of sociology and associate professor of social sciences. He began to take an interest in international criminal justice as part of his thesis on the legal and political battles surrounding the definition of the universal jurisdiction of national judges. After an experience at the International Criminal Court from 2009 to 2012, today he continues his career in the "Genocide, Crime Against Humanity and War Crimes" division of the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris. His research has been the subject of many articles in France and abroad, published in Critique Internationale, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, L’Année sociologique, as well as in collective volumes such as Lawyers and the Construction of International Justice (Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth, eds., Routledge, 2012).
David Zerbib is a philosophy of art lecturer at the HEAD (Geneva School of Art and Design), as well as a coordinator of the Research Unit of the School of Art of Annecy Alps (ESAAA). He also works with the Center of Contemporary Philosophy of the Sorbonne (PhiCo / CEPA: Aesthetic Culture and Philosophy of Art) of the University of Paris 1, and is a member of the AICA (International Association of Art Critics) . His research focuses on the principles of the contemporary aesthetic theory, and in particular on the questions of performance and format. He recently published Performance Knots: Crossed Threads of Anglo-American Thought and French Theory in Inter Views in Performance Philosophy. Crossings and Conversations, A. Street, J. Alliot and M. Pauker (Eds.), (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and co-edited Performance Studies in Motion, International Perspectives and Practices (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014). He also overlooked the publication of In octavo. Des formats de l’art (Presses du réel / ESAAA, 2015).
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