Agenda

Upcoming :

16 September - 23 November
BnF | François Mitterrand, Research library
Exhibition, "Klonaris/Thomadaki: archives"
Access restricted to holders of a research library accreditation

Friday, 25 October, from 6pm to 8:30pm
Written with mittens: Writing workshop on and around, for, with, under and alongside art

Wednesday, 6 November at 6pm
Bestiario de Lengüitas (ed. K. Verlag) book launch and performance
With Mercedes Azpilicueta, Virginie Bobin and Emmanuelle Lafon
In collaboration with CAC Brétigny

Languages: French, English, Spanish. Simultaneous translation into French will be provided.

Bestiario de Lengüitas (Bestiary of Tonguelets) is a project by artist Mercedes Azpilicueta, in dialogue with curator Virginie Bobin. Born in Paris in 2017 during a residency at Villa Vassilieff, it has given rise to three exhibitions at CentroCentro in Madrid, Museion in Bolzano and CAC Brétigny near Paris, as well as a program on *Duuu radio and finally a trilingual publication (K. Verlag, Berlin, 2024). Following the thread of a script written by Mercedes Azpilicueta, the protagonists of Bestiario de Lengüitas try to maintain chaos and excess in a world calling for order, efficiency, and transparency. This evening will provide an opportunity to look back at the genesis of the project and the book, nourished by workshops, collaborations and rehearsals with artists, researchers, designers, dancers and singers, as well as multiple translation processes. Actress Emmanuelle Lafon, who has been with Bestiario since its inception, will perform excerpts from the script.

Mercedes Azpilicueta is a Buenos Aires-born artist who lives and works in Amsterdam. Her artistic practice brings together different characters from the past and present, addressing the vulnerability of a collective body from a decolonial feminist perspective. In a fluid mode of association, she creates connections that counter rigid narratives of history, striving to dismantle them to allow affective, dissident voices to emerge.

After ten years working in art centers and residencies in France and abroad (Villa Vassilieff, Bétonsalon - Centre d’art et de recherche, Witte de With, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Performa), Virginie Bobin now works independently and often collectively at the crossroads of curatorial and editorial practices, writing, pedagogy and translation. She is a co-founding member of the Qalqalah قلقلة platform and a PhD in artistic research (PhD-in-Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2023). Since 2024, she has been teaching socially engaged artistic practices at ESADHaR (Rouen).

Emmanuelle Lafon is an actress who also directs, writes and improvises, and is involved in long-term collective projects (F71 collective, Encyclopédie de la parole). She seeks to encounter different forms of writing – textual, sonic, plastic and physical - and to work on their performance – notably with Emilie Rousset, Maya Boquet and Louise Hémon, Thibaud Croisy, Joris Lacoste, Elise Chatauret, Vincent Thomasset, as well as Jean-Charles Massera, Jean-Yves Jouannais and Thierry Fournier.

Mercedes Azpilicueta: Bestiary of Tonguelets / Bestiario de Lengüitas / Bestiaire de petites langues — Processing Process. With essays by Mercedes Azpilicueta, Virginie Bobin, Simone Frangi, Elena Lespes Muñoz, Vanina Scovilano as well as a conversation between Mercedes Azpilicueta and Faye Campbell. English, Spanish, and French, K. Verlag Berlin, 2024.

Friday, 8 November, from 3pm to 4pm
BnF | François Mitterrand, research library
Discovery workshop of the Klonaris/Thomadaki Collection
Mandatory registration at publics@betonsalon.net

Thursday, 21 November, at 7pm
At Bétonsalon
Aron Barbier, “Trance, murmur. The communication of angels”
Conference-performance
As part of the Pride Festival held by the city halls of the 13th and 14th districts

Friday, 22 November, at 6pm
Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin at Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
The Angel Experience: screening of Requiem pour le XXe siècle (1994), Quasar (2002-2003) and Angel Scan (2007), Talk with Katerina Thomadaki and Émilie Renard

Saturday, 23 November
At Bétonsalon
At 3pm
Visit of the exhibition with Bétonsalon’s team and Maud Jacquin
At 5pm
“Fire of the Angel”, conferences with Mathilde Collonges and Maud Jacquin, Q&A with Katerina Thomadaki and signing of recent publications

Sunday, 24 November, at 2:30pm
Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin at Jeu de Paume
Extases: screening of Smoking (1975-2015), Flash Passion (1970), Sauro Bellini (1982) et Kha Les Embaumées du Cycle de l’Unheimlich (1979-80), Talk with Katerina Thomadaki and Maud Jacquin

Friday, 29 November, from 3pm to 6pm
Parties prenantes (Stakeholders): retrospectives on the history of Villa Vassilieff around the exhibition "Teo Hernandez: Shatter appearances" (2019)

Friday, 29 November, from 6pm to 8:30pm
Written with mittens: Writing workshop on and around, for, with, under and alongside art

Saturday 30 November, from 2:30pm to 4 :30pm
Venus, creative workshop on filmstrip, for adults, guided by the Braquage collective

Friday, 6 December, from 3pm to 4pm
BnF | François Mitterrand, research library
Discovery workshop of the Klonaris/Thomadaki Collection
Mandatory registration at publics@betonsalon.net

Friday, 6 December, from 6pm to 8:30pm
Written with mittens: Writing workshop on and around, for, with, under and alongside art

Wednesday, 11 December, from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Orlando, collage workshop, for families, from age 4, guided by Bétonsalon’s team

Wednesday, 11 December, from 6pm to 8pm
BnF| Richelieu, Conference room
Klonaris/Thomadaki, Night Show for Angel, the unfolded cinema
Conferences with Alex Chich and Katerina Thomadaki, introduced by Maud Jacquin

Wednesday, 11 December
At Université Paris Cité, Buffon lecture hall
Thick presents: Study day, science, art, fiction and science fiction
With the Centre des Politiques de la Terre and Université Paris Cité’s Culture Pole

Thursday, 12 December, at 6pm
At Villa Vassilieff - AWARE : Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions
“An Expanded Gaze: Klonaris/Thomadaki’s Super 8 Film Workshops”
Presentation of the 80s workshops by Catherine Bareau and Ana Bordenave.
Screening-performance of three films by Catherine Bareau.
Event produced with AWARE

Saturday, 14 December, from 6pm to 8pm
At Bétonsalon
Conference with Antoine Idier, conversation with Katerina Thomadaki, Vincent Enjalbert and Émilie Renard

Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 7-9pm
“Vidéo et après” cycle, New Media department, Centre Pompidou
at Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art (INHA) - Auditorium Jacqueline Lichtenstein
Klonaris/Thomadaki: Silence and sound
Katerina Thomadaki in conversation with Marie José Mondzain