Klonaris/Thomadaki, Mystère II : Incendie de l’Ange [Mystery II: The Angel Ablaze], 1985, photo: Véronique Boutroux © Klonaris/Thomadaki et ADAGP, Paris, 2024.
Klonaris/Thomadaki, Mystère II : Incendie de l’Ange [Mystery II: The Angel Ablaze], 1985, photo: Véronique Boutroux © Klonaris/Thomadaki et ADAGP, Paris, 2024.
Conferences with Mathilde Collonges and Maud Jacquin, talk with Katerina Thomadaki and signing of recent publications
On November 5, 1985, at Galerie Donguy (Paris), Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, accompanied by guitarist Stéphane Nigard and cellist Hélène Bass, performed a multi-media work that inaugurated the Cycle de l’Ange [Angel Cycle]. Entitled Mystère II: Incendie de l’Ange [Mystery II: The Angel Ablaze], this extended cinema performance combined film and slide projections, text readings and musical improvisations to give body to the intersex Angel in their relationship to the cosmos and light. Later, this inaugural work also took the form of a sound work for a France Culture radio creation workshop (1986), then an artists’ book (1988) featuring images from the Angélophanies series (presented in the exhibition) printed in phototypesetting and accompanied by texts from the performance.
This event at Bétonsalon is dedicated to the presentation and analysis of this crucial work in the careers of both artists. Initially, Maud Jacquin, co-curator of the exhibition at Bétonsalon, will discuss the expanded cinema of Klonaris/Thomadaki, underlining the singularity of their contribution to this practice and will give a description and interpretation of the performance at Galerie Donguy. Following this, Mathilde Collonges, a film researcher and author of a thesis on the Cycle de l’Ange, will offer an analysis of the artists’ book in relation to various mystics.
An extract from the sound work Incendie de l’Ange will also be broadcasted.
The event will take place in the presence of Katerina Thomadaki, and will be followed by a signing of two recent works: the artist’s book Dark Shot and the DVD of Cycle de l’Ange edited by Re:Voir.
Maud Jacquin
Maud Jacquin is curator-at-large and researcher at Bétonsalon. Her PhD thesis, defended in 2013 at University College London, focused on the politics of narrative in feminist artists’ films, with a particular emphasis on the British scene of the 1970s and 1980s. In relation to this research and for the 50th anniversary of the London Filmmakers’ Co-op, she notably curated a program of films and performances devoted to women filmmakers of the Co-op held at Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London, and then at Anthology Film Archives, New York and the Glasgow Film Theatre. She has been collaborating with Katerina Thomadaki since the retrospective of Klonaris/Thomadaki’s films that they organized together at the Jeu de Paume in 2016.
Mathilde Collonges
Mathilde Collonges is in charge of film mediation in the Indre department. She has a degree in film studies from the Université Lumière Lyon 2, with a particular focus on experimental cinema and its formal practices. She wrote a research report on the filmic work of Barbara Hammer prior to her research on the Cycle de l’Ange by Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, which was presented publicly for the first time at the international colloquium French Cinema and the Challenge of Cinematic Genres (Genres Across Media) at the University of Pittsburgh in 2022.
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