Presentation, readings and discussion at Bétonsalon and the Pernod Ricard Foundation.
La Part affective by Sophie Orlando (Paraguay Press)
A chronicle of the recent transformations of art schools, from the point of view of a teacher, at a time when these spaces are both threatened by increasingly fragile and uncertain public policy management, and at the same time more than ever spaces where the word opens up, practices change and art finds itself in direct contact with the most avant-garde movements in society.
Pour des écoles d’art féministes ! (ESACM and Tombolo Presses)
A collective manifesto for feminist art schools.
Bringing a series of intersectional feminist lectures, interviews, workshops and discussion groups back to an art school is crucial to sharing tools for emancipation and challenging the implicit criteria that structure our views and practices (identification with Western visual norms, romantic-capitalist representations of the artist-author, etc.). It is vital to give a voice to artists and those who support them in the ways in which they deal with, and even elude, relations of power.
The primary aim of this book is to share the content hosted and produced at the École Supérieure d’Art de Clermont Métropole between 2017 and 2022. It is also an opportunity to work with a group of students, artists and researchers, to think about how invitations and the production of the book can be drawn up collectively; it is a tool for collective and ideally horizontal pedagogical work within a hierarchical and hierarchizing institution. The invitations, transcription and editing of the texts were done jointly.
Launch of the book La Part affective (Paraguay Press) by Sophie Orlando and conversation with Émilie Renard and Elena Lespes Muñoz.
And for parents coming with their children, in parallel, “Beep beep!”: flipbook workshop, for children aged 5 and over.
Launch of Pour des écoles d’art féministes!, collective book co-published by ESACM and Tombolo Presses.
Presentation, readings, discussion, and stamping of the books with Sophie Lapalu, Michèle Martel, and Clémentine Palluy in charge of editorial coordination as well as contributors: T*Félixe Kazi-Tani, Gærald Kurdian, Vinciane Mandrin, Sophie Orlando, Émilie Renard, and Liv Schulman.
Sophie Orlando
Sophie Orlando is an art historian, researcher for “Black Artists and Modernism” (AHRC funded project based at UAL / Middlesex University, London) and associate professor of theory and contemporary art history at the National Art School, Villa Arson, in Nice. As a specialist in British art and in particular British Black Art, she has published in La revue de l’art, and Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne. Her article “Artistic categories and the Situation of Utterance, the Period from 1989 to 1994 in Great Britain”, appeared in the magazine Critical Interventions: Journal of Art History and Visual Culture (#12, 2013). She was also curator for an exhibition on the British artist Sonia Boyce, at the Villa Arson in January 2016.
In collaboration with Pernod Ricard Foundation.