Hosted by Susie Richard and Elena Lespes Muñoz, in collaboration with the Crédac
In person and online via Zoom
In this time when the Olympic Games are bringing to a climax the heroism of able-bodied, high-performance bodies, and the Paralympics are incensing resilience at every turn, what representations of disabled people are at work in our society? And what about art institutions? From creation to public reception, how can bodies that are permeable and porous, vulnerable and disabled, open up new perspectives for thinking about the collective, interdependence and attention to self and others?
Ostensible
Ostensible was founded by Lucie Camous (curator, artist, researcher) and No Anger (researcher, artist, author), both of whom are directly concerned with disability. Ostensible is a research-creation structure active in the fields of disability, crip studies and contemporary art. With an approach that blends curating and research, it promotes a new approach to disability that transcends any medical prism. Ostensible was in residency at Crédac for a year in 2023-2024 and is curating an upcoming group show at CRAC, a contemporary art center in Sète in September 2024.
No Anger
No Anger is a researcher and holds a PhD in political science, with their thesis Défier la sexualisation du regard. An analysis of the FEMEN and post-porn protest movements, focusing on the relationship between artistic work on the body and political protest. Their research focuses on the effects of hegemonic imaginaries on the practices and subjectivities of social actors, and the ways in which artists and activists transform the structures of dominant imaginaries. They’re also an author, notably through their blog À mon geste défendant, where they highlight the social oppressions they experience on a daily basis in order to participate in antivalidist struggles. No Anger is also developing an artistic practice of dance and writing, through which they exploit the possibility of artistically reinventing their disabled body, notably with Quasimodo aux miroirs (MAC-VAL, 2018). Finally, they are the winner of the Prix Utopi-e 2023.
Lucie Camous
In their artistic and curatorial practice, Lucie Camous adopts a political point of view and situates themselves at the crossroads of artistic, theoretical, and militant forms. Mechanisms of power, dynamics of resistance, and situated knowledge are the notions that question and fuel all their artistic commitments. Their approach, rooted in intimate narratives, revolves around norms, their boundaries, and the sensitive issues involved in crossing them. Experimentation and the development of collective work practices thus structure the writing of all their projects. In 2019, they co-founded Modèle vivant·e (with Hélène Fromen and Linda DeMorrir), an experimental, transfeminist collective for drawing and dissident representations. Lucie Camous is a member of CEA – Association française des commissaires d’exposition, REHF – Réseau d’Etudes Handi-Féministe, and currently an editor at Artagon Pantin
