Events
If you require the presence of a foreign or sign language interpreter, please let us know at least 4 days ahead of the event that interests you, at the following e-mail address:
publics@betonsalon.net
Saturday, July 23, from 5 to 6pm
Discussion between Tiphaine Calmettes, Émilie Renard and Mathilde Belouali-Dejean
After more than two months of opening and nearly 2000 mugs of herbal tea, kombucha or soup served, this discussion will be an opportunity to look back on the transformations of the exhibition over time, on the attention and teamwork it required on a daily basis, and on what it produced as a sensitive experience, which unfolds and extends in bodies beyond the walls of Bétonsalon.
Partial view of the exhibition "Primordial Soup" by Tiphaine Calmettes, Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research, 2022 © Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo: Pierre Antoine.
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Thursday, June 9, from 6 to 8pm
Living ecologies, deviant ecologies
Discussion between Cy Lecerf Maulpoix and Julie Sermon
Julie Sermon and Cy Lecerf Maulpoix are the authors of two books, published in 2021, which cross ecology with other practices and fields of research: performing arts (Julie Sermon, Morts ou vifs. Pour une écologie des arts vivants, éditions B42, 2021) and LGBTQI struggles (Cy Lecerf Maulpoix, Écologies déviantes. Voyage en terres queer, Cambourakis, 2022).
Within the exhibition Primordial Soup by Tiphaine Calmettes at Bétonsalon, they will discuss their approaches and methodologies, and put their work into perspective with the issues and sometimes the contradictions of contemporary artistic practices.
Partial view of the exhibition Primordial Soup by Tiphaine Calmettes, Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research, 2022 © Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo: Pierre Antoine.
Cy Lecerf Maulpoix has been part of LGBTQI and climate justice collectives since COP21. As a freelance journalist, he covers social struggles through interviews, investigations and articles published in the general and specialised press. As an author and translator, he is currently developing several projects on the history and practices of minority ecologies. He published Ecologies Déviantes (Cambourakis, 2021) and Edward Carpenter et l’Autre nature (Le Passager Clandestin, 2022).
Julie Sermon is a professor of history and aesthetics of contemporary theatre (University of Lyon 2), director of the laboratory Passages Arts & Littératures (XX-XXI), within which she leads the "Environmental Humanities" axis. She is the author of several works devoted to the renewal of languages, forms and practices that mark the theatrical and puppet field, and she is particularly interested in the phenomena of decentring (theoretical, aesthetic, actorial) that they imply.
Since 2017, she has devoted most of her teaching and research activities to the two-way relationship that can be established between the performing arts and ecology - reflections of which she offers a first inventory in Morts ou vifs. Contribution à une écologie sensible, théorique et pratique des arts vivants (edition B42, June 2021).
From Wednesday 22 to Saturday 25 June
Treize’Estival, festival of cultural venues in the 13th arrondissement
Wednesday 22, Thursday 23, Friday 24, Saturday 25 June, from 1 to 2pm
Soup and tour by Tiphaine Calmettes
The artist Tiphaine Calmettes welcomes you to her exhibition Primordial Soup for a guided tour. In her company, discover sculptures where you can sit and taste a tear of kombucha, drink a flower tea kept warm in a gargoyle’s stomach or help yourself to broth from the belly of a fellow belly with elephant legs. A unique and privileged opportunity to listen to the artist’s voice, the stories and anecdotes that have nourished his work, and especially to ask her questions!
Visit of the exhibition Primordial Soup with the artist Tiphaine Calmettes, at Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research, 2022 © Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo: Lucien Poinsot.
Wednesday, June 22, from 2.30 to 4.30pm, and Saturday, June 25, from 2 to 4pm
Assemblage - Landscape
Workshop by Mathilde Cameirao
With collages, the aim will be to articulate the large and the small, the interior and the exterior, the real and the imaginary of the landscape that surrounds or inhabits us, based on views of the exhibition, photographs of the Pierre Vidal-Naquet esplanade, drawings made by the participants and plant elements gleaned from the surroundings.
Free workshop, on suscription: publics@betonsalon.net
Friday 24 June, from 2pm to 6pm
Materiality of living matter, exploration of bacterial cellulose
Kombucha workshop by Vivien Roussel, artist, biodesigner and researcher
Kombucha is a naturally fermented drink, prepared with a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast immersed in a sweet tea solution. It is also a dried kombucha starter (a mushroom) with singular properties: more or less thick and elastic, this material is full of promise. During this theoretical and practical workshop, Vivien Roussel invites you to explore the secrets of this material made by combining mycelia and bacteries, an opportunity to ask questions with him about the scarcity of resources, energy saving or the sustainability of "desirables futures".
Vivien Roussel explores myths that expose the links we have with technological tools and how these narratives shape forms of individuality. Around 2008, he became interested in the figure of Robinson Crusoe in order to question our modernity and later ventured into the world of makers, co-founding makerspaces and fablabs. Between 2011 and 2018, he developed pedagogical research, co-invented tools and community practices - discovered the Chinese industry and making or did "insertion through digital" in the neighbourhoods on his return. Following these human and technical adventures, he turned to the living from biohacking as an ambivalent artefact, carrying new collective meaning to be built. Since 2017, he has been making living materials in companionship with mycelia and bacteria, questioning with them the scarcity of resources, the energy economy or the sustainability of "desirable futures". Vivien Roussel also collaborates on the design of complex prototypes mixing biomaterials, electronics and digital fabrication with different people and collective.
Free workshop, on registration: publics@betonsalon.net
Photo: Vivien Roussel
Saturday, June 25, from 4 to 5pm
I’ll spread my stories over theirs
Storytelling visit by Clotilde Lebas, apprentice storyteller
An anthropologist, Clotilde Lebas became a storyteller. To the tales gleaned here and there, she articulates stories collected in different parts of the world (Algeria, France) to build a repertoire populated by women, intrepid and wise, witches, blue-haired men, red wolves... In the middle of the exhibition Primordial Soup, by invoking Selkia (woman-husk), Guliverte, Poucette (herbalists) and Iuvia (woman-rain), she will invite to multiply the views on the sensory sculptures of Tiphaine Calmettes.
View of the exhibition Primordial Soup by Tiphaine Calmettes, Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research, 2022 © Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo: Pierre Antoine.
Saturday, June 25, from 5 to 7pm
Something of the living kind
Lecture by Léo Mariani, food anthropologist, researcher at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
In the exhibition Primordial Soup, things, materials and foods (soup, infusion and kombucha) are held in a level of indeterminacy that demands the audience’s attention. Tiphaine Calmettes thus questions the energizing power of uncertainty and, through it, the turmoil that underlies the relationship of hospitality, between a challenge and a proposal to share. Léo Mariani will discuss this equivocation, its avatars and implications, in relation to his past researches (on generosity and giving) and present researches (on the relationship with the living in the wine industry).
Partial view of the exhibition Primordial Soup by Tiphaine Calmettes, Bétonsalon - Centre for Art and Research, 2022 © Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo: Pierre Antoine.
Léo Mariani is an anthropologist, teacher at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle and at the University of Liège, and a research associate at the UMR Eco-anthropologie (MNHN, CNRS, Université Paris Cité). He is interested in the future of certain plant foods in France and Asia, using an ontogenetic approach that questions the production of worlds in space and time. His work combines the anthropology of knowledge and nature. He is the author of several articles and books. The latest of these is entitled Le Goût des possibles. Enquêtes sur les ressorts symbolistes d’une crise écologique (Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2022).
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