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, October 22, from 4 to 7 pm

Visit with the artist and the cura­tors
Starting at Le Plateau then on to Bétonsalon
Registration: reser­va­tion@fracilede­france.com

Friday, October 28, and December 9, from 6 pm to 8.30 pm

"Written with mit­tens’

Writing work­shop on and around, for, with, under and alongside art
pro­posed by Elena Lespes Muñoz
For all.

Can you write about art with mit­tens? Having your hands full of plaster? Having you nose to the grind­stone? What does the color of the exhi­bi­tion floor, a rum­bling stomach, boredom or the bus ride to get here do to our per­cep­tion of art­works? How to write without pas­sion? How do we write about things we don’t under­stand? Is there not always a moment when we say too much ? These are ques­tions that we will not answer in this work­shop, but per­haps we will only try to answer them, or if not, ask other ques­tions. This work­shop is for all those who have insomnia writing about and around art, come and share your words.

Judith Hopf, "Hospital Bone Dance", 2006. Video (colour, sound), 7′. © Adagp, Paris, 2022 / Judith Hopf.

Tuesday, November 15th, from 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm

Screening of a selec­tion of films by Judith Hopf in the pres­ence of the artist.

In par­allel with the exhi­bi­tion Énergies by Judith Hopf at Bétonsalon and Le Plateau, a screening evening is orga­nized at the cinema L’Archipel. Since the mid-2000s, Judith Hopf has been making short films, which can last from 2 to 15 min­utes, often in col­lab­o­ra­tion with her friends who inter­vene in front and behind the camera. Social com­men­taries and polit­ical reflec­tions, they are inspired as much by alter­na­tive cinema as by music videos and are marked by a formal inven­tive­ness that is con­stantly renewed over time, according to the dis­cov­eries and pro­duc­tion pos­si­bil­i­ties avail­able to Judith Hopf.
Nine films will be screened in three series, inter­spersed with dis­cus­sions with the artist about their achieve­ment and inten­tions.

Cinéma L’Archipel: 17 Bd de Strasbourg- 75010 Paris

Program:

Lily´s Laptop, 2013, 4 min 54 s
MORE, 2015, 4 min 33 s
UP!, 2016, 1 min 30 s
Turen, 2007, 13 min 25 s
OUT, 2018, 2 min 38 s
The Uninvited, 2005, 15 min 41 s
Hospital Bone Dance, 2006, 7 min 13 s
Zählen!, 2008, 3 min 28 s
HEY PRODUKTION, 2011, 7 min 02 s

Prices: 8 € / 6,5 € / UGC cards

Wednesday, November 16th, at 2 pm

Meeting with Fanny Lopez, author of the book À bout de flux (Éditions Divergences, 2022)
Hosted by François Aubart, co-curator of Judith Hopf’s exhi­bi­tion. In part­ner­ship with the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC) as part of an exchange with the Städelschule Frankfurt.

Thursday, November 17, from 12 pm. to 2 pm

Midi-deux with Résoquartier
Flash tours of the “En­ergies” exhi­bi­tion by Judith Hopf and lunch at free price with the Résoquartier sol­i­darity food truck.

Bétonsalon’s "midideux" are a monthly event for stu­dents: one Thursday a month, during the lunch break, the art center team offers you a spe­cial time for dis­cus­sion at the art center around the exhi­bi­tions!
Thursday, November 17 take advan­tage of your lunch break to dis­cover Judith Hopf’s exhi­bi­tion during a flash visit (15 min­utes max!) in the com­pany of the art center team; and ben­efit from quality catering at free prices with the Résoquartier sol­i­darity food truck. The meals are cooked vol­un­tarily by the mem­bers of the asso­ci­a­tion using food­stuffs from col­lec­tions of unsold food prod­ucts.

Created in 2011, Résoquartier is an asso­ci­a­tion of inhab­i­tants of the 13th arrondisse­ment com­mitted to fighting eco­nomic and social injus­tice and for eco­log­ical tran­si­tion. She responds with mutual aid, friend­li­ness and sol­i­darity.

Thursday, November 24th, at 5.30 p.m.

Evening of per­for­mances as part of the inter­na­tional sym­po­sium “The man­i­festo is breaking out. Contemporary rev­o­lu­tions of the artistic and lit­erary man­i­festo between theory and prac­tice“
Organization Jean-Marc Baud (Sorbonne Paris Nord University, PLEIADE), Camille Bloomfield (Paris Cité University, CERILAC / Sorbonne Paris Nord University, PLEIADE), Viviana Birolli (Paris 1 University, HICSA), Mette Ruiz (University of Dalarna, Sweden), Audrey Ziane (École des Beaux-Arts of Marseille - IFAMM)

Friday, November 25th, from 3pm to 6pm
Béton Book Club

Collective sur­veying ses­sion around Zetkin Collective’s book, Fascisme fos­sile. The far right, energy, cli­mate, coord. Andreas Malm (2020) at Bétonsalon

Diaty Diallo © Bénédicte Roscot

Wednesday, November 30th, 6.30pm

Talk with Diaty Diallo, author of Deux sec­ondes d’air qui brûle
France-Culture Télérama Student Novel Prize

Animated by stu­­dents from the Universities of Paris 3 and Paris Cité (UFR LAC, ref­erent teacher : Lise Wajeman)

Thursday, December 1st, from 7pm to 9pm
Day With(out) Art

Since 1989, coin­ciding with the World Health Organization’s World AIDS Day on December 1, the non­profit orga­ni­za­tion Visual AIDS has mobi­lized the art world around the Day With(out) Art pro­ject, as a call for “mourning and action in response to the AIDS crisis” launched from New York, through var­ious inter­ven­tions in United States, in museums, gal­leries, and public space. Then, from 2010, Visual AIDS has begun a col­lab­o­ra­tion with today’s artists and film­makers to create a short films pro­gram toward HIV/AIDS, in order to raise aware­ness about the pan­demic, and sup­port the artists living with AIDS.

For 2022, Visual AIDS pre­sents “Being & Belonging”, a pro­gram of seven short videos from artists living with HIV across the world. From nav­i­gating sex and inti­macy to con­fronting stigma and iso­la­tion, “Being & Belonging” cen­ters the emo­tional real­i­ties of living with HIV today. How does living with HIV shift the ways that a person expe­ri­ences, asks for, or pro­vides love, sup­port, and belonging? The seven videos are a call for belonging from those that have been stig­ma­tized within their com­mu­ni­ties or left out of main­stream HIV/AIDS nar­ra­tives.

These seven orig­inal films have been directed by Camila Arce (Argentina), Davina « Dee » Conner and Karin Hayes (United States), Jaewon Kim (South Korea), Clifford Prince (United States), Santiago Lemus and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas (Colombia), Mikiki (Canada), and Jhoel Zempoalteca and La Jerry (Mexico).

What’s Your Flavor col­lec­tive, ini­ti­ated in 2014 as a pro­gram­ming plat­form for LGBTQI + exper­i­mental films linked to the Collectif Jeune Cinéma, has joined Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research to relay Visual AIDS ini­tia­tive in France, where the films will be shown and debated the same way they are in var­ious insti­tu­tional spaces, in United States and beyond.

The pro­jec­tion will be fol­lowed by a talk with researcher and curator Julien Ribeiro.

An anthro­pol­o­gist by training, Julien Ribeiro is the curator and founder of the Lavoir Public, a cre­ative space ded­i­cated to changing writing in Lyon, which he directed until 2016. He works on the impact of pol­i­tics on our lives and on our cre­ative pro­cesses, the place of minori­ties playing a cen­tral role in this research. A founding member of the WAW col­lec­tive (LGBTQI archive and con­tem­po­rary art), he is asso­ci­ated with the pro­gram­ming of the exhi­bi­tion David Wojnarowicz - History Keeps Me Awake at Night at the Mudam (2019) and is notably part of the mon­i­toring com­mittee for the exhi­bi­tion Histoire et mémoires des luttes contre le VIH/sida (2021) at the Mucem in Marseille. Since 2020, he is a member of Curatorial Hotline. He is cur­rently working on "silent" knowl­edge, the dis­ease as a partner as a curator asso­ci­ated with the Antre-Peaux (Bourges) and more gen­er­ally on new forms of knowl­edge trans­mis­sion. He is in charge of the "AIDS and cul­tures" sec­tion of the magazine Remaides. He was a lau­reate of the 2021 Cité inter­na­tionale des arts in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Cnap, where his research focused on the links between restora­tive jus­tice and aes­thetics. Today, he is working on dif­ferent pro­jects, including Expanded Scream with Stéphane Roussel, an exhi­bi­tion about screams, their rep­re­sen­ta­tions and their recep­tion in art his­tory. From September 2022, he will be the asso­ciate artist at the Université de Lille in the frame­work of the Airlab res­i­dency with the sup­port of Le Fresnoy in order to start a research around Cookie Mueller, queer tem­po­ral­i­ties and col­lab­o­ra­tive trans­la­tion. From December 2022, he will be res­i­dent again at the Cité inter­na­tionale des arts to con­tinue his research.