Proposition de colloque, Kadist Art Foundation

A Bétonsalon project conceived by Mélanie Bouteloup and Anna Colin.

‘Proposition de Colloque’ (trans­lated ‘Proposal for a Seminar’) artic­u­lates var­ious forms of speech and means to estab­lish a dia­logue in today’s artistic and cura­to­rial pro­duc­tion. Artists, designers and cura­tors working around the notions of dia­logue and net­work, and who use the sem­inar, con­fer­ence and work­shop as artistic or cura­to­rial medium, will be invited to expose their prac­tice through pre­sen­ta­tions, inter­ven­tions and debates.

The public and speakers will sit on a mod­ular sculp­ture (Functional Floor, 2001) realised by the artist Nicolas Floc’h. Artist Julien Tiberi will render draw­ings during the course of the event, where he will take the role of por­trayer of the audi­ence. He will resti­tute the pro­gress of the sem­inar via images, like an ensemble of dra­matur­gical effects fab­ri­cated by speech.

"Arts of doing: mutu­al­i­sa­tions, con­struc­tions, col­lab­o­ra­tions" will explore the con­struc­tion of rela­tions and the cre­ation of net­works both as the­o­ret­ical pre­cept – thinking about self-edu­ca­tion – and as mode of civic and polit­ical action. The net­work will be approached as an open space per­mit­ting (via the elab­o­ra­tion of a dia­logue between dis­ci­plines and the sharing of skills) the par­tic­i­pa­tion to the estab­lish­ment of common poli­cies (Zagreb Cultural Kapital 3000) ; the cre­ation of links with the civil society (La Générale); and the devel­op­ment of knowl­edge and artistic pro­duc­tion within a self-organ­ised struc­ture, far away from the tra­di­tional insti­tu­tional model (PAF).

"Mises en scène: work methods and means of pre­sen­ta­tion based on speech and exchange" will observe a few prac­tices using some of the afore­men­tioned tools, yet in a more reflexive way. "Mises en scène" will con­cen­trate more par­tic­u­larly on dis­cur­sive strate­gies as employed by cura­tors and critics to cir­cum­vent for­mats that are con­ven­tion­ally attached to the pre­sen­ta­tion of art.
Lastly, "Speech act" will stage the work of artists Benoît Maire and Patrick Bernier who, respec­tively, in dia­logue with him­self and with a “con­teur”, pro­pose a study of speech. In con­clu­sion to ‘Proposition de Colloque’, London-based design col­lec­tive åbäke will per­form "My Dinner with åbäke, présen­ta­tion formelle", an inter­ven­tion using their con­fer­ence series ‘Presentation Formal’ as back­drop.

See the detailed pro­gramme (in French only)