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  • Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research

    9 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet

    75013 Paris
    +33.(0)1.45.84.17.56
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    Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research
    Université de Paris
    5 rue Thomas Mann
    Campus des Grands Moulins
    75205 Paris Cédex 13
  • Gaëlle Choisne: TEMPLE OF LOVE
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  • Workshop: A Love Note About Rage
  • "Les midideux" : 6 short talks
  • Workshop : Affective Erosion
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    PAST EVENTS


    SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2018, 3 P.M.

    On the final day of the exhi­bi­tion TEMPLE OF LOVE
    3 p.m. Screening of Bivalvia: Act I (2017), 20’, by Yu Araki.
    5 p.m. Performance by KHNG KHAN.

    Yu Araki is an artist and film­maker based in Tokyo, Japan. Araki studied Sculpture at the Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and com­pleted his Masters in Film and New Media Studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan. He was recently a guest res­i­dent at Rijksakademie van beeldende kun­sten in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Recent exhi­bi­tions include Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain; Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA; and Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan. His films have been pro­grammed in inter­na­tional fes­ti­vals such as BFI London Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, and International Film Festival Rotterdam, where he won the Ammodo Tiger Short Film Award in 2018. Araki was short­listed as one of the twenty-one artists com­peting for the Future Generation Art Prize hosted by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2019.

    KHNG KHAN is an Eurasian American pro­ducer, multi-instru­men­talist, rapper/song-writer. His unique and enig­matic audio­vi­sual mythology reveals the diver­sity of his cul­tural her­itage. Raw aes­thetics atti­tude com­bined with retro-futur­istic dig­ital syn­thesis make up his per­sonal sound­scape.
    Alex Mordvinoff, the person behind the avatar, began his musical training at the age of 4 on the drums switching to piano at 5 and adding trumpet at 6 years old. He con­tinued to prac­tice these instru­ments until the age of 12 when he switched to elec­tric bass and began rap­ping. In high school he started his own band, and rehearsed and per­formed with the school’s sym­phonic orchestra. After grad­u­a­tion, he spent 3 years at the American School of Music and 1 year in an Electronic music course at the ATLA school of music in Paris.
    In 2014, the KHNG KHAN pro­ject began when his new interest in elec­tronic music merged with rap and his past influ­ences. At 26, he has per­formed in numerous coun­tries including Japan, Taiwan, Russia, India and Mongolia. Using strong the­atrical imagery, the char­ac­ters in his music videos rep­re­sent dif­ferent archetypes of ancient and modern cul­tures.


    SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2018, 3 P.M.


    Tour of the exhi­bi­tion TEMPLE OF LOVE
    Commented tour and open dis­cus­sion with artist Gaëlle Choisne and curator Lucas Morin.


    FRIDAY 14 & SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER, 2018
    HERITAGE DAYS


    Workshops Magical Plants
    On Friday, September 14, all day long, by Lucile Chapsal, member of Les cueilleuses de paysage, and Julien Sarpon as part of Children’s Heritage Day.


    Family work­shop Love Cake
    On Saturday, September 15, at 3 p.m., by the artist’s mother, Marie-Carmel Brouard.
    Free of charge and open to everyone upon reg­is­tra­tion.


    FROM OCTOBER 3 TO 6, 2018


    Workshop A Love Note About Rage


    An inten­sive work­shop led by Tarek Lakhrissi
    Mandatory reg­is­tra­tion before September 21, lim­ited capacity.

    On Saturday, October 6, from 12 to 3 p.m.:
    Participants will cook a shared lunch in Bétonsalon. They will express in public what they gath­ered from the last three days of work­shop, through read­ings, texts, per­for­mances, or other media.
    The meals, exclu­sively veg­e­tarian, will be shared with vis­i­tors.

    More details here.


    TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2018, 7 P.M.


    Talk: A love cul­ture by Nadia Yala Kisukidi.
    Reading: I have nothing to do with explo­sions by Karim Kattan.
    Performance by Eden Tinto Collins, including the screening of Kengné Téguia’s video I Put a Spell on You.

    Karim Kattan is a Palestinian writer born in Jerusalem in 1989. His first book, Preliminaries for a future orchard (Préliminaires pour un verger futur), was pub­lished in 2017 (Tunis: Elyzad; not trans­lated). He is cur­rently a PhD can­di­date in Comparative Literature at Paris Nanterre University. He also co-founded el-Atlal, an artists’ and writers’ res­i­dency in Jericho, Palestine.

    Nadia Yala Kisukidi is a lec­turer in Philosophy at the Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis University. She was vice-chair of the International College of Philosophy (2014-2016). She pub­lished numerous papers con­cerning Black Studies and con­tem­po­rary French Philosophy.

    Eden Tinto Collins was born in 1991 in Essone. She lives and works in Ivry-sur-Seine (France). She devel­oped her prac­tice of visual arts, poetry and hyper media at the Paris-Cergy National school of arts. She explores freely fic­tions and fric­tions between melan­cholia, mythology, and iden­tity, while devel­oping a con­nec­tion with the third world. From there, she spreads a poetic speech, rela­tional and noetic (thought and mind) dis­plays acti­vated by means of sub­ver­sion/remake and reen­act­ment prac­tices.


    SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2018, 3-8 P.M.

    History is full of people who just didn’t*
    Conversation between Anne Boyer and The Cheapest University.

    The Cheapest University invited Anne Boyer to dis­cuss pos­sible forms of col­lec­tive strug­gles and com­mit­ments within writing and art. This con­ver­sa­tion focused on two books by Anne Boyer: Garments Against Women (Ahsahta Press, 2015) and A Handbook of Disappointed Fate (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018). In these books, the author reflects on post-fem­i­nism, the his­tory of labor through gender and the links between Marxism and fem­i­nism, putting for­ward the hypoth­esis of eman­ci­pa­tion from poetry and through poetry.

    For the occa­sion, The Cheapest University con­tinued its work of trans­lating untrans­lated English-speaking authors into French, through a pub­li­ca­tion in col­lab­o­ra­tion with After 8 Books.
    The con­ver­sa­tion was fol­lowed by a cross-reading between Anne Boyer and The Cheapest University, based on the trans­lated texts.

    * excerpt from No, in A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, Anne Boyer.

    Anne Boyer is a poet and essayist from Kansas City. Her poetry books include The Romance of Happy Workers, My Common Heart, and Garments Against Women. Her newest book is a col­lec­tion of essays, fables, and ephemera called A Handbook of Disappointed Fate. The Undying, a memoir about cancer, care, and having a body inside of his­tory, is forth­coming in 2019 from FSG (US) and Penguin (UK). Her honors include the 2018 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a 2018 Whiting Award in non­fic­tion and poetry, and the 2016 CLMP award for Garments Against Women. She is cur­rently the Judith E. Wilson poetry fellow at Cambridge University, and she is an Associate Professor of the Liberal Arts at the Kansas City Art Institute where she teaches lit­er­a­ture, phi­los­ophy, and writing.

    The Cheapest University is a free and exper­i­mental school cur­rently based in Paris. It has con­sti­tuted itself through elec­tive affini­ties, gath­ering a growing number of par­tic­i­pants around an enthu­si­astic and open spirit. It is artistic and con­tribu­tive, and does not resist a ten­dency to merge learning expe­ri­ences with œuvre making. The Cheapest University is con­tribu­tive: it is imme­diate and com­mitted, depending solely on the will-power of its mem­bers. It infil­trates their prac­tice or is infil­trated by it, extending per­sonal research or enabling the inven­tion of col­lec­tive sit­u­a­tions that pro­duce knowl­edge and/or/as art.


    WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2018, 5 - 7 P.M.

    Public resti­tu­tion of the work­shop Affective Erosion led by artists Marie Ouazzani & Nicolas Carrier, as part of the Diderot Workshops launched by the Office of Cultural Affairs of the Paris Diderot University.

    “To give atten­­tion, care, sup­­port, kind­­ness and pro­tec­­tion are dif­ferent forms of love which we can transmit to one another. Par­tic­i­pants will ven­­ture around the neigh­bor­­hood sur­rounding the Paris Diderot University as in a foggy mys­tery novel, in which images will be the clues and the eco­log­ical sus­pects of a large-scale inves­ti­­ga­­tion of love. In this up-and-coming dis­­trict, where new mate­rials are used to erect coun­t­­less build­ings, a love of obser­­va­­tion will be required – and applied to the archi­tec­­ture, the mate­rials, the min­erals, the river – while taking a stroll to uncover the ero­­sion of feel­ings.”
    More details here.


    THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2018, 12 noon - 2 P.M.

    "Midi­deux"

    Six short talks about love given by aca­demics rep­re­senting var­ious dis­ci­plines: Martine Beugnet (Visual studies), Fanny Cardin (Literature and Cinema), Jean-François Cottier (Latin lan­guage and Literature), Gabrielle Houbre (Contem­po­rary History), Pierre Kerner (Biology) and Jonathan Weitzman (Epigenetics). "Midi­deux" are hosted by the Paris Diderot University video studio. The event was fol­lowed by a small recep­tion.
    More details here.


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