Events
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.
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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