Workshop: A Love Note About Rage

FROM WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3 TO SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 2018
A workshop led by Tarek Lakhrissi

Free of charge. Limited capacity.
Open to artists, writers, researchers, curious minds... all prac­tices are wel­come!
Mandatory reg­is­tra­tion before September 21, 2018.
Please send a short email intro­ducing your­self and your rea­sons for par­tic­i­pating at public­s@­be­ton­salon.net, with the sub­ject "Inscription : A Love Note".
The work­shop will be led mostly in French, but will be English-friendly.

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.

What if every­thing began by a burst of laughter as a response to chaos? A flower garden, rebel­lious ban­ners, a rage for words, and Eartha Kitt laughing and laughing at a jour­nalist asking her whether she’d sac­ri­fice any­thing for a man. Her explo­sive response, bursting with life, expresses both joy and con­ster­na­tion. From that ambiguous laughter emerged a pro­posal: A Love Note About Rage. How can we work together through our emo­tions and expe­ri­ences? As part of Gaëlle Choisne’s exhi­bi­tion TEMPLE OF LOVE, this work­shop will look at two oppo­site, com­ple­men­tary, didactic, polit­ical, unusual and poten­tially anti-cap­i­talist emo­tions: love and rage. We will build a temple of expe­ri­ences, con­ver­sa­tions, and affects, where we will gather, share, love, under­stand, dis­cuss, listen, and unlearn together, with the works of Audre Lorde, Roland Barthes, Nayyirah Waheed, Kai Cheng Thom, and Terence Nance. Each par­tic­i­pant will be encour­aged to offer some­thing to share during those four days - be it a skill, an emo­tion, an expe­ri­ence - in order to pool resources and con­nect a variety of life tra­jec­to­ries.

The work­shop will con­sist of sev­eral read­ings, con­ver­sa­tions, screen­ings, per­for­mances, and guest lec­tures. The four days of work will lead into building a frieze of ideas, draw­ings, pho­tographs, and words, from a panel that will be free of use for the dura­tion of the work­shop.

Tarek Lakhrissi (b. 1992, Châtellerault) is an artist working with per­for­mance, instal­la­tion, video, and poetry, addressing mat­ters of lan­guage and iden­tity. His works were shown at CAC Vilnius (Lithuania), Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), McGill University and Artexte gallery (Montreal, QC), Confort Moderne (Poitiers), Circa Projects gallery (Newcastle), Palais de Tokyo, MK2 Beaubourg, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lafayette Anticipations Foundation, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, DOC!, and Gaîté Lyrique (Paris). He is cur­rently artist-in-res­i­dence at La Galerie, Centre d’Art Contemporain (Noisy-le-Sec).