Rester. Étranger family - residence at Bétonsalon
From August 20 to 25
From August 20 to 25 2021 the co-authors belonging to the Rester. Étranger family Nicole Koffi, Barbara Manzetti, Sabrina Pennacchietti and Caroline Sebilleau, will be in residence at Bétonsalon along with Juliette Pollet, curator at the conservatrice au CNAP, and her assistant Daisy Lambert. The authors will transfer the functioning of the processual and lasting work Rester.
Etranger titled Personnellement je préfère merveilleux (Personally I prefer the marvellous) or in koulango boundoukou Mien mi koro zingré tchiré, through a mechanism that activates family memory.
“What is the point of an artist who works alone on her oeuvre? replies the Rester. Etranger family. I am the type of person who awakens in a work, murmurs within it, lives in it, with others who have found their place there. People who do not have the same rights I have. The same right to live somewhere as I do. Who do not receive the same respect as I do from others?”
Both a work and an author, for the past few years the Rester. Étranger family has been performing its entry into France and into the French language. At this geographical, administrative, legal, literal, literary and poetic threshold, a choral writing emerges, which they call fle, the acronym for FLE, Français Langue Étrangère (French as a foreign language). The language, enhanced by expressions from the authors’ maternal languages is performed, printed and handwritten on lasting and perishable surfaces such as floors, walls windows, posters, post its, maps, paper ribbon, or are welcomed as books, a film, a radio creation.
Bi hè yebor goussèguè lè tou tchilibor, we are the women of the Rester. Etranger family. In the month of June 2020 eight of us are writing a letter to apply for the call for projects “La vie bonne” launched by AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions) and the Cnap (Centre national des arts plastiques). Women artists were invited to respond to the questions Judith Butler asked in 2012 when she received the Theodor Arno prize, “How does one lead a good life in a bad life?” appropriating and transforming the question the German philosopher raised. How does one pursue a good life “within a world in which the good life is structurally or systematically foreclosed for so many?” Judith Butler sees the second problem as determining “the form this question can take for us today. Or in other words: how does the historical time in which we are living condition and permeate the form of the question itself?”
An immersion in the work Rester. Étranger, which seeks to ensure that the transfer of the rights of the work to Centre National des Arts Plastiques takes place under ethical conditions. They will be accompanied by other authors who belong to the family, including Prince Pacôme Nangoh, translator and interpreter into the Agni language (Ivory Coast), Youssouf Hassan, specialist of survival architectures and Hassan Abdallah and Bartolomeo Terrade, sound aritsts. Olivier Marbœuf, invited in his role of producer, will work with the family to reflect upon a film version of the work.
This will also be an opportunity to confront the accessibility of intergenerational works with the audiences’ different levels of empowerment.
The above-mentioned authors declare they are not working alone on the Rester Etranger œuvre Rester. Étranger, and they create with Abdelaziz Abdelkarim, Omar Haroune Aboubakar, Mohamed Bamba, Hussein Ishak Abdallah, Pascaline Denimal, Mohamed Hussein, Hélène Iratchet, Motawakil El Douma, Abdellah Ismail, Audrey Gaisan Doncel, EricYvelin, Bouchra Koné, Kassin Koné, Tanguy Nédélec, Masri Omar, Héloïse Pierre- Emmanuel, Chloé Schmidt, Corinne Lamesch, Maia Bosch, Ariane Leblanc, Benoit Briant and the Exposer/Publier family, Barbara Coffy-Yarsel, Barış Yarsel, the children Eva, Mahé, Sorina, Gaston, Iris, Lila, the adolescents Gheorghe, Hélio and Lester, Massimiliano Manzetti, Fantôme Francis Terrade, Olivier Nourisson, Hugo Hecker, Simon Marini, Victor Donati and the R22 Tout-Monde family, Marian del Valle, Kamal Hassan, Ismail Afghan, Charlotte Imbault, Gérard Mayen, Aurore Desprès, Mathys Berchery, Kieran Jessel, Esther Poryles, Geneviève Coudre, Virginie Colemyn, Viviana Moin, Claire Harsany, Denis Mariotte, Caroline Cournède, Sandrine Moreau, Mathilde Villeneuve, Alexandra Baudelot, Renaud Golo, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers family, Natasa Petresin Bachelez, Marie-Laure Lapeyre, Pauline Bastard, Pauline Hurel, Pierre Simon, Christine Pécheux, Églantine Laval, Élodie Tincq, Line Francillon, Chiara Figone, the Serretta family, the Agostoni family, the Morin family, Julie Nioche and the A.I.M.E. family, Elena Sorokina, Isabelle Ginot, Katarina Lanier, Gwenn Carion, Katerina Kracmanova, Karine Boudier, Garance Brehaudat, the Anacrouse family, Alnour A.Y., Hassan Ali, the “Adams” and all the members of l’Occupation de l’université Paris 8 Saint-Denis Vincennes 2018 and their support, the PourLoger family, the Bibliothèque universitaire de Paris 8 family, Isabelle Launay, Makis Solomos, Julie Perrin, Roberto Barbanti, Laurent Pichaud, Raphaëlle Doyon, Nathalie Coutelet, Barbara Formis, Sabine Macher, Chiara Palermo, Camille Paillet, Toshiba Nisan, Françoise Rognerud, Tecla Raynaud, Kristina Solomoukha, Paolo Codeluppi and the Maison de l’Ours family, The Living And The Dead Ensemble, le Collectif La Seine, the Bureau des Dépositions family, the Villa Mais d’Ici family, Biss, the Claudia and Gheorghe Le Jeune family, the Aurel le Maigre family, the Aurel le Nervuso family, the Emil family, Rodica and the adopted Gheorghe Le Vieux, Mich-Mich, Virginie Bobin and the Qalqala family, the CNAP / AWARE family.
Since 2014, the oeuvre Rester. Étranger has been supported and welcomed by Jeter Son Corps dans la Bataille (CH), Revue Watt, La Terrasse - centre d’art de Nanterre, KHIASMA, Labex Arts H2 – Université de Paris 8, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Université de Franche-Comté, Les Ateliers de Paris - June Events, Les Écritures Bougées, r22 tout-monde, Qalqalah قلقلة, La Maison de l’Ours, Initiative for Practice et Visions of Radical Care et KADIST.
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