Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

The Day I Became A Cloud | ESincompany Événement / Journées du Patrimoine

Time scale 3h30
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Collections permanentes du musée
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From : Saturday 16 September 2023
to : Sunday 17 September 2023
The : Sunday 17 September 2023 from 14h00 to 17h30

The Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris and the Max Ernst Museum Brühl have invited the Cologne-based choreographer Emanuele Soavi to develop a performance that relates to the museums’ collection spaces.

The new episode from the series SOLO LIKE A PIG is increasingly dedicated to the core theme that runs as a common thread through the series: "Surviving and remaining visible" – individually and collectively, as an artist and as a human being – even beyond one's own finiteness. In this process, remembering reveals itself to be a strategy for setting transformations in motion – and sharing experiences (physically) to be another.

Soavi and the internationally renowned actress and dancer Kate Strong, as well as ensemble members of ESincompany and performers based in Paris, relate in scenic and dance miniatures to the famous portraits of dancers in the bipartite Salle Matisse. About his monumental work ‘La Danse’ Matisse said, that the fragmentation of the dancers create "An Impression of Vastness in a limited space". The visual level intertwines with a sound installation by composer Johannes Malfatti, consisting of several vertically suspended bandoneons, promising to be both a visual-tonal framework and a challenging counterplay. The central event is supplemented and associatively expanded in further spaces by performative interventions.

The experimental series format SOLO LIKE A PIG consists of several standalone episodes that culminate in an hours-long performance course in 2025. THE DAY I BECAME A CLOUD is the third episode in the series. What connects all episodes is their departure from the conventional space of the theater and the creation of a barrier-free experiential space in museums, galleries, libraries and on the piazza, making contemporary dance and the involved art disciplines – music, visual / digital arts, acting – accessible to all and enabling friction and interaction between performance and audience.

The creation of the episodes is each based on Emanuele Soavi’s research residencies – in this case in Paris and Annonay. The focus of the exploration is the consideration of the nature of the theatrical from sociological, historical, scientific and aesthetic perspectives, in order to engage in a very personal confrontation with his own role as an author, a choreographer and performer. And finally, together with artistic companions from various disciplines, to question the relationship between the (surrounding) world and the performative body from a current perspective.

 

Concept, Choreography Emanuele Soavi

In cooperation with Kate Strong, Johannes Malfatti, Achim Conrad and the performers of Emanuele Soavi incompany

Music Composition Johannes Malfatti

Text Kate Strong, Emanuele Soavi

Setting and Costumes Raissa Kankelfitz

Technical Management Roman Sroka

Stage and General Management Achim Conrad

Project Management Miriam Leysner

Public Relation Anne-Kathrin Reif

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Emanuele Soavi began his career as a dancer at the Opera Roma and at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. This was followed by engagements with the Dortmund Ballet and the Dutch company Introdans, where he worked with Jiri Kylian, Hans van Manen, William Forsythe and Mats Ek, among others. Since 2006 he has been a freelance choreographer with commissioned works for the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, the Theater Aachen, the Szeged Dance Company, the MM Dance Company in Reggio Emilia and for the universities in Cologne, Essen and Zurich.
In 2012 Soavi founded EMANUELE SOAVI INCOMPANY, based in Cologne. Since then the ensemble works on interdisciplinary, structural and artistic networking – regionally, nationally and internationally. The work centers on questioning the relationships between music and dance, body and world, and the further development of a specialized body language and choreographic signature. Based on profound - also scientific - research, the projects take a universal look at psychology, mythology, iconography and their relevance in the here and now. In a wide variety of formats, the ensemble builds bridges between experiment and large-scale project, research and practice, heritage and the present, institution and independent scene, artists and audience. In different places such as museums, churches, hotels, galleries, clubs and educational institutions, border crossings between artistic genres and even literature and the visual arts are created. An integral part is a diverse educational program that offers across generations new approaches to contemporary dance and to the artistic work of the company. Since 2016, the salon format 'Soavis LIVING ROOM' has regularly invited people to meet, exchange and discuss. In ten years, 19 productions have been created in cooperation with production houses, institutions, research sites, universities and artists, such as tanzhaus nrw, Korzo Theater (The Hague / NL), LOFFT (Leipzig), Cologne Opera, Cologne Philharmonic, Duisburg Philharmonic / Theater Duisburg, Theater Aachen, Festspiele Ludwigshafen / Theater im Pfalzbau, Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona / ES), Lehmbruck Museum (Duisburg), Römisch-Germanisches Museum (Cologne), Deutsches Tanzarchiv (Cologne), University of Cologne, Folkwang University of the Arts (Essen), Zurich University of the Arts (CH), Susanne Linke, Jone San Martin, Joris-Jan Bos, Wolfgang Voigt, Nadja Zwiener, Konrad Junghänel with Cantus Cölln. Invitations to numerous guest performances and festivals in Germany, Italy, Ireland, Croatia, the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, South Korea and Belarus. www.emanuelesoavi.de

 

 

Kate Strong, was born in London and completed her dance training at the Royal Ballet School there. From 1983 to 1994 she was a dancer at the Frankfurt Ballet under William Forsythe. After working with Johann Kresnik at the Volksbühne Berlin, she joined Frank Castorf's company as an actress in 1996. Kate Strong has been a freelance actor since 2002. Works with directors Karin Henkel and Ersan Mondtag have been invited several times to the Berlin Theatertreffen. She has performed at the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Berliner Ensemble, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Schauspiel Köln, the Schauspielhaus Bochum and at international theaters such as the Schauspiel Zürich and the Theatre Nouveau de Montreuil in Paris.

 

Johannes Malfatti graduated from the national film and television school HFF "Konrad Wolf" in the field of sound for audio-visual media. His diverse work for film, television, theater and music projects ranges from electronic music to orchestral composition. He has worked with artists, musicians and choreographers such as Björk, Octet, Cat Power, The Twighlight Sad, Dominique A., Simone Kermes, Baroque Orchestra Elbipolis, Nadja Zwiener, Elfa Rún Kristinsdottir, Ömer Avci, Kobie van Rensburg, Arno Coenen, Laurie Young, Grayson Millwood, Jared Gradinger, Angela Schubot and film directors such as Yung Chang, Lucian Georgescu, Guy Édoin, Gutierrez, Carmen Garcia, Ciril Braem, Lixin Fan, Mo Asumang and Fabian Möhrke. www.johannesmalfatti.com

 
Raissa Kankelfitz was born in 1986 in Yalta (Crimea). She completed her training as a stage painter at the Landestheater Eisenach/Wilhelm Ostwald School in Berlin and studied stage and costume design with Barbara Ehnes and Kattrin Michel at the HfBK Dresden. After studying, she worked as an assistant to Barbara Ehnes and at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Since 2018, Raissa Kankelfitz has been working as a freelance stage and costume designer at the Grips Theater Berlin, the Augsburg State Theater, the Hanover State Theater and the ITZ in Tübingen. She works closely with directors Theresa Henning and director Peer Ripberger. Raissa Kankelfitz lives in Berlin. www.raissakankelfitz.com 
 
Federico Casadei studied at the Cecchetti Academy in Ravenna and in 2011 became a member of the youth company Agora Coaching Project in Reggio Emilia, where he worked with the choreographers Richard Wherlock, Mauro Bigonzetti, Jean-Christophe Maillot, Francesco Ventriglia, Ed Wubbe, Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. Since 2012 he has danced regularly in Robert North's production of 'The Snowman' in London's West End, also taking on the role of dance captain. In 2013 he began working with Emanuele Soavi as a dancer and assistant.
 
Taeyeon Kim comes from South Korea and works as a dancer, choreographer and teacher in Cologne. In 2017 she received her degree from the Center for Contemporary Dance in Cologne. She has worked with choreographers such as Sita Ostheimer, Shumpei Nemoto, Emanuele Gat and Anna Konjetzky. With her solo piece Ms.Mon she was invited to various festivals, such as Tanz.tausch (2017), KOTID (2017) and Now & Next (2018). Since 2017 she has been a member of the Emanuele Soavi incompany as a dancer and assistant.
 
Lisa Kirsch studied at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne. She has worked as a dancer for Theater Heidelberg / Nanine Linning, Silke Z. / resistdance, Reut Shemesh Dance Company, Cocoon Dance, Didier Theron, Yaron Shamir, Stefan Dreher, Vera Sander, FreiraumEnsemble, MIRA and Georg Reischl. In 2013 she began working with Emanuele Soavi as a dancer and assistant, including  AUREA with Susanne Linke.
 
Lorenzo Molinaro is a member of the Agora Coaching Project led by Michele Merola and Enrico Morelli. He danced in productions such as 'Bolero' by Roberto Scafati, 'Elogia delle cose perdute' by Enrico Morelli and 'Allegro beyond Sonatas' by Emanuele Soavi. He was awarded first prize at the international competitions in Luxembourg and Spain (Tarragona). In 2022 he worked with Aterballetto on the "Microdanze" project.

 

Olivia Bouis started to practice gymnastics already in her childhood. Until her baccalaureate she trained different dance disciplines. At EPSE Danse in Montpellier she got her contemporary EAT with the accompaniment of Diane Pelletier and Rudy Bryans. In Israel she trained and performed with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and created her first piece. In Paris she is also a member of an association which offers Gaga lessons.

Thibaut Carré started his dance travel at the Conservatoire de Montpellier for three years and after at EpseDanse (Anne-Marie Porras’s school) for two years, where he graduated as a dance teacher.  Since then he worked with the companies of Blanca Li and Karine Saporta and also on a film with choreographer Mathilde Monnier.

Léonard Catz studied dance in Académie Internationale de la Danse. He received training in ballet, jazz, contemporary, hip hop and electro. He is now part of “Milk Shake Project”, the gaga dance movement in Paris and Capsule, an electro dance program. He danced with Le Jeune Ballet Européen which allowed him to perform in pieces by choreographers such as Manuel Vignoble, Claude Brumachon, Andy de Groat. He recently had the opportunity to participate in the Boléro by Béjart at the Opéra de Paris.

Joan Cellier began to dance at the Conservatoire de danse d'Avignon before to go to the National Superior Dance School of Marseille. He finally went to Ballet Junior de Genève and started his career in the company of Marie-Claude Pietragalla. He is now a freelance dancer working for several companies in France and Switzerland. He also develops his own projects.

Mahamat Fofana trained as an Acrobat Dancer at Académie Fratellini - School of Circus in Paris from 2020-23. Since 2022 he worked with Uppercut Danseteater, Company Les Attentifs, Company Remue-Ménage, Clément Poirée and Company SAGE, touring in Denmark, Turkey, Canada, Italy and Spain. Mahamat holds also a masters degree in General Engineering.

Marcelle Gressier is a French dancer, choreographer and video-dance maker, exploring the relationships between dance and architecture through site-specific performances. She created the Compagnie Imago in 2020, which has become the anchorage point for her personal artistic projects. Her solo 740 Nanomètres (2021) won the Jury's Price of the Brussels Dance Contest. Graduated from the Conservatory of Tours, she studied at the Youth Ballet of Aquitaine in Bordeaux. She joined FOCAR in 2021, an intensive course in choreography for architecture in Porto. During 2022/2023, she was part of the Incubator of Choreographers, from La Fabrique de la Danse in Paris.

Joséphine Moulinjeune studied ballet in the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Regional de Lyon with a choreographic studies diploma in classical dance. She took part in diverse programs in Bordeaux, Israel and Italy with creations, workshops and repertory work of Thierry Guiderdoni, Brigel Gjoka, Cyril Baldy, Brit Rodemund, Eduardo Torroja, Rubber Legz, Jos Baker, Yotam Peled, Jill Crovisier. As a dancer and actor she took part in TV series, movies and operas like ‘Tristan and Isolde’ in Bologna, ‘Platée’ and soon in ‘l’Enfant et les sortilèges’ at the Opéra Garnier. In 2023 she joined the company BDPC of David Llari and the company of Carole Bordes.

Louison Valette trained contemporary dance at the CNSMD de Lyon until 2020. The same year she started to work with Cie Samuel Mathieu in various creations. In 2021 she got closer to performance by working with Les Gens d'Uterpan in two creations: «Entropie» and «Kynesphère». Louison works between Paris and Lyon with different companies on shorter performative projects. In parallel she is building her own artistic creation activities by developing transdisciplinary projects of musical composition and research between sound and a social/dancing body.

 

 

 

 

Une production de Emanuele Soavi incompany en partenariat avec le Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) et le Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR
Avec l’aimable soutien du Goethe-Institut de Paris, Cie La Baraka - Abou Lagraa & Nawal Aït Benalla – résidence de création La Chapelle Annonay, de ehrenfeldstudios et iDAS NRW
Avec le soutien de: Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, Ministerium für Kunst und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, Kunststiftung NRW, KunstSalon-Stiftung

TALK | Al río/To the River | Zoe Leonard et Anne Bertrand Événement, Conférence

Time scale 1h10
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Salle Matisse - Level 3 of the Museum
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The : Thursday 20 October 2022 from 19h30 to 20h40

The artist Zoe Leonard and the critic and art historian Anne Bertrand discuss the series Al río / To the River, exhibited at the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris until 29 January 2022.

Zoe Leonard: (1961, Liberty, NY) works with photography, sculpture, and site-specific installation, balancing a rigorous conceptualism with a distinctly personal vision. Leonard’s work encourages the viewer to reconsider the act of looking itself as a complex, ongoing process. Using repetition, shifting perspectives, and a multitude of printing processes, Leonard’s practice probes the politics of representation and display and invites us to contemplate the role that the medium plays in constructing history. Leonard has exhibited internationally since the early 1990s. A retrospective exhibition was presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles in 2018. Leonard has participated in numerous international exhibitions, notably Documenta IX in 1992 and Documenta XII in 2007. In 1992, Leonard wrote a short text piece entitled I Want a President, which has been distributed in many countries. Taken up by others, it has been translated into multiple languages, circulated globally through social media, and presented in public readings and performances. Leonard is a founding member of the artist collective fierce pussy. Formed in 1991 the collective remains active today with three other core founding members: Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, and Carrie Yamaoka. Zoe Leonard lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Marfa, Texas.

Anne Bertrand: born in 1966, is an art historian and critic, who writes about photography for the press (Art Press, Trafic) as well as in monographs and exhibition catalogues. In 2009 she wrote Le Présent de Robert Frank (D'une manière éditions, La Rochelle), in 2011 she edited the publication of Tacita Dean, Écrits choisis 1992-2011 (École supérieure des arts décoratifs, Strasbourg), and in 2019 the French edition of Lewis Baltz, Textes (Haute école des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg).
In 2018 she defended a thesis on the texts and statements of Walker Evans, at the University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7, under the direction of François Brunet (co-direction of Michel Poivert) and edited the publication of Walker Evans, Le Secret de la photographie (Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2017)/The Interview (The Eakins Press, New York, 2019). In 2022 she contributed to Vincent Chevillon's book, Lisières (Pétrole éditions, Strasbourg). She has been teaching since 2007 at HEAR, Strasbourg.

Kalas Liebfried | Circulation et Extinction | Joseph Beuys Événement / Performance

Time scale 1h00
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Exposition Joseph Beuys - Niveau 2 - Collections permanentes
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The : Sunday 13 March 2022 from 16h00 to 17h00

Kalas Liebfried : "Circulation et Extinction" feat. Rozenn le Trionnaire (clarinette)

Sound performance in resonance to  Joseph Beuys. Ligne à ligne, feuille à feuille

 

Circulation et Extinction will be staged as an interactive sound performance for solo clarinet and bird whistle in resonance to the exhibition Joseph Beuys. Ligne à ligne, feuille à feuille. The performance deals with the extinction of endangered bird species and the silencing of numerous natural habitats as an expected result of this ecological disaster. A field of tension is created between the circulation and extinction of sounds, in which each individual can see itself as a dynamic unit.

All visitors will receive a ceramic pipe filled with water as well as an instruction manual. The manual encourages sound interaction - both with the other visitors and with a clarinettist performing a choreography through the exhibition. Between the individual movements, space is created for interaction and performative gestures: A chorus of bird whistles rises up and creates the image of a dissonantly vibrating forest.

 

Our forests will soon be immersed in silence
And wings will flap as an echo in our minds.
There ain’t no lek, no songs of victory,
No screeching in the bushes, no begging on the shore.

Leave your camouflage clothes in your closet.
There is no longer a reason to obscure your breath,
No reason to conceal your observing presence
in a swashbuckling wildlife scenario.

Blow your whistle, play a decent tune
But mind, there is nobody listening to your
Beep-beep-boom and your chat-cheep-chatter.
No responding kut-kut-kut or a joyful flutter.

 

 

KALAS LIEBFRIED

Kalas Liebfried (*1989 in Svishtov, Bulgaria) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Munich, Germany. He studied sculpture and time-based media at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and Philosophy at the LMU Munich. Central to his installations and performances is the exploration of the sculptural and socio-political potentials of sound. Liebfried is founder of PARA (non-label organisation for sound) and co-operates the independent art space Rosa Stern.

His works have been shown in solo presentations at the Goethe-Institut in Paris and Sofia and at the Nir Altman Gallery, among others; group exhibitions and performances at i.a. Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), National Gallery (Sofia), Lenbachhaus (Munich), Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich) and Onassis Stegi (Athens). Recent awards include the project stipend from the Stiftung Kunstfonds and the Kulturpreis Bayern. In 2021 Kalas Liebfried published his first monograph Obscure Ambience (Edition Metzel). Since autumn 2021 he has been a guest lecturer at Munich’s Theatre Academy August Everding.

 

ROZENN LE TRIONNAIRE

A graduate of the Paris conservatoire and Royal Academy of London, Rozenn le Trionnaire is a keen exponent of contemporary music whose career is gaining recognition on both sides of the Channel.
Her performance as a soloist under the artistic direction of Susanna Mälkki at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (London) was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and she was hailed a “prodigiously gifted young clarinettist” (The Times) showing a “dynamic and fascinating” playing (MusicalCriticism.com)

Rozenn collaborated with Pierre Boulez. She recorded a chamber version of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 and Debussy’s ‘Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune’ under the baton of Trevor Pinnock. She is a member of Ensemble Contraste and Multi-Story Orchestra.
Having studied with the likes of Richard Vieille, she has taught at King’s College University in London. She is regularly invited by the Paris conservatoire (CRR), the Royal Academy and gives masterclasses in China, Tunisia and Morocco.
Rozenn is kindly supported by Vandoren, Fondation de France and PRS foundation (UK). She has received the Leverhulme Trust and the Junge Ohren Preis (Germany).

 

This performance has received the support of the Goethe Institut Paris

 

 

Vape Music | A Concert by Anne Imhof and Eliza Douglas Événement

Photo © Nadine Fraczowski
Time scale 1h00
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Hall du musée
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The : Sunday 12 January 2020 from 17h00 to 18h00

Anne Imhof and Eliza Douglas will perform a selection of songs from Imhof's Sex (2019), Faust (2017), and Angst (2016).

Anne Imhof lives and works in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. Imhof’s work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions at Tate Modern, London (2019), The Art Institute of Chicago (2019), the German Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, (2017), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2016), Kunsthalle Basel (2016), MoMA PS1, New York (2015), Carré d’Art - Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes (2014), and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2013). Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including at including at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2019), La Biennale de Montréal (2016), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015), the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015), and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (2014 and 2019). She represented Germany at the 2017 Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.

Eliza Douglas lives and works in Berlin and New York. She graduated with her Meisterschüler from Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main in 2017. She has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich (2019), Overduin & Co, Los Angeles (2019), Jewish Museum, New York (2018), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2017), Galerie Buchholz, New York (2017), Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (2017), Folkwang Museum, Essen (2017) and Air de Paris, Paris (2016). Her work has also been shown in several group exhibitions including at Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2019), Galerie Neu, Berlin (2018), Greenspon, New York (2018), Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin (2016 and 2017), and Vilma Gold, London (2016). She is co-creator of music, costume designer and performer in Anne Imhof's Sex (2019), Faust (2017), and Angst (2016).

AuTOIconstruction - performance by Abraham Cruzvillegas Événement

Installation view, Abraham Cruzvillegas. Image courtesy the artist. Photograph by Benjamín Matte
Time scale 2h00
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Salle Matisse - level 3
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The : Thursday 28 November 2019 from 19h30 to 21h30

As part of the exhibition You. Œuvres de la collection Lafayette Anticipations.

AuTOIconstruction will be an evening of art and poetry, calling volunteers to read aloud all lyrics written by Abraham Cruzvillegas since 2008, while he constructs a sculpture made of materials collected in the museum, to be destroyed during the same event.

In his work, Abraham Cruzvillegas explores the economic dynamics of the temporary, the artisanal and the recycled. The artist uses production strategies that range from collecting to assembling, but also reinterpreting, materials.

Discover his work Self Constructed Upside Down Shelter (2017) in the exhibition  You. Œuvres de la collection Lafayette Anticipations.

Theta Frequency Session #1 Événement / Performance

Time scale 0h45
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The : Thursday 28 September 2017 from 20h30 to 21h15

Betony étend la notion de bijou au corps tout entier et sans tabou.

Designer, “sexual anthropologist” and author of The Boudoir Bible, Betony Vernon is inspired by the body, the pleasures of the senses and by human sexuality.

The Boudoir Box, exhibited for the first time in Medusa- Jewelery and Taboos, is a luxury leather travel case containing thirty or more pieces of silver jewelery and objects designed for aesthetic as well as erotic effect.

On September 28th, Vernon’s latest work, the Theta Rig, will be presented.  It is the result of over 20 years of research on the effects of constraint and partial or total suspension on the human body and mind. The aim is to induce the Theta brainwave frequency state and its benefits via the horizontal suspension of her subject. This is maintained using leather straps that  are attached to a steel and bronze structure. As the state of abandonment advances, the subject’s brain  begins to emit the Theta brainwave frequency, which is also registered during trance, hypnosis, deep meditation, and even orgasm.

Theta Frequency Session #1 revisits bondage aesthetics. It is a physical experiment that also offers therapeutic properties. Indirectly, each member of the audience will also be able to experience the benefits.

 

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The duration of each session is approximately 25 minutes
Nodody will be allowed to enter the room after the beginning of a session
Pictures are going to be accepted but all eletronic devices must be on airplane mode to avoid any interference with the performance

Forgetting Jewellery Événement, Conférence / Colloque

Time scale 8h00
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The : Thursday 12 October 2017 from 10h30 to 18h30

Medusa, Jewellery and Taboos is a ground breaking trans-historical and trans-disciplinary exhibition. It chose to deconstruct the biases that define our perception of ornament as supposedly too feminine, too precious, too corporeal, and too primitive. Those four themes allowed us to explore jewellery in its relation to identity and the production of value(s), and to address the questions of jewellery’s autonomy and of the rituals that surround it.
As part of the exhibition programming, the curator Anne Dressen and the scientific advisers, Michele Heuzé and Benjamin Lignel, have decided to develop, not without a certain contradictory spirit, three problematics at the fringe of our conception of jewellery as ornamental object. The three-part symposium deals with the renunciation of jewellery (as a formatted identity marker associated to the feminine), with the artification of jewellery (the becoming-art of jewellery as dissociated from the body - whether dematerialized or sculptural) and with the re-accessorization of jewellery under new functional guises. We are betting that to envision the absence of jewellery – along “I’d rather not” scenarii - could help us understand its limits and resources.

 

TO OPT OUT | 10H30 > 12H30

The seminar will first address how, for different reasons, and at different times, most men and some women –lesbians and/or feminists– have redefined their relation to jewellery : how they have opted out of jewellery, or turned to other elements of their sartorial toolkit. We will therefore approach two antithetical aspects of adornment: as a normative instrument and as a means of resistance to gender normativity.

Jean Claude Bologne - Philologist, historian of masculine elegance, Paris
The masculine forfeit

Catherine Gonnard - Historian of art and lesbian culture, Paris
On the discreet jewellery of «remarkable women»

Elizabeth Fischer - Historian of dress, Geneva
Respondant

 

TO BECOME ART | 14H > 16H

Forgetting Jewellery will also explore parallels between contemporary jewellery and conceptual art, which both redefine the materiality and format of objects. Jewellery can indeed become non–wearable: an installation or a sculpture, a performance or an idea. If the disruptive strategies of conceptual art and contemporary jewelry show similarities, they do not imply the same attachment to materiality or gesture. It seems therefore important to situate those positions of rupture within their specific contexts.

Jorunn Veiteberg - Art and contemporary craft historian, Copenhagen
«It’s the Thought that Counts», on conceptual jewellery [in english]

François Piron - Art critic and curator, Paris
Conceptual pearls: from gestures to relics

Roberta Shapiro - - Sociologist, Paris
Respondant

 

TO BECOME ACCESSORY (AGAIN) | 16H15 > 18H15

Meanwhile, jewellery has been exploring new functions, to become more technological or erotic : this is jewellery conceived as doubly accessory, both utilitarian and body-oriented. Focusing on such utilitarian equipment risks bringing jewellery back to its minor position – aligning it once again with a century-old cliché of the frivolous and the accessory. We will see, afterall, if such a position does not actually allow jewellery to reinvent itself once more, reflecting as always society’s constant evolutions.

Elizabeth Fischer - Historian of dress, Geneva
Jewellery is technology’s best friend

Betony Vernon - Designer, author and sexual anthropologist, Paris
Pleasure toolkit - the body explored [in english]

Étienne-Armand Amato - Reader in sciences and communication, Paris
Respondant

 

 

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Jean Claude Bologne, philologist and writer, is a specialist in the history of emotions and behaviours (love, couples, modesty  …). He published A Story of  Masculine Elegance (Perrin, 2011).

 

Catherine Gonnard, a specialist in the history of women artist, co-authored with Elisabeth Lebovici Women artists/artists women, Paris, from 1880 to present. Both of them are currently working on the visual culture of “lesbians” in the 50’s and 60’s, particularly as they appear on French television.

 

Elizabeth Fischer is a professor in charge of the Fashion, Jewelry and Accessories Design Department of the Art and Design HEAD School in Geneva. Her field of research, teaching and publication focuses on the cultural history of the ornament in a broader sense -fashion, jewelry, accessory and corporal ornament.

 

Jorunn Veiteberg has a PhD in art history from the University of Bergen, Norway. She has worked as a curator at Hordaland Art Centre in Bergen and Gallery F15 in Moss, and as Head of Arts at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation – Television. After moving to Denmark in 1995, she has been an independent writer and researcher. Veiteberg has written several books and many articles on a range of art historical topics, but as visiting professor at Bergen Academy of the Arts, Oslo Academy of the Arts and the Academy of Design and Crafts at Gothenburg University she has mainly focused on craft theory and contemporary craft practises. Veiteberg has led Arts Council Norway’s committee for research and development since 2014 and been a member of the council since 2016. Veiteberg is a collector of contemporary art jewellery, and her collection will be exhibited at the National Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum) in Trondheim, Norway from Sep 22 – Nov 18 2018. 

 

François Piron is an art critic and a freelance contemporary art curator. He is in charge of the post master program at the Lyon National School of Fine Art, and he co-runs the Paraguay’s editions of Paris. He is the author of two books published in 2017: Complete theater of Guy de Cointet, and French spirit : Counter-cultures 1969-1989. He curated several exhibitions (Palais de Tokyo and Maison Rouge in Paris, the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, the Serralves in Porto and the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo). He was the curator of the Biennale of Rennes in 2016.

 

Roberta Shapiro is a sociologist at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Contemporary Anthropology, at the School for Advanced Social Studies (EHESS) in Paris. Her work focuses on the social changes in art and culture, through the idea of artification, namely the transformation process of non-art into art. She co-directed the book Artification. Investigation on the Transition to Art, Paris, EHESS, 2012.

 

Betony Vernon is a designer, author and sexual anthropologist based in Paris. Her works in precious metal, marble and other noble materials are inspired by the human body, eroticism and sexual well-being. Vernon is known for creating luxurious, durable and body safe Jewel-Tools as a response to the sex toy industry. Rizzoli International published Vernon’s first book The Boudoir Bible - The Uninhibited Sex Guide for Today, the tome is now available in 7 languages and reached bestseller status in France in 2017. Vernon’s pioneering work in both fields of design and sexology put her at the forefront of the sexual well-being movement of the 21st century. She coined the term Sado-Chic in 1992 to name her first erotic collection, laying down the foundation of the BV heritage that celebrates 25 years of Paradise Found this year.

 

Etienne Armand Amato is a lecturer in information and communication sciences at the UPEM (University of East Paris Marne-la-Vallée / DICEN-IDF research lab), and a researcher on contemporary eroticism and its media coverage, using methods stemming from semiology, sociology and Game studies. He for instance co-directed the issue n. 69 of Hermès focusing on “Sexualities” in 2014 and contributed in 2017 to the Medusa exhibition catalogue (essays “Erotica” and “Spike”).

Accusation solos Événement / Journées du Patrimoine

Time scale 4h00
Publics
Adultes
Enfants / Ados
Famille
Hours
The : Sunday 17 September 2017 from 13h00 to 17h00

Accusation solos are structured around one performer and are based on material from the production Accusations, only unraveled and reassembled again. Significance, reflection, accusation or complaint. Succeeding or failing, grasping opportunities or passing on them, unrealized desires; each performer chooses his or her own perspective in a confrontational quest to find a better version of him- or herself.

 
Belgian choreographer Ann Van den Broek works on the cutting edge of several disciplines. Dance, performance, song, music, soundscape, texts and film come together to create a powerful total experience. Not only does Van den Broek explore and extend the parameters of dance on stage, but of theater as well. Site-specific versions of The Black Piece, for instance, were performed in museums such as the Barbican Art Gallery in London (UK) and in the MHKA museum in Antwerp (BE). And with director Mike Figgis, she made a film version of Co(te)lette.

 
In June, Accusations had its French premiere in Paris during the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis. And on September 17, the Accusation solos will be performed in the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris during the Journées européennes du patrimoine (European Heritage Days).

 
WArd/waRD – Ann Van den Broek

Since 2000, Ann Van den Broek [Antwerp (BE), 1970] has made over twenty choreographies and a film for and with her company Ward/waRD (BE/NL). Her work has been nominated several times for the Zwaan (Swan), the most prestigious dance prize in the Netherlands, and again this year for her latest work: Accusations. She was awarded the prize twice: for Co(te)lette (2008) and The Black Piece (2015). The Co(te)lette Film won several international prizes.

In 2010, Ann received the Mousson Award, an initiative of Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt (D). In 2015, the book about her work, protect/perform, was published and filmmaker Lisa Boerstra made the documentary The Lady in Black.

Website: http://www.wardward.be/

Cinemam Événement / Cinéma

Time scale 1h35
Publics
Adultes
Famille
Address
Parvis haut 
Hours
The : Thursday 29 June 2017 from 22h00 to 23h35

Diamonds are a girl's best friend - Marilyn Monroe

At the occasion of the exhibition Medusa, Bijoux and Tabous, we are pleased to invit you to the open-air screening of Howard Hawks' movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" in VOSTFR with Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, in front of the museum.

This musical plunges us into the fantastic universe of two american showgirls and best friends with divergent characters: Lorelei Lee, who loves rich men and the word "diamond" and Dorothy Shaw, a young woman of character who loves honest men without wealth.

A projection that will make jewels shine on the big screen!

 

French Kiwi Juice - Showcase Événement / Concert

Time scale 0h40
Publics
Adultes
Enfants / Ados
Hours
The : Thursday 11 May 2017 from 20h30 to 21h10

French Kiwi Juice aka FKJ, one of the emblematic artist of the Roche Music label, unveils his first eponymous album. For the occasion, he invites us to discorver his singular universe in the Fée Électricité room, a masterpiece by Raoul Dufy, for an unusual concert!

Tribute to his idols, affirmation of his musical maturity, FKJ creates titles inspired by black music, soul and jazz, with this electronic touch that makes his sound incomparable. A warm, reassuring and sensual universe.

The Franco-New Zealander releases an intimate and profound album, and makes music speak as a universal language.

 

 

The artist: Music has always occupied a central place in FKJ's life. Very young, he composed his own songs and he recorded his first song at 14 years in his uncle's studio. This self-taught multi-instrumentalist controls everything from the studio to the stage, he alternates guitar, piano, saxophone, bass and many others, creating amazing live performances.

Previously working as a sound engineer in cinemas, the accomplished musician has been revealed in 2013 with his single Lying Together. Two EPs (Time For A Change and Take Off) followed his first success and increased his notoriety on the international scene. Today, FKJ performs in Asia, North America and Europe. He is currently on tour in the United States on the occasion of his first album French Kiwi Juice.

 

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