It invents the tools to conceive artistic practices from all fields β visual art, dance, performance, theatre, literature, etc. Setting up projects with artists involves an often lengthy time of research, an absolute must to create strong connections between the artistic projects, the region and people. In the form of an artistic tool, it takes place over two days and includes discussions intended to be moments for sharing, performances and workshops, on different scales and in different formats.
This meeting is the opportunity to break down the divide between audiences and specialists, to roll out a singular tool that encourages experiences of art and politics rather than representations of them, the circulation and comparison of ideas rather than their authoritative forms of transmission.
Printemps des Laboratoires offers an opportunity to nurture research and explore a variety of current artistic, historical and critical contexts, both French and international. Performing Opposition will be foregrounding the antagonistic movements that reconfigure, across the globe and from one local to another, the map of a power that is now diffuse and molecular β an art that is also capable of eluding its ties to the institution in order to continue to develop therein, in spite of everything, critical and operative strategies.
This edition of the Printemps des Laboratoires will set up a dialogue between diverse experiences and perspectives. Our guests include specialists in the fields of activist movements Brian Holmes , avant-garde movements Marc Partouche , digital cultures Marie Lechner, Nathalie Magnan , and also the links between theatre and political modernity Diane Scott. These discussions will take shape amid a varied programme which will include a musical accompaniment by pianist Alexey Aasantcheef, presenting a set composed of works by Cornelius Cardew, punctuated by revolutionary pieces which the audience will be invited to sing; performances by students of the Oslo Academy of Fine Art; an evening meal open to all; a screening juxtaposing contemporary films Egyptian filmmakers Jasmina Matwaly and Philip Rizk and the Palestine-based DAAR collective and a documentary about a major s play Paradise Now by Living Theater.
In she created and managed the contemporary art platform Rosascape, an independent art centre based in Paris. She is interested in production strategies, the artistic research process and reflections on the role of artwork and ways of sharing it with the public β through formats such as exhibits, performances, conferences, and publications β for all disciplines.
