The male gaze

From the guerrilla of signs

Jacques Villeglé began his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, where he met Raymond Hains. From 1947 to 1949 he studied architecture in Nantes, then moved to Paris.

In 1949 he became a collector of torn posters, calling himself a "poster artist" and proclaiming the "guerrilla war of signs.

Author of a prolix work since the 1970s, pioneer of "musical theater" associating musicians, actors and the public with his Atelier Théâtre et Musique (ATEM), Georges Aperghis is one of the cardinal figures of contemporary musical creation, recognized by numerous distinctions such as the Golden Lion of the Venice Music Biennale or the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge prize.

Neïl Beloufa (born in 1985 in Paris, France) is a French-Algerian artist/director who lives and works in Paris. Through his practice, he questions society and its issues through different mediums: films, sculptures and installations. He studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (USA); at the Cooper Union, New York and at the Fresnoy - Studio national des Arts Contemporain, Tourcoing (France). 

As part of the Troubles, Dissent and Aesthetics Chair coordinated by Fabrice Bourlez and Ilana Eloit, and in collaboration with professors Patricia Ribault and Clara Schulmann, a live meeting with philosopher Rosi Braidotti.

Dialogue with Christian Joschke and Alain Berland around the "Noms du Présent".

Jacques Rancière is Professor Emeritus of the University of Paris VIII. It is by working on proletarian writers that he develops his reflection on the equality of citizens before power and knowledge, thus questioning, even in crisis, the dominant positions of the thinker and the intellectual who tells the truth of the world, whether in the field of politics or aesthetics.

Equality of (artificial) intelligences.

Catherine Malabou is a specialist in contemporary French and German philosophy. She works on the importance of the concept of plasticity in neuroscience.

What is black art?

Arts and Social Signs

Franck Scurti uses all mediums indifferently: video, sculpture, installation. His work is constituted around a reflection on art, social signs and the reality of the time. His works are often created from found materials and forms, things devoid of values that he carefully redefines by elaborating each time their logic of appearance. 

"Penser le Présent" A gallery owner's life: Dialogue with Chantal Crousel and Niklas Svennung

In 1980, Chantal Crousel founded her eponymous art gallery with the intention of reporting on the changes in international contemporary creation in France and around the world. Of Belgian origin, she chose to represent artists of different nationalities participating in the elaboration of a universal language through a wide variety of mediums.