What happens when the archive becomes accessible at the click of a button on our computers?
Long associated with time and history, the notion of the archive has undergone major changes over the last forty years. It now also applies to the storage of digital data.
Art historian, author and curator Marie de Brugerolle questions the impact and legacy of performativity on the visual arts, and looks back at Post Performance Future, a pioneering travelling artistic research project she directed from 2012 to 2022.
Her book Post Performance Future. Method/e, published in September 2023, retraces 10 years of research based on the interweaving of performative experiences and practices with several generations of students and artists including Andrea Fraser, Agnieszka Kurant, Cally Spooner, Julien Bismuth and Jimmy Robert.
Contre-Espaces
PhotoSaintGermain
In partnership with PhotoSaintGermain, a group exhibition of artists from the Beaux-Arts de Paris is being held at the École, with the aim of showcasing the diversity of photographic writing in today's image community.
From 2 to 18 November, Le Labo Photo, the Perret corridor and the outside area will be bringing together 26 artists' proposals on the theme of Counter Spaces.
In June 2023, three naturalists, Grégoire Loïs, Elodie Renouard and Maxime Zucca, undertook a naturalistic study of the Beaux-Arts de Paris. They investigated those who cohabit with us on a daily basis, often invisibly: plants, birds, insects, bats, small mammals...
Speakers: Kra N'Guessan (artist), Ming-Tiampo (Carleton University), Maureen Murphy (Université Paris 1)
Dedicated to the transnational trajectories of the École's students, this session will explore the possibilities of capturing and deconstructing the linearity of conventional patterns of formative narratives, particularly in the trajectories of international artists who have experienced plural formative stages.
Alice Thomine-Berrada teams up with art historian Sophie Delpeux and artists Anne Rochette and Laurent Poléo-Garnier to present an exceptional collection by artist Gina Pane, recently acquired by the Beaux-Arts de Paris: over thirty photographs, drawings and preparatory documents from the Hot Afternoon performance presented by Gina Pane at the 1977 Documenta in Kassel.
On the occasion of the opening of the cultural festival Un Week-End à l'Est, writer, journalist, screenwriter and director Emmanuel Carrère talks to Serge Michel, publishing director of Kometa magazine, and Alain Berland.
Why a conservator shouldn't be... a conservator.
In the field of photography, François Halard occupies a singular place, that of a great interior architecture photographer nourished by a passion for antique and archaeological fragments, 18th-century decors, the abstract and radical paintings of modernity, and the experimental and documentary photography of the 1920s.
Speakers: Philippe Cinquini (Shanghai International Studies University), Francesca dal Lago (independent researcher)
