Over the past fifteen years, the term “post-photography” has come to dominate the field of photographic creation. It refers to a radical evolution in our relationship with images, which the first and second digital turning points have only accentuated. But it seems to cover a wide range of realities: appropriationism, the multiplication of images on social networks or, more recently, augmented photography and the algorithmic image.
California-based art historian John C. Welchman discusses his research into the Royal Book Lodge project, an international network of artists initiated in Montreuil by Véronique Bourgoin and Juli Susin, with the artist's book at its core.
The works of some forty artists are displayed over 3,500 m² in the Grande Halle de la Villette, in a scenography composed entirely of salvaged elements from previous events.
This conference explores the relationship between art and philosophy at a time of environmental change in the humanities. Philosopher Mohamed Amer Meziane will draw on his two books Au bord des mondes and Des empires sous la terre. He will highlight some of their resonances with the current practices of several artists and curators in contemporary art worlds, between Europe and America, Africa and Asia.
Round-table discussion on Baudrillard Spirit with author Ludovic Leonelli, journalist Frédéric Taddeï and Pascale Le Thorel, director of Editions des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Michel Poivert describes as “neo-analog” photographic practices involving creative processes that assert the role of materiality and experimentation over the production of an image. It thus opens onto the global notion of “analog culture”, defined as the counterpart to “digital culture”. Analog no longer designates a technical fact, but a cultural one. What characterizes the neoanalogue is a strong “ecosophical” awareness, i.e. a perception of the Anthropocene era as a general historical framework. In this respect, the analogical turn marks a political project.
Baptiste Morizot recounts the story of how modern people monospecifically confiscated the privilege of developing environments, and explores how certain contemporary environmental restoration practices, carried out by the heirs of this confiscation, now envisage sharing this monopoly with non-human, animal and ecosystem entities. What are the philosophical and political implications of this local shift?
As an extension of the exhibition Pierre Alferi - Dessins, 2006-2021 currently on view at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, this evening is devoted to Pierre Alferi and his accomplices, through a number of creative experiences arising from these friendships. It will be an opportunity to see and hear several facets of his work, presented or replayed by Rodolphe Burger, Fanny de Chaillé and Grégoire Monsaingeon, Suzanne Doppelt and Paul Sztulman, Jacques Julien and Anne Portugal.
Paul O’Neill, Irish curator, artist, writer, educator and Artistic Director of PUBLICS, Helsinki, presents and reflects on the publicness of curatorial practice, cooperative exhibition-making and attentiveness.
