Materialisms at work

Cycle organized by the École normale supérieure, university Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 and LE BAL

From January 19 to June 22 2017

To pursue the cycle "Marx en scène" in 2016, the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), the university Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 and LE BAL associate again for a cycle of screening and debates dedicated to the numerous materialist approaches of the artistic creation : How artists work the photochemical or numerical matter of the image ? How does one represent the invisible ? How can one materialize the virtual financial trades, the invisible radioactivity, the numerical connections and other cloods ?

The debates will explore the imaginaries developed around the matter in all its dimensions : from the ideology of dematerialization to the Golem myth and the representations of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Cycle conceived by Ada Ackerman and Antonio Somaini, with the support of research groups THALIM (Théorie et histoire des arts et des littératures de la modernité – CNRS) and LIRA (Laboratoire international de recherches en arts – université Paris III) with the collaboration of Mariya Nikiforova (LightCone).

Schedule

Thursday January 19 – 8 PM

An atlas of work : Labour in a Single Shot by Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki

With Antje Ehmann, curator and artist ; Christa Blümlinger, lecturer in audiovisual and cinematographic studies at the Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis.

Thursday February 23 – 8 PM

Networks materiality, dematerialization ideologies : Julien Prévieux

With Julien Prévieux, artist ; Dork Zabunyan, lecturer in cinema at the Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis.

Thursday March 16 – 8 PM

Radioactive matter

With Jade Gomes and Maxime Fuhrer, members of « Scotcheuses » ; Emmanuel Lefrant, director and scheduler.

Thursday April 6 – 8 PM

The Golem : The matter stirs

With Fanny Schulmann, curator at Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme and Jakob Gautel, artist.

Thursday May 18 – 8 PM

Alchemy and film matters : Jürgen Reble

With Yann Beauvais, directior and critic ; Olivier Schefer, lecturer in aesthetic at the Université Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne.

Thursday June 8 – 8 PM

Natural environments and numerical matters : Jacques Perconte

With Sean Cubitt, lecturer in televisual and cinematographic studies at the Goldsmiths University of London ; Jacques Perconte, director and artist.

Thursday June 22 – 8 PM

Bodies matter and body against matter : Amy Greenfield, Jonathan Glazer and Frédérique Menant

Screening organized with the ENS-Ulm and the Université Paris 3, under the supervision of Sophie Walon (ATER at the ENS-Ulm)

With Florent Barrère, doctor in cinematographic studies (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) ; Marisa Hayes, director of dance videos and manager of Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne and Frédérique Menant, author and director.