Lectures/debates
Magasin d'en face
Free entrance
collections, collectors
8 February 2005 at 18:30
In September 2001 Passions partagées, an exhibition held in Grenoble’s
former museum of painting, presented a selection of works from private collections
of modern and contemporary art in the department of Isère. This initiative
was all the more remarkable in that it was organised by art*38, a group involving
several collectors. In a town famous for its museum and art centre, the emergence
of an organised group of collectors is certainly symptomatic of a wider sharing,
knowledge and enjoyment of art. This question could be explored and discussed
with some of the collectors from art*38.
"Coaches, Curators and carpet cleaners"
Alexis Vaillant, Eva Svennung
1 March 2005 at 18:30
Eva Svennung and Alexis Vaillant (who worked at the Mamco, Geneva from 1995 to
1999) set up their Toasting Agency in Paris in 1999. This curating outfit sets
out to organise a varied range of events, but without creating yet another art
space – rather, by questioning the nature of the already existing spaces.
It puts on exhibitions and events using the resources and dynamics it finds in
each venue. Since 1999 Toasting Agency has also published Pacemaker,
a quarterly freesheet with a print run of 7,000.
Art Orienté objet
5 April 2005 at 18:30
Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin founded Art Orienté objet
in 1991. “They are fascinated by the life sciences, and also by the study
of behaviour, especially everything from ethology to ethno-psychiatry. Over the
last ten years their experiments have borne fruit in large numbers of surprising
and poetic projections, exploring our reactions to life and to the world around
us. Their works take a variety of aesthetic forms. In them we can find traces
of the presence of a pet and a mise-en-scène of their own existence.”
(Art Orienté objet, Paris, Editions CQFD, inside front cover
note, 2002).
François Piron, Pierre Leguillon
10 May 2005 at 18:30
Both conduct singular experiments on the margins of those elastic functions
that are art criticism and exhibition organising. Pierre Leguillon defines himself
as an “occasional art critic”, while François Piron works
alongside the critic Yvane Chapuis and the choreographer Loïc Touzé as
a co-director of the “Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers” arts centre
outside Paris.
Collectif 1.0.3
5 July 2005 at 17:30
The collective presents the MISMA project (Module d'Intervention de Sauvegarde
de Méthodologies Artistiques).
Anne Couzon Cesca, born in 1978; François Bernus, born in 1974; Arnaud
Bernus, born in 1974. Live and work in Noisy-le-Sec.
Using a name that directly refers to the protocol for naming software versions,
the 1.0.3 group comprises three young artists whose professed aim is to explore
the subjective aspect of reproducibility by elaborating objects that centre on
the use of computers, making constant use of monitors. “For us, the computer
is the place where three different notions come together: conservation, conversion
and conversation.” Their MISMA (Module d'Intervention de Sauvegarde de
Méthodologies Artistiques: Intervention Module for Backing Up Artistic
Methodologies) is conceived as a perceptual tool exploring the role played by
digital technology in event-based or individual artistic production. This resource
centre accumulates and organises computer back-ups (arborescence, file names)
and maps. Arboflash and Planiscope are the two modes employed here.
http://projetmisma.free.fr