------ Message transféréDe : French Connection <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date : Mon, 2
Jun 2008 09:46:27 +0100À : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Objet : Conference on
Contemporary French Art, July 2008Dear Ms. Vergara Bastiand,Please find below
information on a conference on contemporary French art, to be held at Cambridge
July 2008.If possible, would you mind forwarding this information to any
students or affiliates of the Ecole du Magasin that you think might have
interest.Any help is greatly appreciated.With thanks,Jennifer Burris
The French Connection: New Perspectives on French Contemporary Art
ConferenceWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College - Cambridge, University of
Cambridge24-26 July 2008International conference on French contemporary art,
The French Connection offers a platform to reflect upon the recent changes in
French art as well as an opportunity for its further 'promotion'. This
conference will also offer a space for reflection on the idea of 'national
art', a questioning that opens onto a discussion of French identity,
cross-cultural artistic practices, and disciplinary change.Please find below
the provisional programme. For more information and to register please visit
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/60 <http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/60>
Convenors:Olga Smith <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (University of
Cambridge)Jennifer Burris <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (University of Cambridge)
Administrative questions should be addressed to:Michelle Maciejewska CRASSH,
University of Cambridge, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX, UKTel: +44 (0)1223
765279; Fax: +44 (0)1223 765276; Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> <http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/60> CONFERENCE
PROGRAMMETHURSDAY 24TH JULY19.15 – 20.00 Catherine Millet(critic, Art Press)
Three Women Expose: Sex and Desire in the Works of Clarisse Hahn, Catherine
Corringer and Isild Le Besco. Chair: Jean Khalfa (University of Cambridge)20.00
– 21.30 Pas d'histoires: a selection of films by French or Paris-based
filmmakers and artists of different generations working with documentary.
Curator and Chair: Anne-Sophie Dinant (South London Gallery) FRIDAY 25TH
JULY9.00 – 9.30 Registration9.30 – 9.45 Opening and Welcome9.45 – 10.30 Paul
Ardenne (curator, Faculté des Arts (Amiens)) No Specificity Chair: tbc10.30 –
11.00 Coffee11.00 – 12.30 Panel 1: Intersections between contemporary
philosophy and artNigel Saint (University of Leeds) Georges Didi-Huberman's
Fables du lieu: critique and creativityLaura McMahon (University of Cambridge)
In Touch: Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire DenisJérôme Game (American University of
Paris) Rancière's phrase-image and some contemporary French visual artChair:
Ian James (University of Cambridge)12.30 – 13.30 Lunch13.30 – 15.15 Panel 2:
New movements in photographySophie Berrebi (University of Amsterdam) A French
Documentary tradition? Jean-Luc Moulène and surrealist photographyGeraldine
McIlwaine (University of Sheffield) Valérie Jouve: Sans Titre 9Céline Robillard
(Université Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, curator) Photographie plasticienne
contemporaine: la "French Touch" et ses images de criseAmanda Crawley-Jackson
(University of Sheffield) "To cross is called 'to burn'": Yto Barrada and the
unevenness of 'liquid modernity'Chair: Olga Smith (University of
Cambridge)15.15 – 15.45 Coffee15.45 – 16.30 Pascal Convert in conversation with
Nigel Saint1 16.30 – 17.30 Roundtable Discussion: Recent initiatives in the
promotion and display of French art. Participants include: Sophie Claudel
(French Embassy London), Suzanne Cotter (Modern Art Oxford), Clare Grafik (The
Photographer's Gallery)SATURDAY 26TH JULY9.30 – 10.15 Alain Quemin(Université
Paris-Est / Institut Universitaire de France / CNRS (French National Center for
Scientific Research)) The International Impact of the French Visual Arts: Is
There Such a Thing as "The Death of French Culture"? Chair: Jennifer Burris
(University of Cambridge)10.15 – 10.45 Coffee10.45 – 12.15 Panel 3: Art
institutions: national and international changesAntigoni Memou (Courtauld
Institute) Photographs of May 1968 in the Contemporary Museum: A Note on
Politics and AestheticsFemke Van Hest (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales (Paris, France) /Erasmus University (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)) The
role of nationality at contemporary art biennials: Case study on the
participation of French and Dutch artistsVivian Rehberg (Parsons Paris School
of Art and Design) Mapping Institutional Critique in Paris NowChair: Alyce
Mahon (University of Cambridge)12.15 – 13.30 Lunch13.30 – 15.00 Panel 4:
Towards future models of exhibition and curatingAnaïs Bourquin (Université
Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne) Passeurs d'oeuvres: Future Models of Curating in
FranceBrooke McGowan (University of Cambridge) Forcener la forme: l'économie(s)
et l'autre(s) de Nicolas BourriaudIsabelle McNeill (University of Cambridge)
Memory, Media and Intersubjectivity in the Recent Work of Agnès VardaChair:
tbc15.30 Special Event (tba) followed by full-length film screenings-- The
French Connection: New Perspectives on French Contemporary Art across
DisciplinesThursday, 24 July to Saturday, 26 JulyLocation: Winstanley Lecture
Hall, Trinity College - CambridgePlease address any administrative enquiries to
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