Commotions, a journal
Monday 28 Oct 2019 from 9am to 5pm
Wednesday 20 Nov 2019 from 9am to 5pm
Saturday 30 Nov 2019 from 9am to 5pm
Saturday 07 Dec 2019 from 9am to 5pm
Free admission
"Commotions" is a project for a journal that was initiated by the artist Katinka Bock to coincide with the exhibition of her work at Lafayette Anticipations.
4 working sessions for 4 issues.
4 sessions, each of which answers a question about commotion: how do we sense it, how do we hear it, how do we feel it, and how does it spur us into action? Whereas the exhibition takes place over an extended period, our idea is to accelerate that time through the production process. Commotion brings with it the tumult of the outside world and the urgency of the events we want to talk about.
4 sessions with a different editor each time but always an audience of students (in dance, literature, philosophy or art) and jointly led with guest artists. We want to invite, hear, have write and react a public who are training in various disciplines, and whose consciousness and lucidity will set this project in motion.
4 sessions that highlight composition in the widest sense: images, texts, translations, drawings – as many forms as commotion can gather and which gain from being produced collectively. The installation of an editorial desk inside the exhibition space makes this composition a temporary protagonist of the exhibition; one that is capable of reshaping its contours.
Monday October 28
"how to sense commotion", with Thomas Clerc.
Wednesday November 20
"how to hear commotion", with Luke James.
Saturday November 30
"how to feel commotion", with Francisco Tropa.
Saturday December 7
"how commotion spurs action", with Natascha Sadr Haghighian.
Each issue of "Commotions" is intended as a meeting space that looks beyond borders, hence Katinka Bock has asked artists for a visual or textual contribution. Guillaume Leblon, Jumana Manna, Nina Beier, Haig Aivazian, Johannes Schwartz, Jason Dodge, Nina Canell, Louis Lüthi, Marie Lund, Saadane Afif, Thea Djordjadzé, Paloma Bosquê, Luke James, Thomas Clerc and Francisco Tropa have accepted this role of "foreign correspondent".
Elle a dirigé différents ouvrages : "Jeux sérieux. Cinéma et art contemporain transforment l’essai", (HEAD/Mamco, Genève, 2015), "Palmanova" (Form(e)s, Paris, 2016), "Laura Mulvey, Au-delà du plaisir visuel. Féminisme, énigmes, cinéphilie" (Mimésis, Paris, 2017). Elle a contribué à plusieurs monographies: "Mike Kelley", Centre Georges Pompidou (2013), "Joachim Koester: Of Spirits and Empty Spaces", SMAK (2014), "Hélène Delprat. Les travaux et les jours" (Dilecta, 2017). Plusieurs articles critiques : « Rien n’est magique », exposition Marie Angeletti, castillo/corrales, Paris, 2014, « A Girl and a Tree. Time Flies like a Banana », in Next Spring, Wellington (2016), « Crooked », exposition Valérie Mréjen, Galerie Anne-Sarah Benichou (2016).
Elle est docteure en études cinématographiques. Sa thèse a été publiée en 2014 (Les Chercheurs d’or. Films d’artistes, Histoires de l’art, Presses du réel). Entre 2012 et 2018, elle a enseigné l’histoire et la théorie de l’art à l’école supérieure des beaux-arts de Bordeaux (Ebabx).
Elle est aujourd’hui en charge d’un séminaire de diplôme aux Beaux-Arts de Paris (Ensba).Ses échanges avec Katinka Bock ont donné lieu à plusieurs points de rencontre : aux Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers en 2015 et dans le cadre de Manifesta (Palerme, 2018). Des textes rendent compte de ces collaborations, notamment: « Squirrels to the nuts », in Zarba Lonsa, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers (2015).