What do we expect of the exhibitions, especially in the context of post-digital cultures? VERSIONS is an international practice, debate and critique workshop-conference to experiment and discuss exhibition forms that will take place at the Maison Populaire de Montreuil (5-16 Sept 2016). in dialogue with the venue’s team and with Vladimir Demoule and Marie Koch, the 2016 season exhibition curators. The process will be documented in real time and a publication will be edited after the event, in late 2016. Unlike a curatorial approach starting from a given project to organize works, Versions will take as its starting point suggestions made by stakeholders themselves, in order to reveal an experimentation of the exhibition’s “conditions of possibility”. Participants will work in groups of three for two weeks: a series of workshop days and two day of public debates, where the public is invited to take part in the discussions “What do we expect of the exhibitions?”
Versions - first session with Yuk Hui, Jan Kopp and Mathilde Roman
September 5-6, first workshop with Yuk Hui, philosopher, associated researcher at the Center for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Jan Kopp, artist, teacher (Esacm Clermont-Ferrand), Mathilde Roman, art critic, curator and teacher-researcher at Pavillon Bosio – École Supérieure d’Art de la ville de Monaco and the Displays team.
September 7th, first public panel “What do we expect of the exhibitions?” with Eli Commins, artist, coordinator for digital policy at French Culture Ministry, Jean Cristofol, philosopher and teacher-researcher at Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix en Provence, Yuk Hui, philosopher, associated researcher at the Center for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Jan Kopp, artist, teacher (Esacm Clermont-Ferrand), Claire Malrieux, artist, teacher (Ensci, Beaux-arts Hauts-de France) and researcher at EnsadLab, Mathilde Roman, art critic, curator and teacher-researcher at Pavillon Bosio – École Supérieure d’Art de la ville de Monaco, Ann Stouvenel, curator and head for visual arts at Mains d’Œuvres,
September 8-9, second workshop with Jean Cristofol, philosopher and teacher-researcher at Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix en Provence, Claire Malrieux, artist, teacher (Ensci, Beaux-arts Hauts-de France) and researcher at EnsadLab, Ann Stouvenel, curator and head for visual arts at Mains d’Œuvres and the Displays team.
September 12-13, third workshop with Milad Doueihi, historian and chairman for Digital humanities at University Paris-Sorbonne, Laura Gozlan, artist, Véronique Souben, curator and head of FRAC Haute-Normandie and the Displays team.
September 14th, second public panel “What do we expect of the exhibitions?” with Martin John Callanan, artist, Milad Doueihi, historian and chairman for Digital humanities at University Paris-Sorbonne, Laura Gozlan, artist, Guilhem Pratz, director and producer, Véronique Souben, curator and head of FRAC Haute-Normandie, Pau Waelder, art critic and curator, Marion Zilio, art critic, curator and head of Young International Artists art fair.
September 15-16, fourth workshop with Martin John Callanan, artist, Guilhem Pratz, director and producer, Pau Waelder, art critic and curator and the Displays team.
An event co-organized by the Displays research group, EnsadLab Research Laboratory and the Labex ICCA. The Displays research group is coordinated by Thierry Fournier (artist and curator, EnsadLab) and J. Emil Sennewald (art critic and journalist, ESACM, EnsadLab). EnsadLab / Displays students-researchers: Gaspard Bébié-Valérian, Thomas Cheneseau, Dorian Reunkrilerk. EnsadLab / Displays associated researchers: Pauline Gourlet (designer and postgraduate Université Paris 8), Rahaf Demashki (postgraduate Université Rennes 2). Thanks to Annie Agopian, Floriane Benjamin, Marie Koch, Vladimir Demoule and the Maison Populaire de Montreuil team.
