Bodies at work
Wednesday 17 November 2021, 4 — 5:30 pm
- Participants
- Christine Van Assche, Marie-Pierre Bonniol, Théo-Mario Coppola, Thibault Vanco, Sonia Fernández Pan and Xavier Acarín
- Moderator
- Antje Ehmann
- Venues
- La Pedrera
- Language
- English
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Antje Ehmann will lead a conversation on the depiction of the human body at work in film and video art, a central question in her practice as an artist and curator. The starting point will be the project “Labour in a Single Shot”, she started together with Harun Farocki in 2011, and which is still growing. The project is an archive of numerous short films from all over the world about labour and the working body. Some of those 2 minute long films will be shown in order to develop some thoughts about the man - machine relationship, and about the shift operated onto “the working body” within the last 2 pandemic years.
Christine Van Assche
- Moderator, Participant, Speaker
Christine Van Assche is a contemporary art historian, curator, and critic specializing in audiovisual art. As the Chief Curator at Centre Pompidou between 1982 and 2013, she built up the institution’s first video and new media art collection, featuring 1,600 works including those by David Claerbout, James Coleman, Stan Douglas, Valie Export, Esther Ferrer, Jean-Luc Godard, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac Julien, Mike Kelley, Chris Marker, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist, etc. She curated a number of thematic exhibitions such as Passages des l’image in 1990, Sonic Process in 2000, Vidéo, un art, une histoir that toured internationally between 2005 and 2012, Une vision du monde. La collection des Lemaître in 2006, Video Vintage in 2012 and 2013, as well as numerous solo exhibitions accompanied by catalogs devoted to artists such as Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Mona Hatoum, Johan Grimonprez, Douglas Gordon, James Coleman, Chris Marker, Bruce Nauman, Pierre Huyghe, Ugo Rondinone, Isaac Julien, among others.
Last update: November 11th, 2019
Marie-Pierre Bonniol
- Artist, Curator, Participant
- http://mariepierrebonniol.com
Marie-Pierre Bonniol is a French artist, curator and producer, member of C|E|A and based in Berlin. Graduated in Visual Arts and Aesthetics and Sciences of Art (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), she first operated in the music field. Within her current and recent projects, she collaborates with Guy Maddin for his collage work, and curates Experiment 120, an itinerant programme of experimental films for kids (7+) which is presented in institutions and open to artist films, documentation on artworks, video art, animation and films made by children. As a video artist and filmmaker, her work is presented as installations in exhibitions and in film festivals, and she’s currently developing an experimental feature film project on video games. She also operates in the literature field, at the cross of visual arts, with the project Hôtel des Autrices in direction of women* authors.
Théo-Mario Coppola
- Curator
Théo-Mario Coppola is a curator and arts writer. They are currently based in Paris, France.
Viewing aesthetic issues as inherently tied to social struggles, Théo-Mario Coppola’s curatorial and critical practice engages with research-based, experimental, narrative and political forms. The projects they have conducted deal with experiences of concrete utopia, personal and collective narratives of emancipation, as well as initiatives of resistance, and examine how these enable the transformation of values in art, governance and society.
Their recent curated exhibitions and programmes include three annual chapters of the HOTEL EUROPA series in various cities across Europe between 2017 and 2019, the third edition of the Nuit Blanche arts festival at Villa Medici in Rome, Italy, in 2018, and the eleventh edition of the MOMENTUM biennale in Moss, Norway, in 2021.
Théo-Mario Coppola has contributed to catalogues, magazines and online publications. They regularly lecture on radical aesthetic practices at art schools and universities.
Last update: November 17th, 2022
Thibault Vanco
- Curator, Participant
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Sonia Fernández Pan
- Speaker
Sonia Fernández Pan is a (in)dependent curator, art writer and researcher. Author of esnorquel since 2011, a personal project in the form of an on-line archive with podcasts, texts and written conversations, where the need – and desire – to think with others can be put into practice. Among her recent curated projects are As if we could scrape the color of the iris and still see (Twin Gallery, Madrid, 2018), CHRONO-MATTER Objects are closer than they appear (Efremidis Gallery, Berlin, 2019) and the one-year curatorial programs The more we know about them, the stranger they become (Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona 2017) and Mirror becomes a razor when it’s broken (CentroCentro, Madrid, 2018-19). Since 2018 she is co-curator of You Got To Get In To Get Out (La Casa Encendida Madrid), a research on the experience of techno music from an experiential, discursive-visceral, political and material perspective. Since the pandemic she hosts the podcast series Feminism Under Corona for Institute Kunst (Basel) and Corona Under the Ocean for TBA21Academy & Institute Kunst. Lives and works in Berlin.
Xavier Acarín
- Curator, Participant
Xavier Acarín Wieland is a curator working at the intersection of art and social histories, with a special interest in performativity, process and situational practices. He holds a masters from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. And has curated projects for The New School for Social Research, Elastic City, Chez Bushwick, The Hessel Museum-CCS Bard, Peekskill Project 6, Java Projects, ESTE, and the Abrons Arts Center, where he was the 2016-17 Curator in Residence. He has also been in residency at HIAP, Helsinki (2016) and at La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires (2018). In 2018 he was curator and panelist for the Miquel Casablancas Award, as part of a residency in collaboration between Sant Andreu Contemporani and Fabra i Coats in Barcelona.
He has written for exhibitions at Galería ADN, Barcelona, and Participant Inc., New York. His articles, essays, and interviews have been published at A-Desk (2007-present), Culturas-La Vanguardia, Esnorquel, Terremoto, and BRAC (University of Barcelona). He has participated as author of the books Designing Experience (Bloomsbury, 2014), and Dear Helen (CCS Bard, 2014).
