As part of our MBA in Contemporary Art: Sales, Display and Collecting, Audrey Illouz invited a series of speakers to IESA to discuss different aspects of curatorial practice and contemporary art.
Friday, April 13 from 17:30 to 20:00 - Conversation with Nicolas Bourriaud
Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965), a French art critic, theorist, and exhibition curator, was co-founder and co-director of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2000-2006), and Gulbenkian curator for contemporary art at Tate Britain.
He was director of the National School of Fine Arts of Paris from 2011 to 2015. After serving as artistic director of the Panacée, an art center in Montpellier, he is now General Director of Montpellier Contemporain (MoCo), a cultural center bringing together the Panacée art center, the School of Fine Arts, and the future Museum of Collections.
Monday, April 16 from 17:30 to 19:30 - Conversation with Julien Prévieux
Work, management, economics, politics, control systems, advanced technologies, and the cultural industry are all "worlds" that the activities of Julien Prévieux involve. As in the letters of non-motivation he has been regularly sending to employers since 2004, in which he reacts to newspaper job ads and details the reasons why he did not apply for the jobs in question, his work often appropriates the vocabulary, mechanisms, and modes of operation of the sectors that inform it, in order to better expose their dogmas, excesses, and, ultimately, emptiness. Julien Prévieux will present a selection of recent works exemplary of his research and processes.
Julien Prévieux has had solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; RISD Museum, Providence; Blackwood Gallery, Toronto; FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen; Synagogue de Delme Centre d’art; among other institutions, and was included in the 10th Istanbul Biennial and the Lyon Biennale 2015. His work has been included in group exhibitions at DiverseWorks, Houston; Witte de With, Rotterdam; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara; and Kunstverein Hannover. He is the recipient of the 2014 Marcel Duchamp Prize.
Monday, April 23 from 17:30 to 20:00 - Conversation with Marcelline Delbecq
Marcelline Delbecq is a French visual artist, writer, and researcher based in Paris. After studying photography in the United States (Columbia College, Chicago and ICP, New York, 1995-1997), then Fine Arts and art theory in France, she gradually moved away from image-making to focus on the cinematic / photographic potential of writing through installations, recordings, live readings, and publications. Her fragmentary texts - between essay and fiction, objectivity and subjectivity - generate mental images that move from past to present and call into question the whole act of contemplation.
Her work has been shown and performed internationally. She was in residence at the Pavillon at the Palais de Tokyo in 2005 and at Triangle in Brooklyn in 2007-2008. She recently published in France Dialogue with Ellie Ga (Shelter Press, 2017), Oublier, voir (Fondation Cartier and Manuella éditions, 2015), Silence trompeur (Manuella éditions, 2015) and is a regular contributor to Trafic (POL), the film quarterly founded by Serge Daney.