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The Book Club

Art Center

Fri 13 and Sat 14 Oct 2018 - Centre d'art

Myriam Lefkowitz

originated by Myriam Lefkowitz and Cécile Lavergne assisted by Clara Valière

created by Jean Philippe Derail, Thierry Grapotte, Catalina Insignares, Igor Krtolica, Julie Laporte, Florian Richaud and Yasmine Youcef

Be part of a unique book club! Based on political writings, choreographic artist Myriam Lefkowitz, philosophy researcher Cécile Lavergne and a dozen artists invite you to associate text and body to collectively explore our perception mechanisms.

In the wake of her residency at the Art Centre in 2017 Lefkowitz is back with a new collective experiment. In a blend of choreography and the visual arts she uses dance's sensory, perceptual and imaginative tools to create experiments in "augmented" perception. This time, working with her close associates, she has come up with a form of reading involving a series of actions and movements that address the body as both space and a vector for understanding.

 

Based on texts by Donna Harraway, Fernand Deligny and Judith Butler, The Book Club aims to invent a space for study that challenges the distinctions between body and mind, theory and practice. It thus invites to a collective reading that seeks ways to relate concepts to sensations, affects, perceptions, images, memories, objects, rhythms, space.

 

In partnership with If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, and as part of the Corpus performance practice network co-founded by the European Union's Creative Europe programme.
 


 

originated by Myriam Lefkowitz and Cécile Lavergne 

assisted by Clara Valière

created by Jean Philippe Derail, Thierry Grapotte, Catalina Insignares, Igor Krtolica, Julie Laporte, Florian Richaud and Yasmine Youcef

Myriam Lefkowitz


Myriam Lefkowitz is a performance artist, born in 1980 , based in Paris. Since 2010, her research is focused on questions of attention and perception. Research which she is developping through different immersive devices involving one spectator and one performer. Her work has been presented at, Kadist Foundation (San Fransisco), the MOT (Tokyo), Med15 (Medellin), De Apple (Amsterdam), Le Mouvement (Biel), The Center for Contemporary Art (Vilnius), The Venice Biennale (Lithuanien and Cyprus Pavillon), ImageTanz (Brut, Vienna), Le Nouveau Festival (Centre Pompidou), The Bergen Triennal (Council), FRAC (Besançon), Public Art Agency (Stockholm)... In 2011, she took part in the master of experimentation in Art and Politics (SPEAP, Science Po Paris) founded by Bruno Latour. In 2013, she becomes part of SPEAP teaching comitee. She will follow the students and take part in the conception of the pedagogical program until 2015. She is regularly invited for work shops and talks by the Museum of Modern Art Georges Pompidou (Paris), Three uses of the knife (Vilnius), Open School East (London), la HEAD (Genève), the Royal Institute of Art (Stockholm), L’ERG (Brussels), The institute of Fine Arts (Besançon, Angers, Angoulême...), the Dance department of the University Paris 8 (St Denis)... She has been teaching since 2015 in the school of architecture of Versailles. From 2013 to 2015 she was an artist in residency at les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers where she has deepen her research and started a writing practice (Walk, Hands, Eyes, (a city) - a book was published by les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and les Beaux Arts de Paris). 
 

For two years, she has been developping a collaborative project, called La Piscine gathering different attention practices coming from the research of 8 different artists. Practices that are in ltrated into a public space in use where visitors are welcomed on the base of a one-on-one ecounter with one of the artist. The rst edition of La Piscine was realised in a public swimming pool of Pantin (a city in the subburbs of Paris), produced by Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. Some other editions happended in Riga (Latvia in the context of Survival Kit Festival), in Bergen (invited by Council and Tarek Atoui for the Triennal) and will be going to Brussels (invited by the Kaaieteater in March 2018). 
 

She is currently in residency at La Galerie an art center in the and is preparing a project for the next edition of If I Can’t Cance I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Amsterdam).

infos pratiques

admission to participate 5€ - booking in advance +33 (0)1 64 62 77 77

free admission for visitors