dim. 4 octobre 2015

Rituel de libération des animaux

Emmanuel Rabu

Performance — Emmanuel Rabu is not at the center of himself. At his center, we find his microbiota. Arcaea, protists, bacteria, fungi, virus. And that’s without considering what surrounds him: a whole ‘animal reign’ we would like to domesticate. Clandestine passenger, pilot of the vehicle and/or a vehicle himself of these diverse biological entities, Emmanuel Rabu tries... Lire →

dim. 4 octobre 2015

PlayLife

Emmanuel Adely / David Haddad

Performance — PlayLife occupies a singular place in the bibliography of Emmanuel Adely. It was written on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the first law for continuing education, for a sponsor none other than the AFPA. The world of professional training for adults, for which the author had to assimilate its codes—and a fortiori its... Lire →

dim. 4 octobre 2015

Cultiver son devenir : propositions pour une écologie du diagnostic

Katrin Solhdju (collectif Dingdingdong)

MUTANDO : conference/slide show/reading — An event centered around the publication (in September 2015) of the scientific historian and member of Dingdingdong Katrin Solhdju’s book, L’épreuve du savoir – propositions pour une écologie du diagnostic (The test of knowledge – propositions for a diagnostic ecology). In question: the point of view of pragmatic philosophy regarding pre-symptomatic testing for Huntingdon’s disease,... Lire →

sam. 3 octobre 2015

L'an 2005

Olivier Marboeuf

La Nuit Blanche 2015 in Les Lilas — Olivier Marboeuf installs a new projection of ‘cinéma à l’intérieur des crânes’ (‘cinema inside heads’), a veritable session of live hypnosis that proposes predicting the future from the year 2005. A cinema with no images, based entirely on the art of storytelling. As always, historical facts blend with stories of magic, figures emerge from the... Lire →

sam. 3 octobre 2015

L'Accumulation primitive de la noirceur

Bruce Bégout

Reading — Transposing new literary depictions of evil to parking lots, malls, suburban housing developments, and other emblematic ‘non-sites’ of the world’s suburbs, Bruce Bégout invents a tone that he qualifies as ‘post-gothic’. In this strangely familiar universe, where the forces of darkness become incarnate in the ‘potential for disturbance’ endemic to the times (machines, consumer products,... Lire →

sam. 3 octobre 2015

Dans les cités – râga live

Charles Robinson, Violette Pouzet-Roussel, Lena Circus, Corinne Colombel, Fredde Rotbart & Manu Thuret

La Nuit Blanche 2015 in Paris — “What is a cité? A sum of names of places and names of people, friendships and loves, social adventures, exploited workers, successes that warm the heart, disappointments and ink on the walls, ravaging angers, kids who dance in neon light, little barbecues Sundays at one, sunny rooftops with chaises longues, traffic circles with the blazon... Lire →

ven. 2 octobre 2015

Choeurs politiques

Frank Smith

POLITICAL CHOIR: performance — part of Frank Smith’s residency at Khiasma and the Archives Nationales: «Écrivains en Seine-Saint-Denis », a programme initiated by the Seine-Saint-Denis Department. In residence at the Espace Khiasma and the Archives Nationales, Frank Smith explores the methods of fabrication of a ‘democratic language’, able to build truth and continuity in the world through its transformations.... Lire →

jeu. 1 octobre 2015

Face à ce qui se dérobe

Matthieu Dibelius & Elsa Wolliaston

Performance / Dance / Video — On December 10, 2013, a man stole the limelight from the heads of state assembled for the funeral of Nelson Mandela. Thamsanqa Jantjie, enigmatic interpretor of sign language. An extravagant gesture, a live wire, a live presence throughout the 6 hours of the ceremony at the Soweto stadium. puppet, usurper or dangerous schizophrenic… The controversy,... Lire →

mer. 30 septembre 2015

Madame V. : la voyante et son double

Violaine Lochu

Divining Performance — Suffering from an angst generated by having to create a work on the theme of divination, Violaine Lochu decided to consult a clairvoyant. The performance she has imagined as a result of this encounter will not try to render the answers she may have found, but to question the narrative and performative aspect of the... Lire →

mar. 29 septembre 2015

Enquête sur les modes d'existence

Bruno Latour, Didier Debaise & Alice Rivières (collectif Dingdingdong)

MUTANDO : public discussion — Enquête sur les modes d’existence – une anthropologie des modernes (Investigation of modes of existence—a modern anthropology), published in 2012 by Editions de la Découverte, is a work associated with a series of encounters, all aimed at learning how to compose the shared world with the actors concerned and implicated by it. The objective of... Lire →

dim. 27 septembre 2015

Salon de (re)lectures

Editors salon — In front of the door of Espace Khiasma, the festival Relectures will hold a salon: the cream of editors will be served coffee, and your nourishing readings (to be consumed on site or to take away) will be accompanied by refreshments!

dim. 27 septembre 2015

Yarns

Vincent Chevillon & Thomas Lasbouygues

Performance — “Apparently Stevenson based his Treasure Island on a drawing of an island. As he progressively traced their contours, both island and tale, intermingling, were elaborated in parallel. Similarly, Yarn* is an oral wandering, a progression through a territory in expansion, a highway tracing our exploration. Each constructs the other reciprocally. In 2015 I invited Thomas... Lire →

dim. 27 septembre 2015

Un avant-goût du futur

Collectif Goûte moi ça !

Workshop to eat/shared meal — A troubling question for the gourmands of the present: what does the future hold for us in the matter of sweets? Nano-candies? In vitro cupcakes? Cyber chocolates? To help us imagine, let’s roll up our sleeves with the collective Goûte moi ça and their ‘workshops to eat’! For children, a taste of the future with... Lire →

dim. 27 septembre 2015

Narrations spéculatives et jeu vidéo

Fabien Siouffi (collectif Dingdingdong) & Paul Sztulman

MUTANDO : conference — Can we understand a video game in specific terms of writing and narrative? Is a game a particular narrative factory? Is playing a new form of reading? In this two-voiced conference, Fabien Siouffi (Dingdingdong) and Paul Sztulman offer two different visions of the vocabulary and narrative potentials of an omnipresent cultural production. Conference preceded by... Lire →

dim. 27 septembre 2015

La Planète sauvage

La Bande au cinéma

Projection — A film by René Laloux, after Oms en série by S. Wull. 1973, France, 72 min, from age 8. Scenario : Roland Topor and René Laloux Orignal drawings : Roland Topor Music : Alain Goraguer Production : Armorial – A. Valio Inhabitants of the Planet Ygam, Draags are 12 meter tall androids, with red eyes and blue skin. They’ve... Lire →

sam. 26 septembre 2015

Terreur, saison 1

Éric Arlix

Lecture-performance — Terror is a thriller which unrolls over a period of fifty years, a time when both European individuals and decision-makers, from Hénin-Beaumont to Marbella and from Linas-Monthléry to Treblinka, will be confronted with new modes for life and, for some, with the unconventional methods of the LIFE enterprise. Founded in 2014, in a few short... Lire →

sam. 26 septembre 2015

Écriture et jeu vidéo

Fabien Siouffi (collectif Dingdingdong)

MUTANDO : Workshop — from age 12, reservation necessary In existence for over 35 years, heir to an activity as old as civilization and drawing on an extremely rich history, the video game follows rules of conception that can be varied, but which are nevertheless dictated but certain principles. The video game is also a catalyst of our contemporary... Lire →

ven. 25 septembre 2015

WOW ! (Conférence sur nos possibilités de vivre ailleurs)

Frédéric Ferrer

Performed conference — The days of humankind on Earth are limited. The Anthropocene age depleting the globe, irreversible climate change, inevitable threat of asteroids provoking the massive extinction of biodiversity, intergalactic collision, inversion of the magnetic field or evolution of the sun…one day the Earth will no longer be inhabitable. Humanity will have to leave. And go where ?... Lire →

ven. 25 septembre 2015

Futur fleuve

Emmanuel Rabu

Reading — After a world catastrophe. A group of survivors flees a devastated village. Accompanied on their journey by a pack of feral animals, the group crosses over lands which are either devastated or repopulated, with new forms of social organization. Without ever straying from a post-cataclysmic argument or the linearity of the road-novel, Futur fleuve (Future... Lire →

jeu. 24 septembre 2015

Histoire sauvage

Jean-Pierre Ostende

Reading — For the opening of the 16th edition of RELECTURES, ‘récits du futur’ (‘tales of the future’), Jean-Pierre Ostende proposes a journey to the imaginary city he develops in the blog ‘Histoire sauvage’ at http://jeanpierreostende.com/. A sweet, humorous and disturbing science-fiction, in the lines of the novel ‘La Présence’ (éditions Gallimard, 2007) and its all-terrain narrative... Lire →

dim. 5 octobre 2014

La très bouleversante confession de l'homme qui a abattu le plus grand fils de pute que la Terre ait porté

Emmanuel Adely / David Haddad

— Finding its place in the epic register of a “chanson de geste” in rhythmed free verse, the flux of logorrhoeic conscience of La très bouleversante confession… emanates from 23 brains galvanized by stress and excitement: those of the members of the Navy Seals commando—the special forces of the American marines—during the raid destined to demolish... Lire →

sam. 4 octobre 2014

In-su-rrec-tion : 4 syllabes. É-meute : 2 syllabes.

PREDATION & DEMOCRACY: continuation of a dialogue — In-su-rrec-tion: 4 syllabes…prolongs in live form an epistolary dialogue engaged in by two authors—Nathalie Quintane and Jean-Paul Curnier—each of them having already reproduced it in their respective publications—Tomates (P.O.L, 2010) and Prospérités du désastre : aggravation 2 (Lignes, 2014) —so as to encourage its dissemination and to intensify its echo. “The people no longer exist,... Lire →

sam. 4 octobre 2014

Documenter la performance/Performer le document

Guillaume Désanges / Olivier Marboeuf

Public discussion — The performance: an ephemeral art that only exists through the “documentary” traces it leaves behind (photographs, sound or video recordings, results of actions, testimony…) and by its ability to generate stories. The document: one of the concrete vectors of human thought, with an explanatory or descriptive value, or as proof, and needing to be interpreted,... Lire →

ven. 3 octobre 2014

Vestiges de Roncevaux

Violaine Lochu

Residency launch at le 116 — The song of Roland is a famous example of the slippery slope at play in the History of legend, when events are taken over by a recounting whose scope goes beyond their purely factual dimension. And so, although the historic reality of the battle of Ronceveaux has been established by the crossing of documentary sources,... Lire →

jeu. 2 octobre 2014

Plan de situation # 7 : Consolat-Mirabeau

Till Roeskens

documentary tale — as part of the Belleville Biennale. Through his practice as a storyteller, Till Roeskens reactivates ancient figures of circulation in myths and tales: the pilgrim, the huckster, the foreign emissary, the street entertainer, the vagabond or vagrant. People we welcome in the evening, in order to learn news from afar and, by cross-referencing with what... Lire →

mer. 1 octobre 2014

Discussion avec Jean-Paul Curnier – 4 dates pour une création radiophonique

Jean-Paul Curnier / Hélène Coeur

PREDATION & DEMOCRACY: listening session — Restitution of the workshop “Discussions with Jean-Paul Curnier—4 dates for a radio creation”, conducted with the residents of the Fougères neighborhoods, in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, throughout 2014. “To take place”: this could perhaps be the motto that lies at the heart of the Maison des Fougères project. In fact it is a “being... Lire →

mer. 1 octobre 2014

Les contes de la Téranga

Souleymane Mbodj

young audience — How can a territory be related? What are the mysteries, the anecdotes and amusing stories that we all share, young and old, which allow us to invent together the ‘mythology’ of a neighborhood? And who, better than a storyteller, could tell the tale? Born of a platform of projects titled Mythologies, questioning the sense of... Lire →

mar. 30 septembre 2014

Scène primitive

Jean-Paul Curnier / Yves Robert / Fantazio

PREDATION & DEMOCRACY: philosophical Concert — Closing of Jean-Paul Curnier’s residency at the Espace Khiasma, as part of the writers’ residency program initiated by the “service livre” of the Région Île-de-France. With the complicity of the two musicians Yves Robert and Fantazio, the philosopher Jean-Paul Curnier will transform the médiathèqe Marguerite Duras into an agora, pirate ship, area, pow-wow circle…into a... Lire →

dim. 28 septembre 2014

Spinoza in China, commencement

Marc Perrin

Lecture — Spinoza in China continues to be (for a short time) a construction site for writing: “autobiography of the child Ernesto, age 10 years and a few seconds, or, and, several centuries”, “tale of multiple instants of a slow, laborious, but tenacious emancipation”, “ode to love” and “poetic editorial program, for 34 years”. Further, as news feeds... Lire →

dim. 28 septembre 2014

Le côté obscur de la forme

Guillaume Désanges

Performed conference — This conference by Guillaume Désanges questions, in form and act, certain recent episodes in art: “It is a question of exploring, from my recent position of critic and exhibition curator, the occult, repressed and even shameful part of my relation to contemporary art. An intimate relation to the professional. And, through this examination, to empty... Lire →

dim. 28 septembre 2014

Carte blanche à Belleville en vue(s)

Dès 6 ans

Film-tea — On the occasion of the RELECTURES festival, Khiasma offers carte blanche to the association Belleville en vue(s) to program a selection of “young audience” documentaries, as an offshoot of its traditional “cinés-goûters” (or film-teas)! It’s a perfect opportunity to discover the spirit of the Festival des nouveaux cinémas documentaires #4 which will take place in... Lire →

dim. 28 septembre 2014

Les Mal entendus

Luce Goutelle & Charlotte Imbault

Performance project by rendez-vous — “The art of storytelling is disappearing. It is more and more rare to meet people who know how to tell a story. And if in society someone asks for a story, a manifest unease can be felt in the group. It is as if we had been deprived of a faculty that seemed inalienable, the... Lire →

sam. 27 septembre 2014

Poétiques du témoignage

Frank Smith, Fiona McMahon & Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet

POLITICAL CHOIR: Round table — In the United States in the 1930s, a group of young writers designated as “objectivism” the poetic usage they made of non-literary texts. The most famous of them, Charles Reznikoff, “recut” the minutes of trials culled from judiciary archives in order to give them rhythm, a versification, thereby composing a “recitation”: “a massively plural cry”.... Lire →

sam. 27 septembre 2014

La table des opérations

Frank Smith

POLITICAL CHOIR: Protocol — La table des opérations, an essay of poetic investigations, is a work in progress. Frank Smith explores the typology of methods, protocols and processes that he employs in his poetic treatment of documentary material. For RELECTURES, it is this table itself that will materialize on the game board (so called “society game”): communion under the... Lire →

ven. 26 septembre 2014

Relectures 15 / Exposé des faits / VanessaPlace Inc. / Last Words

Vanessa Place

POLITICAL CHOIR: Reading/Encounter/Art installation — Carte blanche to Frank Smith, as part of the launch of his residency “Writers in Seine-Saint-Denis” at Khiasma and the National Archives. A project initiated by the Seine-Saint-Denis department. Exposé des faits questions the mechanisms of the construction of narrative in terms of the rhetoric of testimony. Vanessa Place proceeds by moving the language of... Lire →

jeu. 25 septembre 2014

Le petit parlement (conférence pour adultes à partir de dix ans)

Jean-Paul Curnier

PREDATION & DEMOCRACY: school group — Jean-Paul-the-Philosopher assembles around him a “young parliament” to discuss his strange job. A job that is often practiced by discussing things! At the very beginning, there was that book he had as a child, called Les Chatons barbouilleurs (The Kitten Painters). It told the story of Sage and Image, two kittens who wondered how to... Lire →

jeu. 25 septembre 2014

It’s All True

Maïder Fortuné

Performance — In the bay of Rio, the phantom of a crocodile prowls. It’s said the creature comes from the Northeast. That it was devoured by a shark after meeting with president Vargas. It’s said that it happened because of a film made by an American. It’s also said that sharks don’t eat crocodiles. And that Orson... Lire →

mer. 24 septembre 2014

Cela ne va pas être possible : c’est administratif

Céline Ahond

Recital-performance — Official documents (law texts, jurisprudence, circulars, directives, European regulations…), documents of proof (birth certificates, proof of domicile, CERGA forms n° 13653*03 and n° 13662*05, passports, visas, certificates of nationality, marriage acts, promises of employment, certificates of education, transcripts, medical reports, documents justifying uninterrupted presence in France: medical prescriptions, invoices, payslips…) in order to obtain documents that... Lire →

mar. 23 septembre 2014

Stade banal (une soirée diapo)

Matthieu Dibelius

Performance —   Three years after EN SITUATION DE (a distorted conference), Matthieu Dibelius continues his revision of the lexical field of mental health. STADE BANALE (an evening of slide projections) topo popo diarrhea and logorrhea blabla, cacaphony and autopsy symposium, colic and shitty soliloquy conference, dementias and flatulences A breath of air that stirs up some dust:... Lire →

lun. 22 septembre 2014

Homère Homer

Alexis Fichet & Nicolas Richard (Cie Lumière d'août)

Théâtre performance — Monday September 22 at 7 PM / KHIASMA Opening  Monday September 22 at 8:30 PM / KHIASMA Homère Homer Alexis Fichet & Nicolas Richard (cie Lumière d’août) Homère Homer plays at Greek comedy as a way to recount the subprime crisis. The tale is ineluctable : Homer (the one who eats donuts) must confront the economic crisis. Once his house is... Lire →