Aperto - Project Space
Aperto, project space of the Fondation Pernod Ricard
Aveycke Press, a label for non-musicians: a project by Raphaël Massart
Residency
September - December 2025
Labels and record companies are structures capable of giving sound its musical dimension, in the self-referential sense of the term. Aveycke Press seeks to open a door in this landscape to people whose practice is not identified as musical. Poets, listeners, collagists, and archivists eager to share what might be called their music will come together here.
Aveycke's three months at Aperto will allow it to experiment with the label's initial ideas. A compilation of tracks to be released in 2025 will bring together a dozen artists who will be able to benefit from Aperto's production resources. The space will become a recording studio, editing suite, and meeting place to advance and collaborate on the compilation. The residency will be an opportunity to explore the musical, administrative, and visual standards surrounding sound production, in order to decide whether or not to adhere to them.
Image: © Alejandro Villabona
TOCA/MALA - Cross-residency with the students of ENSAPC
Residency
June - July 2025
A program of workshops and events - proposals by Kenza Belkadi, Dana Cavigny, Selma Hyka, Hyungee Kang, Maxime Le Godec, Gloria Mendes-Bernardet and Dino Stravinskij.
Visual: Dino Stravinskij
Lou Villapadierna
Residency
January - March 2025
Laboratory for research and experimentation in poetry and sound
Between January and March 2025, the Pernod Ricard Foundation welcomes Lou Villapadierna for a research-creation residency at Aperto. For three months, the artist-researcher will use the Aperto space as a laboratory for research and poetic and sound experimentation. In this context, she will extend her theoretical and sonic explorations, and listen to the multiple spectral traces of these voices with their abstract and/or under-listened-to tonalities.
© Esmire & Erwan
Mi-Monstre Mi-Livre
Residency
November-December, 2024
Developed as part of the Lithuanian Season in France, Mi-Monstre Mi-Livre consists of a series of writing and publishing workshops organised as part of a residency in the Aperto space at the Pernod Ricard Foundation, plus a programme of events, lectures and screenings.
© Gailė Pranckūnaitė
LYL Radio, independent webradio
Residency
September-October, 2024
LYL Radio settles in at Aperto for a two-month residency combining (web)radio productions, workshops, meetings, discussions, performances, concerts and DJing.
"For the time of our residency, we'll be moving the Paris studio to Aperto, to produce our ritual broadcasts every Tuesday, to which will be added special programs and broadcasts, celebrating our resident⸱es, their labels and various projects, as well as other intervenant⸱es, as and when we've extended invitations to artists passing through Paris."
Zzz. the publishing house of graphic design duo Bizzari-Rodriguez
Residency
June-July, 2024
Zzz is a publishing house founded by Thomas Bizzarri and Alain Rodriguez (Bizzarri-Rodriguez). It claims no editorial policy, other than to explore the potential narratives offered by the book object, and to thwart the typologies and archetypes that traditionally govern its form and structure.
Its first book, Un'fold (working title), by artist David Douard, will be published in autumn 2024. It will be an immersion in the circulation of language, words and images within his work. Where everything interpenetrates, like a never-finished fanzine-always ongoing-these flows intermingle, agglomerating works, collages, research, sources and references, notes, personal archives and other motifs in gestation. The book shows and renews, fixes as much as it modifies David Douard's work, translating the energies that run through and articulate his practice. Author Nina Kennel's text circulates within the object, insinuating itself into its very materiality.
As a preliminary to their first publication on David Douard's work in the autumn, in July they will publish a zine based on the artist's personal poem and photographs.
Zzz. © Bizzarri-Rodriguez
Toomanyrecordss par MORE Projects - nomad artist run space
Residency
March 4 to June 2, 2024
Toomanyrecordss is an expansive project. Part collection, part archive of unique artworks, the project plays with fetishism simultaneously in music and art.
Since 2018, Davide Bertocchi and Sergio Verastegui have been inviting artists to intervene on 33 rpm records that they choose and entrust to them or send to them by post. It's a carte blanche to create a work with / or on the sleeve or on the vinyl (or both). The records come from a wide variety of sources, sometimes chosen according to the musical tastes of the two artists initiating the project, sometimes because one or more elements in the sleeve appeal to an imagination close to that of the guest artist. Each vinyl thus becomes a "unique" piece, where the collaborative process generates a new object, a hybrid work from the vinyl/cover format.
Public opening times will be organized during this residency.
The project was first presented in 2019 at Art-O-Rama, Marseille.
Bétonsalon - Earth Ears : écouter la Terre avec Pauline Oliveros
Exhibition
November 22, 2023 - February 17, 2024
Curator: Emilie Renard & Maud Jacquin
Sculptor: Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos
Graphic designer: Martha Salimbeni
Bétonsalon - center d'art et de recherche, opens the premises with the exhibition "Earth Ears: écouter la Terre avec Pauline Oliveros", a project conceived as an echo and extension of the exhibition it is devoting to the composer, a founding figure in the practice of Deep Listening.
Echoing the exhibition "Un-Tuning Together: pratiquer l'écoute avec Pauline Oliveros" held at Bétonsalon, this project explores the links between Deep Listening and ecology through a selection of archives and works by Oliveros, pioneer of electronic music, accordionist, educator and feminist composer.
© Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos
