Paris internationale 2024: TALKS WITH & ABOUT

Wednesday October 16, 5pm (in English)
Ana Baliza and Alexandre Estrela
ABOUT Oporto & FarO
Alexandre Estrela (1971-) is a Portuguese artist who founded the non-profit space Oporto in 2007 in his Lisbon studio. Ana Baliza (1985-), graphic designer and editor, joined him in 2012.  In just a few years, this space with its distinctive history and aesthetic has become one of the most precise and valuable programs Lisbon has ever seen. Until 2021, Oporto programmed “sessions” of experimental film screenings, always on a single evening, and around a single piece, and always accompanied by the production of a poster and a text skilfully written by four hands. In 2023, they reopen in the same city and under a new name FarO, “far from O” in a cinema that shares a wall with the Santa Isabel church.  The conversation will focus on the particularities and history of Oporto and FarO, and how, to quote Ana Baliza, “this anti-job/job” allows them to feed and redistribute their obsessions.

Thursday, October 17, 5pm (in English)
Dorothée Perret and Evan Moffitt
ABOUT MAGAZINES
Dorothée Perret is a French publisher and art director based in Los Angeles. In 2008, she founded DoPe Press and PARIS LA magazine, collaborating with artists such as Liz Craft, K8 Hardy, Martin Laborde, Jack Pierson, Cédric Rivrain and Oscar Tuazon. She previously worked with Olivier Zahm, co-founder of Purple, to develop the biannual publication Purple Fashion, of which she was production manager until 2007. Evan Moffitt is critic and editor-in-chief of Butt magazine (online) in London. Previously editor-in-chief of Frieze (2015-2021), he has written for The New York Times, Art in America, Art Review, Aperture and 4 Columns. In conversation with Alice Dusapin, this cross-interview will look at questions of editorialization, direction, community, inspiration and editing a magazine today.

Friday, October 18, 5 pm (in French)
Anthony Huberman
ABOUT Giorno Poetry Systems
Anthony Huberman is the director of Giorno Poetry Systems in New York. He previously directed the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco (2013-2023), The Artist's Institute in New York (2010-2013) and worked in numerous institutions as a curator (Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, Palais de Tokyo, Scultpure Center, New York).  The conversation will focus on the history of Giorno Poetry Systems, founded in 1965 in New York by poet, artist and activist John Giorno (1936-2019), and the artistic program Huberman is building in relation to this singular legacy and in close discussion with artists, poets and musicians.

Saturday October 19, 5pm (in French)
Anna Colin & Eve Gabriel Chabanon
ABOUT Open School East
Anna Colin is an independent curator, researcher and gardener. She runs MFA Curating and co-directs the Centre for Art and Ecology in Goldsmiths, London. Between 2013 and 2021 she co-founded and directed Open School East, an independent art school and community space in London. Previously, she was associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2014-20), associate director of Bétonsalon, Paris (2011-12) and curator at Gasworks, London (2007-10). Eve Chabanon (1989- ) is an artist living in Brussels. Her practice combines performance, writing and object-making. In 2016, Eve joined the Open School East program as an associate artist and met Anna. Their conversation will revisit the history and creation of Open Schoool East, and how utopia and the construction of an alternative educational ‘space’ meets a sometimes more constraining reality. Or to quote Colin: "How long do alternatives last? 

Sunday, October 20, 3pm (in French)
Lucas Jacques-Witz & Ryder Morey-Weale
ABOUT Giselle's
Lucas Jacques-Witz is an archivist and artistic director, Ryder Morey-Weale is an artist. Together, they initiated Giselle's in Marseille in 2020, a research project dedicated to publishing formats that extends through public programs, exhibitions, residencies, an archive and a book acquisition fund. Giselle's is also the shared initiative of SYSTEMA, which annually promotes artist- and curator-run spaces and organizations, and collaborative non-profit projects in the Palais Carli in Marseille at the end of the summer. This conversation will look back at Giselle's activities and their working methodology, which constantly redistributes the energy it generates, deploying a singularly autonomous identity. 

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