Panel Discussion: Double Casquette with Corentin Canesson, Martha Fély, Adrien Horni, Charlie Malgat, and Ji Min Park

In a well-known passage from The German Ideology (1845–1846), Marx and Engels imagined how a communist society might overcome the alienating effects of specialization by enabling individuals “to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, and engage in criticism after dinner […] without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”

This idea of non-specialization, applied to artistic practice, serves as the starting point for Double Casquette, which asks a simple question: what do artists do when they’re not making art? One possible answer is that they bake bread or make films, form bands, work to earn a living, spend time with friends, raise children, scroll endlessly, garden, care for animals in a shepherding context, teach, or lift weights. Far from the romantic notion of an all-consuming artistic practice, these activities overlap, accumulate, and at times replace one another as time unfolds.

From day jobs to fantasies of career change, and through the realities of multi-activity, Double Casquette offers a space to share and reflect with invited artists on alternative narratives around their careers.

Programme:

• 2:30 pm: First panel with Corentin Canesson, Adrien Horni, and Ji-Min Park
• 4:00 pm: Second panel with Martha Fély and Charlie Malgat
• 5:30 pm: Concert by I Don’t Believe in Computing, a band founded by artists Corentin Canesson (guitar, bass), Charlie Hamish Jeffery (vocals, guitar), and Julien Tiberi (drums)

The concert celebrates the release of their debut album OK Deluxe, available for purchase at the Foundation’s bookstore.