Fiction / Lectures performées #18
For this last event of the fourth season of Fictions/Performed Readings, artist Aurélien Froment is showing the film L’adaptation manifeste, a series of sequences in which the same actress reenacts film scenes that involve characters reading.
Artist Benoît Maire is presenting À propos de ce dont je ne peux parler [« On What I Can’t Talk About »], the oral performance of a text by Wittgenstein.
Finally, comedian Satya Dusaugey is reading excerpts from the diary of artist Unglee, a diary recently discovered in the archives of his last wife Giulietta Fabrizzi.
BIOGRAPHIES
Aurélien FROMENT
Born in 1976 à Angers. Lives and works in Dublin.
A protean artist, Aurélien Froment is developing an open work through a variety of media (cinema, photography, sculpture, installations), borrowing a system of references from the history and specificity of the media used. Like the pedagogical games he places in his installations, each element has a potential connection to another one, following an arrangement freely chosen by the spectator. In the exhibition he is currently presenting at the Credac in Ivry, the artist proposes an adapted version of the « gifts » of German educationalist Friedrich Fröbel, inviting visitors to handle the objects. Recently, at the Marcelle Alix gallery, visitors were asked to sit down at a table to take part in a game involving the memorization of pairs of images and the discussion with the artist of possible rules of association.
Benoît MAIRE
Born in Pesac in 1978. Lives and works in Paris.
Using philosophical axioms, historical events, and outdated forms of art history as starting points, Benoît Maire develops performances, organizes discussions and uses objects, paintings, drawings, and videos for his exhibitions. A 2002 graduate of the Université de Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne with a pre-doctoral degree in philosophy, Maire then graduated from Villa Arson (DNSEP) in 2003. He later gave up his philosophy dissertation and lived in Paris from 2005-2006 on, a period during which he was a resident artist at the Pavillon (Palais de Tokyo). In May 2011 he is completing a feature film, L’île de la répétition [« Repetition Island »], shot in 8mm. He is also working on a treatise in aesthetics founded on Jean-François Lyotard’s concept of « différend. » He’s the winner of the 12th Ricard Foundation Prize.
UNGLEE
A multidisciplinary French artist, Unglee started as a director of experimental films in the mid-1970’s before becoming an obsessive photographer of tulips and an author of radio plays – and announcing his death in the international art press several times.
By 1986, his recognition as an artist was such that Unglee was invited by Paramount to play himself in a film freely inspired from his life. He then left France to settle down on the West Coast, where his life and work were to take a decisive turn. These changes are recorded in his diary of the period, recently discovered in the archives of his last wife Giulietta Fabrizzi.
Just as Septembre éditions is publishing the first complete biography of the artist, Unglee – puzzle, gallery Dix9 is presenting a show on his American period, Unglee, Hollywood – Las Vegas (1986-1989), from May 7 to June 16, 2011.
