LES CONTEMPORAINS
2011 saw the first of the seminar series Les Contemporains hosted by the universities Paris-Diderot and Paris 13 (Sorbonne Paris Cité), which invited artists and writers to present their work to an audience of students and academics in the fields of art and literature.
Each new seminar in the series opens up a new area on the map of encounters between literature, art, and theory, generating a unique space characterised by an extreme diversity of both forms and approaches.
The creative processes foregrounded in the seminars take the form of fragmentation, hybridisation, and fictionalisation in the arts, while literature and theory shaped by contemporary art and its characteristic forms of exhibition contribute to a broad programme of new visual and textual approaches that are often performative in nature. The Les Contemporains programme for research and creation is an exemplary contribution to the construction of the cultural and theoretical discourse currently emerging alongside new genres at the junction between literature and the visual arts.
The Les Contemporains public seminar and subsequent publications are a programme of research and creation planned and overseen by Céline Flécheux, lecturer in aesthetics in the Literature, Art and Film department at the Université Paris-Diderot, and Magali Nachtergael, lecturer in French literature and contemporary art at the Université Paris 13, where she runs the Art and Culture teaching strand and edits the journal Itinéraires. Littérature, textes, cultures. The project is sponsored by IDEX Sorbonne Paris Cité.
http://contemporains.hypotheses.org/
The four authors and artists invited by the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard – Thomas Clerc, Marcelline Delbecq, Agnès Geoffray and Olivia Rosenthal – have all presented their work in the seminar series. The event Poésie Plate-forme offers them an opportunity to extend their involvement with an evening of performances by these writers, novelists, and visual artists who work across literature and the visual arts, thereby encouraging the development of innovative new forms.
The event is curated by Marie Canet and Jérôme Mauche.
