TEXTWORK Live !
Series of lectures as part of the TextWork project, a digital editorial platform run by the Foundation
TextWork Live! is an off-site event offered by Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, with the help of Thomas Boutoux and in collaboration with Montévidéo. This event is part of the TextWork project, a digital publishing platform managed by the Fondation and designed in partnership with the Ministry of Culture: http://www.textwork.fondationricard.art/en.
TextWork Live! aims to develop and extend the work done on the TextWork platform by bringing together authors, artists, publishers, translators and readers for meetings and public discussions in a variety of forms: lectures, round-table discussions, masterclasses, workshops, performances and concerts.
Conceived in collaboration with Montévidéo, a creative work and residency site in Marseille dedicated to contemporary forms of writing, “TextWork Live! #1” is a four-day event that explores the inventiveness of today’s writing, and offers the chance to collectively consider the place occupied by text, writing and reading, as well as their roles and uses within contemporary visual culture.
Every day, this program of meetings offers a different format that displaces and experiments with writing practices and ways of reading, listening and thinking together.
Detailed program:
Wednesday 29/08
7pm – Program introduced by Colette Barbier, Hubert Colas, Thomas Boutoux.
8pm – Concert by France Frites (by invitation)
France Frites is a group from Brussels that focuses on the energy of live music, collectivity, amateurism, movement and light. Working outside of any preexisting format, France Frites is free-form and experimental. They play right on the floor, regularly changing instruments, formats and genres.
Thursday 30/08
10am–3pm – Workshop: Writing in English
This workshop led by author and editor Filipa Ramos (currently Editor-in-Chief of Art Agenda), is offered to young authors, critics and artists wishing to share their writing and experiment with the modalities of English writing. The workshop will provide the opportunity to analyze and draw inspiration from the writing techniques and textual structures of a number of anglophone authors, particularly contributors to the TextWork platform.
The workshop consists of two five-hour sessions, on Thursday the 30th and Friday the 31st, as well as feedback and public discussion at the end of these two days. It is open to everyone, but limited to 12 people. Register by writing to: [email protected].
3pm-7pm – Writing, reading: oral forms of writing
Performances by Teddy Coste, Agathe Boulanger and Grégoire Devidal.
A series of new performances created by young French artists, who share the view that reading and writing are primarily a form of listening, a broad way of listening to oneself and to others, and see text as a field of experience whose special place is not so much on the page or in the book, but rather in new forms of circulation.
Discussion with Teddy Coste, Agathe Boulanger, Grégoire Devidal, Amaury Daurel and Victor Delestre (France Frites), moderated by Thomas Boutoux.
Friday 31/08
10am-3pm – Workshop: Writing in English
3pm-7pm – Critical forms of writing
At the end of the English-language writing workshop, Filipa Ramos, Thomas Boutoux and the workshop participants will be joined by artist Emmanuelle Lainé – whose work was the subject of one of the first texts published by TextWork – for a discussion with each other and with the audience, on how new developments in writing are affecting contemporary art practices and forms of collaboration between authors and artists.
Saturday 01/09
11am-1pm – Digital Publications
Round-table discussion with Eric Mangion (Switch On Paper), Raphaël Bourgois (AOC), Colette Barbier (TextWork), moderated by Thomas Boutoux.
This round-table discussion brings together three publication projects recently created in France, all of which are exclusively digital publishing platforms. Although these projects do not resemble one another in every detail, in their editorial principles, their work and production economies and their forms of publication, they share one renewed conception of critical and cultural publishing: a common desire to create new communities of authors and readers, and to make it possible for different ways of relating to the world to live side-by-side.
