Poésie Medium Art Clovis Maillet and Gil Bartholeyns
The Pernod Ricard Foundation welcomes Gil Bartholeyns and Clovis Maillet, both historians whose innovative research contributes to the dynamism of medieval studies, as part of the « Poetry Art Medium » cycle.
Exploring other approaches to concepts and norms, their remarkable work also has the particularity of being carried out in conjunction with artistic creation, Gil Bartholeyns being a novelist, and Clovis Maillet, a performance artist. They elaborate through fiction or narration other modalities of knowledge and representations.
A specialist in material and visual culture, Gil Bartholeyns is a historian and writer. His work combines history and ethnographic investigation in a concern for the genealogy of practices. He explores the relationship to time, the power of images and the forms of consumption.
He is a radio columnist and editor-in-chief of Techniques&Culture. He contributes to the journals Critique, L’Histoire, Terrain, and has directed in particular the volume Politiques visuelles, Les presses du réel, 2016. In addition, he co-authored Image et transgression au Moyen Âge, PUF, 2008, and L’étrange et folle aventure du grille-pain, de la machine à coudre et des gens qui s’en servent (The strange and crazy adventure of the toaster, the sewing machine and the people who use them), with Manuel Charpy, Premier Parallèle, 2021.
He recently published a novel Two Kilos Two, JC Lattès, 2019, and an essay on the pandemic event The Haunting of the World. Zoonoses et pathocène, Dehors, 2021.
Clovis Maillet is a medievalist and artist. His work as a historian has led him to study La parenté hagiographique (XIIIe-XVe siècle) : d’après Jacques de Voragine et les manuscrits enluminés de la « Légende dorée », Brepols, 2014, and more recently the question of gender and transidentity in medieval culture, Les genres fluides. De Jeanne d’Arc aux saintes trans, Arkhé, 2020. Just published, with Thomas Golsenne, Un Moyen Âge émancipateur, Même pas l’hiver, 2021, about the fascination that the Middle Ages arouse and the emancipatory political projects that mobilize its imagination.
In addition, with Louise Hervé, he founded the I.I.I.I., International Institute for Important Items, in which the artist duo creates performances, films and installations, exploring the codes of academic research as well as the lecture tour.
Louise Hervé and Clovis Maillet are represented by the Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris.