Mots conférencés
To prolong the exhibition, the curator Anne Bonnin is inviting three writer- theoreticians, novelists and poets to explore the relation between human and non-human, thus extending the exhibition in another form. For this three-way session, she has asked each one to lecture on a word of their choice.
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The film critic Patrice Blouin, born in 1971, has been working for some fifteen years with different magazines: Cahiers du cinéma, Les Inrockuptibles, Artpress, Trafic, Critique, Beaux-Arts Magazine. He has published several books: three novels with l’Arbalète-Gallimard: Tino et Tina, 2009, Baltern, 2011, Zoo : clinique, 2014 ; and essays: Images du sport, Bayard, 2012, Une Coupe du monde, Actes Sud, 2011, Faire le tour / Voir les jeux, Lanceur, 2010. With Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux he recently edited the exhibition catalogue Des Corps Compétents (Sportifs, Artistes, Burlesques), Presses du réel, 2013. He also teaches the history of ideas at the Villa Arson.
Cécile Mainardi is a French poet who lives in Nice and Paris. She was at the Villa Médicis in 1998 and in residence at the Villa Arson in 2005. Her work has given rise to performances, interventions, public readings and radio works, including an Atelier de Création Radiophonique for France Culture : l’Eau super-liquide. Her latest works include: La Blondeur (les Petits Matins, 2006), Je suis une grande Actriste(l’Attente, 2007), L’Immaculé Conceptuel (Les Petits Matins, 2010), Rose Activité Mortelle (Flammarion, 2012).
Eric Marty, who was born in Paris in 1955, is an agrégé de lettres, and teaches at the Université Paris VII. With Les Éditions du Seuil he has published two novels (Sacrifice in 1992 and Le Cœur de la jeune Chinoise in 2013) and essays, notably L’Écriture du jour (1985), Roland Barthes, le métier d’écrire (2006) and Pourquoi le XXe siècle a-t-il pris Sade au sérieux? (2010). He is also the author of Louis Althusser, un sujet sans procès (Gallimard, 1999), and Bref séjour à Jérusalem (Gallimard, 2003).