December 12, 2002 at 8.30 pm
Alexandre Pietlioura, The Empire of Things (dress show)
Alexander Pietlioura was an important figure on Russia's alternative scene in the early 1990s. Over the years, he has gathered together more than 20,000 garments from his country, the oldest of which go back to the turn of the 20th century. The "fashion show" in which he presents them constitutes a highly subjective history of Russia in the 20th century.
Photo Nora Bibel
December 19, 2002 at 8.30 pm
Elena Kovylina, Valse (performance)
Elena Kovylina trained with Rebecca Horn in Berlin. In her performances, she probes at the workings of human behaviour, sometimes to the point of putting herself physically in danger. Here, this Russian artist will invite visitors to enter into a waltz whose ingredients are simple: herself "dressed to kill", the song Lili Marleen, a table covered with medals and glasses of vodka. Coproduction with the Centre National de la Danse, in the framework of the Festival d'Est en Ouest.
S. Vitiello, Light Readings, 2002 Courtesy S. Vitiello et the Project, New York / Los Angeles
January 23, 2003 at 8.30 pm
Stephen Vitiello and Scanner (concert)
The musician, curator and sound collector Stephen Vitiello presents two projects conceived around the exhibition Ce qui arrive. In World Trade Center Recordings, he offers an abstract portrait of the WTC composed out of sounds he recorded during a residency in 1999. And he will also dialogue with the electronic musician Scanner, whose work on chance has brought the two men into contact on several occasions.
January 30, 2003 at 8.30 pm Homage to John Cage (sound and visual records)
This "Nomadic Night" is conceived as a mini-exhibition dedicated to John Cage. A selection of audio and video documents including sound installations and conversations with figures from the worlds of art and music, together with the texts of Cage’s poems and recordings of him reading them, will combine to offer a portrait of this charismatic creator and inventor of genius whose work with sound prefigured so many of today’s experimental ventures.
Photo Hugo Glendinning
February 06, 2003 at 8.30 pm
Tim Etchells and Mattew Goulish, The Institute of Failure (lecture)
In a half-serious, half-ironic talk, Tim Etchells (from the English Forced Entertainment performance group) and Matthew Goulish (from Chicago’s Goat Island group) present their "Institute of Failure", a centre that documents and researches all forms of human failure. The two performers takes us into the world of major and minor disasters in a dialogue full of true, amusing, absurd and tragic stories.
February 13, 2003 at 8.30 pm
Photo Yann Piriou
February 20, 2003 at 8.30 pm
Association Edna (G.Touyard/B.Charmatz/J.Cima/E.Martin), Programme court avec essorage (performance)
In a set-up devised by Gilles Touyard, the dancers Boris Charmatz and Eric Martin are literally "put through the machine". Standing on platforms revolving like the drums of washing machines, they spend the whole performance struggling with all their might against the centrifugal force. The compelling power of this extraordinary performance will have spectators on the edge of their seats.
D.R.
March 06, 2003 at 8.30 pm
Mustafa Kaplan and Filiz Sizanli (dance)
In an unusually powerful piece full of tension and shifting equilibriums, Mustafa Kaplan and the dancer Filiz Sizanli interact through the intermediary of a fridge which they push towards each other. At once minimal and spectacular, Dolap is a series of variations on the theme of the physical constraints induced by this heavy, stubborn object that keeps falling.
March 13, 2003 at 8.30 pm
Information and reservation (necessary):
every day except Monday, from 12.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.
Tel +33 1 42 18 56 72
Entrance fee: 5 €, reduced rate: 3.50 €
Programming: Isabelle Gaudefroy assisted by Frédérique Mehdi
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
261, boulevard Raspail 75014 Paris
Every day, except Monday, from 12 am to 8 pm
