Public programs
International Visitors Program
Director of the International Visitors Program, Salón ACME and Material Art Fair, Mexico City, February 2024.
Mexico's two main independent art fairs join forces to conceive a long term platform to connect the local scene to curators and institutional leaders around the world. This initiative brings greater exposure to Mexico City’s art scene, offering a unique immersion for strategic key players in global contemporary art.
The International Visitors Program is a 4-day program inviting prominent international curators to discover the city's emerging art scene through a personally conceived research trip during the art week.
The first edition of the International Visitors Program gathered : Isabella Rjeille, Curator, MASP São Paulo & Co-Curator, New Museum Triennial ; Vivian Crockett, Curator of Contemporary Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art & Co-Curator, New Museum Triennial ; Rosario Peiró, Head of the Collections Department, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid ; Caroline Ferreira, Head of the Performance department, Centre Pompidou ; Emmanuelle Hamon, Head of the Collections department, Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse, Toulouse ; Cédric Fauq, Chief Curator, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux ; Luc Meier, Director, La Becque Résidences, La-Tour-de-Peilz.
Julien Creuzet
We’ve got a moon from another era, another sky, another name, in the meantime, otherwise…
Conference-performance between two voices & two bodies in Julien Creuzet’solo show, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, April 17, 2019.
Julien Creuzet (artist), Ana Pi (choreographer), Mbalango Mbalango (musician), Anaïs Lepage (curator) conceive a unique evening of performances merging theoretical and intimate narratives, poetry, dance, and music.
"We’ve got a moon from another era, another sky, another name, in the meantime, otherwise [...]" is a line from a poem. A litany in the first person in which the narrator then splits into two, and multiplies, to be embodied in other voices, other bodies, and other sounds. This invitation is voiced to long forgotten deep sea spirits and shipwrecks, to all metal and plastic creatures with spreading boundaries. It speaks to animated or petrified (but evocative) images, summons appearances and voices that take us back into the ripples of history. This conference-performance takes place within Julien Creuzet's personal exhibition, the setting of which is designed as an agora for protests and revolts. A dialogue disguised as a dicey impromptu opera, which encourages the encounter between two voices and two bodies mixing poetry, theoretical discourse, friendly anecdotes, performance, dance, and music.
A Sweet Taste of Conspiracy
Screening, Fuego, Mexico City, 22 & 23 September, 2018.
Artists: Monira Al Qadiri, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Madison Bycroft, Sol Calero & Dafna Maimon, Julien Creuzet, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Lucile Littot, Pierre Paulin, Réjean Peytavin & Alice Bertrand, Piscine with Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas,Tabita Rezaire.
The screening program "A Sweet Taste of Conspiracy" features international artists for whom the video extends or includes a pictorial, sculptural, performative, or poetic practice. Inspired by genre cinema, science fiction, and romantic TV show imagery, in addition to the language of advertising, media, and internet culture, their videos stem from the experimentation of forms and hybridization of materials and influences. Using diversion and subversion of cultural codes, the films presented create alternative narratives driven by a secret agreement. They interpret tales, myths, ancestral knowledge, and folklore of the plot emotionally or amusingly. Tacit connections are developed between a global market economy and an underground animism; between spiritualities and the use of technologies, and between networks and plant or animal intelligences. As the signs spread, doubt gradually appears in stories previously told.
L’Institut d'Esthétique
Festival ALT CPH 18 : Over-Existing, a gathering of contemporary performance art. FACTORY of Art and Design, Copenhagen, May 25- 27, 2018.
In collaboration with heiwataL’Institut d'Esthétique (‘Institute of Aesthetics’ / ‘Beauty Salon’) is a relational art project conceived by Émile Degorce-Dumas, Haily Grenet, and Vincent Voillat. Capturing the décor of a beauty salon, it examines the boundaries between nature and culture, art and care, works of art, and beauty treatments. This environment evolves through collaborations and situations that explore the possibility of creating connections between the public and the artists. L’Institut d'Esthétique offers a performative environment that changes each day through a series of rituals and interactions with the public.
For the Over-Existing festival, Anaïs Lepage invites L’Institut d'Esthétique to consider the contradictions of spiritual materialism alongside the Danish artists Christine Overvad Hansen and Yarisal & Kublitz, and the Flemish artist Sharon Van Overmeiren.
Spiritual materialism is a concept coined by the Tibetan Buddhist master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in his 1976 book Practice of the Tibetan Way: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. It describes the ambiguous relationship of Western societies to Eastern spiritualities, as it oscillates between fascination, appropriation, and inclusion into personal development methods, the quest for well-being, and the longing for authenticity.
How to SupPRESS University Writing
Writing with Anne Boyer and David Wojnarowicz, Creative writing workshop with the audience, Hors Pistes Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, February 2020.
How to SupPRESS University Writing is an ongoing queer and feminist creative writing workshop launch in 2018 by the writer Émilie Notéris. The workshop’s title is a tribute to the American science fiction author Joanna Russ and her book How to Suppress Women’s Writing.
Notéris’s words decribe the workshop’s aim in literature: «Queer writing is both practice and theory aiming to demolish the sex-gender, nature-culture, body- spirit, human/animal world, high-culture/low-culture binarisms... It rejects all hierarchical distinctions of literary genres, the misguided notion of an all-powerful author disengaged from his or her sensitive and affinitive social networks as much as it does subject categories.»
Since its creation in 2018, How to SupPRESS University Writing has become an international group of women writers and guest speakers at several events. The workshop meets once a month to study texts, engage in literary experimentation, and conceive interventions. It includes various art world personalities: artists (Jagna Ciuchta, Louise Aleksejev), curators (Madeleine Planeix-Crocker, Fabienne Bideau, Anaïs Lepage), cultural establishments staff (Estelle Benazet, Stéphanie Garzanti, Nathanaëlle Puaud) and activist (Elsa Aloisio).
In February 2020, the workshop was hosted by the Centre Pompidou during the Hors Piste festival where its participants conducted public writing events based on texts by Anne Boyer and David Wojnarowicz. It also made several podcasts with *DUUU, the internet radio dedicated to contemporary art, and started to prepare a collective publication to be printed in 2022.
