Lectures
Contemporary design in Mexico
Conversation with Ana Elena Mallet.
Festival of Art History, Château de Fontainbleau, France
June 1, 2024
The discussion will focus on the dialogues between design, craft practices, and contemporary art in Mexico, drawing from experiences and concrete examples such as the exhibitions *Diseño en femenino. México 1940-2022* (Museo Franz Mayer and Casa de España en México); *Una modernidad hecha a mano. Diseño artesanal en México 1950-2022* (MUAC) and *Crafting Modernity. Design in Latin America 1940–1980* (MoMA). The conversation will also address the bridges between design and art through the work of a selection of artists (ektor garcia, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, ASMA), as well as the contribution of workshops located in Guadalajara (el Taller Mexicano de los Gobelinos, Cerámica Suro).
Picture : ektor garcia, Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 20-August 11, 2024. Curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli. Photo: Filip Wolak
Falling In: Movement and Becoming in Curatorial Research
Book launch & Talk
Frame Finland with Kohta Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
February 22, 2024
Frame Contemporary Art Finland presents a new publication, Falling In: Movement and Becoming in Curatorial Research, published in collaboration with Mousse Publishing. The launch event includes an introduction to the book, along with presentations from the book’s contributors.
Falling In: Movement and Becoming in Curatorial Research gathers curators from various geographical locations to open up and discuss their methods, motives, and aims for conducting research in the field of curating. They collectively delve into the depths of their work, encompassing its performative, educational, historical, affective, bodily, activist, and collective aspects.
Published in the context of the Frame Curatorial Research Fellowship, Falling in includes contributions from Ama Josephine Budge, Diana Campbell, Sonia D’Alto, Léuli Eshrāghi, Satu Herrala and Eva Neklyaeva, Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care in collaboration with Anaïs Lepage, Miguel A. López, Nikolay Smirnov, and TOK (Creative Association of Curators, Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits). It is edited by Dahlia El Broul, Ksenia Kaverina, and Jussi Koitela.
Lecturer Curatorial Studies
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris.
Interdisciplinary Master’s degree in Cultural and Technical Heritage (M2 TPTI).
2019-2022
Designed a curriculum based on interdisciplinary seminars, radical pedagogy, experiential learning, workshops, exhibitions visits, and interactions with art professionals.
Created a 3 years partnership with the Duperré School of Design and Applied Arts in Paris for a collaboration on the graduate publications.
Supervised the graduation research projects on Elsa Schiaparelli, in collaboration with the Maison Schiaparelli in Paris (2022); Eugenie O’Kin, in collaboration with Willy Huybrechts, an expert in 20th-century furniture and art objects (2021); The Arts & Crafts movement: influences, communities, and revivals (2020).
Cumulus Congress 2018: To Get There, Designing Together.
CÉSAAP (Conference of Graduate Schools of Applied Arts of Paris)
Ecole Duperrée, Paris, April 11, 2018.
Panel with : Julien Bobroff, Physicist; Dezzie Dimbitsara, ux designer, google; Catherine Geel, designer.
In contemporary creation interdisciplinarity is the realisation of the complexity of our world, and the multiple layers of meaning which compose it. What conditions and means (tools, structures, protocoles, language) are necessary to enable us to accomplish this meeting-based method of exchange, derived from both a holistic vision and the association of multiple viewpoints?
Doing, imagining, learning, thinking, seeking, innovating, creating, making and building together – leaving behind all that divides, opposes and excludes. To invent tomorrow. Design is a collective elaboration and a laboratory of possible horizons. It is as much the means to transform our environment as the manner of questioning it. It involves shared perspectives and expertise.
The project-based approach and the spirit of collaboration inherent to design make it a powerful hub of thinking, education and transformation. How can this strength be spread to all areas of life?
The Cumulus conference 2018 in Paris is adopting a cross-curricular interdisciplinary approach which highlights the collective and collaborative interest. Its aim is to make otherness a positive force and to ensure that design and this union of talents become an undeniable tool for action on reality.
In partnership for the past two years within the framework of CÉSAAP, the four Parisian Schools of Art and Design, Boulle, Duperré, Estienne, and Ensaama have decided to share their expertise, to mutualise experiences and to host Cumulus conference to invent tomorrow, together.