• 2018 ADAGP Grant : Liv Schulman

    • 2018 ADAGP Grant : Liv Schulman

    ADAGP & Villa Vassilieff, sharing common voca­tions - working closely with artists, high­lighting visual her­itages and art his­tory - co-cre­ated a research pro­gram that aims at devel­oping the work of an artist on the cir­cu­la­tion and repro­duc­tion of images, in rela­tion to the research on the Marc Vaux archive led with Centre Pompidou.
    This research grant will enable artists to under­take the pro­duc­tion of new works in a con­text favor­able to the dis­sem­i­na­tion of knowl­edge. This pro­gram is con­ceived as an artistic research plat­form ded­i­cated to the exper­i­men­ta­tion of non-linear models of knowl­edge pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­bu­tion between researchers, con­tem­po­rary artists, asso­ci­a­tions, cul­tural insti­tu­tions and the gen­eral public.

    This research can be part of the field of art (rereading of art his­tory, exploring unknown and marginal­ized life jour­neys, reflecting on the actual pro­duc­tion of images...) but also in the wider field of the pro­duc­tion of images in a world sat­u­rated with infor­ma­tion (polit­ical, eco­nomic, sci­en­tific, jour­nal­istic...). The 20,000 euros of this grant are intended for cov­ering the artist’s fees, their pro­duc­tion budget, the costs of sup­porting their pro­ject and (if nec­es­sary) their accom­mo­da­tion costs in Paris.

    Liv Schulman, Formal Economy, 23 Minutes, Alt_Cph, Copenhagen, May 2018 © Rine Rodin

    2018 Laureate : Liv Schulman

    Liv Schulman’s pro­ject con­sists of writing and directing a film that will tell a story of fem­i­nist art. Based on the Marc Vaux fund (Bibliothèque Kandinsky, MNAM-CCI, Centre Pompidou), Liv Schuman wants to pro­duce a doc­u­men­tary fic­tion which high­lights women, les­bians and forms of dis­si­dent cor­po­rality that existed between 1930 and 1970. The film pro­duced will not be a real­istic movie nor a vin­tage fic­tion but an art film where speeches, images and forms of words become char­ac­ters. With this pro­ject, Liv Schulman wants to pro­pose a com­mitted and anti-patri­ar­chal art his­tory as well as a new way of telling this story: not by retracing falsely uni­versal linear events but rather by cre­ating a nar­ra­tive that brings together dif­ferent sto­ries, images and thoughts. For Liv Schulman, this film is an oppor­tu­nity to create new rep­re­sen­ta­tions of artists: fic­ti­tious images and real images that will blend, in con­fused time­frames, in a doubtful pre­sent. Through 60 years or more of super­im­posed sto­ries, Liv Schulman wants to work on many artists’ des­tinies (pre­sent or not in the Marc Vaux col­lec­tion) such as Marie Vassilieff, Esther Carp, Marcita Bloch, Marthe Delacroix, Maria Blanchard, Carol Rama , Florence Cointreau, Veronique Filozof, Olga Sacharoff, Solange Lecaron or Helen Lemprière. To create her char­ac­ters, the artist will bring together a group of actresses (who can embody sev­eral artists at a time) who will col­lab­o­rate on the writing of the film and its real­iza­tion.

    About Liv Schulman

    Liv Schulman’s work focuses on the ability of lan­guage to affect body. In the form of film fic­tions, the­atrical per­for­mances or nov­el­istic writing, she cre­ates char­ac­ters and col­lec­tives that utter dis­courses bor­rowing from the vocab­u­lary of art, lib­eral eco­nomics, Marxist crit­ical theory or psy­chotherapy. trying to recreate the affects in the economy under which we live. These dis­tinct forms of dis­course become absurd and crazy tools of a para­noid inter­pre­ta­tion of the social world, based on the alien­ation of bodies, the deval­u­a­tion of iden­ti­ties and the frus­tra­tions of the search for meaning. Liv Schulman was born in 1985. She grew up in Buenos Aires (Argentina). She lives and works in Paris. She studied at ENSAPC, Cergy, at Goldsmith University of London (UK), at UTDT (Buenos Aires). Liv Schulman recently took part in the Biennale de Rennes en 2016, in the series of exhi­bi­tions at the Galerie, Centre d’art con­tem­po­rain de Noisy–le-Sec in 2017, at the National Gallery (SMK) Copenhagen), at Phakt Rennes, at CCK Buenos Aires, at Alt Cph (Copehangen). She has had solo exhi­bi­tions, including SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark (2017), Piedras Gallery, Buenos Aires (2018), Zoo Galerie, Nantes (2017), Big Sur Gallery, Buenos Aires (2015), at the Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo (2015). She pub­lished the Infinite Bet books with the RSS pub­lishing house in Copenhagen, « Que faire avec Liv Schulman? » with Inmixtion Books Marseille, El Metodo Covensky and El Camino del CNTRL with Tammy Metzler pub­lishing house in Buenos Aires.

    2018 Artistic com­mittee :

    Each year the grant is awarded by an artistic com­mittee formed of with pro­fes­sionals from the art world. This year, the com­mittee brings together:
    Neïl Beloufa (artist)
    Mélanie Bouteloup (director Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, Villa Vassilieff)
    Emilie Renard (director La Galerie Noisy-Le-Sec)
    Didier Schulmann (curator at National Museum of Modern Art, Kandinsky Library, Pompidou Center)
    Dirk Snauwaert (Director of WIELS, Brussels)