ADAGP Research Grant

The ADAGP & Villa Vassilieff Grant

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.

2017 Laureate : franck lei­bovici
The first artist to ben­efit from this research grant is franck lei­bovici (France) who will develop over sev­eral months a research pro­gram around the ques­tion of exhi­bi­tionary devices. He will notably orga­nize a semi-public sem­inar involving researchers, artists, the­o­reti­cians, sci­en­tists and exhi­bi­tion cura­tors. From that he will col­lect a set of dis­play devices used today in con­tem­po­rary art as well as in other dis­ci­plinary fields - social sciences, inter­na­tional crim­inal law, etc. These exchanges will be the sub­ject of a book and a public report, sched­uled for the first weekend of February 2018.

About franck lei­bovici
franck lei­bovici (poet, artist) tried to chron­icle so-called “low inten­sity” con­flicts, via exhi­bi­tions, per­for­mances, books, by means of graphic scores and nota­tional sys­tems taken from exper­i­mental music, dance, lin­guis­tics; pub­lished spam cor­re­spon­dences and 70 hours speeches (let­tres de jérusalem, 2012; libuster, jeu de paume, 2013);
worked on the ecology of the art­work - (des formes de vie) - une écologie des pra­tiques artis­tiques (les lab­o­ra­toires d’aubervil­liers / ques­tions théoriques, 2012); des récits ordi­naires (les presses du réel / villa arson, 2014); refresh! / col­lecting live art (tate modern / koenig, 2012-2014); cur­rently works, with julien seroussi, on a new cycle of exhi­bi­tions (kraków, berlin, the hague) and pub­li­ca­tions (bogoro, ques­tions théoriques, 2016) around the inven­tion of con­tem­po­rary inter­na­tional jus­tice and the rst trial of the inter­na­tional crim­inal court, the hague.