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Launch of the book : A prag­matic poetics – Reflections on the work of franck lei­bovici

at Villa Vassilieff – Pernod Ricard Fellowship
Free Entrance

Talk with : Rahma Khazam (editor and author), David Zerbib (author), Julien Seroussi (co-author with franck lei­bovici of bogoro), Adrien Ledoux et Maxime Matias (graphic designers, Rimasùu studio), Rebecca Dolinsky (artist), Patricia Brignone (art his­to­rian and art critic).

franck lei­bovici’s pro­jects involve the most hetero­ge­neous dis­ci­plines and mate­rials. For example, Bogoro is a book of exper­i­mental poetry also used as a text­book in law sem­i­nars. Others of his works apply pro­to­cols or nota­tion sys­tems from music, dance or science studies to poems of war, among other mate­rials.

A prag­matic poetics – Reflections on the work of franck lei­bovici Art critic Rahma Khazam brings together a hetero­ge­neous col­lec­tion of authors (Rahma Khazam, Raphael Cuir, David Zerbib, Yaël Kreplak, Virginie Bobin) offering a variety of inter­pre­ta­tions on the work of artist and poet franck lei­bovici.

Daily Program :

Introduction by Rahma Khazam, editor and author
Talk with David Zerbib, author
Talk with Julien Seroussi, co-author with franck lei­bovici of Bogoro
Talk with the graphic designers Adrien Ledoux and Maxime Matias (Rimasùu studio)
Reading by Rebecca Dolinsky, artist

"This book is the latest in a series of pub­li­ca­tions pro­duced on the occa­sion of the annual AICA France Award for Art Criticism, which we launched in 2013. It is the fifth book in a vol­un­tarily hetero­ge­neous series, our aim being that each pub­li­ca­tion should reflect the inten­tions of the prize winner, working in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the selected artist, what­ever those inten­tions might be.
The art critic Rahma Khazam is the winner of the 5th edi­tion of the AICA France Award for Art Criticism (2017). The book reflects the way in which she wanted to approach the work of Franck Leibovici, the artist whose work she pre­sented at the Pecha Kucha at the Palais de Tokyo. She decided to com­mis­sion texts from a range of authors in order to offer readers a variety of inter­pre­ta­tions on the work of Franck Leibovici.
Art crit­i­cism may be defined as the inter­pre­ta­tion of works of art, in the sense that art critics trans­late the art­work into a struc­tured lan­guage, only ever pro­viding one inter­pre­ta­tion among many poten­tial others. As Michel Foucault used to say, since Nietzsche, Freud and Marx, inter­pre­ta­tion has become an infinite task. We always inter­pret an inter­pre­ta­tion. The late Arthur Danto went a step fur­ther when he affirmed in The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art: “If inter­pre­ta­tions are what con­sti­tute works, there are no works without them”. The Nietzschean Marcel Duchamp put it yet another way when he famously stated that it is the viewer who makes the art­work.
It is no coin­ci­dence that the texts gath­ered here by Rahma Khazam, including her own, offer com­ple­men­tary approaches to franck lei­bovici’s work. Indeed, his pieces high­light the ver­tig­i­nous wealth of inter­pre­ta­tions opened up by the infini­tude of a task open, as Georges Didi-Hubermanputs it, to all the winds of meaning. It is thus impor­tant to under­line, with Yaël Kreplak, that franck lei­bovici is as much an artist as an art the­o­rist. If art critics inter­pret works of art that are them­selves an inter­pre­ta­tion of the artist’s thought inter­preting his imag­i­na­tion and/or the real, then the work of franck lei­bovici, as shown in the texts gath­ered here, deploys a kind of heuris­tics of the mise en abyme of the work of the art critic and of the artist. I basi­cally agree with Bruno Latour’s state­ment that the art critic is the friend of inter­pretable objects—a state­ment that we can also apply to artists."
Raphael Cuir

{A pragmatic poetics – Reflections on the work of Franck Leibovici}, Les presses du réel, 2018

A prag­matic poetics – Reflections on the work of franck lei­bovici, Les presses du réel, 2018 :
Edited by Rahma Khazam.
Preface by Raphael Cuir.
Texts by Rahma Khazam, David Zerbib, Yaël Kreplak, Virginie Bobin.
Graphic design: Rimasùu studio.
Published with AICA France.
Published in June 2018
Bilingual edi­tion (English / French)
14 x 21 cm (hard­cover, cloth binding)
224 pages (b/w ill.)

For this occa­sion, the book will be avail­able for sale at the cost of 15 euros.

Dr. Rahma Khazam is a researcher, art his­to­rian and art critic. She received her Ph.D. in aes­thetics and art theory from the Sorbonne Paris I, having pre­vi­ously studied phi­los­ophy and art his­tory. Her research inter­ests span con­tem­po­rary art and archi­tec­ture, con­tem­po­raneity, mod­ernism, image theory, spec­u­la­tive realism and sound art. She has pub­lished numerous essays and arti­cles in exhi­bi­tion cat­a­logues, spe­cial­ized jour­nals, edited vol­umes and con­tem­po­rary art magazines such as Frieze and Springerin, organ­ised or co-organ­ised con­fer­ences on the rela­tions between art and archi­tec­ture or art and pol­i­tics and reg­u­larly pre­sents papers at inter­na­tional con­fer­ences. She is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) and EAM (European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies) and received the AICA France Award for Art Criticism in 2017.

franck lei­bovici (born 1975, lives and works in Paris) is a poet and artist. He has par­tic­i­pated in var­ious events, in France and abroad, and col­lab­o­rates with dif­ferent artists or researchers, including the Brazilian sculptor Ernesto Neto or the musi­cian Tal.

Patricia Brignone is a his­to­rian and art critic, with a keen interest in scenic prac­tices at the cross­roads of var­ious dis­ci­plines. This is evi­dent not only in many of her arti­cles for art­press, Mouvement, Critique d’Art, but also in works such as Ménagerie de Verre, Nouvelles pra­tiques du corps scénique (edn. Al Dante, 2006); Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes (Villa Arson, Les presses du réel, 2009); Du dire au faire (edn. Museum of the MAC / VAL of Vitry-sur-Seine, 2012); La per­for­mance : vie de l’archive et actu­alité (edn. Les presses du réel, 2013); Uchronia - Duplicate Do not create - Infiltrate - Do not exhibit ..., Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet [the people of Uterpan], (Sternberg Press, 2017) and many col­lab­o­ra­tions with Esther Ferrer (including Esther Ferrer, MAC / VAL - Frac Bretagne -2014 or Todas las varia­ciones son vál­idas, incluida esta, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid 2017-2018). Co-curator of the exhi­bi­tion SIGMA at the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux (2013-2014), she is also co-author of a film, along with Pascale Cassagnau, around the artists of the gallery Eric Fabre: La parade des objets.  
She also teaches his­tory and the theory of the arts at the Grenoble School of Art and Design.

Rebecca Dolinsky, a mul­ti­dis­ci­plinary artist born in New York, works between text and image. She cre­ates net­works of artists, for whom she imag­ines per­for­mances and cre­ative acts.
www.rebec­ca­dolinsky.com

Rimasùu, based in Paris, is a mul­ti­dis­ci­plinary cre­ative studio spe­cial­izing in graphic design and pho­tog­raphy. Founded in 2014 by Maxime Matias and Adrien Ledoux, the studio works with cul­tural insti­tu­tions and pri­vate part­ners in the fields of art and cul­ture in order to offer new nar­ra­tives. The form, alter­nately pho­to­graphic, typo­graphic, edi­to­rial or sceno­graphic, con­fronts the sense and the aes­thetics to build a sin­cere response.
Rimasùu col­lab­o­rated with the AICA, the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, the School of Arts Déco, the pub­lisher Corraini, ENAMOMA, and was awarded the artistic res­i­dency "Création en Cours" in 2017. The works of the studio were exhib­ited at the ZweiDrei Raum (Berlin), the Grand Perfume Museum and the Museum of Decorative Arts (Paris), and at the Stroom (The Hague).
www.rimasuu.com

Julien Seroussi is a doctor of soci­ology and asso­ciate pro­fessor of social sciences. He began to take an interest in inter­na­tional crim­inal jus­tice as part of his thesis on the legal and polit­ical bat­tles sur­rounding the def­i­ni­tion of the uni­versal juris­dic­tion of national judges. After an expe­ri­ence at the International Criminal Court from 2009 to 2012, today he con­tinues his career in the "Genocide, Crime Against Humanity and War Crimes" divi­sion of the Tribunal de Grande Instance in Paris. His research has been the sub­ject of many arti­cles in France and abroad, pub­lished in Critique Internationale, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, L’Année soci­ologique, as well as in col­lec­tive vol­umes such as Lawyers and the Construction of International Justice (Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth, eds., Routledge, 2012).

David Zerbib is a phi­los­ophy of art lec­turer at the HEAD (Geneva School of Art and Design), as well as a coor­di­nator of the Research Unit of the School of Art of Annecy Alps (ESAAA). He also works with the Center of Contemporary Philosophy of the Sorbonne (PhiCo / CEPA: Aesthetic Culture and Philosophy of Art) of the University of Paris 1, and is a member of the AICA (International Association of Art Critics) . His research focuses on the prin­ci­ples of the con­tem­po­rary aes­thetic theory, and in par­tic­ular on the ques­tions of per­for­mance and format. He recently pub­lished Performance Knots: Crossed Threads of Anglo-American Thought and French Theory in Inter Views in Performance Philosophy. Crossings and Conversations, A. Street, J. Alliot and M. Pauker (Eds.), (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and co-edited Performance Studies in Motion, International Perspectives and Practices (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014). He also over­looked the pub­li­ca­tion of In octavo. Des for­mats de l’art (Presses du réel / ESAAA, 2015).

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