Theory Now
Réengager la pensée
Performances, conférences, ateliers/ Performances, lectures, workshops
16-19 novembre, La Colonie, Paris.
13h-22h tous les jours sauf samedi 13h-2h. Entrée libre/ Wednesday-Friday, 1 pm -10 pm Saturday 1pm - 2am Free entry.
Avec/With Bruno Latour, Françoise Vergès, Kader Attia, Martha Rosler, Nathalie Quintane, Payam Sharifi (Slavs and Tatars), Bernd Scherer, Kapwani Kiwanga, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Armen Avanessian, François Cusset, Olga von Schubert, Jacob Lund, Jamie Allen, Julieta Aranda, Frédérique Aït-Touati, Olivier Marboeuf, Kantuta Quiros et Aliocha Imhoff /le peuple qui manque, Ravi Sundaram, Mathias Verger, Arafat Sadallah, Johnny Rodger, Margaret-Anne Hutton, Lionel Ruffel, Andreas Töpfer, Lisa Wedeen, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, Eyal Weizman, Camille de Toledo (CHTO), Marco Dell’Omodarme, Les seconds couteaux vs Bouillon Poli
english below
Direction : Lionel Ruffel
Nous sommes certainement nombreux à ne plus nous reconnaître dans des débats d’idées qui fantasment les enjeux du siècle dernier. Nous sommes aussi nombreux à constater que le monde contemporain est vaste, pluriel, complexe et qu’il faudrait sûrement, au lieu de la craindre ou de la condamner, réactiver la boîte à outils théoriques et réengager la pensée. Nous sommes enfin nombreux à voir qu’ailleurs, dans le vaste monde, cette boîte à outils théoriques n’a cessé de fonctionner, et qu’artistes, écrivain.e.s et militant.e.s y recourent activement pour déplacer les enjeux politiques et théoriques du présent.
Dans cette boîte, on trouve par exemple les outils queer, ecocriticism, anthropocène, accélération, post-postcolonialisme, speculative realism, technosphere, biopolitique, pharmacoporn ou animal studies, etc. Ils se traduisent mal en français mais se déploient par exemple à Berlin, New Delhi ou Dakar. Ils trouvent de nouvelles formes de production, de publication et investissent la scène, l’exposition, les écoles et les structures alternatives. Theory Now sera tout cela à la fois en alternant et superposant les formats de discussion et de présentation qui associent artistes, chercheur.e.s, écrivain.e.s, étudiant.e.s et performers.
Cette manifestation assume sa nature hybride : entre université autonome, scène, et café.
Theory Now est un projet du « Leverhulme International Network in Contemporary Studies » (Lincs, dir. M-A. Hutton) et de La colonie. Il reçoit le soutien du Lincs, de l'Institut Universitaire de France, de l’EA « Littérature, histoires, esthétique » (Univ. Paris 8) et de l'Université Paris Lumières.
Programme détaillé à venir très vite sur la page de La colonie.
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There are certainly many of us who no longer identify with debates and discussions that fantasize about issues of a previous century. There are many of us who recognize that the contemporary world is vast, plural, complex and that we must, rather than fear or condemn it, reactivate the theoretical toolbox and réengager la pensée. Finally, there are many of us who have noticed that elsewhere, in this vast world, this toolbox has continued to operate, and that artists, writers, activists effectively use it to shift political stakes and theories of the present.
In this toolbox, we can find tools including queer, ecocriticism, anthropocene, acceleration, post-postcolonialism, speculative realism, technosphere, biopolitic, pharmacoporn, animal studies, etc. They may not translate well in French but are dispersed, for example, through Berlin, New Delhi, or Dakar. They find new forms of production and publication; they invest in alternative settings, exhibitions, schools and structures.“Theory Now” will also simultaneously alternate and superimpose formats for discussion and presentation to bring together artists, researchers, writers, students, performers, DJs.
This special event will take on a hybrid nature: autonomous university, stage, café.
“Theory Now” is a project of the “Leverhulme International Network in Contemporary Studies” (Univ. of St-Andrews, Glasgow School of Art, Univ. du Québec in Montreal, Sarai Program in Dehli, Univ. Paris 8. Direction : prof. Margaret-Anne Hutton) and La colonie. It’s supported by the Institut Universitaire de France, Paris 8 University and the University Paris Lumières.
Program and schedule available on the La Colonie Facebook page and Lincs website : https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/lincs/
SCHEDULE/PROGRAMME
The event is bilingual French/English with simultaneous translation
La manifestation est bilingue français/anglais avec traduction simultanée
Day 1 : 16 November
14.00-16.00: Opening workshop : Updating the Theories of the Contemporary
Jacob Lund on ‘The Contemporary Condition’ (Aarhus Univ. Denmark) and Olga von Schubert on ‘100 Years of Now’ (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin). Chair : Margaret-Anne Hutton (Univ of St-Andrews) and Lionel Ruffel (Univ. of Paris 8). In English
17.00-19.00: Public lectures: Bernd Scherer (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin), Bruno Latour (Sciences-Po, Paris), with Jamie Allen (Critical Media Lab Basel and continent.) and Frédérique Aït-Touati (CRNS). In French and English
20.00: Perfomance: Nathalie Quintane (author). In French
Day 2 : 17 November
13.00-16.00 (parallel session) Workshop: Decolonizing the Now, session 1
With Françoise Vergès (Collège d’études mondiales) ; Mathias Verger (Univ. Paris 8) ; Kapwani Kiwanga (artist) ; Kader Attia (artist) ; Arafat Sadallah (Univ. Paris Ouest, Siwa). Chair : Johnny Rodger (Glasgow School of Art) and Lionel Ruffel. In French
13.00-16.00 (parallel session: registration only): Workshop: Drawing Theory
Andreas Töpfer (artist) and Armen Avanessian (Speculative Poetics, Visiting Prof., Paris 8) . In English
17.00-18.00: Public lectures: Ravi Sundaram (Sarai Programme, CSDS, Delhi). In English
19.00-20.00: François Cusset (Univ. Paris Ouest). In French
20.00: Performance: Kapwani Kiwanga. In English
Day 3 : 18 November
13.00-16.00: Workshop. Decolonizing the now. Session 2
Payam Sharifi (Slavs and Tatars) ; Ravi Sundaram (Sarai Programme, CSDS, Delhi) ; Olivier Marboeuf (Espace Kiasma); Kantuta Quiros et Aliocha Imhoff /le peuple qui manque (curators, art theorists) ; Marco Dell’Omodarme (Université Paris 1). Chair : Johnny Rodger (Glasgow School of Art) and Lionel Ruffel. In English and French
13.00-16.00: Workshop: Drawing Theory (parallel session: registration only)
Andreas Töpfer (artist) and Armen Avanessian (Speculative Poetics, Visiting Prof., Paris 8). In English
17.00-19.00: Public lectures: Armen Avanessian, Martha Rosler (artist). In English
20.00: Performance: Slavs and Tatars. In French
21.00-23.00: Screening Hyperstition, a film by Christopher Roth in collaboration with Armen Avanessian. www.hyperstition.org. In English
Day 4 : 19 November
13.00-14.00: Public lecture: Seloua Luste Boulbina, “Hétérochronies décoloniales” (Univ. Paris 7). In French
14.00-16.00: Closing Workshop: Updating the Theories of the Contemporary
Lisa Wedeen (3CT; Univ. of Chicago) and Mathieu Potte-Bonneville (Institut Français). In English and French
17.00-19.00: Public Lectures: Julieta Aranda
Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths College, London), “Rousseau and the Orangutan or how to walk across the threshold of the human”. In English
20.00-21.00: Performance: CHTO, Kantuta Quiros and Aliocha Imhoff. In French
21.00 : DJ Set Partie carrée Les seconds couteaux vs Bouillon Poli
16-19 nov, 10.00-13.00. The publishing lab a international Phd workshop with Kirsty Boardman (Univ. of St-Andrews), Kirsteen Macdonald (Glasgow School of Art), Ishita Tiwary (CSDS, New Delhi), Emmanuelle Leduc (UQAM), Agnès Blesch, Emmanuel Reymond, Claire Finch, Sylvia Chassaing (Univ. of Paris 8). In English