HISTOIRES
PARALLÈLES : PAYS MÊLÉS
artists
JENNIFER
ALLORA & GUILLERMO CALZADILLA
CHAN-HYO
BAE
BOUCHRA KHALILI
MWANZO MILLINGA
ERKAN ÖZGEN
& SENER ÖZMEN
FERHAT ÖZGÜR
PUSHPAMALA
N
ANNA-KATHARINA
SCHEIDEGGER
COMMISSARIAT
D’EXPOSITION : ALAIN BUFFARD
18 November – 15 December 2013
centre chorégraphique national montpellier
languedoc-roussillon
Address: Boulevard
Louis Blanc, 34000 Montpellier, France
Phone:+33 4 67 60 06 70
The exhibition will take place in the CCN until December
15th 2013.
vidéos de ferhat özgür,
rencontre entre ferhat özgür et alain buffard metamorphosis
chat
jeudi 21 novembre . 19h . studio bagouet
Metamorphosis Chat is
the title of Ferhat Özgür’s video shown as part of the exhibition. As its name
implies, this is about an artistic chat. Throughout the week Turkish visual
artist Ferhat Özgür and French choreographer Alain Buffard will take time to
meet and bring together their approach to ideas and practices. The
audience will be invited to share this artistic encounter: from a selection of
videos by Ferhat Özgür, the two artists will hold an open dialogue on their
respective fields.
opening,
show, talk quartiers libres
monday, november 18th . 7pm . bagouet studio
as part of the ‘quinzaine des tiers mondes et de la solidarité
internationale’ (fortnight dedicated to third-world countries and international
solidarity), in association with cimade ngo
Quartiers libres night
(title of the performance by Nadia Beugré, literally ‘free time’) invites us to
explore, exchange and discover these parallel stories that take the form of an
exhibition, a performance and discussions:
Opening of the exhibition Histoires parallèles, pays mêlés, featuring artists from
outside Europe working on issues of territories, power, representations and
genres.
Quartiers
libres, solo work by Nadia Beugré in
which the Ivorian dancer/choreographer frees herself from Western
choreographies to address issues of violence against women in
Africa.Discussions and meeting with local key players and witnesses regularly
faced with migration, territorial and power issues, in association with and
hosted by the ‘Maison des Tiers Monde et de la Solidarité Internationale
Montpellier’ and Cimade NGO.
]domaines[ alain buffard
histoires parallèles, pays mêlés
november 18 and 21
Alain Buffard, who studied dance with Alwin Nikolais, met with US choreographers Yvonne Rainer and Anna
Halprin, who would have a great influence on his career. Performer for Daniel Larrieu or Régine Chopinot among others, he created Good Boy in 1998, a
solo work as uncompromising and straightforward as a manifesto. While ever
changing, Buffard’s work has always been dealing with recurring issues.
Following a period of questioning art, body and genre, the choreographer
started to focus on the suggestion that dance is mainly about the body – as a
political challenge – which cannot be ignored: his pieces are regularly shown
during Montpellier Danse Festival and throughout the year: Baron
Samedi, Tout va bien, Good boy.
Histoires parallèles : pays mêlés (parallel stories – blended countries) was created in
the Spring 2013 in Nimes around the ethnography gallery of the Natural History
Museum. This ]domaines[ in the CCN will provide for the
re-invention of this event in a location not dedicated to visual arts. It reflects
the variety of Alain Buffard’s practices, with no concern for hierarchy, and
above all the need to shift presentation frameworks and assumed categories that
go with them.
Histoires
parallèles : pays mêlés illustrates a journey towards or from the other.
Fragments of stories, networks of images and accounts combining special
chronicles, uncommon paths, specific knowledge; a journey across different
practices as the basis of our memories of the future.
Guest artists are willing to display these comings and
goings from one culture to another, which do not however lead to a cultural
blending. They work on the plasticity of the world by refusing to set
boundaries, forms and genres. They share the will to account for the nobleness
and deep humanity of the people and subjects with whom they interact through
works that illustrate contemporary practices within various converging areas.
From the other who fashions our own singularity we know
that our future memory is already out there, elsewhere.
