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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">------ Message transféré<BR><B>De : </B>French Connection <thefrenchconnection2008@googlemail.com><BR><B>Date : </B>Mon, 2 Jun 2008 09:46:27 +0100<BR><B>À : </B><a.vergara-bastiand@magasin-cnac.org><BR><B>Objet : </B>Conference on Contemporary French Art, July 2008<BR><BR>Dear Ms. Vergara Bastiand,<BR><BR>Please find below information on a conference on contemporary French art, to be held at Cambridge July 2008.<BR><BR>If possible, would you mind forwarding this information to any students or affiliates of the Ecole du Magasin that you think might have interest.<BR>Any help is greatly appreciated.<BR><BR>With thanks,<BR><BR>Jennifer Burris<BR><BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>The French Connection: New Perspectives on French Contemporary Art Conference<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B><BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College - Cambridge, University of Cambridge<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B><BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>24-26 July 2008<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B><BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>International conference on French contemporary art, The French Connection offers a platform to reflect upon the recent changes in French art as well as an opportunity for its further 'promotion'. This conference will also offer a space for reflection on the idea of 'national art', a questioning that opens onto a discussion of French identity, cross-cultural artistic practices, and disciplinary change.<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B><BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>Please find below the provisional programme. For more information and to register please visit <A href="http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/60" target=_blank>http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/60</A></B> <A href="http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/60" target=_blank><http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/60></A> <BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>Convenors:<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>Olga Smith </B><A href="mailto:os243@cam.ac.uk"><mailto:os243@cam.ac.uk></A> <B>(University of Cambridge)<BR>Jennifer Burris </B><A href="mailto:jb477@cam.ac.uk"><mailto:jb477@cam.ac.uk></A> <B>(University of Cambridge) <BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B><BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>Administrative questions should be addressed to:<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>Michelle Maciejewska <BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX, UK<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>Tel: +44 (0)1223 765279; Fax: +44 (0)1223 765276; Email: mm405@cam.ac.uk</B> <A href="mailto:mm405@cam.ac.uk"><mailto:mm405@cam.ac.uk></A> <BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B><BR></B></SPAN></FONT><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR><BR> <A href="http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/60" target=_blank><http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/60></A> <BR>CONFERENCE PROGRAMME<BR><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>THURSDAY 24<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><B><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">TH </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">JULY<BR>19.15 – 20.00 Catherine Millet<BR></SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">(critic, Art Press)<B> </B><I>Three Women Expose: Sex and Desire in the Works of Clarisse Hahn, Catherine<B> </B></I></SPAN></FONT><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Corringer and Isild Le Besco.<B> </B></SPAN></I><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">Chair: Jean Khalfa (University of Cambridge)<BR><B>20.00 – 21.30 <I>Pas d'histoires: </I></B>a selection of films by <B><I>French</I></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> or Paris-based filmmakers<B> </B>and artists of different generations working with documentary. Curator and Chair: </SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>Anne-Sophie Dinant </B>(South London Gallery)<BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR> <BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>FRIDAY 25</B></SPAN></FONT><B><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">TH </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">JULY<BR>9.00 – 9.30 Registration<BR>9.30 – 9.45 Opening and Welcome<BR>9.45 – 10.30 Paul Ardenne </SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">(curator, Faculté des Arts (Amiens)) <I>No Specificity </I>Chair: tbc<BR><B>10.30 – 11.00 <I>Coffee<BR></I>11.00 – 12.30 Panel 1: Intersections between contemporary philosophy and art<BR>Nigel Saint </B>(University of Leeds) <I>Georges Didi-Huberman's Fables du lieu: critique and creativity</I><B>Laura McMahon </B>(University of Cambridge) <I>In Touch: Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis<BR></I><B>Jérôme Game </B>(American University of Paris) <I>Rancière's phrase-image and some contemporary French visual art<BR></I>Chair: Ian James (University of Cambridge)<BR><B>12.30 – 13.30 <I>Lunch<BR></I>13.30 – 15.15 Panel 2: New movements in photography<BR>Sophie Berrebi </B>(University of Amsterdam) <I>A French Documentary tradition? Jean-Luc Moulène and surrealist photography<BR></I><B>Geraldine McIlwaine </B>(University of Sheffield) <I>Valérie Jouve: Sans Titre 9<BR></I><B>Céline Robillard </B>(Université Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, curator) <I>Photographie plasticienne contemporaine: la "French Touch" et ses images de crise<BR></I><B>Amanda Crawley-Jackson </B>(University of Sheffield) <I>"To cross is called 'to burn'": Yto Barrada and the unevenness of 'liquid modernity'<BR></I>Chair: Olga Smith (University of Cambridge)<BR><B>15.15 – 15.45 <I>Coffee<BR></I>15.45 – 16.30 Pascal Convert in conversation with Nigel Saint<BR>1 16.30 – 17.30 Roundtable Discussion: Recent initiatives in the promotion and display of French art. </B>Participants include: <B>Sophie Claudel </B>(French Embassy London), <B>Suzanne Cotter </B>(Modern Art Oxford), <B>Clare Grafik </B>(The Photographer's Gallery)<BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><BR><B>SATURDAY 26<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><B><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10px">TH </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">JULY<BR>9.30 – 10.15 Alain Quemin<BR></SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">(Université Paris-Est / Institut Universitaire de France / CNRS<B> </B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">(French National Center for Scientific Research))<B> </B></SPAN><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><I>The International Impact of the French Visual Arts: Is There Such a Thing as "The Death<B> </B></I></SPAN></FONT><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">of French Culture"?<B> </B></SPAN></I><FONT size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">Chair: Jennifer Burris (University of Cambridge)<BR><B>10.15 – 10.45 <I>Coffee<BR></I>10.45 – 12.15 Panel 3: Art institutions: national and international changes<BR>Antigoni Memou </B>(Courtauld Institute) <I>Photographs of May 1968 in the Contemporary Museum: A Note on Politics and Aesthetics<BR></I><B>Femke Van Hest </B>(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France) /Erasmus University (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)) <I>The role of nationality at contemporary art biennials: Case study on the participation of French and Dutch artists<BR></I><B>Vivian Rehberg </B>(Parsons Paris School of Art and Design) <I>Mapping Institutional Critique in Paris Now<BR></I>Chair: Alyce Mahon (University of Cambridge)<BR><B>12.15 – 13.30 <I>Lunch<BR></I>13.30 – 15.00 Panel 4: Towards future models of exhibition and curating<BR>Anaïs Bourquin </B>(Université Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne) <I>Passeurs d'oeuvres: Future Models of Curating in France<BR></I><B>Brooke McGowan </B>(University of Cambridge) <I>Forcener la forme: l'économie(s) et l'autre(s) de Nicolas Bourriaud<BR></I><B>Isabelle McNeill </B>(University of Cambridge) <I>Memory, Media and Intersubjectivity in the Recent Work of Agnès Varda<BR></I>Chair: tbc<BR><B>15.30 Special Event (tba) followed by full-length film screenings<BR></B></SPAN></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR>-- <BR>The French Connection: New Perspectives on French Contemporary Art across Disciplines<BR>Thursday, 24 July to Saturday, 26 July<BR>Location: Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College - Cambridge<BR><BR>Please address any administrative enquiries to events@crassh.cam.ac.uk.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>------ Fin du message transféré<BR></SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><br /><hr />Discover the new Windows Vista <a href='http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE' target='_new'>Learn more!</a></body>
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