Société Anonyme is ongoing exhibition organised by three curators François Piron, Thomas Boutoux and Natasa Petresin... What is Société Anonyme? Société Anonyme is, I quoted "an experimental situation divided into two parts. The first part invited artists, collectives and artistic structures operating in different cities of the world, to provisionally anchor in Le Plateau, Paris, in order to initiate researches and projects during a two-month exhibition. Their gathering is based on their sense of autonomy, their energy of activity and their alternative ways of doing. During this two months, the exhibition will be an intense program of workshops, lectures and seminars, organised by the guests and the team of Société Anonyme, in constant collaboration with Paris-based artists and theoreticians. The second part will be in 2008. The place will be official soon. Participants were 16Beaver / Un groupe comme les autres (New York), b_books (Berlin), Erick Beltran (Mexico), Chto delat? / What is to be done? (Petersburg / Moscow), Curating the Library / Moritz Küng (Antwerpen), Nico Dockx & Friends (Antwerpen), Tere Recarens (Barcelona / Berlin), tranzit.cz / Vít Havránek (Prague), tv-tv (Copenhagen), WHW / What, How & for Whom (Zagreb)..."
Mainly, Société Anonyme, as an ongoing exhibition, beyond the themes like global vs local, new forms of community, Identities in the gobal era, is probably one of the most interesting projects for its structure, scale and methodology. Organised by three curators who haven't worked together, the exhibition could be associated to the concept of "conflictual participation" defined by Architect-cum-Research/Theoretician Markus Miessen inasfor as it was made by curators who have divergent viewpoints of conception of exhibition. It probably led to clash, conflict, whatever... but the result was something else: a self-organised exhibition that proposed workshops, discussions, roundtables (with the participation of philosopher Patricia Falguières, Art critics Elisabeth Lebovici and Vincent Pécoil, Architect François Roche/R&Sie(n), curators like Mélanie Bouteloup...). An exhibition that was developed from exchanges, encounters... with no regular time... that produced new knowledges for the curatorial practices in the 21th (?). These issues that emerged during these two-months of exhibition/workshop will be presented in the form of an exhibition with a conference (or probably roundtable in the form of a mobile Lab) that may aim to discuss of the methodology of this exhibition in 2008. I will post more precision on the date and place of the exhibition as soon as possible...
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