French Institute/Institut Français
17 Queensberry Place
London SW7 2DT
11am – 6pm
Salons of French Institute
Participants include:
Shumon Basar, Victoria Brooks, Olivier Castel, Claire Hooper, Nicola Lees, Rachel Moore, Cally Spooner, Richard Parry, Lucia Pietroiusti and Marcus Werner Hed among others.
6pm
Ciné Lumière
Special Screening selected by Philippe Parreno
The Long Goodbye (1973) directed by Robert Altman, 35mm, 112 mins.
The conference on Philippe Parreno will take place at the French Institute/Institut Français, in two parts. This series of events will explore the construction of reality and time in Philippe Parreno’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. Presentations and discussions will concentrate on the inscription and scripting of space and time in visual arts, film, graphic novels, animation, music, theatre and literature.
This first event, on 21 January, consists of experimental presentations, conversations and screenings. These will focus on the creation of characters through the visual arts and related narrative practices. Artists, writers, academics and other cultural practitioners will present their research on characters and portraiture. Performed, embodied, absent and ethereal aspects of these characters will animate an investigation into the questions of visibility/invisibility and the ghost in cinema and literature.
The event will be followed by a special screening of the film The Long Goodbye at the Ciné Lumière in the French Institute. Directed by Robert Altman, this 1973 film noir is an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel of the same name. Both novel and film are a study of a moral and decent man cast adrift in a selfish, self-obsessed society where lives can be thrown away without a backward glance and any notions of friendship and loyalty are meaningless. Starring Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe, along with Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Jim Bouton and Mark Rydell.
Find out more about Philippe Parreno
Presentations include:
Shumon Basar, writer, editor and curator, will be talking about “Inventing yourself as a Character”.
Claire Hooper, artist, and Victoria Brooks, independent curator and co-director of the The Island, will be in conversation on the “Genealogy of Characters” in relation to Hooper’s Baloise Art Prize-winning film NYX.
Dr. Rachel Moore, Lecturer in International Media at Goldsmiths, University of London, will explore the construction of audience as characters and ideas of time in Philippe Parreno’s exhibition.
Nicola Lees, Serpentine Gallery Public Programmes Curator, will introduce Parreno’s approach to the construction of character.
Panels on What makes a character visible/invisible, present/absent, alive/dead?:
Oliver Castel, artist based in London, will talk about imagination and names.
Lucia Pietroiusti, editor and curator, will focus on the “Posthumous Character”.
Richard Parry, artist, will be in conversation with Cally Spooner, artist.
Marcus Werner Hed, filmmaker, will be in conversation with Shumon Basar, writer, editor and curator.
Tickets available at https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/book or 020 7073 1350.
Conference only: £5, conc.. £3
Screening only: £7, conc. £5
Conference + screening: £12, conc. £10
Institut Français/French Institute
17 Queensberry Place
London SW7 2DT
The second part in this series of events will be on 10 February 2011.
Produced in association with the Institut Français
