French Institute/Institut Français
17 Queensberry Place
London SW7 2DT
11am – 6pm
Salons of the French Institute
Including participations by Jérôme Bel, Janet Harbord, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno and Tino Sehgal, among others.
Second event of a two-part series responding to the exhibition Philippe Parreno.
This conference 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, architecture, animation, music, theatre and literature.
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Participants include:
11:00 - 11:30
Julia Peyton-Jones, Director, Serpentine Gallery and Co-director, Exhibitions and Programmes, will give an introduction.
11:30 – 12:00
Jérôme Bel, experimental choreographer, will be in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery. Bel is known for his controversial performances often breaking down the barrier between performer and audience.
12:30 – 13:00
Samantha Hardingham, architectural editor and writer, will consider the architecture of Philippe Parreno’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in relation to the architect Cedric Price and the opening speech from Il Tempo del Postino, 2007 that referenced the former’s unrealized Fun House project.
12:00 – 12:30
Tino Sehgal, artist, will be in conversation with the directors of the Serpentine Gallery about the Philippe Parreno’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.
13:00 – 13:30
Janet Harbord, Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, is also the author of several seminal books of experimental films. Her latest book project, Cutting: the montage of images and other things, examines sites and practices of cutting, when joins are made visible and invisible, celebrated and hidden.
13:30 – 14:00
Questions and discussions.
15:00 - 16:00
Nicolas Roeg, film director in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist. Roeg is a pioneer British filmmaker with a fascinating body of works that challenge preconceptions about civilization and the capabilities of the moving image.
16:00– 17:00
Questions and discussions.
Produced in association with the Institut Français
Philippe Parreno
Invisibleboy 2010
Film still
Courtesy of Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP)
© 2010 Philippe Parreno
