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| 2010 |
BELLEVILLE DESERVES A BIENNALE project for Belleville Biennale Paris |
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In contemporary art circles, the discussion about the need for biennales is as relevant as it is boring. According to Okwui Enwezor biennales are the platforms for a real creative force and prompt curators to draw from within preexisting cultural and geographical loam. Playing the card of pluralism and based on a “more is more” policy, they have every chance of becoming the platforms of a contemporary institutional critique, which turn the given city or neighborhood into an artistic and intellectual lever. More skeptical curators, especially Bob Nikas, reckon, for their part, that biennials only make sense for hotel keepers, restaurant owners and shopkeepers. The Belleville neighborhood, understood at once as a heterogeneous infrastructure and a multicultural sight, becomes a context-responsive site of a Biennale inside a Biennale. The topography, typography and social issues of this neighborhood, which is among the most fascinating in Paris, have served as clues for locating a series of 'ready-made' pavilions. The famous restaurant Le Prėsident becomes the Chinese Pavilion, the Alfred Nakache swimming pool which houses an installation by Melik Ohanian becomes the Armenian Pavilion, Yona Friedman’s graffiti museum situated in a community garden on rue de Belleville becomes the Nomad Pavilion or the Communist Party a Brasilian one. 4 events will happen in the chosen pavilions from Friday on: Opening: 15 Octobre 19h / L’Antenne du Plateau, 22, cours du 7ème art 75019 Paris Lancement du projet : 19h : Cartographier le quartier de Belleville, une introduction de Joanna Warsza 20h : Rafał Niemojewski Une biennale de quartier parmi des biennales mondialisées 16 Octobre à 18h Patrick Komorowski + Benoît Rayski Je brûle Paris de Bruno Jasieński Pavillon de la République Soviétique de Belleville / Maison de l’Air, Parc de Belleville 19 Octobre à 19h : Philippe Quesne / Pavillon des Cascades : Résidences 66, rue des Cascades 20 Octobre à 19h : Slavs and Tatars / une conférence sur 79.89.09 Chapelle Notre Dame du Bas-Belleville Mission catholique polonaise 29, rue de Belleville, 75019 Paris free & open to all. more info: www.labiennaledebelleville.fr/joanna-warsza/ |
A project by Joanna Warsza inspired by a Belleville infrastructure in form of a psychogregraphical map and series of events on the biennalonology. On the invitation by Claire Moulène. With: Patrick Komorowski, Rafał Niemojewski, Levente Poylak, Philippe Quesne, Slavs and Tatars, Stephen Wright |
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