cultural program

Exhibitions

2014 // Support of Dan Finsel’s and Carter Mull’s exhibition

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Carter Mull puts the visitors face to a dense installation combining paintings, luminous sculptures hanging from the ceiling, a video, a mural drawing 7 metres long and hundreds of pages laid on the floor. Strong couleurs, logos, typefaces and screen shots of online shops for hipsters make up the meticulous pictural matter of the artist, through which he questions the status and the production of consumer goods and art.

More information here

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First personal exhibition in Europe for the American artist Dan Finsel (born in 1982, lives in Los Angeles), Becoming Her, for Him, for Her: Becoming Him, for Her, for She (Becoming Me, for Me, for Me.) lays the radical base for an intense visual and psychological universe that explores in a corrosive and emotional manner family mythologies and frenetic multiple personality troubles in today’s Los Angeles.

More information here
 

2013 // Support of the Markus Schinwald exhibition

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The CAPC’s nave is plunged in darkness. A gigantic brass tubular structure straddles the space. Painted skies and retouched portraits hanging on wires are being as if launched into the void. The walls are covered with Brinjal. Tumblers play chess and children’s puppets bang the metal tips of their shoes on the floor. A spiral Eiffel stairway links the floor and the ceiling, 45 feet high. Large hangings hide the architecture, a double mirror projection of the film Orient spins in a loop and looks at itself from a huge triangular bench which cuts the nave in four. A false ceiling with holes in it lets through a purplish light, while a figure on a suspended diving board vibrates with the variations of light. Welcome inside Markus Schinwald’s mechanical theatre. A space made to measure for the CAPC’s nave, which gropes as much as it traps.

The Friends of the CAPC support this important exhibition.

More information on the exhibition here

 

2013 // Support of the Orientation Table cycle

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The orientation tables are exhibition of young artists over a three-year cycle.
They give an idea of what is currently happening in the artistic field.

The Friends of the CAPC support this cycle all throughout 2013.

Past exhibitions in
Raphael Hefti “Nature More”
Philip Newcombe “Pollen”

David Lieske “Platitude Normale”
Pauline Boudry et Renate Lorenz “Aftershow”

Michael E. Smith

 

Events

 

2013 // Support to the cycle of conferences thought up by François Cusset

Thinking… To see
What the critic tells us today

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François Cusset invites 8 major intellectuals to speak at the CAPC. Eight conference-events, to experiment directly with the power of evocation, elucidation and revelation linked to contemporary critical thought. Eight thinkers, to sse the world differently whilst renewing with the etymology of the word “theory”, the theorein, that was used by the Greeks to qualify the aptitude et see what is to come, what is new. Eight voices to rethink utopia, emotion, resemblance, sex, debt, the body, the brain and politics in a new light.
 
Professor at the University Paris Ouest Nanterre, former director of the Bureau du Livre Français at New York, radio and newspaper columnist, François Cusset is the author of several essays of reference, such as French Theory and The Decade (La Découverte, 2003 and 2006). As well as a first novel, published in the Autumn of 2012 with P.O.L. editions: A l’abri du déclin du monde.
 
28.02.2013 – 18:00
TRISTAN GARCIA
Intensity
 
21.03.2013 – 19:00
ENZO TRAVERSO
Memory and utopia at the turn of the 21st century
 
17.04.2013 – 19:00
FRANCOIS NOUDELMANN
Family resemblance : a philosophical and aesthetic secession
 
22.05.2013 – 19:00
CATHERINE MALABOU
Emotional brain and plasticity
 
5.06.2013 – 19:00
Seeing the genre / seeing the sex
 
16.10.2013 – 19:00
The economy of infinite debt
 
20.11.2013 – 19:00
Vulnerability and resistance: towards a new political body
 
4.12.2013 – 19:00
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
Our world, our time?
 

2011 // Support to the cycle of conferences on the Traffic exhibition

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Proposed by Nicolas Bourriaud, the exhibition Traffic was shown at the CAPC from January to March 1996. At a time when “relational aesthetics” was finding its theoretical reasoning, the exhibition became a live expression of it.

Fifteen years later, the CAPC looks back on this event and proposed to build an archive a posteriori of the event, retracing the History of the exhibition through speech. All throughout the year different personnalities will be invited to speak about what they have seen and done in Traffic
 

2009 // Support to the cultural program “Les Promesses de l’Ecran”

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La Promesse de l’écran is a retractable screening device proposed by Pierre Leguillon since 2007. The events are devoted to peripheral aspects of cinema: credits, poster, recurring motif, etc., or propose to look at the screen through another medium: poetry, painting, drawing…
 

2004 // Organisation of the Entrepôts Electro

The “Entrepôts Electro” created a musical event in Bordeaux on 18 and 19 June 2004, from 10pm to 2am.

In the Warehouse of the CAPC contemporary art museum, GRAND BUFFET, KID KOALA, JEANS TEAM, DMX KREW performed for two evening of exceptional concerts. A new concept that combines in this major venue, contemporary art and performances of DJs and video artists, organised by the Laboratoire of the Friends of the CAPC.