In June at the Foundation

A story of a mad love, which gradually gives way to tenderness, the correspondence of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller expresses the constant benevolence that will animate the relationship between these two exceptional writers. Letter after letter, we follow the evolution of their relationships over the years while attending fascinating exchanges on the future of their work and the meaning of writing. Two exceptional characters, without complacency towards each other, united in an essential fidelity, physical, material and literary.

Joana Preiss is an actress in theater and cinema, singer, performer and director. From 1993, she played for ten years the shows of Pascal Rambert. In the cinema, she played in the films of Christophe Honoré, Olivier Assayas, Antoine Barraud, Pia Marais etc. She has also collaborated with artists such as Nan Goldin, Ugo Rondinone and Céleste Boursier Mougenot. After studying classical singing, she founded in 1998 the experimental duo White Tahina. For several years, she creates unique sung performance, interacting with works of art or with musicians from places like Galerie Kamel Mennour, the Cartier Foundation, the cultural space Louis Vuitton, the Silencio etc. The first feature she realized, Siberia, was presented in international competition at the FID Marseille in 2011 and hit theaters in 2012. Her short film Silent Asylum was presented at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2013 then in many festivals and Lands close to Paterson has just been shown at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC on an invitation from Marie Losier. She recently played the cinema in films of Tonino De Bernardi, Vincent Dieutre, Jonathan Millet, Ducournau Julia and Emilio R. Barrachina, and theater in The Moon directed by MaisonDahlBonnema co-produced by Needcompany and currently in The Lady of the camellias staged by Arthur Nauzyciel.

Born in 1978, Olivier Martinaud graduated from the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique in 2004. In 2008, he directed Imbécile, a musical comedy by Olivier Libaux. He created the “garçon pressé” company and converted Christophe Pellet’s Erich von Stroheim to German in Berlin in 2009. He created Mes prix littéraires of Thomas Bernhard at la Loge in 2012. With Nils Haarmann, he translated three plays by Nis-Momme Stockmann from German, including Les Inquiets et les brutes, which he directed at Le Lucernaire in 2015. Since 2004, he has recorded more than a hundred texts for the programmes and fictions of France Culture and France Inter. He also recorded voices for Arte, the Centre Pompidou and several audio books. He is regularly invited to play, perform or read texts in various literary and artistic events and festivals such as the Word Marathon and Actoral.
In theatre, he is preparing the staging of Stéphanie Chaillou’s Le Bruit du monde and Christophe Pellet’s Aphrodisia.
In cinema, he plays the main role in Vincent Dietschy’s next feature film, Notre histoire (2019).

Language: French
1h, performance followed by a drink

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Screening for the first time in Belgium of The Evil Eye, 2018, (video HD 15′, EN/FR), as well as excerpts from other video works, followed by a discussion with the artist.

Clément Cogitore will present The Evil Eye, a film that tells the story of a female character seen through the prism of anonymous scenes borrowed from image banks for promotional films. The artist thus constructs a chimera, based on stereotyped images, while in fact elaborating a critique of the media.

After studying at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg, and at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Clément Cogitore (1983, Colmar) developed a practice that situates itself halfway between contemporary art and cinema. Mixing films, videos, installations and photographs, his work questions the ways in which men live together with their images. It is most often about rituals, collective memory, figuration of the sacred and a certain idea of the permeability of the worlds. Winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2018, Clément Cogitore becomes associate artist at 104 for the year 2018-2019 at the invitation of José-Manuel Gonçalvès. He is nominated at the next Césars ceremony for his documentary Braguino and is currently directing Les Indes Galanteswhich will be held in September 2019 at the Paris Opera. He is represented by Galerie Eva Hober (Paris) and Galerie Reinhard Hauff (Stuttgart).

Language: French
1h, conversation followed by a drink

A retrospective of his work entitled Clément Cogitore Part II can be seen at the KunsthausBasseland from 17/05 to 07/07/2019

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Karski quartet was founded in 2018 by violinists Kaja Nowak and Natalia Kotarba, violinist and violist Diede Verpoest and cellist Julia Kotarba. Having played with one another in many different combinations, the four met as a quartet during the 2018 Resonances Festival Academy, where they were coached by Elisabeth Kufferath and Philippe Graffin, and again at the Rencontres Internationales Musicales d’Enghien, where they participated in masterclasses with Amy Norrington and David Waterman.

Based in Brussels, their concert engagements since the inception of the quartet have brought them to Belgian venues as well as concert series and chamber music festivals in France, the Netherlands and the UK. Karski Quartet takes its name from Jan Karski, the legendary World War II resistance-movement figure.

Duration 1h, concert followed by a drink
Doors open at 18:30
Beginning of the concert at 19:00

In partnership with the non-profit association MGConcerts

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On the occasion of the last rendez-vous of his conferences cycle about the Styles of existence, Gilles Collard will receive the writer Philippe-Alain Michaud. Together, they will talk about Gilles Collard research and will begin a discussion around Philippe-Alain Michaud’s latest book entitled Âmes primitives, Figures de film, de peluche et de papier, published on June 7 at Macula.

Gilles Collard founded the journal Pylône in 2003. Since 2016, he has been professor of philosophy at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels, La Cambre, where he is also the pedagogical director of the Atelier des écritures contemporaines. He is currently preparing a book on the life and work of Klaus Mann for Grasset Publishing.

Âmes primitives. Figures de film, de peluche et de papier (2019, éditions Macula)
This collection of texts is inspired by the anthropological theory of Lucien Levy-Bruhl about the primitive soul to develop a heuristic of figurability. The author illustrates this approach through the analysis of films, but also comics and performances.

Philosopher and art historian Philippe-Alain Michaud is particularly interested in the relationship between film and art history. He is curator in charge of the film department of the Georges Pompidou Center. 

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