En mars à la Fondation

To celebrate spring, tribute to literature and poetry at the Fondation Thalie, which invites personalities to come and talk about their relationships with books and to offer their “bibliothèque idéale”, which will feed the collection of the Foundation to make it a shared library, both timeless and marked by the times.

In her new book Le Nouveau Féminisme – Combats et rêves de l’ère post-Weinstein (Odile Jacob), Barbara Polla tells us about the different existing feminisms, those that emerge, those that we don’t talk about, and those that we don’t do not know. This book reminds us of the essentials, that of the struggle of women, which women have had to wage since the dawn of time. A book signing will be propose following the encounter.

Véronique Caye will present Pour toutes mes sœurs, a video featuring the musician and actress Estelle Meyer surrounded by 58 women whom she admires.

Film duration: 45 minutes
Encounter duration: 1h30
Language: French

Born in Geneva in 1950, Barbara Polla is a doctor, gallery owner, writer and a liberal Swiss political figure.

Director and videographer, Véronique Caye develops a work of scenic exploration of contemporary writing.

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In his latest essay, Le coup d’État climatique (PUF), Mark Alizart advances the thesis that front political commitments hide a game from which many economic, political and social players come out winners. He thus calls to think about the conditions of a political revolution likely to go against what he calls “carbofascism”.

Book signing following the encounter

Duration : 1h
Language: French

Mark Alizart is a philosopher. He has directed several collective works and catalogs (Fresh Theory, Traces of the Sacred), made a film on and with Stuart Hall and published essays at PUFs including Pop Théologie et Informatique Céleste. He was also responsible for cultural programming at the Centre Pompidou (2001-2006), deputy director of the Palais de Tokyo (2006-2011), adviser for the Minister of Culture in France (2011-2012). In 2016, he participated in the creation of the “Night of Ideas” of the Institut français.

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Nathalie Azoulai‘s latest novel, Clic-Clac (P.O.L), depicts the story of Claire Ganz, a woman who searches for the truth about the death of her mother and who decides to shoot a film. To cut the head off to its melodrama and to this cinema of men which never shows that women eternally transient in love. A virtuoso approach to writing through cinema. Strong drawer novel that the novelist published simultaneously in 2019 with the monologue En découdre (P.O.L).

En découdre (P.O.L) is a lively monologue by a woman who visits a museum where no one ever passes. She comes there every day and finds the same museum keeper there that she talks to in secret. The man is without qualities, unpretentious and reminds us of the small scribe of Melville, Bartelby. She wonders who he is, how he lives and what he can understand about the paintings he watches …

Books signing of Clic-Clac and En découdre (P.O.L), following the encounter

Duration: 1h
Language: French

Nathalie Azoulai was born in 1966 in Nanterre and is a graduate of the École normale supérieure. French woman of letters, she received the Médicis prize in 2015 for her novel Titus disliked Bérénice, which follows in the footsteps of her narrator in those of Jean Racine. In addition to her activity as a novelist, Nathalie Azoulai also writes for television, radio, theater and youth, in tandem with the creator Victoire de Castellane. She lives and works in Paris.

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Readers:

Nathalie Guiot (BE) writer, curator and founder of the Fondation Thalie
Barbara Polla (CH) writer, curator

Nour Awada (FR) artist
Sanaz Azari (BE) film maker
Pascale Barret (BE) artist, performer, author
Noelle Bastin (BE), film maker
Boris Bergmann (FR), writer, former resident of the Fondation Thalie
Baptiste Bogaert (BE), film maker
Nicolas Bogaerts (BE), journalist
Valentine Bonomo (BE), founder of the Papier Machine journal
Jeroen Cantryn (BE), poet
Orianne Castel (FR), philosopher, artist, teacher at the Sorbonne
Véronique Caye (FR) videographer, scenographer
Astrid Chaffringeon (BE), writer
Haleh Chinikar (BE), poet, visual artist
Clément Delhomme (BE) poet, musician
Nicolas De Mar Vivo (BE), write, editor
Samuel Feller (BE), film maker and producer
Rosanna Gangemi (BE), philosopher, co-creator of Drome Magazine
Christine Guinard (BE), poet, classic letters
Stephen Graff (BE) poet, artist, member of the publishing house / bookshop maelstrOm, co-editor of the review Jambon Klaxon
Aurélie Gravas (BE), artist and performer
Tiemen Hiemstra (BE), writer
Nikias Imhoof (CH), poet, pianist, photographer
Anne Kerner (FR), videographer, journalist, Artvisions.fr
Mimi Kunz (BE), artist, writer, founder of the festival Something Beautiful
Rachel Labastie (BE), sculptor and performer
Pierre Liebaert (BE), artist and performer
Selçuk Mutlu (BE), artist and poet
Kenny Ozier-Lafontaine (MQ) poet, artist and co-editor of the journal jambon klaxon
Erik Pardaens (BE), composer, songwriter
Noah Pardaens, his son
Lucie Pinier (BE), curator of the festival Something Beautiful
Stefan Pollak (BE), gallery owner, co-creator of Drome Magazine
Jérôme Porsperger (BE), vocalist
Alexandra Sebbag (BE), designer, teacher at ENSAV La Cambre
Vincent Van Meenen (BE), writer, performer, phd student in creative writing
Elya Verdal (BE), poet, « shlasheuse »
Accompanied by Virginie Procureur, cellist
Sofie Verraest (BE) writer, founder of Snug Harbor and teacher at KASK and Gand University
Thomas Yanez (BE), co-creator of the exhibition PERSEVERANCE
Frédéric Young (BE) author, general delegate of the SCAM, SACD, SOFAM

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Land & Language presents a series of paintings by Agnès Thurnauer. Built on a frame of words written by the English poet Rod Mengham, this variation is inspired by various images taken from news. Here, the bodies carry their language to the point where they become their only country of residence and merge with the continents. Until the last painting, the oceans invaded the geography of the canvas and words became the only possible cartography.

Agnès Thurnauer is a Franco-Swiss artist. A self-taught painter, she studied video and cinema at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Her work addresses the issue of pictorial language.Writing, materials and framing choices are just as essential to her as her painter’s palette. Agnès Thurnauer’s work has been exhibited in museums and international art centers (Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, CCCB Rio, SMAK Gent). Her works are part of many private and public collections. Agnès Thurnauer is represented by Galerie Michel Rein (Paris-Brussels) and Gandy gallery in Bratislava.

Practical information:
Until Sunday 8 March 2020
The Foundation is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 14:00 > 18:00
Price: 7€ / 5€*
* Reduced price: students, job seekers, -26 year old, SMART members

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