Since its creation in 2006, Le Générateur has assembled a substantial archive, comprising several thousand photographs, videos and documents. This collection reflects a moment in the history of performance art in France.
Thanks to support from the Fondation de France, Le Générateur has been working since 2018 on a database (a website) dedicated to performance and its archives entitled Performance Sources.
To celebrate its online launch Le Générateur opens its doors from January 27 to 29, 2023 around meetings, roundtables, installations, photo exhibitions, performances and reactivations of performances. Researchers, art historians, critics, all the partners of Performance Sources and over fifty artists will be present to collectively mark the launch of this major project.
ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING ON THE OCCASION OF THE LAUNCH OF PERFORMANCE SOURCES
→ Friday, January 27, 2023
From 3pm to 6pm
Presentation of the Performance Sources database by Clélia Barbut, art historian and scientific manager of the program, Anne Dreyfus, director of Le Générateur, and Domitille Debret & Quentin Creuzet, site developers.
Roundtable discussion with Stéphanie Pécourt (Director, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles), Claire Valageas (Collections Officer, FRAC Lorraine), Éric Mangion (Art critic and curator – to be confirmed), on the question of the archive in performance.
With the participation of other partner structures sensitive to the field of performance.
20h : Performances
– La rêve du retour du pétillement des lucioles contaminées. Petit opé-rave de quat’sous / Joël Hubaut
– Traces / Maéva Croissant
_ Illico / Christine Coste, Catherine Ursin and Nikola Kapetanovic
→ Saturday, January 28, 2023
From 2pm to 6pm
Fol lecture #2 : Scripted lectures
– Archiving performance, contradiction or not? / Esther Ferrer
– Searching for the author / Sylvie Boulanger, Sonia Soraya and Edouard Suffrin
– Coulissez le regard / David Noir and Ariane Martinez
– La Caméra Blanche / Clara Thomine
– ENCORE* / Yuni Hong Charpe and Hirano Akihito
In partnership with the CNEAI, the CWB – Centre Wallonie Bruxelles.
* With the support of DRAC Île-de-France. Encore benefited from studio space at CND, Centre national de la danse.
AT 8:30 PM
Show your [ frasq ] – Fabricating the archive / Collective performance
Thirty artists simultaneously share the space of the Générateur and propose a form of living exhibition in which they are invited to play with notions of filing, archiving, museum-type conservation by affixing, or not, one or more labels to their current action(s): date, title of work. The present of the performance immediately becomes an archive. The codes used to name an archive or a past work are here joyfully upended.
With Michaël Berdugo, Sonia Codhant, Christine Coste, Maëva Croissant, Paola Daniele, Lotus Edde Khouri, Sophie El Mokhtar, Claire Faugouin, Emily Holmes, Deed Julius, Nikola Kapetanovic, Sonia Kuipers, Renyan Liu, Cyril Leclerc, Christophe Macé, David Noir, Katalin Patkaï, DJ Reïne, Jean-François Rey, Clotilde Salmon, Skall, Clara Thomine, Catherine Ursin, Eneas Vaca Bualo, Ariane Zarmantiand Zazie…
→ Sunday, January 29, 2023
From 3pm to 6pm
Open stage Performance Sources
Scene dedicated to reactivations of performances with the participation of some thirty artists.
With Michaël Berdugo, Yassine Boussaadoun,Sarah Cassenti, Sijia Chen, Sonia Codhant, Christine Coste, Sophia El Mokhtar, Claire Faugouin, Emily Holmes, Deed Julius, Nikola Kapetanovic, Sonia Kuipers, David Noir, Constantin Leu,Renyan Liu, Violaine Lochu, Mélanie Martinez Llense, Carole Rieussec, Clotilde Salmon, Léo Sarrade, Skall, Alberto Sorbelli, Jeanne Susplugas, Clara Thomine, Eneas Vaca Bualo, Catherine Ursin, Véronique Ursin…
→ January 27, 28 and 29, 2023
simultaneously during performance
Les temps élémentaires #18 / Les transcripteurs (installation) – Charlie Chine
Micro Radio (radio set) – Clémence Bucher and Elizabeth Saint-Jalmes
La vie sensible des images (photo exhibition) – Bernard Bousquet