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Laboratory of Singular Prospectives / What comes >> May 22nd, 15h00-22h00

Ce qui vient / What comes, second edition of Les Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d’art contemporain, will take place in Rennes from April 30 to July 18, 2010 and will explore our relationship to the future.

The Laboratory of Singular Prospectives, created specifically for the event, is an international symposium which will connect Rennes, Dakar and Bucharest, three cities where biennales take place at the same time. This platform for speech and performance will put together singular, subjective, non-academic talks about the future and our conceptions of it.
The Laboratory of Singular Prospectives aims at making the notion of what is to come perceptible in terms of our daily experience of it and in terms of the way it shapes the world in the economical, political and social sectors.

Centrul National al Dansului Bucuresti / National Dance Center Bucharest (CNDB) will play host to the final stage of the Laboratory of Singular Prospectives. The National Dance Center Bucharest is a young institution with an innovative and ambitious programme, internationally acknowledged in the world of contemporary dance and performance. The Bucharest LPS will take place during the opening week-end of BB4 (4th Bucharest Biennale) and will echo it. Indeed, there is a thematic connection between the conception of the future in What comes and the production of possibilities in the relationship between art and society for Bucharest Biennale (Handlung. On producing possibilities). What is more, some artists will take part in both events : Société réaliste, Goldin+Senneby.
The Bucharest LPS will gather together artists and thinkers from France, Romania and other countries around notions pertaining to What comes. Some of them are from Bucharest and contribute to the exhibition in Rennes (Anonymous (RO)) and to the publication (Bogdan Ghiu) of What comes.

Other participants, choreographers and performers will be invited by the CNDB : Edi Gabia, Mădălina Dan et Manuel Pelmuş.

Participants in the Bucharest LPS:
Bogdan Ghiu*, poet and translator (Bucharest) ; Goldin & Senneby* (video), artists (Stockholm) ; Mircea Nicolae, member of the artist collective Anonymous (RO)* (Bucharest) ; Société réaliste*, art cooperative (Paris) ; Alexandre Costanzo*, philosopher (Paris) ; Kan-­Si, artist (Dakar, Senegal) ; Felix Vogel, curator of BB4 (Bucharest, to be confirmed) ; Manuel Pelmuş, performer (Bucarest) ; Edi Gabia, choreographer (Bucarest) ; Mădălina Dan, choreographer (Bucharest).

* participant in the exhibition and/or publication of What comes, Rennes


PROGRAM

15h00, Round Hall
Introduction by Raphaële Jeune
, commissaire for Ce qui vient/What comes (the second edition of Les Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d’art contemporain)

15h15, Round Hall
Bogdan Ghiu

« The present of the future. Counter-crisis one year after »

Bogdan Ghiu is a poet and translator. Currently on a residency in Vienna, he is based in Bucharest.

16h00, Round Hall
Goldin+Senneby (video)

« The Temperature of Speculation, part 1 - Inauguration speech »
Videoperformance made for the inauguration of Goldin+Senneby’s works at Ce qui vient in Rennes

Goldin+Senneby is an artistic duo based in Stockholm, whose works articulate around economic systems and dematerialization.

16h15, Round Hall
Société réaliste

« Burning & rupturing & looting & rapturing »
Société Réaliste aim to criticize the notion of prospective following a chaotic path, made out of ruptures and ecstasies. What results is a political positioning based on a systematic approach of vandalism.

Société réaliste is a Parisian art cooperative. It works with political design, experimental economy, territorial ergonomy and social engineering consulting.

17.00, outside
Mădălina Dan

« Let's mark the question »
Intervention in the public space

Mădălina Dan is a choreographer based in Bucharest.
What I envisage for the future is a huge question mark, 3 meters tall and weighing 100 kilos, and a collective effort to make it visible. Mădălina Dan

BREAK 1

18h00, Round Hall
Alexandre Costanzo

«Que peut un corps?»
«What can a body do?
»
An improvisation on the theme "What can a body do?", between literature and philosophy, based on Nietzsche’s Zarathoustra.

Alexandre Costanzo is a philosopher, living and working in Paris. He is cofounder of the magazine Failles, author of a thesis in philosophy under the guidance of Alain Badiou and of different essays which treat the relation between philosophy, politics and art.

18h00-20h00, Studio 1
Rectifier Crew

« Invisible title »
Performance

The bureau for research and manifestation of the continuous present will be active in Studio 1 during the whole event.

18h45, Round Hall
Kan-Si

« Prospectives au quotidien »
« Prospectives in the present
»

Kan Si is an artist, living and working in-between Dakar and Joal, in Senegal. He takes part in Ce qui vient in Rennes with a work created specifically for this event: Silence, on tourne... la page. He is the founder of “Portes et passages du retour", an association created with the purpose of establishing “connections between art and sustainable and endogenous development”.

19h30, Round Hall
Mircea Nicolae

« NOUS DEVONS MOURIR, NOUS ET TOUT QUI EST NOTRE »
« We should die, we and everything that’s ours
»
Performance in Romanian and French. Mircea Nicolae is a member of Anonymous (RO) (Bucharest), who takes part in Ce qui vient in Rennes with the work entitled Safe places for a safe Future in Bucharest.


20h15
BREAK 2


21h00
Manuel Pelmuş
, Round Hall
« preview » (Give up future version)

Manuel Pelmuş is a one of the most internationally renowned Romanian choreographers.
„preview” is the performance of transversal bodily dilemmas. It’s a test about being present without being seen. Manuel Pelmuş asks fundamental questions about the contours of the visible, accessible body. Mihaela Michailov