Sur un plan incliné [On an tilted floor]

Level 1 – Room Thirty-Seven / Palais de Tokyo

 

Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 p.m., with the residents of the Pavillon Neuflize OBC

“The end of the vertical axis of elevation, the end of the horizontal as permanent plane, in order to defer to the oblique axis and the inclined plane”

Claude Parent

 

In the Palais de Tokyo’s Room Thirty-Seven, you’ll find the ambiguous atmosphere of an outdated space: its oval shape and sloping floor call to mind timeworn theaters and movie houses, fairytales and fictions. Throughout the evening, a cycle of performances, videos and scenarios will borrow narrative devices from the performing arts: installations awaken memories of long-forgotten stories, situations evoke the world of showbiz, and language shifts from dreamlike to coercive and back. Grounding themselves in this common inspiration, the residents of the Pavillon will propose works that move and mingle, one after the other, over the course of the evening. The encounter of diverse discipline—artists, architects, designer and curator—will facilitate a paradigm shift, a move to the inclined plane.

With the residents of the Pavillon Neuflize OBC: Sophie Bonnet-Pourpet, Lucas Biberson & Guillaume Henry, Rebecca Digne, Mikhail Lylov, Sébastien Martinez Barat & Benjamin Lafore*, Karin Schlageter & White Papier Studio*, Clémence Seilles, Chai Siris, Antonio Vega Macotela, Yonatan Vinitsky. 

A proposal by Chloé Fricout.

* : invited artists