ESAD TALM STUDENT PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
Wednesday, March 6th 2019
2pm-5pm
Free entrance
To close three days of workshops and exchanges with the artist Grace Ndiritu, the students of the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design Tours-Angers-Le Mans are offering an afternoon of performances at the Château de Montsoreau-Musée d’art contemporain on Wednesday, March 6th.
Festival coordinated by Chloé Maillet and Natsuko Uchino
Grace Ndiritu
Grace Ndiritu works on performance, painting, video, photography, research. In 2012, Grace Ndiritu made the radical decision to spend time in the city only when necessary and to live in rural, alternative and often spiritual communities, while expanding her research on nomadic lifestyles and esoteric studies such as shamanism, which she has been studying for over 16 years. His research on community life led to the creation of The Ark: Centre for Interdisciplinary Experimentation.
In 2012, Grace Ndiritu also began to create a new work entitled Healing The Museum, born of the need to reintroduce non-rational methods such as shamanism to reactivate the « sacredness » of art spaces. Grace Ndiritu believes that most modern art institutions do not reflect the daily experiences of the public and that the many socio-economic and political changes that have occurred in the world in recent decades have eroded the relationship between museums and their public. Museums are dying. Grace Ndiritu sees shamanism as a way to reactivate the dying artistic space by transforming it into a space of sharing.
Grace Ndiritu exhibits in many museums: Museum Modern of Art in Warsaw; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Antoni Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona; Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris; Glasgow School of Art; Klowden Mann Gallery, Los Angeles; La Ira De Dios, Buenos Aires and the 51st Venice Biennale.
www.gracendiritu.com
Natsuko Uchino
Natsuko Uchino is a Japanese interdisciplinary artist, a graduate of the Cooper Union (NYC) and the CCA Kitakyushu (Japan), represented by the Green Tea galleries (Japan) and Last Resort (Denmark). She develops a transversal practice between art and ecology. Driven by her experience in mixed farming to decompartmentalize artistic disciplines, she began ceramics with the aim of creating containers for her agricultural production with the same land that had nourished the harvest. Since then, an apprenticeship in the craft village of Tamba in Japan has confirmed the artist’s interest in the ceramic medium, which in his work serves as a hinge between agriculture, landscape, environment and conviviality. Natsuko Uchino participated in the residency of the Centre International d’Art et du Paysage – Ile de Vassivière in 2014, then worked in 2015 on art subjects in the natural environment with the Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais, and rurality with the Peeping Tom Digest magazine. Natsuko Uchino is a professor of sculpture and ceramics at ESAD Le Mans.
Chloé Maillet
Chloé Maillet is an artist and researcher. She studied history and art history at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She holds a doctorate in historical anthropology from EHESS (Ecole des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales), followed the Pavilion programme (Palais de Tokyo, 2008-2009), the Coopérative de Recherches de l’Ecole Supérieure d’Art de Clermont-Métropole (2014-2015), and post-doctoral studies at the Musée du quai Branly (2015-2016). ALHOMA-CRH Correspondent (EHESS), member of the Images re-vues editorial board since 2005, she is a specialist in gender and kinship issues and has published numerous articles in history, art history and anthropology journals. Her thesis, La parenté hagiographique, XIII-XVe s. was published by Brepols in 2014, she is preparing a book entitled Transgenre au Moyen Âge ? by Arkhê.
In duo with the artist Louise Hervé, she founded the I.I.I.I.I.I. (International Institute for Important Items) in 2001, where they produce performances, genre films and installations. Credac (Ivry-sur-Seine), Kunsthal Aarhus (DK), Passerelle (Brest), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver, CAN), Synagogue de Delme, FRAC Champagne Ardenne and Kunstverein Braunschweig (DE) organized solo presentations of their work. They have published Attraction étrange, JRP (2013), Spectacles sans objet/Spectacles sans objects, Editions P and Pork Salad Press, 2016, L’Iguane, ed. Thalie Foundation, 2018.
She is a professor of history and theory of arts at ESAD Angers.
And also
Lecture by Grace Ndiritu in conversation with Chloé Maillet and Natsuko Uchino
Monday, March 4, 2019 at 6pm.
ESAD Angers Room TO.
Free admission.
Conference in English.