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Becoming
the Work

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ONLINE COLLOQUIUM
FRIDAY MAY 21 AND SATURDAY MAY 22, 2021

BECOMING THE WORK
Body Reification Practices in Exhibitions and Museums

Many people appear to have sustained a singular interest in personifying the canons of art history. Via the internet, museums also make use of these acquisition modes of works that function by way of a self-recognition in a production from the past, as do artists in the visual arts and dance, who regularly offer performances and other initiatives in museums and galleries by taking the work exhibited there as their subject. The colloquium Becoming the Work: Body Reification Practices in Exhibitions and Museums focuses on this age-old fascination of imagining oneself as a work. The plays of re-creations and doubling, personification and display that unfold there are envisaged as a means to question in which way and to what end today’s practices relaunch those of the past and in which way the past in turn informs the present.

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PROGRAM

Presentations mainly in French, with some in English. 
The colloquium is taking place in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

FRIDAY MAY 21, 2021

9:30 AM (EDT)
Reception of participants on Zoom
9:50 AM (EDT)
Welcoming remarks

MIRROR

Moderators: Mélanie Boucher (UQO) and Jessica Ragazzini (UQO) 
10:00 AM (EDT)
Soko Phay (Paris 8)
Specular Reversal. When the Spectator Becomes the Work (in French)
BREAK
11:00 AM (EDT)
Mélanie Boucher (UQO)
The Mirror Retrospection used by Jacques-Louis David or the Invention of the Retrospective Exhibition (in French)
11:30 AM (EDT)
Jessica Minier (UQO)
 Charles Le Brun’s Physiognomic Drawings and the Mirrors of the Louvre: Popular Appropriation of the King’s Collections in a Revolutionary Context (in French)
LUNCH

RECONSTITUTION

Moderator: Véronique Leblanc (UQAM)
1:00 PM (EDT)
Raymond Montpetit (UQAM)
 Exhibiting the Elsewhere and Being There: Topo-analogical Museum Apparatuses and their Occupants (in French)
1:30 PM (EDT)
Maria Silina (UQAM)
 Revolutionary Bodies: Soviet Critical Museum Displays in the 1920s and 30s (in French)
2:00 PM (EDT)
Anne Bénichou (UQAM)
 Reconstitutions of Colonial Exhibitions in Contemporary Art Practices: Dissensual Dialogic Apparatuses (in French)
BREAK
2:40 PM (EDT)
Hanna Sybille Müller (choreographer), interviewed by Anne Bénichou (UQAM)
 Moving through the archive – In Dialogue (in French)
BREAK

SCENE

Moderator: Véronique Leblanc (UQAM)
3:20 PM (EDT)
Julie Ramos (Strasbourg University)
 On Exhibition in Dance. Figuration and Defiguration of the Moving Body (in French)
3:50 PM (EDT)   CANCELED
Simon Baier (University of Basel)
Ecologize the Institution: The Museum as a Body (in English)
4:20 PM (EDT)
Anne-Marie St-Jean-Aubre (Musée d’art de Joliette) Strategies of Reversal: the Works of Nadège Grebmeier Forget and Michelle Lacombe (in French)

SATURDAY MAY 22, 2021

9:00 AM (EDT)
Reception of the participants on Zoom

TABLEAU VIVANT

Moderator: Mélanie Boucher (UQO)
9:30 AM (EDT)
Ersy Contogouris (Université de Montréal) and Déborah de Robertis (artist)
The Origin of the World and The Mirror of the Origin: Deborah de Robertis’ Activation of the Gustave Courbet Painting (in French)
10:15 AM (EDT)
Gaëlle Crenn (Université de Lorraine)
Subverting the Objectification of the Other’s Body: The Tableaux Vivants of Brett Bailey (Exhibit B) and Yinka Shonibare CBE (Jardin d’amour) (in French)
BREAK
11:05 AM (EDT)
Anne-Sophie Miclo (UQAM)
 The Body as a Scaffold, the Back as a Canvas: Tim exhibited, Tim reified? (in French)
11:35 AM (EDT)
Steve Giasson (UQAM)
 Comedy. Around Steve Giasson as Others/Steve Giasson comme les autres (in French)
LUNCH

SELFIES

Moderator: Lisa Bouraly (UQAM)
1:00 PM (EDT)
Isabel Hartwig (Free University of Berlin)
Re-Staged Photography on the Social Web (in English) 
1:30 PM (EDT)
Éric Langlois (UQO)
 The Work of Art and the Human Experience of its Absence: The Case of Identification Selfies (in French)
BREAK
2:30 PM (EDT)
Marie-Hélène Raymond (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec)
Recreating the MNBAQ at Home: The Quarantine Project (in French)
BREAK

MANNEQUIN

Moderator: Lisa Bouraly (UQAM)
3:00 PM (EDT)
Jessica Ragazzini (UQO and Paris-Nanterre)
Between Wax and Flesh, the Photographs of Madame Tussauds and the Musée Grévin Visitors (in French)
3:30 PM (EDT)
Ronan Bretel (École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay)
To Be or to Be Made a Work, a Juridical Reflection on the Reification Through the Display of Bodies (in French)
4:00 PM (EDT)
Closing remarks

SPEAKERS

Simon Baier
Professor, University of Basel
Anne Bénichou
Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Mélanie Boucher
Associate professor, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
Ronan Bretel
Doctoral candidate, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay
Ersy Contogouris
Assistant professor, Université de Montréal
Deborah de Robertis
 Artist
Gaëlle Crenn
Lecturer, Université de Lorraine

Steve Giasson
Doctoral candidate, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Louise Giroux
 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Tetiana Lazuk
Parkinson en mouvement

Joanabbey Sack
Parkinson en mouvement

Zuzana Sevcikova
Parkinson en mouvement
Isabel Hartwig
Doctoral candidate, Free University of Berlin

Éric Langlois
Professor, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)

Anne-Sophie Miclo
Doctoral candidate, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Jessica Minier
Doctoral candidate, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)

Raymond Montpetit
Professor emeritus, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Hanna Sybille Müller
Choreographer
Soko Phay
Professor, Université Paris 8 and Université Paris Lumières

Jessica Ragazzini
Doctoral candidate, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) and Université Paris Nanterre

Julie Ramos
Professor, Université de Strasbourg
Marie-Hélène Raymond
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

Maria Silina
Adjunct professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Anne-Marie St-Jean-Aubre
Musée d’art de Joliette

MODERATORS

Mélanie Boucher
Associate professor, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)

Lisa Bouraly
Doctoral candidate, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Université Paris 8
Véronique Leblanc
Independant curator and lecturer at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
  • Jessica Ragazzini
    Doctoral candidate, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) and Université Paris Nanterre
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