The House of Dust by Alison Knowles
INHABITED BY PEOPLE FROM MANY WALKS OF LIFE
Exhibition at Cneai=, Pantin
September 9 - November 19, 2017
Artists: A Constructed World, Bona-Lemercier, Dieudonné Cartier, Jagna Ciuchta, Christelle Chalumeaux, Tyler Coburn, Yona Friedman, Mark Geffriaud, Ramiro Guerreiro, Jeff Guess, Peter Jellitsch, Alison Knowles, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Kengo Kuma, Lou-Maria Le Brusq, Stéphane Magnin, Aurélie Pétrel, Joshua Schwebel, Daniela Silvestrin and Francisco Tropa as well as the artists, musicians, writers and researchers invited as part of the program.
Curators: Sylvie Boulanger, Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot.
This exhibition retraces the history of The House of Dust, presenting a real time version of the computer-generated poem, and invites 19 artists to interpret the quatrains, responding to the generative aspect of the project. Emancipated from rigid structures, these interpretations in different media propose many ways of inhabiting language and the world. By introducing mobility and organicity, they contest the determinism of technology.
The works become open stages for invitations and improvisations, the creation of communities in the initial spirit of Alison Knowles and the Cneai. A rich program of artistic and discursive events, HABITER L’EXPOSITION transforms the exhibition into a veritable stage, an ecosystem for creation.
Co-sponsored by BETC, Magasins généraux, École supérieure des beaux-arts TALM Site d’Angers, École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Dispositif pour la Création Artistique Multimédia et Numérique (CNC), Centre national des arts plastiques, Artothèque du Conseil Départemental de la Réunion, Le Pavillon, département arts plastiques du Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental de Pantin, Le MédiaLab93, La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain, La Fonderie Darling, MAXXI, museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Mucem, Musée d’arts de Nantes, Le Voyage à Nantes, Australia Council for the Arts, L’Institut Polonais de Paris, The Austrian Federal Chancellery, Ambassade du Portugal à Paris, Camoes Instituto da Cooperação e da Lìngua, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian - Paris, Wallonie - Bruxelles International, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Galerie Philippe Gravier, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff.
Special thanks to Alison Knowles and the artists, Caroline Andrieux, Corinne Arrivé, Rémi Babinet, Colette Barbier, Michael Bell, Mark Bloch, Etienne de Boursetty, Stéphane Doré, Jane Eastwood, Mercedes Erra, Simone Forti, James Fuentes, Philippe Gravier, Hannah Higgins, Norman C. Kaplan, Sylvain Lizon, Miguel Magalhaes, Laurence Maynier, Jeffrey Perkins, Emilie Renard, Julia Robinson, Joshua Selman, John Tain, Matylda Taszycka, Willard van de Bogart, Marine Varoquier, Jocelyn Wolff, Nicole L. Woods, Christian Xatrec.