Bivouac #1 / Ghostmarkets, Julie Ramage

FRIDAY 11 AND SATURDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2020

Ghostmarkets was born out of a research-creation project that began in prison in September 2019. Taking as a starting point the ban on currency in the prison space, economists, anthropologists, archaeologists and choreographers were then invited to collaborate with a working group set up inside the prison walls.

The research quickly evolved towards the way in which exchanges influ­ence the rela­tion­ships between bodies: trust or dis­trust, provo­ca­tion or com­plicity mark the prison chore­ogra­phies. The par­tic­i­pants pro­pose the cre­ation of a "cur­rency of esteem" made of sugar and con­crete, whose face value is indexed to the greeting rituals of deten­tion; it guar­an­tees, when entrusted to a peer, loyalty and assis­tance in all sit­u­a­tions.

Following the interruption of the project in March 2020, the idea was born to create a "ghost film" from the preparatory documents of the aborted shooting: a living archive deploying the dialogue outside the walls, to place it in the context of the economic and health crisis we are going through.
Radio Commons is partnering with artist Julie Ramage to offer a reinterpretation of this work during an afternoon of radio discussions and readings.

Project management and performance: Julie Ramage
Installation: Julie Ramage, Marina Ledrein, Jean-Pierre Aubry

With: Mouhad.S., JDH, Younès, Kapo, J-Marie Koeta, Habib, Silva, Ben, Christophe, Brali, Sparafucile, Youssef Rhnima, Philippe T., Ilich, John Dow, Olivier Royer-Perez, Melchior Simioni, David Rabouin, Sonia Manseri, Nadeera Rajapakse, Alice Mulliez, Van-Kim Tran, Laurence Mongin, Christophe Ramage

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PROGRAMME

Friday 11 and Saturday 12 September 2020, 11am-7pm.

ATTEND THE PERFORMANCE

The installation, as well as the performance, are open to spectators in free wandering friday 11 and saturday 12 from 11am to 7pm.

TAKE PART IN PERFORMANCE

Ghostmarkets is a filming device - initially planned within the walls of Poissy’s prison in the spring, then deployed outside the walls - that functions as a space for intimate and unscripted exchanges between the artist and a spectator. They dialogue within an immersive installation, questioning the health and economic crisis we are going through, elaborating together a living archive of our ways of exchanging, touching each other, helping each other, being together.

The meeting includes a tour of the installation and a discussion with the artist during which she will question you in order to initiate a discussion on how you experienced the period of health crisis.

Some meeting slots will be dedicated to discussions between the artist and anthropologists, archaeologists, choreographers, economists who have participated in the project.

All discussions are public and filmed.

Registrations for a discussion with the artist are closed.

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Julie Ramage (1987, France) is a visual artist and doctor in History and Semiology of Text and Image. She explores the complex relationships between humans and the places they occupy.
Her work has been presented in France (Centre Pompidou, Cité Internationale des Arts, CENTQUATRE, Musée de l’Homme, Chapelle des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Le Cube, Maison Européenne de la Photographie...), the United States, Argentina and Spain. In 2018, she is the winner of the FoRTE fellowship. She is currently in residency at the Cité internationale des arts de Paris and was named "Coup de coeur du jury" in the context of the Prix le Bal de la Jeune Création.

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This project was carried out with the support of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, the Monnaie de Paris, the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, the PHARE laboratory of the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, the Centre d’Études et de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Lettres Arts Cinéma (CERILAC) of the Paris Diderot University, the Service Pénitentiaire d’Insertion et de Probation des Yvelines, the Poissy central prison, the Bois d’Arcy remand centre, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, the Île-de-France Regional Department of Cultural Affairs and the Fondation Un Monde par Tous. Offsite Cité inter­na­tio­nale des arts de Paris.

This program is part of the Académie de Bétonsalon supported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation.

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Images

Installation view of Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020. 

Installation view of Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020. 

Installation view of Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020. 

Detail from Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Detail from Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Detail from Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Detail from Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Julie Ramage, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Opening of Julie Ramage’s installation, Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Opening of Julie Ramage’s installation, Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Filmed performance with Julie Ramage, Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Julie Ramage during the installation, Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.

Marina Ledrein during the installation, Ghostmarkets, Bivouac #1, Bétonsalon - Center for art and research, Paris, 2020.