Workshop: A Love Note About Rage

FROM WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3 TO SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 2018 A workshop led by Tarek Lakhrissi

Free of charge. Limited capacity.
Open to artists, writers, researchers, curious minds... all practices are welcome!
Mandatory registration before September 21, 2018.
Please send a short email introducing yourself and your reasons for participating at publics@betonsalon.net, with the subject "Inscription : A Love Note".
The workshop will be led mostly in French, but will be English-friendly.

On Saturday, October 6, from 12 to 3 p.m.:
Participants will cook a shared lunch in Bétonsalon. They will express in public what they gathered from the last three days of workshop, through readings, texts, performances, or other media.
The meals, exclusively vegetarian, will be shared with visitors.

What if everything began by a burst of laughter as a response to chaos? A flower garden, rebellious banners, a rage for words, and Eartha Kitt laughing and laughing at a journalist asking her whether she’d sacrifice anything for a man. Her explosive response, bursting with life, expresses both joy and consternation. From that ambiguous laughter emerged a proposal: A Love Note About Rage. How can we work together through our emotions and experiences? As part of Gaëlle Choisne’s exhibition TEMPLE OF LOVE, this workshop will look at two opposite, complementary, didactic, political, unusual and potentially anti-capitalist emotions: love and rage. We will build a temple of experiences, conversations, and affects, where we will gather, share, love, understand, discuss, listen, and unlearn together, with the works of Audre Lorde, Roland Barthes, Nayyirah Waheed, Kai Cheng Thom, and Terence Nance. Each participant will be encouraged to offer something to share during those four days - be it a skill, an emotion, an experience - in order to pool resources and connect a variety of life trajectories.

The workshop will consist of several readings, conversations, screenings, performances, and guest lectures. The four days of work will lead into building a frieze of ideas, drawings, photographs, and words, from a panel that will be free of use for the duration of the workshop.

Tarek Lakhrissi (b. 1992, Châtellerault) is an artist working with performance, installation, video, and poetry, addressing matters of language and identity. His works were shown at CAC Vilnius (Lithuania), Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), McGill University and Artexte gallery (Montreal, QC), Confort Moderne (Poitiers), Circa Projects gallery (Newcastle), Palais de Tokyo, MK2 Beaubourg, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lafayette Anticipations Foundation, Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research, DOC!, and Gaîté Lyrique (Paris). He is currently artist-in-residence at La Galerie, Centre d’Art Contemporain (Noisy-le-Sec).