A July Evening:
Architecture, Cinema and Contre Nature
Launch, Conversation, and Screening on the Terrace
> le 23 juillet 2014, 20h30
> lieu : Beirut Art Center
Nicky Clayton, Amanda Crawley Jackson, Olivier Galaverna, Léa Gauthier, Serge Gruzinski, Hélène Hazéra, Richard Klein, Jacinto Lageira, Kobena Mercer, Bernard Mole, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Françoise Vergès, Marion Von Osten.
Texts (archives) :
Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Achille Mbembe, André Ravéreau, Edward S. Said, Jean Paul Sartre, Paul Virilio, Alfred Wallace
The evening continues under the stars on the terrace with Pierre Leguillon’s La Promesse de l’architecture. Produced at the initiative of CAPC, Musée d’Art contemporain de Bordeaux, La Promesse de l’architecture was first projected at the Maison Lemoine in Floirac, designed by Rem Koolhaas, in 2009. It is a part of the project La promesse de l’ecran, a moving, site-specific installation and an ongoing series of films that the artist believes are “dedicated to the peripheral.” La Promesse de l’architecture incorporates dozens of sequences that were either shot in monuments worthy of attention, or that remarkably describe architecture. An imaginary city unfolds on the screen in which architects are at once Michalengelo Antonioni, Jacques Tati, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Oscar Niemeyer, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang, Bertrand Blier, Man Ray, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
