International Symposium Paris

Assembler is in the first place unite together, joining several elements among them a definitive or otherwise - to mount / unmount - procedure requiring gestures and techniques that depend intrinsically link-binding, this material which gives substance to assembly. These nails, bolts, adhesives, masonry, scotches and other tape-they have a subordinate function? We can not second explore the field of the assembly without crossing the craft. How anthropology, through the writings of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Andrew Leroi-Gourhan, she influenced the perception of this concept? Du status ragpicker artist-as Charles Baudelaire described, the artist would have happened to "handyman and scholar? We must also question the function is the collection of items found (natural and / or artificial), but also scrap artifacts. What type of assembly? Thinking in terms of the act of uniform construction and hybridization, the distinction between these two relationships is still legitimate? Shares for reuse, recycling, ownership, mixing and by extension diversion directly linked to the practice of the assembly can not have the same coverage today that in the fifties.
Finally, the workshop - the handyman provided that the artist - is it not, during the sixties, spent on site or at another level, that of the architectural dimension? What relation to space, in place - that is lacking because qu'envahie? As for the aesthetics of ruin often engendered, she provided for assembling an act of anti-construction, or do we need to see another form of construction? In rhizome?



The symposium aims to explore and develop new thoughts on the art of assembly and more broadly to emphasize, even invaluable filiations, the points of convergence or divergence between the assembly, the environment and installation


Friday, March 28, 2008
• 14H00 - Room Giorgio Vasari, INHA, 1st floor
SPEECH BY THE Antoinette NORMAND-ROMAIN, Director General of the National Institute of Art History
Home Dany SANDRON, Director of the UMR 8150 (André Chastel Centre).
Chair: Françoise levaillant, director of research in art history at the CNRS • 14.15-Stephanie JAMET CHAVIGNY, Dr. Art History, University of Paris - Sorbonne-Paris-IV, a lecturer in art history, corresponding member of the ERCO (Centre Chastel, UMR 8150): "A Different Perspective on the critical reception of the exhibition The Art of Assemblage. "
• 14:40 Cécile DEBRAY, Conservative Heritage, special assistant to the director general of the National Museums Reunion: "New Realism: A new naturalism? ".
• 15H05 Muriel BADET, Dr. art history, EHESS, associate researcher at the Centre Pierre Francastel, Paris X-Nanterre: "The Paintings of tambouille-traps in practice artistic and culinary Daniel Spoerri.
• 15.30 Gillian WHITELEY, Dr. Art History, University of Leeds, a lecturer at Loughborough University School of Art and Design in London: "Scavenging from margins to mainstream? Artist as a handyman in the twenty-first century ".
• Debate 15.55
Break
• 16H25 Bertrand CLAVEZ, PhD in art history, who teaches art history, University Light-Lyon-II, general secretary of the Research Centre Pierre Francastel, University of Paris X-Nanterre: "Small arrangements George Brecht with the art of assemblage. "
• 16.50 Sophie DELPEUX, teacher conferences in the history of art, University of Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne: "Blend, Environments & Happenings of Allan Kaprow."
• 17.15 CLAUSTRES Annie, Teacher conferences in the history of art, University Light-Lyon-II, corresponding member of the ERCO (Centre Chastel, UMR 8150): "The sculpture of Eduardo Paolozzi: an assembly of surface."