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ARTISTS SPACE Blue Room Event
Saturday, January 26, 5:30 p.m.
A history of performance in 20 minutes:
A conference by Guillaume Désanges


The Blue Room is a flexible area within Artists Space dedicated to improvisational discourse. A hybrid between library and living room, this addition to Artists Spaces' program allows for informal conversations, lectures, small gatherings, and performative projects. Including an always open and ever-changing curated library of publications, the Blue Room is in constant transition as it reacts to issues of the day.

A history of performance in 20 minutes is a conference that aims at dividing the history of performance into 10 gestures:

1. Appearing, 2. Receiving, 3. Holding back, 4. Escaping, 5. Aiming, 6.Falling, 7. Crying, 8. Biting, 9. Empting oneself, 10. Disappearing, discussing very subjectively those 10 gesture in a rather performative form.

Guillaume Désanges (born in 1971, lives in Paris ) is curator, critic, and co-founder of Work Method, a Paris based agency for artistic projects. A member of the editorial board of Trouble Magazine, he collaborates with the magazines Exit Express and Exit Book ( Madrid ). He has coordinated projects such as Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers between 2001 and 2007, and worked with Thomas Hirschhorn (the 24h Foucault project, and Musée Précaire Albinet). Désange is currently an invited curator at Centre d'Art Contemporain La Tôlerie and teaches at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Clermont-Ferrand.

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