"Once upon a door the future came before"
CELLAR DOOR is an ambitious artistic enterprise: a colossal organism engendered by an original music score that distends through space and time. The exhibition is a mutant form, one that has crystallized around an obsession, the production and manufacturing of a studio. The common version of the artist’s studio, the dream factory, isn’t on display; rather, the studio is featured as a dreaming factory, a delirious object endowed with thought and speech that constantly reinvents itself.
With CELLAR DOOR, for the first time a French artist under 30 is taking over the Palais de Tokyo in its entirety.
LORIS GRÉAUD
Loris Gréaud is a cross-disciplinary artist,
an enthusiast of architecture and quantum
mechanics, a graduate with a degree in graphic
arts, a former student of the École Nationale
Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Cergy, the founder
of a studio for experimental film, a producer at
an electronic music label, and director of his own
business. Not surprisingly, Gréaud has blazed
a career path that is in keeping with his art
practice. Borrowing from the working procedures
of a film director or orchestra conductor, he
builds empirical machines in which the medium
systematically follows the ideas, which are
themselves exchanged, shared, negotiated and
distorted. In 2004, with the architects Marc
Dölger and Damien Ziakovic, he created DGZ
Research, a multidisciplinary production studio
that makes the realization of “utopian” projects
possible. DGZ Research is in charge of the
design, architecture and project management
of the CELLAR DOOR exhibition. Loris Gréaud
has shown in Hong-Kong, Tokyo, London, Berlin,
Milan, Los Angeles, New York and Paris (notably
at Le Plateau, the Palais de Tokyo and the Centre
Pompidou). He was awarded the Ricard Prize in
2005. He is represented by the Yvon Lambert Gallery
Paris, New York.
THURSDAYS /
ON THE IMMATERIAL
CELLAR DOOR
Meeting with Loris Gréaud ,Thomas Roussel, Raimundas Malasauskas,
Aaron Schuster, Marc Dölger, Damien Ziakovic.
21 February 2008 / 19h30
DES IMMAtériaux
Legacy of Jean-François Lyotard, with Bernard Blistène, Stéphanie Moisdon,
Orlan and Daniel Soutif.
28 February 2008 / 19h30
PULSAR
Screening of Klonaris and Thomadaki.
06 mars 2008 / 19h30
Films / S lams / S ons
Lead singer of Diabologum in the 1990’s and of Programme, Arnaud Michniak
comes forward with a performance mixing videos, music, poetry and new
songs from his last album Poing Perdu.
13 mars 2008 / 20H30
GREY GOO
A talk on nanosciences of Christian Joachim and Laurence Plévert.
20 mars 2008 / 19h30
Intox/gossip/bluff
An idea of Claire Moulène and Mathilde Villeneuve.
27 mars 2008 / 19h30
audioguide
A guided tour through Cellar Door with Bruno Latour and guests. By Jean-Max
Colard,
in partnership with Les Inrockuptibles.
03 AVRIL 2008 / 20h00-minuit
Global Paranoïa
Two days of lectures on surveillance technologies programmed by Eric Sadin
and Ec/arts.
vendredi 11 et Samedi 12 AVRIL 2008 / 14h00-20H00
BORDER LINE
Pascal Rousseau invits Erik Davis, autor of TechGnosis – Myth, Magic and
Mysticism
In the Age of Information.
17 AVRIL 2008 / 19h30
BUCKY
Posterity of Buckminster Fuller.
MARDI 22 AVRIL 2008 / 19h30