Cartes blanches
Video art, cinema or television professionals will introduce programmes on thetheme of the Social Body, which gives the opportunity to relate and question audiovisualproductions picturing a tension between the individual and collective identity. Itseems that more works refer to a social group united around cultural, sexual, ethnic,etc. values. To understand this «I» becoming a «we», andhow the individual is manifested through this collective identity. This is an opportunityto discover known or unknown master-pieces that only specialists could have dug out.
Programmes set up and presented by:
Professor of Cinema at the University of Lausanne
François Albera
Director of Documenta X, former curatrix at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paumeand at the G. Pompidou Centre in Paris
Catherine David
Director of the DIA Foundation, Boston (USA)
Lynne Cook
Art historian and exhibition commissioner in Zurich
Eva Keller
Independent curatrix, co-director of the video office
Stéphanie Moisdon Trembley