Esther Ferrer en conversation avec Laurence Rassel (FR)
Online event
Free
in FR
Esther Ferrer, 'The Poem of Prime Numbers', 1980s - 1990s
Courtesy of the artist and Juan Varez.
Esther Ferrer, action art pioneer and participant in Risquons-Tout, discusses key aspects of her work with Laurence Rassel, co-curator of her recent monographic exhibition at the Reina Sofía, Madrid. They explore how variation, chance and repetition, as well as John Cage’s legacy have shaped Ferrer’s practice and her approach to language, body and composition.
This conversation will take place online. Register to receive the link to the conversation an hour before the start of the event.
Esther Ferrer is a Spanish-born artist based in Paris. She is known for her work in performance and visual arts, alone or with the ZAJ group that she joined in 1967. In the early 1960s she co-founded the First Free Expression Workshop together with the painter José Antonio Sistiaga. Her work has been widely exhibited in Spain and she has performed worldwide in venues such as New York University, Albany; The Kitchen, New York; Merce Cunningham Studio, New York;
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and The Quinci House Arts Festival of Harvard University, Cambridge. Ferrer represented Spain at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999. She received the Spanish National Fine Arts Prize in 2008, the Gure Artea Priza in 2012, and the MAV (Women in the Visual Arts) and Velázquez Fine Arts awards in 2014.
Currently director of erg (école de recherche graphique, Brussels), Laurence Rassel has pursued an interdisciplinary career. Between 2010 and 2015, she was director of the Fundacio Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona. She has worked in different fields since 1998. She was responsible for Constant, a non-profit organization based in Brussels that connects theoretical thinking, the critical use of new technologies, artistic behaviour and political issues within networks. She was also project coordinator for the Interface3 training centre for women in new technologies that operated in Brussels from 2001 to 2006 within the framework of the European project ADA.
Esther Ferrer, performance art pioneer and participant in Risquons-Tout, discusses key aspects of her work with Laurence Rassel, co-curator of her recent monographic exhibition at the Reina Sofía, Madrid. They explore how variation, chance and repetition, as well as John Cage’s legacy, have shaped Ferrer’s practice and her approach to language, body and composition.
