Symposium : Francis Alÿs - The Nature of the Game (EN)
Symposium à l'occasion de la publication Francis Alÿs - The Nature of the Game. Le livre offre une perspective multidisciplinaire sur les nombreuses couches des Jeux d'enfants de Francis Alÿs. Il comprend un entretien avec Francis Alÿs et Rafael Ortega, une série d'essais d'universitaires et de critiques d'art, des déclarations de conservateurs et un journal de bord relatif à la présentation de Jeux d'enfants à la Biennale de Venise 2022.
Programme
14:00 - 14:15 : Accueil par le Directeur du WIELS Dirk Snauwaert et introduction par Gerard-Jan Claes et Stéphane Symons
14:15 - 15:30 : Présentations par John Potter (University College London) et Jan Masschelein (KU Leuven)
15:30 - 16:00 : pause café
16:00 - 16:45 : Présentation par Karen Lang (Royal Society of Arts)
16:45 - 17:00 : remarques finales
Accès gratuit
WIELS Auditorium
Francis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game
Gerard-Jan Claes, Stéphane Symons (eds)
In 1999, a short video of a solitary boy kicking an empty bottle up a hill in Mexico City became the first instalment of Children’s Games, a series of works by artist Francis Alÿs (b. Antwerp, 1959). The ongoing project, which now numbers around thirty-five works, has gradually given shape to an extensive collection of videos of children at play. For almost twenty-five years, Alÿs and his collaborators Félix Blume, Julien Devaux, and Rafael Ortega have been travelling around the world to document the distinctive ways in which children interact with each other and their physical environment. They have gone from remote villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela, and Nepal to the mountains of Switzerland and metropoles like Hong Kong and Paris, but have also visited the war-torn city of Mosul in Iraq, the border between Mexico and the United States, and the strait of Gibraltar that divides Africa and Europe. The resulting images are standing proof of the seriousness of play and of children’s stunning powers of resilience in the face of conflict.
Open Access ebook, ePDF 9789461665416
Paperback, € 30,00 / £29.00, ISBN 9789462703841, 176 p.