{"id":14927,"date":"2021-04-06T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T10:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondationthalie.org\/fr\/?p=14927"},"modified":"2022-11-05T15:35:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T14:35:21","slug":"equinoxes-proches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.fondationthalie.org\/en\/events\/poetic-readings\/francais-equinoxes-proches\/","title":{"rendered":"Equinoxes: Near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Equinox, <strong>four hundred people like us<\/strong>, unknown to one another, in love like us, whether from near or far, poised to come together. Four hundred precious men and women, connected to us, listening to us, so very close to us in space and time, joining our\u00a0<strong><em>Cercle des po\u00e8tes apparu.e.s<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0poets\u2019 circle, every Equinox since months now\u2026 Does the Near East seem far away to you? It is within hearing range you know, pouring out words, hybrid and familiar. Poets from America, Paris\u2019 18th arrondissement, Bondi Beach? They can all be found side by side at Fondation Thalie.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Love your neighbor as yourself.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Your neighbor? The poet in the apartment on the third floor, <strong>Z\u00e9no Bianu<\/strong>\u2019s<em>\u00a0Infinitely close\u00a0<\/em>poetry, the parents of the violinist on the sixth floor, the first-floor schoolteacher singing the nursery rhymes she taught yesterday, the next-door neighbor&#8217;s cat on top of a book by Colette, purring&#8230; Poetry is here with us, alongside us, a playful and complicit covenant, a garden in the middle of the city, a shoreline beach with words made of pebbles and sand made of vowels, so close we can hold it in our arms.<\/p>\n<p>Curating and moderation: <strong>Barbara Polla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With, among others: <strong>Ronald Asmar, Lise Coirier, Miranda Darling, Ninar Esber, Nicolas Etchenagucia, Amy Hilton, Jean-Luc Irondelle, Tuomo Manninen, Manuela Morgaine, Jean-Sylvain Perrig, St\u00e9phane Ghislain Roussel, Matt Saunders, Laure Tixier,\u00a0Aur\u00e8ce Vettier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nFollow this event:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sign up for free to comment live readings <\/strong>or access livestream diffusion on our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationthalie.org\/en\/events\/poetic-readings\/francais-equinoxes-proches#.YG2_lS0itpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> <\/strong>and<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fondationthalie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Live<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Readings will be available as a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationthalie.org\/en\/podcasts?v=d3dcf429c679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">podcast<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UClx4PIdyZ-HV0Jr9609UQ-Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youtube<\/a><\/strong> the day after diffusion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><br \/>\nCall for texts<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Should you wish to take part to poetic platform Equinoxes and read a text with us<\/strong>, send us your poems\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:equinoxes@fondationthalie.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Reading list<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><br \/>\n1) Tuomo Manninen<\/b> is Finnish. He is a photographer. He made of group photography a speciality earlier recognised for its originality and quality by Harald Szeeman. Thus, he participated in the &#8220;Plateau for Humankind&#8221; at the 49th Venice Biennale. For him, &#8220;ME&#8221; and &#8220;WE&#8221; go hand in hand, mirrored, more than close, inseparable. His work and his life are organised around this concept: NEAR.<\/p>\n<p>He will read us a poem by Di Lu Galay, a young poet from Myanmar, to whom he feels close. But first, we will listen to a concert by young musicians from Soweto, the same ones that Tuomo Manninen photographed in Soweto. We will hear their interpretation of the Finnish composer Sibelius. Finland, South Africa, Myanmar. All close by.<\/p>\n<p><b>2) Ninar Esber <\/b>was born in Beirut. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Beaux-Arts de Cergy-Paris and lives and works in Paris. The body and the notion of duration are at the centre of her practice, which focuses on performance, video, photography and drawing. She participated in the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, with<i> Working for Change<\/i>, a project for the Moroccan Pavilion. She has published <i>Leil Al Awal<\/i> (in Arabic) with Dar An Nahar, and <i>Conversations with Adonis my father<\/i>, published by Seuil in 2006. Her forthcoming publications include a collection of poems in French, published by La Cano\u00eb, Paris (2021), and an encyclopaedia on women, in Arabic, published by Dar Al Saqi, Beirut (2022).<\/p>\n<p>She will read her own poems,<br \/>\n*and then show us an excerpt from a 24-hour video she made about the great poet <b>Adonis<\/b>. It will be as if he were also with us. Near.<\/p>\n<p><b>3)<\/b> <b>Manuela Morgaine<\/b> is a writer, filmmaker and director of Envers Compagnie, with whom she has staged and performed. She was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1994 and has just published Le temps a commenc\u00e9 de cesser &#8211; prefiguration of ORAKL, a forthcoming installation. She has just finished her film about Syria before the war, POUR WAAD.<br \/>\nShe will read an excerpt from a book not yet published, written in collaboration with the photographer Laurence Tr\u00e9molet:<br \/>\nMA MAISON BR\u00dbL\u00c9E AVEC DES TANKS ET DES FLEURS.<br \/>\nA book of words, drawings and photographs of Kosovar children who were refugees in a camp in Sarajevo in 1999. Everything they draw and describe exists, tanks and flowers go together and are like memories-literature. This text comes back to these children who are now his relatives, and to us who listen.<\/p>\n<p><b>4) Ronald Asmar<\/b> is a lawyer. Lebanese by origin, living in Geneva, he is very involved in culture &#8211; in all cultures &#8211; and is a keen contemporary art and opera fan. He sits on the Foundation Boards of the Geneva Opera and the MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva).<br \/>\nRonald Asmar will read an excerpt from <i>Sitt Marie-Rose<\/i>, a book by Etel Adnan, the poet and artist we all know and admire. A must-read book. In 1978, Tahar Ben Jelloun summed it up in Le Monde: &#8220;Marie-Rose was thirty-five years old. Beautiful and serene. Her crime during the civil war was the courage not to think or act like her community: a Christian, she had gone over to the Muslim camp; a Lebanese, she had gone over to the Palestinian camp; an Arab, she had become involved in politics. Or when war, ideology and politics set conflict between people close to each other, divide them and separate them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>5) St\u00e9phane Ghislain Roussel<\/b>, a violinist and musicologist by training, is a stage director, playwright and exhibition curator. He has worked at the Mus\u00e9e de la Musique in Paris, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Louvre Museum. His creations, such as <i>Le Cri du lustre<\/i> (2015), <i>Drawing on Steve Reich<\/i> (2019) and <i>Snowball <\/i>(2019-2021) focus on the relationship between music, visual arts and the body. He curated the exhibition &#8220;Op\u00e9ra Monde, la qu\u00eate d&#8217;un art total&#8221; at the Centre Pompidou Metz, resonated with the 350th anniversary of the Op\u00e9ra National de Paris. He is the founder and artistic director of the creative office PROJETEN in Luxembourg, and within this office, he tries to create forms and time-spaces that place the field of the sensitive at the centre, by questioning reality, the relationship with the other and with all living beings.<br \/>\nHe will read us a text he wrote especially for NEAR.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>6) Laure Tixier<\/b> is an artist. A resident of Villa Kujoyama, French winner of the <i>Women to Watch <\/i>prize from the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, she has participated in numerous exhibitions, notably at the Yokohama Triennial, Mudam Luxembourg, the Beirut Art Center, the Monnaie de Paris and Analix Forever in Geneva. Multiplying practices &#8211; watercolour, ceramics, textiles, microarchitecture, mural painting &#8211; she creates a universe between poetry and radicalism, between utopias and narratives, and her work questions architecture, habitat and the social organisation that results from it, constraint and freedom. The filiation too.<br \/>\nVery close to her father, whom she has just lost, she will read us an extract from <i>\u00c0 toi bien s\u00fbr<\/i>, a tribute book to filiation, by Barbara Polla.<\/p>\n<p><b>7) Matt Saunders\u00a0<\/b>is an artist, a painter, but also a video artist and a \u201cphotographer\u201d, working with photography in a very particular, hand-drawn way. He lives between Berlin, New York and Boston. He holds the Harris K. Weston Professorship in Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. Poetry has always been part of his artistic practice.<br \/>\n<i class=\"\">He will read a selection of short works from poets with roots in New England, considering how nearness and distance are two sides of the same emotion.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>8) Jean-Sylvain Perrig<\/b> works in high-level finance. He is a psychologist and a poet of figures.<br \/>\nHe is<i> <\/i>The Voice of this evening.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>He is going to read us a poem by Victor Hugo which reminds him of his two daughters, who are close to him&#8230; And a poem by Pr\u00e9vert. Very close.<\/p>\n<p><b>9) Miranda Darling<\/b> is a writer, a poet and a publisher. Her background is in literature, geopolitics and strategy. She founded Vanishing Pictures Press, with Viola Raikhel, to tell the stories of extraordinary women who have changed the course of history and whose tales remain untold. She has published 5 books, the latest with the Empress of Iran, looking at the extraordinary modern art collection Farah Pahlavi assembled in the 1970\u2019s, and the role of soft power in geopolitics.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>She will read THUNDERHEAD, a spoken word piece specially written for this Equinox.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>10) Nicolas Etchenagucia<\/b> is a video artist, writer and poet. He is the youngest reader tonight. Welcome Nicolas! He is going to read us a poem he wrote during one of his trips to Perama, in Greece: <i>Paradise Alley<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>11) Amy Hilton <\/b>was born in England. In 2007, she graduated in Literature and Theatre at Goldsmiths College. In 2008, she moved to the Alps, in Chamonix: in the context of this encounter with nature and the mountain peaks, her artistic aspirations are tied to the seasons. She currently lives and works between Paris and Burgundy. In her academic and personal writings, she questions the philosophical notions of &#8220;existence&#8221;, &#8220;self&#8221;, &#8220;consciousness&#8221; and &#8220;spirit&#8221;, and tries to decompartmentalise beings and phenomena, which, according to her, find a common meaning in their relationship with Nature. The artist calls it &#8220;deep ecology&#8221;, which honours the power of physiological and mythical cycles.<br \/>\nShe will read to us, in English, a text she wrote in 2013: Le tout et les parties \/\/ The Whole and the Parts.<\/p>\n<p><b>12) Lise Coirier <\/b>has a degree in management &amp; finance and art history. She lives and works in Brussels. More than twenty years ago, she created the Creative Consultancy Pro Materia, which promotes contemporary art and design. She has initiated numerous projects committed to creation and cultural and social innovation. In 2016, she opened the Spazio Nobile gallery in Brussels with her husband Gian Giuseppe Simeone. Since 2008 she has published the international art and design magazine, <i>TLmag_True Living of Art &amp; Design<\/i>. She is sensitive to experimentation around nature and minerality; poetry and writing have always been a common thread for her, nourished by times of pause and contemplation.<br \/>\nAs part of her European project <i>Glass is Tomorrow<\/i> (which is celebrating its 10th anniversary) she will read a trilogy of her poems written on the spot last week: <i>From Near to Far &#8211; In the Northern Vosges, the Glassmaker&#8217;s Dance &#8211; Merveilleuse Aventure, Aventureuse Merveille<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>13)\u00a0<\/b><strong>Aur\u00e8ce Vettier<\/strong> is a collective founded by Paul Mouginot in 2019.<br \/>\nThe collective aims to understand how relevant and fertile interactions can be made with machines and algorithms, in order to push the boundaries of creative processes.<br \/>\nTonight Paul will present and read excerpts from the poetic work Elegia Machina written in collaboration with Markov chains, the precursor algorithms of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><b>14) Jean-Luc Irondelle<\/b> is a teacher in the French National Education system. He lives in Peyrolles-en-Provence. He listens to us fervently at each of our Equinox evenings. Tonight he is the impromptu reader. Impromptu slammer!<\/p>\n<p><b>15) Barbara Polla<\/b> is a poet and has prepared tonight&#8217;s Reading List.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Equinox, four hundred people like us, unknown to one another, in love like us, whether from near or far, poised to come together. 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