Marcel Cohen
Marjorie Welish
Le collectif Double Change, l’atelier Michael Woolworth, le séminaire de recherche « Textualités Numériques et contemporaines ((Paris 8) et le programme de recherche « Poets and Critics » (IUF/ Paris 8/ UPEM / Paris Diderot), vous invitent à un séminaire avec Marjorie Welish (17h30-19h30) suivi d’une lecture avec Marcel Cohen et Marjorie Welish (19h30), le jeudi 31 mai à l’Atelier Michael Woolworth :
« Penser la critique : textualité, mots et images »
Une discussion et un séminaire avec Marjorie Welish (17h30-19h30)
Lors d’un séjour au Edinburgh College of Art pour y donner une conférence sur la nature située de la critique d’art, Marjorie Welish visita la Inverleith House. Elle dit à Paul Nesbitt, son directeur : « Je pourrais en faire un diagramme ». Ce qu’elle signifiait alors prit forme par la suite. Elle proposa de créer une œuvre rendant compte du changement de fonction qui fit passer cette résidence du 18e siècle à un espace d’art du 20e siècle. La courte vidéo PUSH BAR TO OPEN est l’un des éléments de ce projet.
Notre discussion prendra appui sur PUSH BAR TO OPEN, où texte et image sont interrogés en lien à l’histoire de cet espace d’art. Si tout est devenu textuel, comment penser la critique et la pédagogie ? Comment les modalités du mot et de l’image affectent la textualité dans notre contemporain ? Comment discuter le présupposition selon laquelle la signalisation ou les signes activent l’espace ? De la même manière, le langage active-t-il quoi que ce soit ?
(contact : vincent.broqua@univ-paris8.fr)
Le séminaire sera suivi à 19h30 d’une lecture avec
Marcel Cohen
et
Marjorie Welish
Les deux événements sont ouverts au public. Le séminaire est en anglais, la lecture est bilingue et en traduction.
Adresse :
Atelier Michael Woolworth
2 rue de la Roquette
Passage du Cheval Blanc
Cour Février
75011 Paris France
M° Bastille
Biographies :
Marcel Cohen
Souvent considéré comme un prosateur par les poètes et comme un poète par les prosateurs, Marcel Cohen estl’auteur, aux Éditions Gallimard, de neuf volumes de textes brefs ne portant aucune indication de genre. Ces dernières années, il a notamment publié une trilogie, Faits, Lecture courante à l’usage des grands débutants (2002), Faits, II (2007), Faits, III, Suite et fin(2010) faisant figure de manifeste contre toute forme de fiction.
Les rares souvenirs qu’il conserve de sa famille, déportée pendant la guerre, sont réunis dans Sur la scène intérieure (2013) publiés dans la collection «L’un et l’autre», que dirigeait J.-B. Pontalis, ouvrage repris dans la collection Folio (n°5940). Le Grand-paon-de nuit, suivi de Murs, suivi de Métro, publié en 2014, réunit des textes extrêmement brefs parus antérieurement chez Gallimard et ailleurs.
En 2017, il a publié Détails, aux Éditions Gallimard et Autoportrait en lecteur, un livre entièrement composé de citations, aux Éditions Eric Pesty.
Ses livres sont traduits en huit langues et, notamment, aux États-Unis, aux Éditions Burning Deck, que dirigent Keith et Rosmarie Waldrop, dans une traduction de Cid Corman (The Peacock Emperor Moth), aux éditions Green Integer, dans une traduction de Jason Weiss (Mirrors), aux éditions Black Square Editions, dans une traduction de Brian Evenson et Joanna Howard (Walls), et aux Éditions Ibis de Jérusalem dans un volume bilingue judéo-espagnol-anglais et une traduction de Raphael Rubinstein sous le titre In Search of a Lost Ladino.
Marcel Cohen est aussi l’auteur d’un livre d’entretiens avec Edmond Jabès, publié aux États-Unis par Station Hill Press, sous le titre From the Desert to the Book, dans une traduction de Pierre Joris.
Il a reçu, en 2013-2014, le prix Wepler-Fondation La Poste, le prix Jean Arp de littérature francophone, le prix Roger Caillois, le prix Bernheim de la Fondation du Judaïsme Français ainsi que le prix Ève Delacroix de l’Académie française.
Marjorie Welish
Artist /critic / poet Marjorie Welish received her first solo show thanks to Laurie Anderson, then curator of the Whitney Museum Art Resources Center; she has exhibited most recently in New York, Paris, Vienna, and Cambridge, England. She received many grants and fellowships, including: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Fifth Floor Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Trust for Mutual Understanding (supporting an exchange between the International Studio Program, New York and the Artists’ Museum, Łódź, Poland). In 2006, she received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship to teach at the University of Frankfurt, where she also worked on a limited-edition constructed art book, Oaths? Questions? in collaboration with James Siena, published by Granary Books in 2009 (in the collections of the Beinecke Library at Yale, Columbia University, Getty, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art); in 2010 with a Fulbright, she was at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2015 she was nominated for the award Anonymous Was a Woman. Writing on her work may be found in Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Foundation, 2003) compiles papers given at a conference on April 5, 2002, at the University of Pennsylvania: https://slought.org/resources/store#of_the_diagram_the_work_of_marjorie_welish Welish’s book of art criticism is Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999). More information on Welish may be found at http://marjoriewelish.com/Home.html. Her poetry books include: Isle of the Signatories (2008), In the Futurity Lounge / Asylum for Indeterminacy (2012), and So What So That (2016).
ENGLISH :
The research seminar « Textualités Numériques et Contemporaines » (Paris 8), the research project « Poets and Critics » (IUF/ Paris 8/ UPEM / Paris Diderot), Double Change and Michael Woolworth invite you to a seminar with Marjorie Welish (May 31 5:30-7:30) and a reading with Marcel Cohen and Marjorie Welish (May 31, 7:30) at Atelier Michael Woolworth:
« Thinking criticism: textuality, words and images »
A discussion and seminar with Marjorie Welish, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
When on a Fulbright to the Edinburgh College of Art to lecture on the situated nature of art criticism, Marjorie Welish toured the Inverleith House, she said to its director Paul Nesbitt: ‘I could diagram this.’ What she meant and he understood did come about in some form. She proposed to create art to capture the changing function from 18th-century residence to 20th-century project space for art. PUSH BAR TO OPEN is the short video component of this project.
Our discussion will be based on a video of hers PUSH BAR TO OPEN, in which text and image are simultaneously questioned in relation to the history of an art space and an art exhibition. We will approach the topics of how to rethink criticism in relation to textuality. If everything has become textual how to think criticism and pedagogy? How do the word and image modalities affect textuality in our contemporary moment? And how do we talk about the assumption that signage activates space? In the same way, does language activate anything at all?
(contact : vincent.broqua@univ-paris8.fr)
The seminar will be followed by a reading with
Marcel Cohen
and
Marjorie Welish
Both events are open to the public. The seminar is conducted in English, the reading will be bilingual.
Address:
Atelier Michael Woolworth
2 rue de la Roquette
Passage du Cheval Blanc
Cour Février
75011 Paris France
M° Bastille
Biographies :
Artist /critic / poet Marjorie Welish received her first solo show thanks to Laurie Anderson, then curator of the Whitney Museum Art Resources Center; she has exhibited most recently in New York, Paris, Vienna, and Cambridge, England. She received many grants and fellowships, including: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Fifth Floor Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Trust for Mutual Understanding (supporting an exchange between the International Studio Program, New York and the Artists’ Museum, Łódź, Poland). In 2006, she received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship to teach at the University of Frankfurt, where she also worked on a limited-edition constructed art book, Oaths? Questions? in collaboration with James Siena, published by Granary Books in 2009 (in the collections of the Beinecke Library at Yale, Columbia University, Getty, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art); in 2010 with a Fulbright, she was at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2015 she was nominated for the award Anonymous Was a Woman. Writing on her work may be found in Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Foundation, 2003) compiles papers given at a conference on April 5, 2002, at the University of Pennsylvania: https://slought.org/resources/store#of_the_diagram_the_work_of_marjorie_welish Welish’s book of art criticism is Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999). More information on Welish may be found at http://marjoriewelish.com/Home.html. Her poetry books include: Isle of the Signatories (2008), In the Futurity Lounge / Asylum for Indeterminacy (2012), and So What So That (2016).
Marcel Cohen
Often regarded as a prose writer by poets and as a poet by fiction writers, Marcel Cohen is the author of nine books of short texts with no mention of their genre. They were published by Éditions Gallimard. Over the last few years, Marcel Cohen published a trilogy: Faits, Lecture courante à l’usage des grands débutants (2002), Faits, II (2007), Faits, III, Suite et fin (2010), as a manifesto against any form of fiction.
In Sur la scène intérieure (2013), he gathered the rare recollections he has from his family, who was deported during the war. It was published by J.-B. Pontalis in his series « L’un et l’autre ». Le Grand-paon-de nuit, followed by Murs, and Métro gather extremely short texts published previously by Gallimard and other publishers.
In 2017, he published Détails (Gallimard) and Autoportrait en lecteur (Eric Pesty), which is entirely made of quotations.
His books were translated into eight languages and, among others, in the USA by Cid Corman (The Peacock Emperor Moth, Burning Deck), as well as by Jason Weiss (Mirrors, Green Integer), and by Brian Evenson and Joanna Howard (Walls, Black Square Editions). He was also translated by Raphael Rubinstein (In Search of Lost Ladino), published by Editions Ibis in Jerusalem in a bilingual version.
Marcel Cohen also published a book of interviews with Edmond Jabès, translated by Pierre Joris as From the Desert to the Book(published by Station Hill Press in the USA).
In 2013-2014, he was awarded the Wepler-Fondation La Poste prize, the Jean Arp prize, the Roger Caillois Prize, the Bernheim prize awarded by the Fondation du Judaïsme Français, and the Eve Delacroix prize awarded by the Académie Française.