Like the dancer in the art literature, the hysterical patient is almost always gendered female in the medical literature. Despite statistics of male hysteria and medical developments in the understanding of the sickness, hysteria remains, in the cultural imagination of our society, a feminine sickness, still linked conceptually to the womb from which it gets its name… and still frequently treated as a sexual disorder.
Observed and understood in its resemblance to dance, hysteria can -and should!- very clearly be not only in the background, but actively in a curious and relevant foreground of dance production and reception…

“ARTISTS AND PRODUCERS TODAY”
Patricia Falguières, SB contributor Elisabeth Lebovici, Hans-Ulrich Obrist et Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez are meeting Marjetica Potrč on Wednesday, December 3rd from 7pm to 9pm at 96 boulevard Raspail in Paris.

MARJETICA POTRC’s work takes place at the intersection of architecture, sculpture and social science, anthropology in particular. Working in a barrio of Caracas (2003), a farm in Murcia (2007), Rajasthan (2005), Detroit (2005) or in New Orleans devastated by Katrina (2008), Potrc elaborates a singular to and fro movement between the ground and the exhibition space, gallery or museum, between sculpture / installation and architecture, between observation and “in situ” intervention. His attention has always been focused on “spontaneous architecture” or “architecture without architects”, on the forms and unexpected solutions proposed by the inventiveness of local communities. His “Case Studies”, which involve architects, artists and local communities, intend to explore and develop the potential wealth of “participatory design” through common meditation processes.

Marjetica Potrc graduated in architecture and sculpture from the University of Ljubljana and has received numerous awards including the Hugo Boss Prize 2000 and the 2007 Vera List Center for Arts and Politics Fellowship at the New School in New York. His work has been exhibited in Europe and America, for instance at Sao Paolo Biennale (1996 and 2006), Sculpture Projects Münster in Germany (1997, at the Venice Biennale in 2003. She had solo exhibitions, among others, the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2001) and Portikus in Frankfurt, Germany (2006).

Contacts for the Parisian conference:
Mailing –List : natasa.petresin@gmail.com
Cesta / EHESS : Nicolette Delanne, delanne@ehess.fr
105 bd Raspail, 75006, Paris
tél: +33 1 53 63 51 38

On friday November 14th, Oblò cinema in Lausanne will welcome Abigail Child for an intimate and exciting night of film and discussion.
At this occasion, you’ll be able to (re)discover a selection of her vivid, funnny, thoroughly insightful and often ridiculous films, however creating strange and haunting narratives… without any trace of irony or guile.

Reserve or purchase tickets for this event at www.oblo.ch
Check out her own website: abigailchild.com

LAUNCH AND READING OF “CRIME” (A book by Alix Lambert)
How much do criminal acts and their representation in cinema, literature and music really have in common? Is the execution of crime in everyday life as appealing or as inspired as creative artists have made it seem since, say, Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Moriarty? Does the film industry continue to learn from the real-life Mafia, or have the imaginings of scriptwriters had their own effect on organized crime? And what experience do these people who mold our perceptions of crime and criminals have of the real thing?
This remarkable book is the first to explore our images of crime by interviewing those involved on, in and around all sides of the law, both real and fictional, and often somewhere in between. Through a series of exclusive interviews with artists, authors and actors such as Ben Affleck, David Cronenberg, Elmore Leonard, Viggo Mortensen, Ice-T, David Mamet and Takeshi Kitano, as well as real life bank robbers, gangsters and current prison inmates, editor Alix Lambert (artist, photographer of Russian prisoners’ tattoos and writer for HBO’s Deadwood) explores the gaps and overlaps between real crime and its representation in the arts, each commenting on and assessing the impact of the other.
Happy Halloween!
Friday, October 31, 7PM AT 192 BOOKS, 192 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street, New York City

My friend and long-time work partner, type designer Ian Party has (finally!) put up a portofolio website! For all the type-geeks and typo-enthusiastics, a handful of beautiful Typefaces in the french and swiss tradition.

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