THE APRES MEETINGS AT HALLE SAINT-PIERRE AND STUDY DAYS IN 2018

par Françoise Py

October 29, 2017

Year 2018-2019
organized by Françoise Py

at the Halle Saint-Pierre on Saturdays, November 18 and December 2, 2018, and every second Saturday from January to June 2018

Times specified for each session
Within the framework of the Association for Research and Study of Surrealism (APRES)
Reception by Martine Lusardy

Saturday, November 18 (10:30 AM – 6:00 PM): Study day on the languages of surrealism
moderated by Henri Béhar and Françoise Py

10:30 AM – 12:15 PM: APRES General Assembly open to all.

2:00 – 3:00 PM: Georges Bloess: The German Romantic Sources of Surrealism.

3:00 – 3:50 PM: Round Table with various speakers including Henri Béhar, Georges Bloess, Françoise Py, Gabriel Saad and Maryse Vassevière.

3:50 – 4:40 PM: screening of Dominique Rabourdin's film, Chez Max Schoendorff, 18', Luna Park Films, 2017.

Presentation by the director. Debate.

4:45 – 5:45 PM: Concert: oral tradition and trance: Alessio Penzo, electric piano and Antonio Serafini, bagpipes.

Saturday, December 2 (3:30 – 6:00 PM): Homage to Andrée Barret.

Presentation of the poetic work by Jacques Chatain and Louis Dalla Fior.

Readings by Charles Gonzales, writer, actor, director.

Zither (Santûr) by Yvan Navaï, composer.

Round table with Andrée Barret, Jacques Chatain, Louis Dalla Fior and Françoise Py.

Two events by Charles Gonzales mark this first quarter of 2018.

Charles Gonzales performs every Monday from January 8 to April 30 at 7:00 PM at the Théâtre de poche, 75 bd du Montparnasse, in a performance show entitled: Charles Gonzales Becomes Camille Claudel (1h10)
Charles Gonzales, writer, actor and director, author of a very beautiful essay on Artaud, Récit d'une noce obscure (La Feuille de thé, 2013), practices a true "theater of cruelty." In this show, where he is at once the sole actor, author and director, he embodies Camille Claudel, in the spirit of Artaud and Noh theater. It is a true stage performance on madness prey to confinement and incomprehension. It is for the actor, through Camille's letters, to "give voice to the shadow of this woman buried in silence, make her body resonate in the open air of the theater to the end of her soul, to the end of absence." Of this show which was given at the Avignon Off Festival, Mathilde La Bardonnie wrote in Libération: "A solo theater piece in the form of a miracle, a moving gift."
Charles Gonzales also directs Cocteau's "La Voix humaine," every Monday and Tuesday at 7:30 PM, from January to March, at the Théâtre de la Contrescarpe, 5 rue Blainville, Paris, 5th arrondissement. In this show where Yannick Roger plays alone, music, sound and video participate, and Monique Dorsel appears on screen. Cocteau's 1930 play, in a completely contemporary staging, seems truly contemporary to us. Cocteau noted, about "La Voix humaine": "Not only is the telephone sometimes more dangerous than the revolver, but also its meandering wire pumps our strength and gives us nothing in return. I wrote this act as a human voice solo for an actress (or singer)."

You will find Charles Gonzales at the Halle Saint-Pierre, (almost) every second Saturday of the month, in the surrealism meetings moderated by Françoise Py where he kindly recites and embodies the texts for us.

Saturday, January 13 (3:30 – 6:00 PM): Surrealism and Philosophy by Georges Sebbag: Raymond Roussel, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. Readings by Charles Gonzales.

Round Table with Georges Sebbag, François Leperlier, Françoise Py, Monique Sebbag.

Saturday, February 10 (3:30 – 6:00 PM): Daniel Sibony: the time object and time without wire.
Followed by a dialogue with Georges Sebbag. Readings by Charles Gonzales.

Sunday, March 4 (3:00 – 6:00 PM): Homage to Marie-Christine Brière (1941-2017), poet

"Marie-Christine Brière's poetry is a mixture of baroque autobiographical realism and surrealism through the overwhelming, disorienting, point-blank image" wrote Jean Breton who published her first poems with Éditions Saint-Germain des Prés.

As part of the Printemps des poètes an homage will be paid to Marie-Christine Brière, with the participation of Christophe Dauphin, Alain Breton, Françoise Py and Françoise Armengaud, author of Du rouge à peine aux âmes. La poésie de Marie-Christine Brière, essay to be published in 2018 by Éditions Librairie-Galerie Racine. Screening of a documentary film: Marie-Christine Brière, Albigeoise, feminist and poet, written on a script by Françoise Armengaud with Denise Brial and Catherine Kriegel (Atalante production, 60'). Christine Planté, academic and writer, will evoke the difficulties still encountered today by women poets. Charles Gonzales, actor, director, writer and poet, will read poems by Marie-Christine Brière. Musical interludes: Béatrice Boisvieux and Lisa Burg.

Saturday, March 10 (10:30 AM – 6:00 PM): Study day on Endre Rozsda moderated by Henri Béhar and Françoise Py

With Patrice Conti, François Lescun, Claude Luca Georges, Alba Romano Pace and David Rosenberg.

Day organized by Henri Béhar, José Mangani and Françoise Py within the framework of APRES (Association for Research and Study of Surrealism)

Morning: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Opening.

10:40 AM: Screening of the film by Pierre-André Boutang, Anne Le Doeuff and David Rosenberg: Endre Rozsda, painting, life, Arte-Métropolis, 20'.

11:00 AM: Claude Luca Georges: Abstraction and presence of the world in Endre Rozsda.

Afternoon: 2:00-6:00 PM

David Rosenberg: Endre Rozsda, a life in painting.

François Lescun: Rozsda and music.

Patrice Conti: Rozsda and the figure of Proust.

Alba Romano Pace: Endre Rozsda, painter of mystery.

Friendship drink followed by a reception in the artist's studio, Bateau Lavoir, Place Emile Goudeau, Métro Abbesses. Contact: Françoise Py: 06 99 08 02 63.

Saturday, April 14 (3:30 – 6:00 PM): Giovanna, poetry, painting and performances.

Introduction by Françoise Py, presentation by Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron and Georges Sebbag. Readings by Giovanna from her Poems and Aphorisms (1989 – 2015), preface by Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron, ed. Peter Lang, 2017.

Screening of François Luxereau's film, Giovanna, birth of a work, (27'), José Pierre, CNRS, 1988.

Round table with Giovanna, Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron, Jean-Michel Goutier, Françoise Py and Georges Sebbag.

Saturday, May 12 (10:30 AM – 6:00 PM): Study day on the Languages of Surrealism moderated by Henri Béhar and Françoise Py

10:30 – 11:30 AM: Pierre Taminiaux: Paul Nougé or the Surrealist Language of Chance.

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Valeria Chiore: Gaston Bachelard and Surrealism: Lautréamont, Albert Flocon, Octavio Paz.

2:00 – 3:45 PM: The Performative Character of Romanian Surrealist Language by Wanda Mihuleac:

• François Poyet (member of the lettrist group) participatory performance with the audience around an unpublished text by Isidor Isou.
• Performance by Ioana Tomsa with the text Cabaret Dada by Matei Visniec.
• Screening of the film Go with a group of Romanian artists: Wanda Mihuleac, Iosif Kiraly, Dan Mihaltianu, Theodor Graur and Marilena Preda Sanc.
• Performance by Bonnie Tchien Hy (director of the "performance cabaret," Paris), Guy Chaty & Urmuz.

4:00 – 5:30 PM: Gellu Naum, Romanian surrealist poet. Round table moderated by Michel Carassou with Sébastian Reichmann (his French translator), Petre Releanu, Nicolas Trifon and Marina Vanci-Perahim.

Recital: Jacques-Marie Legendre and Philippe Raynaud. Friendship drink.

The three Study Days are organized with the support of Paris 8 University, Laboratory of Image Arts and Contemporary Art (AIAC), research team Aesthetics, Practice and History of Arts (EPHA).

Saturday, June 9 (3:30 – 6:00 PM): Monique Sebbag: Four Women of Head: Claude Cahun, Leonor Fini, Meret Oppenheim and Toyen. Readings by Charles Gonzales.

Halle Saint-Pierre, auditorium, 2 rue Ronsard, métro Anvers.
Free admission.