Debate / Meeting
Judith Butler,
Invited by the Centre Pompidou
Every year since 2017, the Centre Pompidou has invited a major voice of contemporary thought to develop an original programme, with a view to initiating dialogue between the life of ideas, art and creation and shedding light on contemporary issues. Judith Butler, philosopher, Professor at Berkeley is this season’s guest, following on from Philippe Artières, Philippe Mangeot, Paul B. Preciado, Vinciane Despret and Antoine de Baecque.
As a leading figure in queer theory and gender studies, Judith Butler published Gender Trouble in the US in 1990 and in France in 2005. This world-famous book posits that gender is performative, and has become an essential contribution to feminist studies.
Her recent thinking and works have been geared around the concept of life, the inequality of lives, the livable and the unlivable. The context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the assassination of George Floyd prompted her to analyse the notion of mourning. How do you listen to the experience of mourning and survival that has affected so many of us? How can revolt emerge from loss, as collective assertions of life urging us to not remain alone when faced with loss? How can loss also express vitality, in which the living might come together, demand justice and assert the need for a livable world together?
Judith Butler will be exploring these issues in a 3-part programme exploring philosophy, politics and sensitivity.
Lectures de Judith Butler
Du 14 septembre au 7 décembre 2023
Quatre conférences données par de grandes voix de la philosophie française pour se familiariser avec les concepts de la pensée de Judith Butler et leur réception.
En présence de Judith Butler
#1 – Avec Elsa Dorlin et Hourya Bentouhami
Jeudi 14 septembre 2023, 20h, Grande salle
#2 – Avec Étienne Balibar
Jeudi 12 octobre 2023, 19h, Cinéma 1
#3 – Avec Paul B. Preciado
Jeudi 16 novembre 2023, 19h, Grande salle
En raison d'un mouvement social, cette séance est reportée en avril 2024.
#4 – Avec Monique David-Ménard
Jeudi 7 décembre 2023, 19h, Petite salle
Deuil et philosophie
Les temporalités du deuil aujourd'hui
Une série de conférences à l’École normale supérieure – PSL
28 février, 6 et 13 mars 2024
Précédée d’une rencontre exceptionnelle entre Judith Butler et William Kentridge, le 25 janvier 2024 à l'ENS, Paris 5e.
À lire dans Le Magazine
© Constantine Manos / Magnum Photos. Photo : Centre Pompidou, Dist. Rmn-Gp
Comment vivre maintenant ?
Du 25 au 28 avril 2024
Entrée libre
Un événement exceptionnel sur plusieurs jours mêlant rencontres, performances, projections autour des motifs du deuil, des formes de l’autoritarisme contemporain, et de l’exigence de justice. En présence de grandes figures de la philosophie contemporaine (Paul B. Preciado, Zeynep Gambetti, Elena Tzelepis, Laure Murat…) et d'artistes (Maria José Contreras, John Akomfrah, Claudia Rankine…)
Soucieuse de préserver tout son sens à cet événement et au travail important qui y sera présenté par les artistes et intellectuels invités, Judith Butler a décidé de ne pas prendre part personnellement à ces échanges.
- Antigone pour le présent
Jeudi 25 avril, à partir de 18h - Variations Wittig
Vendredi 26 avril, à partir de 17h30 - Esthétique/Politique
Samedi 27 avril, à partir de 16h - Futurs politiques ?
Dimanche 28 avril, à partir de 17h
- Performance Antigone Adrift de Maria José Contreras
Jeudi 25 et vendredi 26 avril, à 19h - Projection de 3 films inédits de John Akomfrah
Vendredi 26 à 21h30, samedi 27 à 21h et dimanche 28 à 19h
© Droits réservés. Photo : César Decharme
New!
AB/CP - Outsider Art at the Centre Pompidou
Plastic arts
Once a month
In 2021, Bruno Decharme donated an astonishing body of outsider art, including nearly a thousand works from his collection, to the Centre Pompidou. The museum regularly updates themed presentations on Level 4 and Level 5 to gradually reveal this major collection to the public.
The concurrent new series of monthly meetings "AB/CP - Art Brut au Centre Pompidou" (Outsider Art at the Centre Pompidou) provides an opportunity to explore the full riches of this collection, with contributions by specialists and the presentation of films, readings and creations.
Le Mensuel
The Centre Pompidou's spoken review
Arts I News
Once a month
Le Mensuel presents a spoken word rendezvous, devoting each session to reviewing the progress and particular issues of a specific cultural domain, but also its latest news. Each session is linked to the Centre Pompidou programme, with guest artists, while remaining attentive to weaving possible connections between these specific cultural fields and the major societal issues that run through our time.
Watch previous issues in video (in French)
« Terra Forma : Manuel de cartographies potentielles » (éditions B42, 2019)
Planetarium
Contemporary maps
Ideas
Once a month
Can art and contemporary thinking guide us in a world where all our former landmarks have been shattered? In order to contribute to building up another image of the world, once a month the Planetarium cycle proposes to articulate two series of investigations:
- On the one hand, a panorama of instruments, both technical (from cartography to geolocalisation) and conceptual (what is happening to the local-global duo? What do we still call a frontier?)
- On the other, an inventory of attachments, the geographical associations on which the exercise of thought and creation depend in a concrete manner.
Laboratory for the Permanent History of the Centre Pompidou
Antoine de Baecque
History
Once a month
In view of renovation work that will gradually begin in the fall of 2024, the Centre Pompidou explores its history. Set up at the heart of the Centre Pompidou and welcoming many researchers, the "Laboratory for the Permanent History" imagined by French historian Antoine de Baecque aims to to shed light on the Centre Pompidou’s history, retracing the establishment’s multi-disciplinary trajectory, from its inauguration through to the present day.
En philosophie, sur le terrain
5 février – 8 avril 2024
Philosophie
Se rendre sur le terrain peut sembler entrer en contradiction avec l’activité philosophique, réputée plus abstractive. Pourtant, la présence concrète et la pratique des entretiens nourrissent désormais la réflexion de bien des philosophes. La philosophie de terrain permet de tisser des liens avec d’autres disciplines : l’anthropologie, la sociologie, les arts… et le terrain lui-même produit du concept.
Debate at the Centre
Debates in reaction to social, political and cultural news, to reflect on current questions of today’s societies.
Jean-Yves Jouannais: L'Encyclopédie des guerres
"L'Encyclopédie des guerres is a literary work in progress that will never take the form of a book. It has been elaborated progressively in the course of monthly conference–performances, at the Centre Pompidou since September 2008." Jean-Yves Jouannais
Masterclasses
Discovering artists’ ways of creating
Students in the fields of art, cinema and journalism interview artists (videographers, visual artists, choreographers…) about their work, their creative process and the thoughts that have led to creation.
Profession: Reporter
What does being a reporter actually involve? What challenges and difficulties do they face in today’s ever-changing world with its many social, political and environmental conflicts? These news professionals working for the press, TV and radio are given a voice in collaboration with the Prix Albert Londres, which is awarded to the best French-language reporters.
