As a part of
THE RAVING AGE. HISTORIES AND FIGURE OF YOUTH
This research project questions what has come of youth – a conceptual, aesthetic, and political figure that was born with modernity – in the visual arts, popular culture, and the humanities. Conversely, the project addresses what the problematic category of “youth” has brought about in contemporary art and thought.
Lecturers : Julie Ackermann, Mohammed Almusibli, Ludivine Bantigny, Eric Baudelaire, Persis Bekkering, Federico Campagna, David Douard, Florian Gaité, Agnès Gayraud, Tristan Garcia, Guillaume Heuguet, Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Julia Marchand, Caroline Poggi, Simon Reynolds, Gisèle Vienne, Jonathan Vinel
By Vincent Normand and Stephanie Moisdon
In Diego Marcon’s recent film, The Parents’ Room (2021), a family member, the father, sings the murder of his own wife and two children as well as his own death. The pervading mourning of this film conveys a sense of melancholy which is attuned with a feeling of quietness. There is no trace of blood, neither of motivation or tangible objects that could have led to this monstrous act. In Jessica Forever (2018) by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel a group of young boys are being led by Jessica who take them on a journey where guns seem to have no real consequence and exist within a world of harmony. Drawing from early conversations with artist Kim Seob Boninsegni, which laid the foundation for the creation of the curatorial platform Extramentale, Red without color will explore the impending violence and pervasive melancholy which are at the core of specific artistic productions
The conference was hold in écal in November 2023