Julie Pellegrin

Curator and critic Julie Pellegrin is interested in the notion of performativity in its broadest sense. She explores the manner in which the relationships between visual arts, choreography and theatrics affect the way exhibitions are mounted today. Through exhibitions, research projects and publications (Take Care, The Yvonne Rainer Project, Alfred Jarry Archipelago, Chorégraphier l’exposition (Choreographing Exhibitions), Kapwani Kiwanga, Chantal Akerman, Myriam Lefkowitz, Alex Cecchetti, Marie Preston, etc.), and more extensive programming (the Performance Day Festival, Nuit Blanche 2013 and Les Formes du Délai), she accompanies often ephemeral practices that include social, political and ethical examinations of questions of relationships and attention.

The research project Julie Pellegrin is working on at Villa Medici is part of a larger work she is devoting to performance in contemporary art. In it, she examines current politics of performance through the prism of references to postmodern dance, recent developments in performance studies and, more specifically, anarchist theories and practices. With a view to exploring the hypothesis of a relationship between anarchy and performance, she starts out from a historical event – the Galleria L’Attico project created by Fabio Sargentini between 1968 and 1976, along with Simone Forti and performers from Judson Dance and Grand Union – in order to attempt to make a connection between that revolutionary experiment and the current performance scene in Italy. Combining archival exploration, interviews and organisation of public encounters, Julie Pellegrin will be carrying out collective speculative research at Villa Medici.

 

 

 

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