Yvane Chapuis

Yvane Chapuis
Period: 2012-2013
Profession: Art historian Trained as an art historian, Yvane Chapuis is particularly interested in performative forms in contemporary art. Her academic research into the relationship between dance and the visual arts on the American scene in the 1960s led her to curate several exhibitions, including
The other show , Kunstmuseum, Lucerne (2000) and the Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon (2001), and to edit the special issue of Art Press devoted to dance in 2002. From 2001 to 2009, she co-directed the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, a multidisciplinary artistic production and research center. Within this framework, she developed a program of artistic interventions in the public space, the aim of which is to experiment with the capacity of art to exist outside the spaces devolved to it, and published a book (Éditions Xavier Barral) devoted to Thomas Hirschhorn’s
Musée PrécaireAlbinet (2004) and Gwenaël Morin’s
Théâtre Permanent (2009). She was recently commissioned to define the project for the Tour Médicis in Clichy-Montfermeil, and is associated with the programming of
Questions d’artistes – création contemporaine at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris. Her research at the Académie de France in Rome concerns contemporary forms of “social sculpture” (
Sociale Plastik ), as conceptualized in the 60s, 70s and 80s by the German artist Joseph Beuys, according to which the organization of human life is a material of art. Drawing on a body of work rooted in the visual arts, dance and theater, her aim is to show that post-modern disenchantment, so often cited in the development of art today and the discourses that accompany it, is not inevitable. We simply need to look beyond the institutions that organize the visibility of art. Among these is
Projet pour une Jurisprudence (2007) by Olive Martin and Patrick Bernier, whose archives were presented at the first
teatro in June. With the help of legal experts, this work takes the form of a pleading, and aims to force the hostility of foreigners’ law on the basis of the hospitality of copyright, in order to create jurisprudence and recall the creative power of judges.