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WALLS AND BRIDGES) “ We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

Isaac Newton

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Season 5 – Ideas & Performances NYC ⁄ October 9th – 20th, 2013 www.wallsandbridges.net

New York City 2013 / October 9 th - 20th 2013

[ Walls and Bridges

Season 5: Ideas & Performances “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

Isaac Newton

Season 4 : “Songs For My Brain” by Oh!Oui...

Audience at New York Live Arts

OPEning night Wednesday October 9th 6.30pm

Walls and Bridges, the Franco-American arts and ideas series which brought over 70 cultural events to New York in 2011 and 2012, returns to the city in October 2013!

Curated by Villa Gillet (Director: Guy Walter), and supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Walls and Bridges is a 10-day series of performances and critical explorations uniting French and American thinkers and artists from social sciences, philosophy, literature and live arts.

and the World (Famine Food System Food in Regards to Justice

The NYU-Institute for Public Knowledge Conversation

Co-presented with:

Hosted by Frederick Kaufman (Journalist and writer /US) Free, reservation required: ipk.nyu.edu/event-calendar

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Featuring: Corine Pelluchon (Philosopher of ethics / FR), David Rieff (Writer / US) What exactly is a food crisis? Is it a technical problem that scientific innovation can solve or is it the result of social injustice? Food security can’t be provided without rethinking the world food system, says journalist and political thinker David Rieff. Rieff will discuss his current study on hunger, money and justice with philosopher of ethics Corine Pelluchon, who believes that ethics and justice are at stake each time we lift our fork. They will also question anti-famine policies implemented by world organizations (such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Global Fund) and governments, as well as alternatives to the food establishment, including the anti-globalization movements.

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Thursday October 10th 7.30PM New York Live Arts Discussion and performance Co-presented with: Arkadi Zaides

Hosted by Justin Davidson (Classical music and architecture critic at New York Magazine / US) Suggested donation: $10 Reservations required: 212 924 0077 www.newyorklivearts.org

Quatuor Leonis

[A response to “dig deep”

By arkadi zaides with music by julia wolfe

Featuring: Quatuor Leonis (Quartet / FR) with Guillaume Antonini (Violin player / FR), Sébastien Richaud (Violin player / FR), Alphonse Dervieux (Alto-player / FR), Julien Decoin (Cello player / FR), Julia Wolfe (Composer /US) and Arkadi Zaides (Choreographer and dancer/ IL) Lights:Thalie Laurault (FR) Special thanks to: Myriam Van Imschoot (BE) Julia Wolfe’s music is distinguished by an intense physicality and a relentless power that pushes performers to extremes and demands attention from the audience. Dig Deep, Wolfe’s iconic composition for string quartet, generates an intense sonic movement. In his response to the composition, Israeli choreographer and dancer Arkadi Zaides focuses on a state of ongoing oscillation, offering the audience a kinesthetic, nonnarrative practice, examining the tension between restlessness and stability in his body. By zeroing in on this tension, Zaides wishes to ‘dig deep’ and unearth a somatic response to personal experiences of immigration, homelessness and inbetweenness.

The music will be performed live by the Quatuor Leonis (France) whose interdisciplinary approach has led them to be compared to the renowned Kronos quartet.

The performance will be followed by a Q&A with the artists and Julia Wolfe.

Preceded by: Under the influence of music: FROM the Marx Brothers to the modern mind Featuring: Elena Mannes (Writer and filmmaker / US), Peter Szendy (Philosopher / FR) What are the connections between music and the body? How do songs and noise affect human nature? Two thinkers travel from the outer ear to the inner mind and give their personal insights on this intriguing topic. Filmmaker and writer Elena Mannes explores the impact of music on brain, philosopher Peter Szendy studies the use of music in film, particularly in Mickey Mouse cartoons and in Marx Brothers movies.

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Friday October 11th and saturday october 12th 7.30pm New York Live Arts Discussion and Performance Co-presented with:

(La poème

Jeanne Mordoj

By jeanne mordoj

Featuring: Jeanne Mordoj (Circus performer / FR) In the circus-based performance La poème, Jeanne Mordoj

Hosted by Damien Bright (Co-founder of L’imparfaite / AS) and Quentin Girard (Co-founder of L’imparfaite / FR) Suggested donation : $10 Reservations required: 212 924 0077 www.newyorklivearts.org

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In October, visit www.limparfaite.com for a selection of profiles and interviews on the topic of femininity

uses movement to explore a comprehensive definition of femininity. In this piece, she continues her artistic exploration of female gender, by blending prowess and weirdness, archaic symbols and jokes, by engaging her body, juggling her breasts and belly dancing, and by creating a kind of ritual mask with eggshells. She celebrates the elements of life, birth, and voice with joy and originality, casting them in the basic light of their animalistic origins.

On FRIDAY OCTOBER 11TH, the show will be preceded by three short solo presentations:

Legs & eggs: women as performance Featuring: Bruno Perreau (French Studies, US / FR), Elizabeth Povinelli (Anthropologist / US), Beatriz Preciado (Philosopher / SP-FR) Rethink female gender with three provocative scholars: feminist and ethnologist Elizabeth Povinelli, author of The Empire of Love, reflects on the postcolonial politics of a transgender creek, Bruno Perreau, expert on kinship and sexuality and author of The Politics of Adoption, demonstrates the sometimes surprising identification of gay men as old ladies, and Spanish philosopher and performer Beatriz Preciado presents a piece illustrating her experience of taking factory-made testosterone (her book Testo Junkie is published by the Feminist Press).

On SATURDAY OCTOBER 12TH, the show will be followed by a Q&A and discussion with the artist and two special guests Featuring: Jeanne Mordoj (Circus performer / FR), A. M. Homes (Novelist and critic / US), Avital Ronell (Critical theorist and writer / US)

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Monday October 14th 6PM (TBC) Columbia University Discussion Co-presented with:

Hosted by Alondra Nelson (Sociologist and Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia / US) The discussion will be held in French and English with simultaneous translation Free Limited seating and RSVP required: RSVP information will be made available at wallsandbridges.net and maisonfrancaise.org

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Women, Work and Family in the United states and France

Featuring: Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (Minister for Women’s Rights and Government Spokesperson / FR), Anne-Marie Slaughter (President of the New America Foundation / US) In her essay “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” published in The Atlantic in 2012, Anne-Marie Slaughter fueled a national debate on how the difficulties of finding a workfamily balance have limited women in the top echelons of business and government. The French Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem defends the belief that national policies can and should be used to support women’s personal and professional goals and to implement a “real equality between women and men”. These two public figures and high-profile career women will discuss gender equality in the U.S. and in France. They will also discuss strategies to ensure that the next generation of women and men can have enough for all.

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(TAKING history personally

Tuesday October 15th 6.30pm

From Personal Lives to Collective History

New School Theresa Lang Center Discussion Co-presented with: Featuring: Michèle Audin (Mathematician and writer / FR), Ian Buruma (Writer / NL ), Cynthia Carr (Writer / US), Ivan Jablonka (Historian / FR) Hosted by Albert Mobilio (Bookforum Editor / US) Free

Wednesday October 16th 6.30PM

Family history is inevitably public history, and can be key to understanding larger events. In Year Zero (Penguin, 2013), Ian Buruma personalizes the political upheaval of 1945 through individual accounts, including that of his father. In History of the Grandparents I Never Knew (Seuil, 2012), Ivan Jablonka reconstructs the lives of his Polish grandparents, who were Jewish Communists during the Nazi occupation. In her work, Michèle Audin recounts the life of her father, an anti-colonialist activist who was brutally killed during the Algerian war, and in Our Town (Broadway, 2007), Cynthia Carr unearths dark family secrets of her father’s hometown—Marion, Indiana. In the hands of these authors, letters, diaries, and remembrances highlight unknown individual lives and radiate outward to reveal epic social forces at work.

(SAYS WHO?

Writing from a global perspective

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL Discussion Co-presented with: Featuring: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Novelist / NI), Romain Bertrand (Historian / FR), Siddhartha Deb (Writer / IN), Farah Griffin (Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies / US) Hosted by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, (Historian and director of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at NYPL / US) Free Reservation required:

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How can we give voice to silent and “invisible people” in a globalized world? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has warned us on the “danger of a single story,” and French world historian Romain Bertrand tries to narrate the past from a global and equalitarian way. Farah Griffin examines the lives of AfricanAmerican female artists and activists in Harlem during WWII (in Harlem Nocturne just published by Basic Civitas Books), while Siddhartha Deb pays homage, in his cultural and narrative analysis, to the variety of people and classes in contemporary India. These four internationally acclaimed writers discuss the effects of narratives, and the advantages of a global perspective in writing history and fiction.

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Thursday October 17 th 6.30pm The Drawing Center Conversation Co-presented with:

Hosted by Cary Wolfe (Professor of English and writer / US) Free

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Alexis Rockman, Study for Tiger Vision (6 TV Squid), 2011, Gouache on black paper, 9 x 12 inches (23.9 x 30.5 cm)

The exhibition “Life of Pi” will be on view at The Drawing Center from September 27th to November 3rd

www.drawingcenter.org

[The Animal Vision

In Connection with the drawing center exhibit “Alexis Rockman: Life of Pi”

Featuring: Vinciane Despret (Philosopher and psychologist / BE), Alexis Rockman (Painter / US) As part of their Fall 2013 season, the Drawing Center presents a selection of Alexis Rockman’s watercolor drawings, which served as the first stage in the development of the fantastical, imaginary world of Life of Pi, the 2012 feature film directed by Ang Lee. Rockman helped design the hallucinatory “Tigervision” sequence, in which Pi, following the tiger’s gaze over the side of the boat, plunges deep into his own oceanic subconscious, a surreal world of fabulous forms, familiar memories and overwhelming loss. To explore some of the submerged themes of the exhibition, Alexis Rockman will speak with Vinciane Despret, a philosopher who specializes in animal study. In her latest book, Despret reveals our preconceived notions about what animals do, want, and even “think.” Rockman and Despret will discuss their mutual attempts to think with animals, and to pay homage to their visions of the world.

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Friday October 18 th All DAY The NYU-Institute for Public Knowledge Discussion Co-presented with:

(found in translation 11AM-11.30AM Key Note

Featuring: Frédéric Boyer (Translator and writer / FR) , Avital Ronell (Critical theorist and writer / US)

11.30am-1pm in praise of babel: arguments against a single world language Featuring: Esther Allen (Translator and writer / US), Robyn Creswell (Poetry Editor of The Paris Review and translator / USA), Camille de Toledo (Writer / FR) Hosted by Jacques Lezra (Translator and writer / US) Can we consider linguistic diversity an opportunity?

Highlighting the gaps and hesitations between words and pointing out the cultural cracks between languages can generate more reflection and cultural comprehension than embracing a unified global language like English. American and European writers and translators discuss why translating and listening to the many languages of the world not only benefit literature and culture but also are political tools in a globalized world.

Hosted and introduced by Jane Tylus (Professor of Italian and director of the Humanities Initiative at NYU / US) and Emmanuelle Ertel (Professor of French and director of the Master of Arts in Literary Translations at NYU / FR) Reservation required:

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The events celebrate the publication of In Translation. Translators on Their Work and What It Means (Columbia University Press, May 2013) edited by Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky, and accompany the launch of TLHUB (Translation & Literary Hub) www.seua.org/tlhub

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2pm-3.30pm Translation as muse: writers who translate Featuring: Mary Jo Bang (Translator and poet / US), Frédéric Boyer (Translator and writer / FR), Keith Gessen (Translator and writer / US) Hosted by Eric Banks (Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU / US) Many writers also translate. What role does translation play in their creative process? For some writers and playwrights such as Frédéric Boyer, the two activities aren’t even distinguishable: returning to works of the past and rewriting them in another language is the requisite for a new writing.

In other cases, does translation nurture writing or can its ontological uncertainty be an impediment to the development of one’s own voice?

4pm-5.30pm Workshop on Translation & literary HUB Featuring: François Bon (Writer / FR), Camille de Toledo (Writer / FR) Join us and hear more about TLHUB, a brand-new web 2.0 platform for writers, translators and publishers, a social network for texts that demand translation by human hands and minds. TLHUB is a collaborative site, open to all, dedicated to building a translating community beyond languages and nations. Here, writers Camille de Toledo and François Bon will discuss what it is to translate and be “multilingual” in the digital age. A detailed presentation and demonstration of the platform will accompany the discussion.

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Friday October 18 th all day Whitney Museum of American Art Screening, performance and discussion Co-presented with:

Free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 6–9 pm.

Please check the Whitney Museum website for more information: whitney.org/Events/Unrest

Please note that some scenes may contain images that may offend the sensibilities of young visitors.

[Unrest The Whitney Museum and Villa Gillet offered a carte blanche to artist and filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux. Exploring the theme of “anxiety,” Grandrieux will present the first two pieces of his trilogy-in-progess Unrest: the film White Epilepsy and the performance piece Meurtrière (World Première). Grandrieux will also discuss his body of work with international thinkers.

2.30PM-8.30PM Meurtrière Performance by: Philippe Grandrieux (Filmmaker / FR) Featuring: Hélène Rocheteau (Performer / FR), Emilia Guidicelli (Dancer / FR), Vilma Pitrinaite (Performer / LH), Francesca Ziviani (Performer / IT) Produced by: Annick Lemonnier for EPILEPTIC / 2013 Coproduced by: le Phare, CCN du Havre Haute-Normandie The theme of Meutrière is “Das Ding” (The Thing). It is senseless, insane, intolerable, hysterical, grotesque, phobic, dangerous, brutal, consuming, wild, sexual, unpredictable, staggering, frenetic, atrocious, anxious, frightening, ecstatic, desirable, vulgar, perverse, embarrassing, shameless, nervous, obscene, pornographic, sacred, furious. It is without intention...

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The performance will take place from 2.30pm to 8.30pm and will be experienced by one person at a time.

6.15PM-7.15PM White Epilepsy Film by: Philippe Grandrieux (Filmmaker / FR) Featuring: Hélène Rocheteau (Performer / FR), Jean-Nicolas Dafflon (Performer / SZ), Anja Röttgerkamp (Performer / GE) Dominique Dupuy (Performer / FR) Produced by: Annick Lemonnier for EPILEPTIC / 2012 Supported by: Le Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Image/

Mouvement) Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Le Centre National de la Cinématographie, La Région LanguedocRoussillon

White Epilepsy

Find out more: www.epilepticfilmbookmusic.com www.grandrieux.com

In the heart of the forest, an ancient clan rehearses its rituals.

Obscure figures are propelled by enigmatic forces. It is a dream, or a nightmare—woven through with fear, sexuality and animalism. White Epilepsy drives the viewer to the depths of his own intimate experiences with terror and desire.

7.30PM-8.45PM DISCUSSIon Featuring: Philippe Grandrieux (Filmmaker / FR), Avital Ronell (Critical theorist and writer / US), Lynne Tillman

(Writer /US)

Philippe Grandrieux is interviewed by Avital Ronell and Lynne Tillman.

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SATURDAY October 19 th 7.30pm The Invisible Dog Art Center Storytelling Co-presented with:

Open door © Bess Greenberg

Hosted by Matthew Love (Books and Comedy editor for Time Out New York) Free Reservation required: pleasemindthedoor@villagillet.net

[please mind the door

An evening of storytelling, music and performances

Featuring: Romain Bertrand (Historian / FR), Pascal Dibie (Ethnologist / FR), Bridget Everett (Singer and cabaret performer / US), Michel Lussault (Geographer / FR), Dave Malloy (Composer / USA), Scott Matthew (Singer / ASUS), Jonathan Metzl (Writer, sociologist and psychiatrist / US), Jeanne Mordoj (Circus performer / FR), Beatriz Preciado (Philosopher / SP-FR), Chris “Shockwave” Sullivan (Comedian and beatboxer / USA), Oh! Oui… (Theater Company / FR) Doors always imply the existence of an “outside,” of what’s “beyond the door,” says French ethnologist Pascal Dibie.

Everything is then left to the imagination: inside, outside, open, closed, danger, safety…

The nature of doors—part wall, part bridge—is the theme of a night of storytelling, music, and performance.

Together with Pascal Dibie, a surprising line-up of guests—a geographer, a beatboxer, a historian, a sociologist, a feminist philosopher, but also actors, musicians, singers and other performing artists—will present stories about this common object, and its symbolic place in our world and imagination.

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SATURDAY October 19th 2pm Aperture Gallery Discussion Co-presented with:

Photo by Matthew Pillsbury, Courtesy Bonni / Benrubi Gallery

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City Stages. Photographs by Matthew Pillsbury, first monograph of the artist, will be published by Aperture in October 2013

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A Conversation between a photographer and a geographer

Featuring: Michel Lussault (Geographer / FR), Matthew Pillsbury (Photographer /US) Working primarily in New York, Matthew Pillsbury captures human activity in urban environment, from isolation— tuned into the omnipresent screens of our tablets, laptops, televisions, and phones—to crowded museums, parades, cathedrals, and even protests. A geographer specializing in urban studies, Michel Lussault, depicts the impact of globalization on space, and the way we experience and organize our societies today. These two flaneurs observe and discuss the relationships of individuals to their daily environment and the urban landscape.

Sunday October 20th 2-5pm The Invisible Dog Art Center and other venues Workshop Co-presented with:

[FOREIGNLANGUAGEHOPSCOTCH A Series of speed language courses

Featuring: Polyglot New Yorkers How often do we take advantage of all the incredible lingual diversity at our ear-tips? Join us for an active language listening party, as we hear and explore languages from across the five boroughs and around the world.

About 15 New Yorkers will each offer free, 30 minute classes on their native tongue and culture, including Chinese, Spanish, Creole, Yiddish, Polish, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Inuit and many more. Participants will have the opportunity to take up to 6 speed language courses.

For more information about this educative and international program open to everyone (including children), please check www.wallsandbrigdes.net in September.

Whether you want to teach or learn, contact us: hopscotch@villagillet.net

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Sunday October 20th 6.30pm The Invisible Dog Art Center Music and theater performance Co-presented with:

Free, reservation required: stillenacht@villagillet.net

( Stille Nacht Featuring: Oh! Oui… (Theater Company / FR) with Alexandra Fleischer (Actress and singer / FR), Joachim Latarjet (Musician and theater director / FR), Alexandre Théry (Dancer / FR). Technical direction and lights: Léandre Garcia Lamolla; Sound: Samuel Pajand; Video: Mathilde Bertrandy In April 2007, René Fleischer asked his grand-daughter Alexandra Fleisher and her partner Joachim Latarjet to go to Sambin, a small village in North-central France. Though René was born in 1935, he’d always said his childhood had begun in 1940, in Sambin. Actually, his German Jewish parents had sent him there. For five years, he didn’t see them and lived with a woman who took care of him. One day during his stay, he heard a German soldier in the streets… That day was to be the last time he ever spoke a word of his mother tongue.

“It’s a child’s story. The story of a child. He has a secret, and must silence it. He has to hide, to feint, to fade… to disappear for a while... It’s also a search for hiding places... for the answer to the question: why did the German language disappear from the Fleischer family?”

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Calendar WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 9TH The NYU-Institute for Public Knowledge

6.30PM FAMINE AND THE WORLD FOOD SYSTEM. FOOD IN REGARDS TO JUSTICE

Corine Pelluchon (FR), David Rieff (US)

thursday OCTOBER 10TH New York Live Arts

7.30PM

Preceded by

friday OCTOBER 11TH

A Response to “Dig DEEp”

Quatuor Leonis (FR), Arkadi Zaides (IL) Followed by a Q&A with the artists and Julia Wolfe (US) Under the Influence of Music

Elena Mannes (US), Peter Szendy (FR)

New York Live Arts

7.30PM

La Poème

Preceded by

Bruno Perreau (FR), Elizabeth Povinelli (US), Beatriz Preciado (SP-FR)

Jeanne Mordoj (FR)

Legs and eggs: women as performance

saturday OCTOBER 12TH New York Live Arts

7.30PM

La Poème

Followed by

Q&A with the artist

Jeanne Mordoj (FR)

A. M. Homes (US), Avital Ronell (US)

MONDAY OCTOBER 14TH

Columbia University

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (FR), Anne-Marie Slaughter (US)

TUESDAY OCTOBER 15TH

The New School, Theresa Lang Center

Michèle Audin (FR), Ian Buruma (NL), Cynthia Carr (US), Ivan Jablonka (FR)

6PM (TBC) The Balancing Act: Women, Work and Family in the US and France 6.30PM TAKING history personally

wednesday OCTOBER 16TH Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL

6.30PM SAYS who? Writing from a global perspective

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (NI), Romain Bertrand (FR), Siddhartha Deb (IN), Farah Griffin (US)

THURSDAY OCTOBER 17TH The Drawing Center 6.30PM The Animal Vision

Vinciane Despret (BE), Alexis Rockman (US)

friday OCTOBER 18TH The NYU - Institute for Public Knowledge Found in translation

11AM

key note

Frédéric Boyer (FR), Avital Ronell (US)

Esther Allen (US), Robyn Creswell (US), Camille de Toledo (FR)

Mary Jo Bang (US), Frédéric Boyer (FR), Keith Gessen (US)

11.30AM 2PM

in praise of babel: arguments against a single world language Translation as muse: writers who translate

4PM

Workshop on TLHUB (Translation and Literary Hub)

François Bon (FR), Camille de Toledo (FR)

friday OCTOBER 18TH

Whitney Museum of American Art

unrest

2.30-8.30PM

MeurtRière

Philippe Grandrieux (FR), Hélène Rocheteau (FR), Emilia Guidicelli (FR), Vilma Pitrinaite (LH), Francesca Ziviani (IT)

Film by Philippe Grandrieux (FR)

Philippe Grandrieux (FR), Avital Ronell (US), Lynne Tillman (US)

6.15PM

7.30PM

WHITE EPILEPSY DISCUSSION

SATURDAY OCTOBER 19TH Aperture Gallery

2PM

city shapes

Michel Lussault (FR), Matthew Pillsbury (US)

SATURDAY OCTOBER 19TH The Invisible Dog Art Center

7.30PM

SUNDAY OCTOBER 20TH

2-5PM

Please mind the door: An evening of storytelling, music and performances

Romain Bertrand (FR), Pascal Dibie (FR), Bridget Everett (US), Michel Lussault (FR), Dave Malloy (US), Scott Matthew (AS-US), Jonathan Metzl (US), Jeanne Mordoj (FR), Beatriz Preciado (SP-FR), Chris “Shockwave” Sullivan (US), Oh! Oui… (FR)

The Invisible Dog Art Center and other venues

foreign language hopscotch

Polyglot New Yorkers

SUNDAY OCTOBER 20TH

The Invisible Dog Art Center

Oh! Oui… (FR)

6.30PM Stille Nacht

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p.1 Cover © C. Scandella | p.2 Walls and Bridges 4 pictures © Seymour Templar, Corine Pelluchon © Hélène Robert, David Rieff - All rights reserved | p.3 Arkadi Zaides © Romain Etienne / Item, Quatuor Leonis © Romain Etienne / Item | p.4 Jeanne Mordoj © Romain Etienne / Item | p.5 Najat Vallautd-Belkacem © Razak / MDDF, Anne-Marie Slaughter © Denise Applewhite | p.6 Michèle Audin © Catherine Hélie Gallimard, Ian Buruma © Michael Childers, Cynthia Carr © TGSMA, Ivan Jablonka © Emmanuelle Marchadour, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie © Ivara Esege, Romain Bertrand: © Jérôme Panconi, Siddhartha Deb© Rafil Kroll Zaidi , Farah Griffin | p.7 Drawing by Alexis Rockman | p.9 ‘Unrest’ - All rights reserved | p.11 “Please Mind the Door.” Photo by Bess Greenberg www.bessgreenberg.com | p.11 “City Shapes” © Matthew Pillsbury. Courtesy Bonni / Benrubi Gallery | p.12 “Stille Nacht” - All rights reserved

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The Villa Gillet is sponsored by the Région Rhône-Alpes, the Ville de Lyon, the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Rhône-Alpes, the Centre National du Livre, and is supported by the French Foreign Office (Ministère des Affaires Etrangères).

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MINISTÈRE DE LA CULTURE ET DE LA COMMUNICATION

AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES

MINISTÈRE DES

Locations and ticketing APERTURE GALLERY

NEW YORK LIVE ARTS

547 West 27th Street (between 10th & 11th Aves), NY10001, 4th Floor

219 W 19th Street (between 7th & 8th Avenues), NY 10011

Ticketing: free

Ticketing: suggested donation: $10 reservation required: www.newyorklivearts.org or 212 924 0077

Subway: Subway: C, E to 23rd St – 8th Ave / 1 to 28th St – 7th Ave

Columbia University

Subway: 1, 2 to 18th Street / 3, F, M, L, A, C, E to 14th Street – Union Square

Ticketing: free, limited seating and RSVP required: RSVP information will be made available at wallsandbridges.net and maisonfrancaise.org

20 Cooper Square (at 6th Street), 10003, 7th Floor

535 W 116th Street, New York, NY 10027

Subway: Subway: 1 to 116th St – Columbia University / A, B, C to 116th St

THE INVISIBLE DOG ART CENTER

51 Bergen Street (between Smith & Court Streets), Brooklyn, NY 11201

Ticketing: free, reservation required: pleasemindthedoor@villagillet.net hopscotch@villagillet.net stillenacht@villagillet.net Subway: F, G to Bergen Street

the DRAWING CENTER

35 Wooster Street (between Grand and Broome Streets), NY 10013

NYU-Institute For Public Knowledge

Ticketing: free, reservation required: For the October 9th event please RSVP at ipk.nyu.edu/event-calendar For the October 18th events please RSVP at www.inpraiseofbabel.eventbrite.com www.translationasmuse.eventbrite.com www.workshoptlhub.eventbrite.com Subway: 4, 6 to Astor Place / N, R, to 8th Street

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL

The New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (at 135th Street), NY 10037 Ticketing: free, reservation required: www.schomburgcenter.eventbrite.com Subway: 2, 3 to 135th Street

Whitney Museum of American Art

Ticketing: free Subway: A, C, E, N, Q, R, J, Z, 1, 6 train to Canal Street

THE NEW SCHOOL THERESA LANG CENTER

55 West 13th Street (at 6th Avenue), 2nd floor

945 Madison Avenue (at 75th Street), NY 10021 Ticketing: free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 6–9 pm. Please check the Whitney Museum website for more information: www.whitney.org/Events/Unrest

Ticketing: free

Subway: 6 to 77th Street

Subway: F, M, N, Q, R, 4, 5, 6, to 14th Street – Union Square / L to 6th Avenue

About us The Villa Gillet (www.villagillet.net) is a non-profit cultural institute based in Lyon, France, which brings together artists, writers, performers and thinkers from all over the world for conferences and performances.

Guy Walter | Director Emmanuelle Bellissard | General secretary Cédric Duroux | Program director Mathilde Billaud | Program officer

David Bukszpan | Publicist Léa Danilewsky | Communications officer Pénélope Audibert | Production manager Jean-Philippe Geoffray | Technical director

Les Subsistances (www.les-subs.com) is a creative research laboratory based in Lyon, France.

Cathy Bouvard | Executive director

Guilhaine Albert | Production manager

Special thanks to émeline Rouvre (in charge of ‘Foreign Language Hopscotch program’) and Liouba Bischoff.

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Find out more about our events, read the statements written by our guests on wallsandbridges.net And find original articles from our guests on www.publicbooks.org