"Grand écart sur les écrits" [Spanning the Writings] - A CrAB (art brut collective) Seminar

Grand écart sur les écrits
Brut writings: from their psychiatric origins to contemporary practice.
A morning gathering set up to examine the "span" of brut writings.It entails an historical approach that is inseparable from a spatial schema: from a psychiatric exclusion contained within four walls to that carved into the very walls of the housing developments or else transposed into poetry. Be that as it may, it is society and its institutions as a whole that such writing practices knowingly question.

Program

9:45-10am :Vincent Capt (Lausanne) - Welcome

10-10:45am :Juan Rigoli (Geneva) - Reading delirium: an alienist reading of writings by asylum inmates

10:45-11:45am: Screening of the film "Playboy Communiste" on Alain Rault, with one of the film directors, David Thouroude, in attendance

11:45- noon: Break

noon-12:30pm :Roberta Trapani (Palermo/Paris 10) - Melina Riccio and Alain Rault : an anthropology of contemporary brut writing practices

12:30-1pm :Summary and discussion

This event also provides an occasion to celebrate the launching in France of Vincent Capt's recent book

Poétique des écrits bruts. De l’aliéné vers l’autre de la langue(Lausanne/Limoges, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lambert-Lucas): the book will be available at the seminar.

From 9:30am
Institut national d'histoire de l'art
salle Walter-Benjamin
2, rue Vivienne – 75002 Paris

No entry fee