LECTURES

MIMETIC POWERS: MODERNITY AND ITS DOUBLE (ART, THEATER, ANTHROPOLOGY)
This lecture will focus on the notion of 'mask' in order approach the theatrical dimension of works by different artists based on a look at various forms of popular rituals through specific methodologies. The lecture will be divided in three parts. 1: 'Negative Joy: art and folk rituals' will effectively explore the anthropological aspect of works questioning transgression and mimicry in popular culture. 2: 'Effigising: a living iconology' will study the becoming picture of living bodies in researches activating a speculative mise en scene of history. 3: 'Counterworlds: unmasking through unstable identities' will interrogate the political dimension of projects by or with specific communities creating their own universe.

To be evoked, among others: fakes, copies, allegory and caricature, specters, demons, grimaces, chimeras, grotesque, aliens, science fiction, ormanent and décor, entertainment, decadence, degeneration and devolution, trickery, pop, impostures, mirrors and illusion, secessions, communes, imaginary and secret societies, fear, spectacle, joy, sublime, utopias, eccentricities, transvestite, impersonators, animals, fauns, wild men, burlesque, comedy, rock, violence, otherness, alterity, folklore, make up, parties, camp, trance, dance, and hallucination.

Yann Chateigné Tytelman
Yann Chateigné Tytelman (b. 1977, France) is Head of Visual Arts at Geneva University of Art and Design. He previously worked as Chief curator at CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux (2007-09), as curator at the Pompidou Centre (2000-01), and the Visual Arts Department of French Ministry of Culture in Paris (2001-07).

He organized several exhibitions and collaborative projects setting up specific curatorial and research-based methodologies, among others: 'Insiders. Experience, practices, know-how' (Bordeaux, 2009), 'I?O Psychedelic Explorations in France, 1968 - ∞' (Bordeaux, 2008), and 'A Theater without Theater' (Barcelona, Lisbon, 2007-08).

He has published articles, essays and interviews in several catalogues and magazines such as 'Les Cahiers du Museé National d'art Moderne', 'Frog', 'Contemporary', 'Kaleidoscope' and 'Mousse'. In 2006, he co-founded the publishing house 'it:paris'.