Willfully unproductive

Drawing on her interview with Béatrice Balcou, published in (Non) Performance: A Daily Practice (T&P Publishing, 2024), Julie Pellegrin will revisit artistic strategies of productive refusal. Presented in the context of Poor Paintings, her talk title Willfully unproductive invites reflection on how gestures of maintenance and repair can disrupt dominant modes of perception, representation, and power.

Biography

Julie Pellegrin is a curator, writer, and researcher whose work focuses broadly on performance and artistic practices that address social, political, and ethical issues—particularly through the lenses of relationship and attentiveness. For over twenty years, she has explored how the interplay between visual arts, choreography, and theatricality shapes the writing of exhibitions. From 2007 to 2020, she served as director of the Centre for Contemporary Art La Ferme du Buisson (Noisiel, France), and in 2013, she co-directed Nuit Blanche Paris. Between 2021 and 2022, she was a fellow at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici. She is currently conducting research on the relationship between artistic practices and anarchist theories in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Practical information

14.05.25, 18:30
Doors open: 18:00
Language: English
Free participation upon reservation (recommanded) info@la-loge.be