La Permanence
Exhibition
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La Permanence
Past: September 19 → 30, 2017
As part of Koki Tanaka’s 2017 Pernod Ricard Fellowship
From September 19 to 30
Transplanting basil seedlings, waxing the wooden stairs, discussing an exhibition while cooking, planning a program of events, taking care of an artwork, paying an invoice, cleaning the bar… All these are essential activities in an institution yet they remain invisible, concealed, even devalued. With La Permanence, Koki Tanaka (2017 Pernod Ricard Fellow) chooses to put the daily life and work of the team and its interlocutors (technicians, artists, various professionals, friends) back at the center of the public life of Villa Vassilieff.
For several years, Koki Tanaka has been assembling temporary collectives revolving around activities that try to make visible situations usually ignored in our daily lives. During his residency in the frame of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship, Villa Vassilieff becomes a “permanence” opening up to artists, curators, researchers, philosophers, educators, activists and students to discuss a wide range of subjects — all of them having in common to question the possible ways of act on the world we live in, whether through education, hospitality or ecology.
Every Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 7pm, the audience is invited to share the spaces of Villa Vassilieff with a contingent of potted plants, open or closed books, kitchen smells, videos by Koki Tanaka, with the team of La Permanence and its various guests following a series of meetings and workshops, announced or improvised.
The program will be updated daily here: http://www.villavassilieff.net/?La-Permanence-Pernod-Ricard-Fellowship&lang=en
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Opening Tuesday, September 19, 2017 9 PM → 6 PM
Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 7 PM
Admission fee
Free entrance
The artist
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Koki Tanaka