Reality or Not, The Table Read

Talk

Tuesday 02 May 2023 from 7pm to 9:30pm

Free upon registration

This public reading will be filmed.

Residency Cécile B. Evans

Workshop in residency

from 01 Nov 2022 to 21 Oct 2023

Reality or Not, The Table Read (scene filmed in front of a live audience) is an event that opens up the rehearsal and filming process for Cécile B. Evans' new film "Reality or Not".

A table read is a moment for cast members, collaborators, and interested parties to organize a reading of the script. The script for "Reality or No"t was devised by Evans with the support of artist and screenwriter Sophia Al Maria, mapping out the film's desires around the production of reality and the question: what happens when you get yours?

The reading becomes a moment to assemble some of the players (either in person or via livestream) but also for the artist to confront their own ambitions in front of an audience.

Inspired by filmmakers like William Greaves and Lizzie Borden, the symbolic gesture of transparency takes on a different dimension and the table read itself becomes content for the final film: the reality of an artwork within an artwork about reality.

Cécile B. Evans

Born in 1983, lives and works in Saint-Denis (France).

Cécile B. Evans is an American-Belgian artist living and working in Saint-Denis.

Evans’ work examines the value of emotion and its rebellion as it comes into contact with ideological, physical, and technological structures. They are currently working on a new performance commission for the MOVE festival at Centre Pompidou Paris (FR).

Recent selected solo exhibitions include 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine (FR), Museum Abteiberg (DE), Tramway (UK), Chateau Shatto (US), Museo Madre (IT), mumok Vienna (AT), Castello di Rivoli (IT), Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT), Tate Liverpool (UK), Kunsthalle Aarhus (DK), M Museum Leuven (BE), De Hallen Haarlem (NL), and Serpentine Galleries (UK).

Evans’ work has been included amongst others at Lafayette Anticipations (FR), Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Haus der Kunst (DE), Mito Art Tower (JP), Renaissance Society Chicago (US), the 7th International Moscow Biennale (RU), the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial (RU), Galerie Kamel Mennour (FR), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (DK), the 9th Berlin Biennale (DE), the 20th Sydney Biennale (AUS), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (ES), and Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (FR).

Evans’ films have been screened in festivals such as the New York Film Festival and Rotterdam International. Public collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York (US), The Rubell Family Collection, Miami (US), Whitney Museum of American Art (US), De Haallen (NL), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (IT), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (DK), and FRAC Auvergne (FR).

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