Talk

Stadium and stage, Mohamed El Khatib

Monday 24 Jun 2024 from 6:30pm to 8pm

Free upon registration

Talk in french

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A discussion with writer, director and producer Mohamed El Khatib, in the presence of associate curator Madeleine Planeix-Crocker.

The discussion takes a look back at the artist's career and his creative principles, through the world of football that inhabits him. From his passion for sport to his passion for the theatre, this talk will highlight the areas that drive Mohamed El Khatib's work, the rules of the game that are important to him and his way of working as a team.
Author, director and visual artist Mohamed El Khatib develops projects that are a cross between performance art, literature and cinema. Through intimate and social narratives, he creates opportunities for encounters between art and those who are far removed from it.

After Moi, Corinne Dadat, which asked a cleaning lady and a ballet dancer to take a look at their skills, he continued his exploration of the working class with the monumental play STADIUM, which summoned 58 Racing Club de Lens supporters to the stage. With the children from divorced parents, he questioned on radio and screen what the family can produce as a narrative. With historian Patrick Boucheron, he drew a popular history of art through the snow globe. 

Alongside his projects for the stage, Mohamed El Khatib has developed a plastic research in collaboration with several artists. In Savoie, alongside Valérie Mréjen, he initiated the creation of the first art centre in Ehpad. At the Collection Lambert in Avignon, he imagined a sentimental exhibition by bringing together precarious curators from the Abbé-Pierre Foundation and members of the museum staff. 

At Mucem, he created the monumental Renault 12 exhibition, inspired by the car journeys of Franco-Maghrebi families. 

Mohamed El Khatib is an associate artist at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, the Théâtre National de Bretagne and the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles.

Madeleine Planeix-Crocker is Curator of Performance and Live Arts at Lafayette Anticipations. Since 2021, she has held the positions of the « Troubles, alliances et esthétiques » co-Chair and professor of art theory at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Madeleine received her Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University before pursuing a Masters in « Media, Arts and Creation » at HEC Paris and a Master 2 in gender and performance studies at the EHESS. There, she led an arts-based research project with the nonprofit Women Safe, where she continues to facilitate a creative writing and theatre workshop. Madeleine is currently completing her PhD at the EHESS ; her dissertation research examines contemporary methods for devising performance in France.

Her most recent writing can be found in CURA., OnCurating, SwitchOn Paper, and EarthKeepingEarthShaking. She has curated two group shows : Spine at GIANNI MANHATTAN as part of Curated by (Vienna, 2024), as well as Scabs at the Mécènes du Sud (Montpellier, 2023). Madeleine pursues her training in contemporary dance.

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