Neïl Beloufa, Tobias Madison.

The 2018 Pool CH organised by European Art Ensemble/ECAL offers two distinct workshops: one lead by Neïl Beloufa, the other by Tobias Madison. Each attending student registers for one workshop only.

NEÏL BELOUFA

Neïl Beloufa will be conceiving and constructing structures and sculptures with diverse material (wood, metal, etc.), in close collaboration and discussion with the students registered to the workshop.

Biography
Neïl Beloufa (born in 1985 in Paris, France) is a Franco-Algerian artist who lives and works in Paris. He was a student at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; At the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (USA); At Cooper Union, New York and Fresnoy - National Contemporary Arts Studio, Tourcoing (France). His work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions in France and abroad, notably at K11, Shanghai, 2016, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, 2015, At the ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2014, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2013, at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013 and 2018. He is currently working on a solo at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

Dates and hours
Wednesday 31 October 2018, 10am – 5pm
Thursday 1 November 2018, 10am – 5pm
Friday 2 November 2018, 10am – 5pm

Location
ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne
5, avenue du Temple
1010 Renens

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TOBIAS MADISON

Leaning Images 

You do not own your head 

There are so many heads in the world 

Wherever you go there are heads

Every day there are more, sprouting up in the blackness 

At one time there was nothing at all, only blackness. 

And then within the infinite spaces of that blackness, things started to develop.

But as soon as those heads came along, nothing much has happened or nothing worthy of note. 

The whole world reached its peak and turned into an enormous head factory 

Every day there are more and more of them, sprouting up in the blackness, which was there in the beginning. 

The blackness which, perhaps by chance, started to produce all these heads and continues to produce all of them, always calling out for more heads to carry out the business it wants done, its black voice roaring over the infinite black spaces of its head factory. 

But none of the heads has any idea about the blackness that surrounds them, or the blackness that hides itself within each one of them.

- Thomas Ligotti 

Workshop Description: 
3 days spent looking at teen images, talking about teen images, hopefully neural rapid fire & hijacking art back for the age of emotional abuse.

Biography
Tobias Madison is an artist living in New York City. He is the co-founder of the exhibition space New Jersey (2008 – 2014), the cinema AP News (2011-2013) and has curated numerous exhibitions. His writing was published in Texte Zur Kunst, Artforum, May, Frieze, Flash Art and Spike. Madison teaches in the Masters program of the University of Arts in Geneva (HEAD).

Dates and hours
Wednesday 31 October 2018, 10am – 5pm
Thursday 1 November 2018, 10am – 5pm
Friday 2 November 2018, 10am – 5pm

Location
ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne
5, avenue du Temple
1010 Renens