Pool 1: Art & Joy (gLV)

How are the culture, rituals and architecture of entertainment intertwined with some of the great passions of our society such as sexuality, war and religion? What is the relationship between collective passions, total institutions and forms of entertainment in our society?

In this module we will reflect on these questions - which open up others - starting with an artistic and experiential device: the “Freestanding Joys”. In my artistic practice this device takes the form of medium/large scale installations in which I project films, spaces of passions within the closed world of the museum, stories that become objects and objects that become places.

Starting from the theoretical, artistic and cultural references that have nurtured the practice of the “Freestanding Joys", I would like to prompt students to explore their own interpretation of these heterotopias. What connections do they want to weave between the small and large passions of our society? And what form might these entanglements take in their “Freestanding Joys?”

The module will bring to life a funfair of changing shapes, a complex landscape of stories and visions.


About the lecturer:

Pauline Curnier Jardin (b. 1980, Marseille, France) is an artist working across installation, performance, film, and drawing. Her cinematic installations create unorthodox universes and tell stories, thus proposing alternative narratives. Her work was included or commissioned most recently in: Kiasma, Helsinki (2024), MACRO, Rome (2024), Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2023), Kunsthaus Pasquart, Bienne and Kunsthalle, Winterthur (2023), CRAC Occitanie, Sète (2022); FRAC Corsica (2022); Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin (2022).