Place: INHA

(National institute of History of Art , rue des small fields, 75002, Paris, Colbert gallery, Auditorium)

Coordination: Johanna Cappi

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Basically interdisciplinary and hybrid, the artistic and theoretical work of Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki gathers more than one hundred works in cinema, photography, video (not-narrative films, included ten feature films, performances of multi-projections, environmental installations often monumental, photographic series, sound and radiophonic works, books of artists), as well as an important corpus of texts.

Following the international visibility acquired by work of the two artists, whose films were recently recognized like belonging to the cinematographic inheritance by the French Files of Film (CNC) --> --> ¹, this conference proposes to look further into the study of a work still little analyzed compared to its extent and with the aesthetic proposals and criticisms which it brings.

Association the Three Lights, in partnership with the CERHEC, gave freehand to the two artists to compose the program of this conference which wishes to take the form of dialogues engaged between the researchers and the artists. It will gather participants of generations and horizons different: young researchers and researchers experienced in cinema, visual arts, esthetics, history of art and the media, in sciences of perception.

The studied questions are in the middle of current reflexions around the cinema and art: interactions between cinema and visual arts, the “exposed” cinema, the statute of experimental cinematographies, hybridizations of the media, the new topologies made possible by digital technologies, the autorepresentation, relations between visual arts and theatricalnesses. In the work of Klonaris/Thomadaki all these concerns are crossed by the question of the body and that of the kind, approached here by young researchers and enquiring through the critical prospects for the studies of the kind (Gender Studies).