WHO?
Elisabeth Lebovici (Researcher) & Patricia Falguières (Art Historian)
WHEN?
Sunday, October 26th at 2pm
WHERE?
Meeting point at the entrance
Elisabeth Lebovici is an art worker. She was a journalist at Libération from 1991 to 2006. An activist in the fight against HIV/AIDS, she co-founded the LIG/lesbiennes d'intérêt général endowment fund. Since the 1990s, she has contributed to numerous books, seminars and symposiums devoted to feminist and queer interventions in the arts. She is the co-author, with Catherine Gonnard, of Femmes Artistes/Artistes Femmes, Paris, de 1880 à nos jours (Women Artists/Artists Women, Paris, from 1880 to the present day). Her book Ce que le sida m’a fait. Art et activisme à la fin du XXè siècle (What AIDS Did to Me: Art and Activism at the End of the 20th Century) received the 2017 Pierre Daix Prize. From 2006 to 2024, she co-directed a seminar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) entitled ‘Something You Should Know: Artists and Producers’ with Patricia Falguières and Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez.
Patricia Falguières is a professor of art history and theory at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where she co-directed the seminar ‘Something you should know’ with Elisabeth Lebovici and Natasa Petresin-Bachelez from 2006 to 2024.
She has published numerous essays on Renaissance philosophy and arts, as well as on contemporary practices, including monographic approaches and essays on conceptual art, the relationship between art and theatre in the 20th century, the logic of display, and Brian O'Doherty's classic « Inside the White Cube », which she edited in French (2008).