Launched in 2015, Paris Internationale’s public programs facilitate exchanges and conversations between members of the international art world. Free and accessible to all, these events are both informal and unconventional. From talks and conversations to book launches and performances, the wide range of events offered allows for those with a variety of interests and levels of expertise to come together in the same space.
This year’s series of “TALKS WITH AND ABOUT” is organized in collaboration with Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, who shares Paris Internationale’s ambition to foster conversations and facilitate cross pollinisation of knowledge and ideas between members of the international art worlds. Curated by Alice Dusapin, this year’s programme takes up the subject of “Artistic practice, publishing and curating in non-institutional environments and spaces”. It will question the complexity, richness and significance of independance as a means of action.
Paris Internationale has also become known for its “daily dérives,” guided tours through the fair led by esteemed curators, artists, museum directors, and heads of foundations and collectors. These unique moments warmly invite visitors to discover the exhibition through the eyes of an expert in a more intimate setting, thus giving rise to invaluable insights and affirming each person in their relationship to contemporary art.
For its 10th anniversary edition, Paris Internationale is also taking a huge step toward better welcoming its youngest audiences by proposing new Kids Workshops. Children ages 5 years and older will now benefit from specifically adapted content and activities, which the fair has entrusted the creation of to COMBO x COMBO.
Finally, visitors will be able discover important new publications through book launches, and share in moments of creativity and celebration with Marthe Ramm Fortun’s performance and our very own 10th anniversary party, which will take place on the opening night of the fair at Rex Club.
This year’s series of “TALKS WITH AND ABOUT” is organized in collaboration with Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, who shares Paris Internationale’s ambition to foster conversations and facilitate cross pollinisation of knowledge and ideas between members of the international art worlds. Curated by Alice Dusapin, this year’s programme takes up the subject of “Artistic practice, publishing and curating in non-institutional environments and spaces”. It will question the complexity, richness and significance of independance as a means of action.
Alice Dusapin is an independent editor, curator, and researcher. Co-founder and co-director of the journal octopus notes and of the publishing house Daisy, she also co-directs the nonprofit space Ampersand. She has received support for her research from the CNAP, the Michalksi Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, and the Terra Foundation, and is a resident of the Académie de France à Rome-Villa Médicis 2020-2021 in art history. Since 2024, she has been head of publishing at the Villa Arson in Nice.
PI: What is the central theme of this program?
Alice Dusapin: The program was conceived around this subtitle artistic practice, publishing, and curating in ‘non-institutional’ environments and spaces. This subtitle echoes a large part of my practice. In 2013 I co-founded the art magazine octopus notes, in 2017 the non-profit space Ampersand in Lisbon, and in 2020 the publishing house Daisy. Thought of today as a trilogy, these projects were all founded collaboratively, and are still run collaboratively. These projects were born quite simply out of a desire and a need to ‘do’, and above all to do autonomously. The idea of this program was therefore to share, through conversation, the complexity and richness of the experience of a number of people who have founded, run, or invested in these spaces. What does it mean to run a non-profit space, a magazine, an archive, or an estate today? What does it mean to try to do things differently, to be independent? And is there a vocabulary for talking ‘precisely’ about these spaces? What do their programs and research subjects consist of? All this fuels and redistributes a lot of obsessions, and it’s very exciting!
PI: How have you chosen the participants?
Alice Dusapin: All the participants are people I’ve had the chance to meet at different times and with whom I have ongoing projects for the most part. The idea, of course, is not to talk about those projects, but rather to take advantage of this invitation to develop and discuss their research and programs. These are people whose positions interest me and whose work I really appreciate, and I’m very happy to talk about them in public as part of Paris Internationale.