Music & Literature Salons
28 January, 2020
19:30 - 21:45
FIAP Jean Monnet
Open and free to all
Presented as part of the Inter-format Symposium during the Multidisciplinary Residency Program dedicated to the centenary of intercultural exchange in the arts, this event is inspired by the Salon culture of the 1920s.
Co-hosted in partnership with Paris Lit Up, the Salon will feature pieces of artistic work by international and Paris-based writers and musicians.
Literature and Theatre Programme
/ Fiction writer Debra Spark from the United States explores the intersection of private and public anger in the Trump era in her novel-in-progress Rageopolis. The novel’s three narrative lines converge around three stolen paintings and concern an art appraiser, a painter and his family, and a student at an abusive therapeutic boarding school. She’ll read briefly from her work and then talk about the overall project.
/ Helen Hopcroft is an artist, writer and performer from Australia. She will share a reading from her manuscript about her performance, when she spent one year dressed as Marie Antoinette - in full replica 18th century costume - and went about her everyday life. The performance was titled My Year as a Fairy Tale, and Hopcroft is currently writing a memoir/auto fiction about her experience. She will also talk about the multidisciplinary nature of the project, which included the co-creation of artworks and documentation with photographers, videographers, poets and visual artists, as well as an ongoing collaboration with filmmaker Tyler Beckley. This presentation is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
/ American-born poet, playwright and essayist, charles c. smith from Toronto, Canada, will read samples of his poetry performances, to shed light on how the Roaring Twenties has influenced the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. Titled Searching for Eastman, the presentation will explore the early influences of Black music in the genre named ‘jazz’ and how that has influenced North American and world music, literature and dance. It will then focus on the creative work of composer, pianist, vocalist and choreographer Julius Eastman in the 1960s-80s and how that is being recognized by the performing group the ‘wind in the leaves collective’ which is integrating Eastman’s music with poetry and dance for a multi-disciplinary full-length production. The presentation will include video recording of one performance piece ‘Stay On It’.
/ Fiona Leonard is an Australian playwright who left Australia ten years ago, got lost and somehow wound up running a theatre company in Germany. She will read from her current work in progress which has a working title of - Love, Sex and Zombies. For the sake of clarity and to avoid raising expectations, she wishes it to be known, that sadly, it is not, about Love, Sex or Zombies.
Music Programme
/ Singer/songwriter Veronica Charnley of the neo classical / pop crossover group Plumes will be performing songs inspired by her L'AiR Arts residency at Atelier sur Seine and her experience as a Canadian living in Paris. Veronica will perform her original works, that explore the feelings of displacement and of connection in her adopted city, as well as songs that are based on poems by writers such as Marina Tsvetaeva, a Russian poet who lived in Paris in the 1920s.
/ Midseason is Karl Jannuska's songwriting alter ego. His music has been described as a cross between hypnotic jazz and cosmic pop and, for this more acoustic showcase, Karl's five piece band (also called Midseason) will be performing songs from their latest release "On The Brighter Side". Cynthia Abraham - voice, Pierre Perchaud - guitar, Federico Casagrande - guitar, Nicolas Moreaux - acoustic bass, Karl Jannuska - drums.
/ "Revisiting standards from the 1920s" will be the theme for this set of music featuring the musicians of Midseason joined by Argentinian saxophonist Fernando Brufal. Melodies from the 1920s interpreted by musicians who respect the tradition and embrace its evolution.
19:30 - 21:45
FIAP Jean Monnet
Open and free to all
Presented as part of the Inter-format Symposium during the Multidisciplinary Residency Program dedicated to the centenary of intercultural exchange in the arts, this event is inspired by the Salon culture of the 1920s.
Co-hosted in partnership with Paris Lit Up, the Salon will feature pieces of artistic work by international and Paris-based writers and musicians.
Literature and Theatre Programme
/ Fiction writer Debra Spark from the United States explores the intersection of private and public anger in the Trump era in her novel-in-progress Rageopolis. The novel’s three narrative lines converge around three stolen paintings and concern an art appraiser, a painter and his family, and a student at an abusive therapeutic boarding school. She’ll read briefly from her work and then talk about the overall project.
/ Helen Hopcroft is an artist, writer and performer from Australia. She will share a reading from her manuscript about her performance, when she spent one year dressed as Marie Antoinette - in full replica 18th century costume - and went about her everyday life. The performance was titled My Year as a Fairy Tale, and Hopcroft is currently writing a memoir/auto fiction about her experience. She will also talk about the multidisciplinary nature of the project, which included the co-creation of artworks and documentation with photographers, videographers, poets and visual artists, as well as an ongoing collaboration with filmmaker Tyler Beckley. This presentation is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
/ American-born poet, playwright and essayist, charles c. smith from Toronto, Canada, will read samples of his poetry performances, to shed light on how the Roaring Twenties has influenced the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. Titled Searching for Eastman, the presentation will explore the early influences of Black music in the genre named ‘jazz’ and how that has influenced North American and world music, literature and dance. It will then focus on the creative work of composer, pianist, vocalist and choreographer Julius Eastman in the 1960s-80s and how that is being recognized by the performing group the ‘wind in the leaves collective’ which is integrating Eastman’s music with poetry and dance for a multi-disciplinary full-length production. The presentation will include video recording of one performance piece ‘Stay On It’.
/ Fiona Leonard is an Australian playwright who left Australia ten years ago, got lost and somehow wound up running a theatre company in Germany. She will read from her current work in progress which has a working title of - Love, Sex and Zombies. For the sake of clarity and to avoid raising expectations, she wishes it to be known, that sadly, it is not, about Love, Sex or Zombies.
Music Programme
/ Singer/songwriter Veronica Charnley of the neo classical / pop crossover group Plumes will be performing songs inspired by her L'AiR Arts residency at Atelier sur Seine and her experience as a Canadian living in Paris. Veronica will perform her original works, that explore the feelings of displacement and of connection in her adopted city, as well as songs that are based on poems by writers such as Marina Tsvetaeva, a Russian poet who lived in Paris in the 1920s.
/ Midseason is Karl Jannuska's songwriting alter ego. His music has been described as a cross between hypnotic jazz and cosmic pop and, for this more acoustic showcase, Karl's five piece band (also called Midseason) will be performing songs from their latest release "On The Brighter Side". Cynthia Abraham - voice, Pierre Perchaud - guitar, Federico Casagrande - guitar, Nicolas Moreaux - acoustic bass, Karl Jannuska - drums.
/ "Revisiting standards from the 1920s" will be the theme for this set of music featuring the musicians of Midseason joined by Argentinian saxophonist Fernando Brufal. Melodies from the 1920s interpreted by musicians who respect the tradition and embrace its evolution.
Image: Literature Salon, Multidisciplinary Residency, January 2020