Magiciens de la terre / Summer University

The Summer University the Centre Pompidou is devoting to the exhibition "Magiciens de la terre" from 1 to 10 July is open to post-graduate students (PhD and post-PhD) and independent curators. It invites a new generation of researchers to explore the sources of this exhibition, and meet artists, curators, archivists and librarians.

The summer University sessions take place every morning from 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. in the Galerie du musée, right inside the exhibition "Magiciens de la terre, retour sur une exposition légendaire", staged by the artist Sarkis. Young researchers thus have special access to the "primary sources" of this exhibition, and can pass them through the fine tooth comb of analysis and historiographical criticism. Taking place at the very venue of the event in the centre of the public, the University is supervised by the people who created it: artists, curators and exhibition curators, and takes the form of a series of workshops. This will be an occasion for the participants to handle documents relating to the missions of the 1989 curators, their exchanges with the artists, the institutional financing, the assembly of the exhibition and the events for which the exhibition was the setting.