Curator
Jean-Jacques Lebel
dates
May 31, 2013 → Jan 06, 2014
place
Studio
Co-Production
Exhibition co-produced by four European institutions: Centre Pompidou-Metz, Les Champs Libres in Rennes, Brittany, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing, northern France, and the ZKM | Media Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany.
- 31 May 2013 to 6 January 2014 at Centre Pompidou-Metz
- 31 May to 1st September 2013 at the Champs Libres, Rennes
- 7 June to 21 July 2013 at the Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing
- 15 June to 1st September 2013 at the ZKM | Media Museum, Karlsruhe (Germany)
HELLO BEATNIKS!
This is not, in a classic sense, an exhibition, where works are hung on walls, but far more a visual and acoustic anthology; a sensory experience, a jungle full of projected images and a virtual stroll through a major multicultural movement that emerged during the Second World War in New York, and which spread throughout the world from 1955 onwards. The poet Allen Ginsberg, tutelary figure and catalyst of the Beat Generation, will serve us as a cartographer and a guide. He will introduce us to his friends – who he often photographed at different times – and, above all, their works; throwing light on the unique personalities of each of them.
Known and unknown films, public readings, recordings, unreleased reportings, texts, fine arts, interviews, photographs and documents of all kinds... This compilation, shown here for the first time, offers an international, labyrinthine and multimedia perspective transcending the constraints of linear and didactic museum presentation.