Laurent Goldring in Conversation with Xavier Le Roy

In 2014, the film LA RENCONTRE (59:32 min) was shot and edited during “Retrospective” at Centre Pompidou for a public talk between Xavier Le Roy and Laurent Goldring. The film addressed the meaning of the museum today in relation to the emergence of new types of exhibitions and new art forms. The film is linked to a text Goldring had written titled Hypothèse Numéro Seize: L’Image Du Musée, published for that occasion in the book “Rétrospective” Par Xavier Le Roy, and it was one of the first films to be shown of a series dedicated to different museums.

For the occasion of “Retrospective” at Beirut Art Center, Laurent Goldring and Xavier Le Roy will engage in a new discussion in that series. Excerpts of the film LA RENCONTRE will be screened. Goldring and Le Roy will also discuss several other aspects of Le Roy’s works.
Biographies

Laurent Goldring was born in Paris (France) in 1957. He lives, paints, sculpts, draws and makes videos in Paris. His work lead to important evolutions in the field of contemporary dance, and has been widely exhibited a bit everywhere.

Xavier Le Roy holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier, France, and has worked as a dancer and choreographer since 1991. He has performed with diverse companies and choreographers. From 1996 to 2003, he was artist-in-residence at the Podewil in Berlin. In 2007-2008 he was “Associated Artist” at Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, France. In 2010, Le Roy is an Artist in Residence fellow at the MIT Program in Art Culture and Technology (Cambridge, MA). Through his solo works such as Self Unfinished (1998) and Product of Circumstances (1999), he opened new perspectives for dance and his individual approach has radicalized academic discourse about the body and choreographic art. Le Roy develops his work like a researcher, while simultaneously focusing on the relationships between process and product and his own involvement in the process. He regularly initiates projects to question modes of production, collaboration and conditions of group work with projects such as E.X.T.E.N.S.I.O.N.S.(1999-2000), Project (2003), and 6 Months 1 Location (2008). His latest works, such as the solos Le Sacre du Printemps (2007) and Product of Other Circumstances (2009), as well as the group piece low pieces (2009-2011), “production” created together with Mårten Spångberg for the exhibition Move: Choreographing you, “untitled” 2012 for the exhibition 12 Rooms and “Retrospective”, first realized in 2012 at the Tapiès Foundation-Barcelona, produce situations that explore more explicitly diverse mode of relationships between spectators and performers.

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