A new space: staged, unified, flexible. A seasonal exhibition programs made of 10 different "points of view" outside or inside the 8 spaces of the reinvented Levanneur house. This Autumn scenario is complemented and inaugurated by the Island Festival, a rendez-vous to see and hear contemporary culture live with a mix of sound and visual performances, dance acts, graphic design, literature and science for the time of a weekend.
Above the actual transformation of the place, staged, unified, flexible, Cneai invents a new pattern
of cooperative programming. Research groups, gathered in partnership with about 10 learning or art
institutions, are generating a seasonal exhibition programs made of 10 different «points of view»:
out on the island and the «Maison Flottante» (Cneai’s floating barge / artist’s residency) or inside the
8 spaces of the reinvented Levanneur house. This Autumn scenario is complemented and inaugurated
by the Island Festival, a rendez-vous to see and hear contemporary culture live with a mix of sound
and visual performances, dance acts, graphic design, literature and science for the time of a weekend.
We’re happily inviting you to imagine with us the reinvention of a place for contemporary creation,
open to the exploration of the senses, both the artist’s and the visitor’s.
FESTIVAL ISLAND #1
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH AND SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH 2012
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH 2012
10AM until 9PM (sound installation) Listening spots, Jean-Philippe Renoult is casting a new light
on famous sound works from John Cage, Pierre Henry, La Monte Young and Christian Marclay.
Artworks by Christophe Jacquet, in collaboration with Poptronics
11AM (presentation - screening) Politique-fiction : Le design au combat, Alexandra Midal
1:30PM (reading) Personal notes on the exhibition program, Christophe Fiat
2:30PM Official opening, with Aurélie Filippetti, Minister of Culture and Communication - Muriel
Genthon, Regional Director for Cultural Affairs of Île-de-France - Pierre Lequiller, Vice-president of the
Yvelines departmental council - Ghislain Fournier, Mayor of Chatou - Philippe Bissières,
President of Cneai.
Visit by the architects Philippe Bona and Elisabeth Lemercier
3:30PM (lecture - performance) L’anthologie du charabia : les alentours et entourloupes de Jean
Dubuffet, Antoine Poncet.
5PM (dance performance)Eel Dance, A constructed world, with Speech and What Archive and the
dancers of the CNDC Angers, Aurélie Godard, Benjamin Jaud, Ludovic Austry and Fabrice Reymond,
and ESBA TALM - Angers
6PM (performance) Byron Bay etc., Jochen Dehn
7PM (live) Bérangère Maximin, with Poptronics
8PM (live) Surprise concert, Silver club, in collaboration with ESBA TALM - Angers
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30TH
10AM until 9PM (sound installation) Listening spots, Jean-Philippe Renoult is casting a new light
on famous sound works from John Cage, Pierre Henry, La Monte Young and Christian Marclay.
Artworks by Christophe Jacquet, in collaboration with Poptronics
11AM (screening) Politique-fiction : Le design au combat, Alexandra Midal
12:30AM (banquet) Île - Eel, Fabien Vallos with Jérémie Gaulin for Sébastien Pluot (booking necessary)
3PM (discussion, reading and screening) Tombolo by Alexandru Balgiu, Thierry Chancogne,
Brice Domingues, Catherine Guiral, Chloé Munich, Vincent Lalanne, with officeabc
4PM (discussion and screening) Archipel - archipelago of the cneai = websites - with Raphaël
Bastide, Guillaume Grall, Gaël Hugo, Christophe Jacquet, Pierre Vanni, hosted by Thierry Chancogne
5:30PM (talk) La connaissance des formes (le jeu de go), Christophe Lemaitre
6:30PM (talk) Exhibition literature, a conversation between Jean-Max Colard et Lefevre Jean-Claude
8PM (screening) Politique-fiction : Le design au combat, Alexandra Midal
AUTUMN SCENARIO IN 10 POINTS OF VIEW
FROM SEPTEMBER 29TH 2012 TO FEBRUARY 8TH 2013
The different points of view will be gradually renewed to make the winter scenario. The exhibition
program is then viewable all year as a permanent work in progress.
September 29th 2012 - february 08th 2013
(1 - island) Maison Flottante, Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec
The autumn scenario starts with the Maison Flottante deigned by the Bouroullec brothers. It is the
place for authors, artists, writers, musicians, publishers and scholars residencies, allowing the guests
to collaborate on collective projects.
May 13th 2012 - january 13th 2013
(2 - island) Le musée de rue et Le musée iconostase + Architectures mobiles, Yona Friedman,
par Sylvie Boulanger
Yona Friedman built two «street museums» close to Cneai with which he collaborates closely for ten
years. Echoing the «proteinic museum» and the «street museum», an exhibition of models, drawings
and films (from 1960 onwards) that were donated to Cneai by the artist, are addressing the issue of
«mobile architecture», an autonomous architecture that is permeating public and social space
and is experimenting a form of resistance outside of art specific spaces.
With Conseil général des Yvelines, ville de Chatou, Conseil régional Île-de-France, National School
of architecture Versailles.
Publication : Yona Friedman, Architecture Without Building, 2012, 90 pages artist book,
published by Cneai =, available online
September 29th - december 21st 2012
(3) Politique - fiction : le design au combat, Alexandra Midal
Produced by Cité du design - Saint-Etienne, HEAD - Geneva university of art and design.
One often forgets that industrial design is born of political struggle. Made in collaboration with Mathias
Zieba and officeabc, the movie relies on editing and collages to connect sources and borrowed material
retracing the many relationships between design and politics.
Screening everyday at 3PM
September 29th 2012 - january 13th 2013
(4) Publish or perish
Publishing is a matter of stocks long before being a matter of distribution or reading. The stock (the
stack) is the first visual form given to a given book as soon as it’s published. Karl Holmqvist, Benjamin
Fely, Yann Sérandour, Rik Bas Backer are designing their own stocks as well as the publications by
Continuous Project, Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Edouard Boyer, Peter
Downsbrough, Pascal Doury, Maria Spangaro et Jean-Baptiste Bruand... Everything must go.
.
September 29th 2012 - december 21st 2013
(5) Les occupantes, Christophe Lemaitre et Aurélien Mole
Flowers and plants in a fragile state of balance, installed by Christophe Lemaitre and Aurélien Mole,
in modified versions of a drinking glass they edited for the occasion. A form of Ikebana, a style called
Nageire, is taking shape along the exhibition. Sometimes only by bending the stem against the rim
of the vase. A sensitive relationship between a very simple sculpture and its plinth.
September 29th 2012 - january 13th 2013
(6) Kome, Jef Geys by Sylvie Boulanger and Francis Mary
KOME or Kunstwerken Op Meedere Examplaren, meaning «Artworks in several copies». It’s the way
Jef Geys, a key figure of the flemish art scene, is calling the works-multiples that he made during his entire
life. Kempens is the name of the region where he lived all his life, along with the name of the local
newspaper for which he worked before publishing it as a comment and research outlet about his own
work, for each of his exhibitions since 1971. Kome and Kempens will be exhibited in their totality for the
first time in France.
With Musées Royaux des beaux-arts, Belgium.
Publication : Jef Geys, Kome, Digital printing of the 270 Kome notices, 544 pages, 21 x 29,7 cm, 50
copies, graphic design by the artist. Published by Cneai =, Chatou, under the direction of Sylvie Boulanger. Multiple : Jef Geys, Kempens Informatieblad - Voorpaginas, digital print on Velin paper 350g,
ultrachrom ink K3, 30,5 x 44 cm. Edition of 7, signed. Graphic design by the artist. Published by Cneai =,
Chatou, under the direction of Sylvie Boulanger.
September 29th - february 24th 2013
(7) Art By Telephone... Recalled By Sébastien Pluot and Fabien Vallos
Co-produced by Angers art school (ESBA-TALM) and the research laboratory: En traduction.
The exhibition Art By Telephone... Recalled will take place in 5 venues around the world : Cneai, Angers
art school (ESBA-TALM), CAPC / Bordeaux museum of contemporary art, The Emily Harvey Foundation in
New York and San Francisco Art Institute. Six works initially created for the 1969 exhibition at Chicago’s
Museum of Contemporary Art will be reactivated : Arman, Mel Bochner, Jan Dibbets, Dick Higgins,
Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Dennis Oppenheim. From the 15th of November, new project by 59 artists
will be produced for the 5 venues.
September 29th - november 10th 2012
(8) La connaissance des formes, Christophe Lemaitre
As a counterpoint to the Jan van Eyck go club, the exhibition will try to blend the practice of go with
the artist’s work about the understanding of forms. A way to further the issues of perception and
morphology inherent to the practice of go and their consequences on the artist’s work and the
research in aesthetics as a whole. The proposal will encompass a talked prologue, a text published
for the occasion, and a dispositive made of an engraved table, designer chairs, a projection and
a possibility: make an appointment to play with the artist.
With the Jan Van Eyck Academie.
September 29th 2012 - november 25th 2013
(9) Promenadologues #1, by Jing He et Sylvie Boulanger
To detail, to select, to generate thinking out of a stroll, to enjoy the tiny detail and the free association
of images, as well as the ideas that emerges when one meets the mundane, is putting ignorance at the
same level of knowledge. The FMRA collection, in which you’re invited to lose yourself into, is made
of more than 11000 published works. A collection impossible to master, maybe more disorientating
for the professional than for the neophyte. With the idea of an invisible structure in mind, a selection of
vinyl records, poetry booklets, ephemera, posters, reviews, videos, and other manuals to read or listen
to, from Jan Adriaans, Vito Acconci, Robert Barry, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Pierre Bismuth,
Jean-François Bory, Stanley Brouwn, Jean-Baptiste Bruant, André Cadere, John Cage, Ulises Carriòn,
Henri Chopin, Guy de Cointet, Isabelle Cornaro, Peter Downsbrough, Vincent Epplay, Valie Export,
Robert Filliou, Ryan Gander, Michael Gibbs, Dan Graham, Bernard Heidsieck, Douglas Huebler,
Martin Kippenberger, Sol Lewitt, Grand magasin, La Monte Young, Michael Riedel, Allen Ruppersberg,
Toom Tragel, Goran Vejvoda, Lawrence Weiner.
September 29th 2012 - january 27th 2013
(10) Byron Bay, etc., Julien Carreyn
«I could never have made the forms they were creating. I would have been tempted to understand what
I was doing. I would naturally have rectified the lights and thus I would have lost a bit of that strangeness.»
The Byron Bay images were made during a workshop with teenage patients from Montesson’s
mental institution. Photographing these strange forms was to invent walks in foreign, strange and
primitive landscapes.
Ask for the Autumn scenario journal, 24 pages, texts, programs and artists’ contributions. Free upon request (public@cneai.com)
Partenaires officiels
La programmation du Cneai et les aménagements du bâtiment sont réalisés grâce au soutien de la
Ville de Chatou, du Conseil général des Yvelines, du Conseil régional d’Île de France et de la Direction
régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île de France / ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.
Press agency: Myra Magda Kachouche, Yannick Dufour, Timothée Nicot
10 passage du chantier, 75012 paris / 01 40 33 79 13 / myra@myra.fr
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH 2:30 PM
OFFICIAL OPENING AND TOUR WITH THE ARCHITECTS BONA-LEMERCIER
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH AND SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 TH 2012 10 AM - 10 PM
FESTIVAL ISLAND #1
ART, ARCHITECTURE, LITERATURE, MUSIC, SCIENCE, HISTORY, FILM, DESIGN, BANQUET
FROM SEPTEMBER 29TH 2012 TO FEBRUARY 8TH 2013
AUTUMN SCENARIO
EXHIBITION PROGRAM IN 10 POINTS OF VIEW
Ile des Impressionnistes / Hameau Fournaise 78400 / Chatou
Wednesday to Sunday 11AM – 6PM
Closed from december 21st 2012 until january 2nd 2013