Camille Froidevaux-Metterie in conversation with Daria de Beauvais at 6PM (CET) on Instagram (FR)

Based on the work of artist Pauline Curnier Jardin (whose Peaux de dames [Ladies Skins] are shown in the exhibition Anticorps [Antibodies]) and more particularly her video Qu’un sang impur [Bled Out] broadcasted here below on the occasion of this eighth TokyoSession, French philosopher Camille Froidevaux-Metterie talks with Daria de Beauvais, co-curator of the exhibition.

The discussion begins with the idea of "anti-bodies", bodies considered as illegitimate for their being wrinkled, dull, mistreated and used. Their stigmas tell the story of the domination suffered by women in society, between violence, invisibilisation, ageism and objectification. For women who have been nothing more than bodies for a long time, it is about experiencing a paradoxical condition, torn between alienation and liberation. 

Camille Froidevaux-Metterie is a feminist philosopher, professor of political science and equality-diversity officer at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne. She works on seizing the mutations resulting from the turning point of feminist emancipation in a perspective placing the body at the center. She is the author of La révolution du féminin (2015), Le corps des femmes. La bataille de l'intime (2018) and Seins. En quête d’une libération (Anamosa, 2020). She currently works on a new book, Pour un féminisme incarné, to be published in 2021 at Le Seuil.

This conversation echoes the keyword "skin" in the exhibition Anticorps, which defines itself as a touch-induced reaction, and makes its own the question asked by philosopher and biologist Donna Haraway in her Cyborg Manifesto: "Why should our bodies stop at the border of our skins?"

Fabien Jobard in conversation with Hugo Vitrani at 6pm (CET) on Instagram.

In continuation of the Tokyosessions series, researcher Fabien Jobard and Hugo Vitrani, co-curator of the exhibition Anticorps, will present a 7th episode which focuses on the police and law enforcement in France. "Two dangers are constantly threatening the world," states Paul Valery, "order and disorder". From racial profiling to police violence, crowd control and conflicts surrounding the image in the face of new media, Fabien Jobard will analyse the militarisation and brutalisation of the maintenance of the so-called "French-style" order since the mid-2000s.

The works of many artists, including those involved in Anticorps exhibition (Kevin Desbouis, Dominique Petitgand, Carolyn Lazard, Forensic Architecture, Tala Madani), are steeped in issues of the times. These issues regularly span the Palais de Tokyo’s exhibitions and events programme. Following the conversation, the animated video The Womb by Tala Madani will be sceened online on this page and on our Youtube channel. It retraces the nine-month-long development of a human embryo in fast motion.

This conversation echoes the exhibition's key word "Insurgence".

Fabien Jobard is director of research at the CNRS (Cesdip) and director of the European Research Group on Norms (GERN). He's a specialist in comparative criminal sociology and the police. He notably co-authored Politique du désordre. La police des manifestations en France (Le Seuil, November 2020), together with Olivier Fillieule, professor of political sociology at the University of Lausanne’s Institute of Political Studies (IEP).

Athanasios Barlagiannis in conversation with Cédric Fauq at 6pm (CET) on Instagram (FR)

For this 6th #tokyosession, researcher Athanasios Barlagiannis speaks to co-curator of the exhibition Anticorps Cédric Fauq about the history of medical police, quarantine policies in 19th century Greece, to look at our current times anew.

Following this conversation, the film L'Ordre (1973) by Jean-Daniel Pollet, will be screened online on this page and Palais de Tokyo's youtube channel. L'Ordre presents itself as a cinematographic essay focusing on the Spinalonga peninsula and fortress, where the greek state decided to isolate people with leprosy from 1904 onwards.

Athanasios Barlagiannis is a researcher specialised in the history of the greek state (19th century) and public health. He completed his PhD untitled "Hygiène publique et construction de l’Etat grec, 1833-1845 : la police sanitaire et l’ordre public de la santé" (Public health and making of the greek state, 1833-1845: medical police and public health order) at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris. He is currently a scientific member of the departement of history and philosophy of sciences at the National University of Athens and an associate member of the UMR TELEMMe, which depends on CNRS and the University of Aix-Marseille.

This conversation echoes the exhibition's keyword "Immunity".

Gwenola Ricordeau in conversation with Cédric Fauq at 6pm (GMT+1) on Instagram (FR)

For this 5th #tokyosession, researcher Gwenola Ricordeau speaks to co-curator of the exhibition Anticorps Cédric Fauq about prison abolitionism, its imaginaries, as well as its ties with feminists and queer struggles.

Those issues echo some of the artists' interventions within the exhibition and their practice at large: Carolyn Lazard, Dominique Petitgand, Kevin Desbouis, Forensic Architecture and Ghita Skali. The abolition of the prison-industrial complex is also at the core of Jackie Wang's research, who presents the text "Oceanic Feelings and Communist Affect" on this website and whose first book Carceral Capitalism was translated and published in french last year (Gwenola Ricordeau wrote its postface).

Gwenola Ricordeau is assistant professor in criminal justice at the California State University in Chico (US). French, she's been living in the US for three years. Her research focuses on incarcerated's loved-ones, sexuality and gender in prison, as well as oppositions to the prison system. She notably published Pour Elles Toutes. Femmes contre les Prisons (Lux, 2019). Feminist and prison abolition activist, she regularly writes on social movements. She recently published « Mobilisations contre les « violences policières » : Autant en emporte le vent réformiste ».

This conversation echoes the exhibition's keyword "Touch".

Koki Tanaka in conversation with Adélaïde Blanc at 6pm (GMT+1) on Instagram

The 4th #tokyosession will focus on the film ABSTRACTED/FAMILY (2020), presented by the artist Koki Tanaka and in conversation with Adélaïde Blanc, co-curator of Anticorps. This film features in a section of the group exhibition in which works explore the ties that bind us together and consider other forms of closeness.

The film’s genesis, its making and the way it is received constitute some of the different stages of Koki Tanaka’s work, which itself acts as a platform for discussion of the notion of family, distance as a means of resisting discrimination, or even the role of closeness in the formation of a group or community.