Art And Social Commitment Symposium 2024
Open Mind
© Carolyn Carlson
Thursday 26 September 2024 from 11:30a.m to 6p.m
Auditorium Michel-Laclotte of the musée du Louvre
For the 7th Symposium, artists, writers, NGO founders, activists, journalists, philosophers… will share their concrete actions in favour of democracy.
Ink calligraphy, Carolyn Carlson
The Symposium Program
11:30 a.m: Introduction by Gautier Verbeke, Director of Mediation and Audience Development for the Louvre museum, and Marine Van Schoonbeek, Executive Director and co-founder of Thanks for Nothing
11:45 a.m: Carte Blanche to Titiou Lecoq, Journalist and Writer of Une époque en or (2024), Le Couple et l’Argent(2022), Les Grandes Oubliées (2021)
12 p.m: Poetic performance by Carolyn Carlson, Dancer and Choreographer accompanied by the dancer Sara Orselli
12:15 p.m: Clément Cogitore, Artist and Filmmaker, represented by Chantal Crousel Consulting
1 pm: Louis Norval, Collector and founder of the Norval Foundation (South Africa) in conversation with Audrey Tcherkoff, Editorialist, BFM TV _ In English
1:45 p.m: Sylvain Kahn, Associate Professor of History and Doctor of Geography, Associate Professor at Sciences Po and researcher at the Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, author of L’Europe face à l’Ukraine (2024)
2:15 p.m: Elisa Peter, Director and Samuel Sigere, Program Officer, Civitates (Belgium), Sandra Whipham, Co-Director of Doc Society (United Kingdom), Zoltán Lengyel, Program Developer for Marom (Hungary), and Katarína Batková, Director of VIA Iuris (Slovakia)_ In English
3 p.m: Elizabeth Breiner, Program Manager, Forensic Architecture (United Kingdom) _ In English
3:30 p.m : Young People’s Advocacy for Democracy, supported by Maël Coutand, Founder of the Instragram account ASMR Politics
4:15 p.m: Lucrecia Vinhaes, PIPA Prize and Instituto PIPA Board Member (Brazil), with artists Guerreiro do Divino Amor and Lyz Parayzo
5 p.m: Kamel Daoud, Writer and journalist, Author of Houris (2024), Zabor ou les Psaumes (2017) and Meursault, contre-enquête (2014, Prix Goncourt for first novel), in conversation with Marie Misset, Journalist
5:45 p.m: Conclusion by Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Special Advisor to the Presidency-director, Louvre museum
Focus on Young People’s Advocacy for Democracy
In the aftermath of the European and parliamentary elections, Thanks for Nothing is mobilising by organising a Young People’s Advocacy for Democracy.
To highlight their actions, we are giving the stage to 10 young people committed to democracy, on the stage of the Auditorium of the Musée du Louvre. Our aim is to make this initiative a genuine tribune for young people to express their support for European citizenship as a bulwark of democracy.
With interventions from : Josiane Asmane for le camion poétique, Claudia Benítez for Magnitude Zéro, Anna Jégo for Komune, Coline Lepage for Héphaïstos, Maryna Marionneau for S’occuper à l’hôpital, Vladimir Méline for Fédération Les Engagés, Vincent Muteau for Le Relais Jeunes 3 – Cycl’Eau Tour, Lomta Pornaye for Tous Réfugiés, Esther Rejai for Bellastock festival, Jenani Sarveswaran for Rêv’elles.
