Lou Forster

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Présentation

Curator, art historian, and dramaturg, Lou Forster works at the intersection of dance and human sciences.

His interest in dance and performance grows since 2010. He writes about Alain Buffard, the Encyclopédie de la Parole, Anna Halprin, Jennifer Lacey, Franck Leibovici, Rabih Mroué, Steve Paxton, Walid Raad, Yvonne Rainer, Claudia Triozzi, among others, for A prior, Le journal des Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Art 21, and joins the editorial bord of the latter from 2012 to 2013. From this first experience as an art critic, he wishes to deepen his knowledge about choreographic practices and diversify the way to account for it.

During these early years, he also develops his work as a curator. He assists Pierre Bal-Blanc for The Living Currency in 2013 and takes part to documenta 14 as a curatorial assistant for the projects about Cornelius Cardew, André du Colombier, Anna Harplin, El Hadji Sy, and Yianni Christou, among others. He also collaborates with W, as freelance researcher, Thiago Granato, as dramaturg, and Gerard&Kelly, as performer.

In 2014, he initiates an ambitious project about the choreographer Lucinda Childs. He curates the first retrospective exhibition about her work, Lucinda Childs, Nothing Personal (1963-1989), at the Centre National de la Danse and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, during the Festival d’Automne à Paris in 2016, and at the Centre Chorégraphique and the Scène Nationale d’Orléan in 2018. He supports the donation of the choreographers’ papers at the Centre National de la Danse, and he is currently writing his dissertation at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences under the supervision of Béatrice Fraenkel and Carrie Lambert-Beatty (Harvard University). He proposes an historical anthropology of her dance company attentive to the crafts and technics allowing the embodiment of minimalism.

Since 2018, his knowledge about dance benefits from the research program “Chorégraphie. Écriture et dessin, signe et image dans les processus de creation et de transmission chorégraphique” of the National Institute of Art History where he works as PhD fellow. He also graduated from Kinetography Laban at the Conservatoire de Paris in 2020.

In parallel of his individual researches, he founded abd with Lenio Kaklea in 2010 to develop projects that explore the intersection of dance, research and critical theory. He works as the dramaturge for Fluctuat nec Mergitur (2010), Arranged by Date (2012), Margin Release (2015), and part take to Iris, Alexandra, Katerina, Mariela et moi (2016) at the festival DansFabrik, Quartz-Scène Nationale de Brest.

In 2017, Praticial Encyclopeadia is a turning point in their collaboration. In this project, dance becomes a tool to explore the practices of 600 inhabitants in six different European cities. Following this survey, they write Encyclopédie pratique, Portraits d’Aubervilliers (Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and abd, Aubervilliers and Paris, 2017) and Practical Encyclopaedia, Detours (Les presses du réel and abd, Dijon and Paris, 2020).

Publications

Publications

Towards an Embodied Abstraction: An Historical Perspective on Lucinda Childs’ Calico Mingling (1973)

L Forster
Arts, 2021, 10 (1), pp.7. ⟨10.3390/arts10010007⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03118318 v1
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Sources iconographiques et chorégraphiques : pour une recherche croisée entre histoire de l’art et études en danse

L Forster , Juliet Bellow , Inge Baxmann , Mickaël Bouffard , Pauline Chevalier et al.
Perspective - la revue de l'INHA : actualités de la recherche en histoire de l'art, 2020, Perspective : actualité en histoire de l’art, 2 (2), p.51-72. ⟨10.4000/perspective.19766⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03255760 v1
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People photo movement score (PPMS)

L Forster
2020, http://www.conversationsinvermont.net/steve-paxton/ppms-fr.html
Article dans une revue (compte-rendu de lecture) hal-03043604 v1

The movement clinic

L Forster , Fanny de Chaillé , Cécile Zoonens , Laurent Sebillotte
Centre National de la Danse. Alain Buffard, Good Boy, Les presses du réel; Centre National de la Danse, 2020, 978-2-37896-069-8
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03028216 v1

La production de l’espace chez Lucinda Childs, 1963-1974. Dislocation et subjectivation

L Forster , Yann Potin , Paul-Louis Rinuy , Clothilde Roullier
Archives en acte. Arts plastiques, danse, performance, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2018
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03043624 v1

Anna Halprin

L Forster , Pierre Bal-Blanc , Adam Szymczyk , Quinn Latimer
documenta 14: Daybook, 2017, 978-3-7913-5655-6
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03044446 v1

La réduction du mystère

L Forster , Yannick Liron
École européenne supérieure d'art de Bretagne. Site de Lorient. L'expérience du récit. 2, 2012, 978-2-37022-003-5
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03044468 v1
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People photo movement score (PPMS)

L Forster , Tom Engels , Myriam Van Imschoot , Macklin Kowal
Conversations in Vermont, 2020, http://www.conversationsinvermont.net/steve-paxton/ppms-en.html
Autre publication scientifique hal-03043616 v1