Julie Boukobza
Julie Boukobza is a curator and art critic based in Paris. She currently runs the Luma Arles Residency Program as well as the 89plus Residency Program at the Lab of the Google Cultural Institute in Paris. She is also working on a solo exhibition at Converso in Milan opening on January 23rd 2020 with the British artist Michael Dean. In October 2020, she is co-curating an exhibition at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo with Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga in Madrid, Spain.
1. Rome, 1er et 2 novembre 1975 currently on view until January 5th 2020 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and September 2020 at the Contemporary Art Museum in Montreal.
Last February, my friend the artist Lili Reynaud Dewar invited me to Villa Medici in Rome to act alongside many other friends and collaborators in her new project based on a film tracing the last days of Pasolini by Abel Ferrara. In my first scene, I was called a queer and beaten to death by young Roman kids on a cold night in the Villa’s magnificent garden. The life and death of a curator!
2. ‘Dying on Stage’ a performance by Christodoulos Panayotou at Musée d’Orsay on October 19th 2019, as part of Festival d’Automne, invited by Donatien Grau
I cannot say a word about this performance in three acts without spoiling it, even if we all know we are going to die. I can only advise anyone reading this text to go see the final iteration on December 14th 2019. It always coincides with the artist’s birthday.
3. ‘Les couilles sur la table’, a podcast, with invited guest Virginie Despentes
First there is her voice, so soft, then the way she speaks with kindness and distance, and of course the content of these conversations in four parts: the tenderness of fathers, the power of fabulous tantrums, if Houellebecq was a woman, and how can you still be a heterosexual woman after thirty five years old? I don’t agree with everything but I admire her deeply.