Masterclass Multiplex 2024 - With ORLAN (French Multimedia Artist and Feminist)
On 14 May (Porto) and 17 May (Lisbon), reflect on digital, robotics and artificial intelligence
After Nan Goldin in 2022 and Sara Driver in 2023, this year's Multiplex guest is ORLAN, a French performer, multimedia artist and feminist born in 1947.
ORLAN crosses different disciplinary practices such as painting, sculpture, photography and video, as well as installation and performance. Internationally recognized since the 1970s, the cosmetic surgeries she underwent in the 1990s, which became public performances, rituals and moments of affirmation of feminist statements and freedom, brought renewed attention to the artist at a time of reflection on the limits of the body, technology and bioethics. She is currently researching digital media, robotics, artificial intelligence and biotechnology.
She had an exhibition, "Les femmes qui pleurent sont en colère" dedicated to her digital images at the Picasso Museum in Paris in 2022. And a retrospective exhibition at the SESC in São Paulo (Brazil) in 2023.
Multiplex 2024 includes two lectures by ORLAN at Universidade Lusófona, a retrospective cycle of his films at Batalha Centro de Cinema (Porto) and a screening (Lisbon) followed by a debate between ORLAN and French curator Yannick LeGuillanton. To complete the program, a special session is dedicated to the work done by the students of the Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication Degree at Lusófona University at Batalha Centro de Cinema and an exhibition of audiovisual and multimedia installations at Espaço Mira in Porto.
Schedule
ORLAN
Lusófona University - Porto University Center
May 14th
- 3pm: ORLAN Conference - Batalha Cinema Center;
- 9:15 p.m.: Opening of the retrospective cycle dedicated to ORLAN (with the presence of the artist) - Batalha Cinema Center
May 15th - Batalha Cinema Center
- 19h: Presentation of the book STRIP-TEASE at the Bookshop
- 21h15: Retrospective Cycle
May 16th - Batalha Cinema Center
- 21h15: Retrospective Cycle
Lusófona University - Lisbon University Center
May 16th - Livraria Linha de Sombra/Cinemateca Portuguesa
- 6pm: Presentation of the book STRIP-TEASE
May 17th - Cinema Fernando Lopes
- 3pm: ORLAN Conference
- 6pm: Screening of ORLAN films followed by a conversation between the artist and curator Yannick LeGuillanton
ORLAN Films Program - Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto
May 14th
- Je Suis Slowsexuel.le - ORLAN & Sir Alice, 2023, 5'44''
- The Reincarnation of Saint ORLAN or new images / 4th Operation-Surgical-Performance called Successful Surgery, 1991, 6’16”
- The Reincarnation of Saint ORLAN or new images / 7th Operation-surgical-performance called Omnipresence. 1993, 21’11”.
May 15th
- Mise en Scène pour un Grand Fiat, 1984, 20'
- No Comment, 2009. 4’44”.
- Petition against Death, 2018, 2’32”
- The Reincarnation of Saint ORLAN or new images / 5th Operation-Surgical-Performance called Opera Surgery, 1991. (duração a confirmar)
May 16th
- “Éxperimentale mise en jeu”, jeu vidéo – Démonstration 2015, 4'40''
- The Baroque Draped, 1979, 2'16''
- Dream Catcher in Hopi’s Area, 2008, 4’52”.
- “Theater Of Deeplearning” questions from ORLAN at the ORLANoide, Capital exhibition at the Grand Palais, 2018, 8'20''
- Pussy Riot and ORLAN performance, 2022, 9'47''
- No baby no, 2018, 2’46”
May 17th
- Sainte Orlan Et Les Vieillards, 1983, 5'
- I’m Hungry, I’m Thirsty, And It Could Be Worse, 2018, 3’11”
- Extrait de “MesuRAGES” 3D Video. Produced and directed by ORLAN, 2013, 1'33''
- MesuRAGE The Andy Warhol Museum, 2012, 53'
- Tentative & ORLAN - Les corps de métiers m'excitent, 2023, 3'38''
