16 November 2023

12:20 – 13:05

Amphithéâtre Faure

Jade Bouchemit

Jade Bouchemit is Deputy Director of the Musée de la Musique at the Philharmonie de Paris. He has previously worked at the Fondation Cartier and the Jeu de Paume. With a background in philosophy, he has also been editor-in-chief of Oscillations, a journal of philosophy and contemporary art, and has directed several seminars and conferences on art and music. He also teaches at HEC Paris and La Sorbonne.

Conference: Is energy the “tenth muse”?

Forged in poetic élan at the start of a twentieth century fascinated by energy, Annunziata’s tenth Muse, Energèia, was to preside over the radical transformation of Man and the world, thanks to a new art born of the technological domination of nature and the prophetic vision of daring artists not averse to combining artistic and political action. One hundred years on, when energy governs every aspect of our lives and threatens our very survival, can artists be the instigators of an increasingly urgent energy paradigm shift? A priori powerless to save the bees or prevent the rising waters, can they, by reconnecting with the totalizing Annunzian energy, bring “imagination to power” to preserve the world by changing it? In short, we’ll explore energy’s capacity to inspire a new activism that’s artistic, ecological, popular, virtuous and, above all, victorious.