Conférence de l’artiste Michal Heiman organisée par la Fondation Inalco dans le cadre de l’édition 2022-2023 du cycle Violences sexuelles et violences de genre dans le monde, grâce au soutien de la Fondation ROTHSCHILD-Institut Alain de Rothschild.
De 17h à 18h : rencontre avec les étudiant.e.s en salle 4.21
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Conférence de 18h à 20h à l’auditorium (et en ligne, à confirmer)
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La conférence portera sur sa production artistique intitulée « Radical-link. A new community of women’ 1855-2020« .
En anglais. For over four decades, Michal Heiman, an artist, (art)ivist, a finalist for the Gradiva Award in 2022 for her contribution to the psychoanalytic field, founder of the public-benefit corporation An Academy of Her Own,has addressed gender and political frameworks, offers alternative thematic, aesthetic, and theoretical matrices. Throughout her lecture – performance, Heiman will bring her voice to bear on issues of unwritten and neglected histories and archives mainly focused on anonymous and marginalized women, including women who were hospitalized in asylums in the 19th century. Heiman, multimedia artist, ,will unfold her use of tactics of infiltration and own history and body, to challenge art and photography’s therapeutic potential and its role in the struggle for human rights.
Biographie Michal Heiman
Michal Heiman (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, (art)ivist, curator, and theoretician. She brings her critical voice to bear on issues of neglected histories and archives, challenging art and photography’s therapeutic potential and its role in the struggle for human rights. In her last exhibitions, Heiman’s work has mainly focused on anonymous and marginalized women who were hospitalized in asylums in the 19th century. Using different tactics of infiltration and her own history, she offers alternative thematic, aesthetic, and theoretical matrices, often woven into the fabric of psychoanalytic theory. For over four decades her work has addressed gender and political frameworks, including the right of return. She has developed a new discipline that inhabits a field between art and therapy, photography and diagnosis, theory and praxis.
Heiman’s works are included in private and institutional collections worldwide. Recently, the Centre Pompidou added her installation, The Blind Triptych (2022), to their permanent collection. Her works have been shown at The Jewish Museum (New York), Documenta X (Kassel), The Van Abbe Museum (Eindhoven), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), and the Museum of Modern Art (Saitama City, Japan). Since 2019, she has had three solo exhibitions, Radical Link: A New Community of Women at the American University Museum at Katzen Art Center (Washington, D.C.), Hearing at the American Jewish University (Los Angeles), and Chronically Linked at Binghamton University (New York).
Working with case studies by renowned psychoanalysts, Heiman has presented several lecture films, Father not Uncle (Freud/Katharina), based on a Freud case study with Katharina, Through the Visual, A Tale of Art that Attacks Linking (1917-2008), analyzing the British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion’s drawings and photographs from World War I, and Reality and Playing 1 & 2, based on a case study by the English psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott, which are now a part of the Winnicott Trust in London.
Heiman was a finalist for the Gradiva Award in 2022 for her contribution to the psychoanalytic field. She is a member of the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, founder of the Photographer Unknown archive (1984), creator of the Michal Heiman Tests (M.H.T.s)1–4, and the first winner of the Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography in collaboration with the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2010. In 2022 she was appointed as the curator of the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis’ virtual gallery.
In 2015, she founded the organization, Women in Academia, to protect and advance women’s equality at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. In 2018, Heiman founded the public-benefit corporation An Academy of Her Own, which advocates for gender equality in academic art institutions. Heiman has taught at numerous universities and institutions, including Bezalel Academy of Art & Design and Tel Aviv University.
Contacts : Elisa CARANDINA – elisa.carandina@inalco.fr ; Michal HEIMAN – michal.heiman@gmail.com
A propos de la Fondation ROTHSCHILD-Institut Alain de Rothschild
Présidée par Eric de Rothschild, la Fondation ROTHSCHILD-Institut Alain de Rothschild apporte son soutien financier, matériel et moral à une centaine de projets par an dans tous les domaines de l’intérêt général. Dans une société fragilisée par les inégalités, ses multiples actions de mécénat concernent plus particulièrement les secteurs de la culture, de l’éducation, de l’environnement et de la santé. Elle se distingue notamment par sa capacité à agir face à des problématiques sociétales majeures. Ses deux premiers domaines d’intervention sont d’abord la lutte contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme ainsi que la solidarité envers les plus fragiles. Le partenariat avec l’Inalco et la Fondation Inalco constitue pour la Fondation ROTHSCHILD-Institut Alain de Rothschild une première occasion de travail avec une institution académique nationale sur l’enjeu de société majeur que constitue l’étude de la parité et du genre.