Finissage with performance by Benjamin Seror

As part of Old People Smoking by Anne Bourse

Programme

5 pm
Guided tour with Julia Bokermann

6 pm
Performance by Benjamin Seror

In his performances, where speech is the principal subject and tool, Benjamin Seror often narrates long improvised stories inspired by a mix of phantoms of literature, art history and everyday adventures. The stories he tells often lead the audience far into the heart of the Inferno or to dancing all night long to the delicate sound of the Perfect Kiss by New Order. Also musician, Seror plays different instruments, backing up his narratives with emotive songs that switch modes of language, underlining the complexity of what it can do.

Recently, he played Performances at 221A (Vancouver), Playground Festival (Leuven), La Ferme du Buisson (Noisiel), REDCAT (los Angeles), Kunstverein (Amsterdam), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), ICA (Philadelphia), Witte De With (Rotterdam), Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France, Paris, Bétonsalon (Paris), Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and at Palais de Tokyo (Paris). Seror’s work has been shown at Le Quartier, Quimper; Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France; Crac Alsace, Altkirch; LACE, Los Angeles; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; 11th Baltic Trienniale, Vilnius; Lyon Biennale, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Objectif Exhibition, Antwerp and Jousse Entreprise, Paris, among others.