Le cycle de conférences Panorama des Mondes à venir se poursuit mercredi 27 mai avec une intervention intitulée Find Another Way de l’artiste Nick Mauss.
Date : 27 mai 2026
Lieu : Amphithéâtre de l’ENSA Bourges
Heure : 18h-21h
Ouvert à toutes et tous
Find Another Way
Nick Mauss is an artist whose work connects drawing, gesture, and implications of space with writing, performance, and display. His exhibition Transmissions at the Whitney Museum of American Art catalyzed a new poetics of the archive and historiography through highly innovative work with dancers, curators, art historians, conservators, artworks, collectors, librarians, artists, costume makers, and exhibition designers–where the entire infrastructure of making exhibitions was treated through the lens of performance. Mauss has also collaborated with artists including Ken Okiishi, Lorraine O’Grady, Juliana Huxtable, Kim Gordon, and Yvonne Rainer, among others. A volume of his selected essays on art, cinema, dance, and fashion, titled Dispersed Events, was published by After 8 Books, Paris, in 2024. Touching on the simultaneous modes of his practice, Mauss will narrate an artistic method of re-orientation through which counter-histories are proposed.
Recent exhibitions include The Pulverized Poem, Foro Buonaparte, Milan (2025), Close-Fitting Night, Galerie Chantal Crousel (2024), Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc. at Kunsthalle Basel (2020); and Intricate Others at Fundação de Serralves, Porto (2017). Mauss has intervened in exhibitions including Transcorporealities at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2019), Florine Stettheimer at the Lenbachhaus, Munich (2014), and Designing Dreams: a Celebration of Léon Bakst (2016) and Christian Bérard: Eccentrique Bébé (2022) at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. Among recent contributions to catalogues including Five Friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly (Museum Ludwig, Cologne), and Robert Rauschenberg: Fabric Works of the 1970s (Menil Collection, Houston), Mauss is the co-author, with Angela Miller, of Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa, published by University of California Press in 2023.
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Panorama des Mondes à venir
Cette série de masterclasses et séminaires propose aux étudiant•es une cartographie sensible et critique des enjeux contemporains et invite à penser la création comme un acte d’engagement avec les mutations de notre temps : œuvres collectives, reconfigurations identitaires, bouleversements technologiques, urgences écologiques. En 2025-2026, à travers neuf rencontres avec des artistes, théoricien•nes et praticien•nes, le programme tisse un dialogue entre générations et disciplines, offrant aux étudiant•es les outils pour comprendre et habiter la complexité du présent. En alternance avec ces invitations, huit séances avec les enseignant•es permettent d’historiser les enjeux, de contextualiser les démarches présentées et d’approfondir collectivement les questions soulevées. Une série menée par Ida Soulard.
