Tuesday to Sunday, from 11AM to 7PM (every 90 minutes)

During the exhibition Air de Lyon, Proa’s Auditorium presents every days a video program curated by Victoria Noorthoorn. The list of artists includes François Bucher, Aurélien Froment, Christoph Keller, Tracey Rose, Alexander Schellow and Javier Téllez.

Aurélien Froment. La tectonique des plaques, 2011. Courtesy of the artists, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam and Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris. Co-produced Musée Departamental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart and Biennale de Lyon 2011

Tuesday / Thursday to Sunday: Program 1
Christoph Keller. Retrograd: A reverse chronology of the medical films made at the Berlin hospital Charité, 1999-2000 (32 minutes)
Alexander Schellow. Ohne Titel (Fragment), 2011 (5 minutes)
François Bucher. El hombre que desapareció, 2008 (5 minutes)
Aurélien Froment. La tectonique desplaques, 2011 (15 minutes)
Javier Téllez. O rinoceronte de Dürer, 2010 (41 minutes)

Wednesday: Program 2
Tracey Rose. In The Castle Of My Skin, 2011 (249 minutes)
Christoph Keller. Retrograd: A reverse chronology of the medical films made at the Berlin hospital Charité, 1999-2000 (32 minutes)
Alexander Schellow. Ohne Titel (Fragment), 2011 (5 minutes)
François Bucher. El hombre que desapareció, 2008 (5 minutes)
Aurélien Froment. La tectonique desplaques, 2011 (15 minutes)
Javier Téllez. O rinoceronte de Dürer, 2010 (41 minutes)

Javier Téllez. O Rinoceronte de Dürer, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich

François Bucher. El hombre que desapareció, 2008
Duration: 4min 36sec. Video HD, color, sound. Collection of the artist

About the artist
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Aurélien Froment. La tectonique des plaques, 2011
Duration: 14min 25sec. Video HD, color, sound. With Judith Plas and Laurent Talon. Courtesy of the artists, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam and Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris. Co-produced Musée Departamental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart and Biennale de Lyon 2011

This film by Aurélien Froment documents an exhibition built on the same scale as its open-air setting. The two main characters traverse the countryside as though they were touring an exhibition: the universe has effectively become their gallery. Aurélien Froment’s fictional approach highlights behaviors, which are common in our reactions to both art works and landscapes, our tendency towards labeling the things we see and the time it takes us to properly appreciate them. About the artist
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Christoph Keller. Retrograd: A reverse chronology of the medical films made at the Berlin hospital Charité, 1999-2000
Duration: 32min. Video DVD. Courtesy of the artists and Esther Schipper Gallery, Berlin

From the very beginnings of film until the dismantling of its Film Institute, the Berlin Charité hospital produced approximately 1000 educational, medical, documentary and experimental scientific films. There is no cinematic footage of the Charité itself. There are scraps: fragments in the form of notes, articles, a few photos and the films that have survived. How can one tell a story that does not exist, that appears only intermittently in a context of images and documents full of gaps? About the artist
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Tracey Rose. In The Castle Of My Skin, 2011
Duration: 249min. Video color, sound. Creation 11th Biennale de Lyon. Collection of the artist

In residence in Feyzin as part of the Biennale de Lyon program, Tracey Rose creates a fictional cast featuring nearly thirty people. In what could be seen as a reality-show, the artist questions the assignment of individuals to compartmentalized cultural representations, according to a willfully xenophobic typology based on a chapter of Franz Fanon’s book Black Skin, white Masks, in which the author is terrorized by a small French boy who exclaimed upon seeing him: “Look, a Negro! Mama, see the Negro! I’m afraid!”. About the artist
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Alexander Schellow. Ohne Titel (fragment), 2011
Duration: 5min 21sec. Video HD, 16:9, b&w. Production Films de Force Majeure / Alexander Schellow. Courtesy of the artist

In his drawing practice, Schellow reconstructs from memory specific encounters seen in everyday urban settings several days, or even months, previously. At Air de Lyon, we present one of his most ambitious animation projects. Untitled (Fragment) is a work in progress based on several visits to a 96-year-old woman who lives at a clinic for Alzheimer’s patients in Berlin. In his studio the artist meticulously recreates the subtle movements of her face after-the-fact. Overall, Schellow’s work is the result of a combination of what remains of the seen and an obsessive attempt to recover what the consciousness shields from us, thus challenging the usual process of memory in which specific details sink into oblivion forever. About the artist
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Javier Téllez. O Rinoceronte de Dürer, 2010
Duration: 41min. Digital film to HD video transfer, color, stereo sound. Fundación Calouste Gulbenkian – CAM (Centre de Arte Moderna), Lisbon, 2010. Courtesy of the artist and Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich

O Rinoceronte de Dürer was filmed entirely on location at the panopticon of the Miguel Bombarda Hospital in Lisbon and made in collaboration with psychiatric patients of the outpatient’s clinic, who form the main cast of the film. Built in 1896 on the grounds of the largest Psychiatric Hospital in Lisbon, the panopticon was designed as a prison for the criminally insane, following the original plans of Jeremy Bentham.
The fragmentary narrative of O Rinoceronte de Dürer was written by the patients in a series of workshops conducted prior to the shooting of the film, where they imagined themselves as inhabitants of the former insane asylum and acted out fictional scenarios within their assigned cells. This reconstruction of the everyday life of a mental institution is complemented by voice-overs quoting texts such as Jeremy Bentham’s letter presenting the Panopticon, Plato’s Cave, and Kafka’s short story The Burrow. About the artist

Christoph Keller. Retrograd: A reverse chronology of the medical films made at the Berlin hospital Charité, 1999-2000. Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper Gallery, Berlin