Hevré Sénant
The research program Gender2030 questions the influence of gender criteria on the evolution of practices (notably pictorial practices) and their display, in a context of globalisation and considers the influence of these practices on the evolution of our societies as we head towards 2030.
Progressively identified, isolated, and recognised over the course of the twentieth century through the successive work of psychoanalysts, sociologists, and intellectuals, the notion of gender has taken hold of academic culture worldwide. Beyond this scientific fortune, it nevertheless seems crucial that it not remain monopolised by specialists and social science researchers, or by a handful of politically committed artists, but become popularised, discussed, appropriated, and socially integrated if we are to hope for a veritable transformation of art and society towards a more equitable and just distribution of spaces and thus contribute to “undoing the dominant norms of social existence” (Judith Butler, Undoing Gender). In particular, it is a matter of finding “how to create a world in which those who define their gender and desire as non-normative can live and find fulfilment without the external threat of violence and without the invasive sense of their unreality.”
Gender2030 aims to foster a consistently singular appropriation of the notion of gender, to identify problematic situations stimulating the emergence of practices capable of thwarting desires of domination, hierarchisation, competition, and allocation as they are often observed in the operating modes of venues, organisations, and situations of display, according to distribution standards that are sometimes explicit but often implicit within these space-times. Gender2030 strives to find feasible alternatives, highlighting instability, fluidity, play, cooperation, the sharing of areas of visibility, and the refusal of exclusion.
Open to all kinds of approaches, this research project is fuelled by the interests and practices of participants, students, artists, and theorists.
Gender2030 research enjoys the support of the Ministry of Culture.
Restitution du workshop Je et nous à la Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz (Berlin), décembre 2014.
Restitution du workshop Je et nous à la Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz (Berlin), décembre 2014.