What is contemporary?

  • Theatre of Ideas
The 2010 archive

Hosted by Nicolas Truong

Presentation

What does it mean to be of your time? How can we reflect our period? Should we think with or against it? Is modernity a value? Must we be absolutely modern? How can we define the contours of a contemporary art that sometimes swings between quarrels and misunderstandings? Between aesthetics and politics, literature and philosophy, a reflection from several voices of a new generation of authors on the post-modern condition.

photo © Clémence Hérout

Distribution

With François Cusset, historian of ideas
Patricia Falguières, art critic
Lionel Ruffel, historian on literature

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