Maxime Gourdon

Thursday late afternoon—Presentation
How is it that you are how you are when you tell yourself out.
An essay-talk on a curatorial project that began with researching the history of optics from an Arab perspective and culminated in a performance
Please note changed from Wednesday afternoon.

Maxime Gourdon is a Brussels-based curator, researcher and cinematographer. He earned an MA in Cinema from the ENS Louis Lumière in Paris (FR), MFA and Postgraduate in Curatorial studies both at KASK Ghent (BE), and is currently enrolled at Dutch Art Institute (NL). He contributes to collective projects, publications, and works with filmmakers and artists in the making of exhibitions and film production. Long-term projects fits with orality, research and confrontation—leisure and work are intertwined as definition-making practice in continuous conversation. He organizes exhibitions and film programmes; is involved in short fiction, documentary and artists’ films as cinematographer and regularly contributes to publications with texts and photographs.

Contact him at gourdon.maxime (at) gmail.com