Thursday 28 April 2016 at 7pm
Five Senses for One Death
 

With Etel Adnan and Gavin Bryars

Since 1983, Etel Adnan and Gavin Bryars have frequently collaborated. The same year, they contributed to Robert Wilson's opera -- the CIVIL warS ordered for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The visitors listened through the poet voice and the piano interpretation of Gavin Bryars the Etel Adnan's Five Senses for One Death poem, which gathered the duet again at La Monnaie de Paris.

Born in 1943, Gavin Bryars is a post-minimalist British composer. After a degree in Philosophy at Sheffield University he studied composition with Cyril Ramsey and George Linstead. In the 60's, he initiated a bassist carrier in the Joseph Holbrooke trio. Then, he devoted himself to musical creation. In 1971, he composed Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, which is a loop composition based on the words of a homeless, that gave him a worldwide recognition.

Thursday 17 March 2016 at 7pm
The poets talk to each other
 

With Etel Adnan, Vincent Broqua, Sabine Macher and Stéphane Bouquet

Sunday 13 December 2015, from 1pm to 7pm
In the Guillaume Dupré Salon
Etel Adnan reads and invites to read Paradiso of  Dante's Divine Comedy

Monnaie de Paris is celebrating Christmas and the new year 2016, inviting friends and visitors to enjoy a continuous reading of Dante’s Paradiso, from the author’s masterpiece La Divina Commedia. This poetic text will help us to envision our near future in relationship with poetry, hope and the spirituality it represents.

The thirty-three canti of the French translation by Jacqueline Risset will be read by friends and poets invited by Etel Adnan:

Canto 1: Sophie Bourel
Canti 2 and 3: Pierre Henri Foulon
Canti 4 and 5: Sophie Bourel
Canti 6 and 7: Pauline Behr
Canti 8 and 9: Lionel Jung Allegret
Canti 10 and 11: Simone Fattal
Canti 12 and 13: Vincent Broqua
Canti 14 and 15: Eugénie Paultre
Canti 16 and 17: Sabine Macher
Canti 18: Marianne Auricoste
Canto 19: Marie Gossart
Canti 20 and 21: Anne Portugal
Canti 22 and 23: Yves Jamait
Canti 24 and 25: Laure Cambeau
Canti 26 and 27: Sylvie Robert
Canti 28 and 29: Marielle Anselmo
Canti 30 and 31: Aurélie Verdier
Canti 32 and 33: Anton Martyrov

Friday 13 November 2015 at 7pm
In the Guillaume Dupré Salon
Etel Adnan reads and invites to read

Pauline Behr, Vincent Broqua, Hanna Schygulla & Alicia Bustamante, Sophie Bourel et Lionel Jung Allegret

Thursday 16 September 2015 at 7pm
Etel Adnan reads and invites to read

Gabrielle Althen
Gabrielle Althen is a French poet, essayist, short-story writer and novelist. She is also an emeritus professor of comparative literature. She is interested in music, which she practices privately, and painting. Besides her own body of work, she reflects on poetry and art.

Vincent Broqua
Vincent Broqua is an author and professor of North-American literature and art. His research focuses on 20th and 21st-century writings, music and experimental arts. Vincent Broqua is also a translator. With Abigail Lang et Olivier Brossard, he translated to French David Antin’s What It Means to Be Avant-Garde.

Eugénie Paultre read by Simon Bailly
Born in 1979, Eugénie Paultre is a French poet, philosopher and painter. Her first book of poems L'état actuel des choses was published in 2012. Eugénie Paultre and Etel Adnan regularly work together on literary and artistic projects. In particular, Eugénie Paultre edited Adnan’s film Motion (2012) that was presented at Documenta 13 in Kassel.