Conferences and signings

2022

2021

2019

Amphithéâtre Richelieu, Sorbonne, Woman with head, conversation with Donatien Grau, November 8 Paris France

University of Berne, Autobiography, November 5, Berne, Switzerland

Académie nationale de Médecine, Looking, seeing and being seen: The gaze in art and medicine, September 20, Paris, France

2017

L’étoile Manquante Bistro, Talk-show with Wilon Balda, June^13th, Paris, France

Festival de l’histoire de l’art, ORLAN-Corps with Thierry Dufrêne, June^2nd, Fontainebleau, France

Musée Guimet, Prune Nourry, Colloque Sélections Procréatives, April 2017, Paris, France

Chambre d’Industrie et de Commerce, Grand Barouf du Numérique, ORLAN and Dominique Moulon, March 9th 2017, Lille, France

Le Carré, Biennale Circonférences, “Femme avec têtes”, organized by Bertrand Godot, performed by Alain Gintzburger, March 11th 2017, Chateau-Gontier, France

Théâtre des Sablons, “ORLAN”, March 7th 2017, organized by Elisabeth Couturier, Paris France

Maison des Arts de Malakoff, HER Story, organized by Julie Crenn, Malakoff, France.

University of Sheffield, Yuck Factor, organized by Helena Ifill, Sheffield, UK.

Royal Institute of Art, Kungliga Konsthögskolan, “What is a Mask?”, organized by Catherine Malabou, 26th-27th January 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.

2016

CAPC, Opline Prize 3016, “Revenance”, November 5th, with Bernard Lafargue, Geneviève Fraisse, Alain Glykos, Bernard Vouilloux, Bordeaux, France.

Venice International Performance Art Week, Fragile Body, December 11th, organized by Andrea Pagnes, Venice, Italy.

Vienna Art Week, “Seeking Beauty”, November 15th 2016, Vienna, Austria.

Salon de la Photographie, November 12th, interview by Hervé Le Goff, organized by Didier de Faÿs, Paris, France.

Opline Prize 2016, selecting Prune Nourry, Jury “Revenance”, presented by Alain Fleischer, November 5th, Bordeaux, France.

Le Fresnoy, “Ceci est mon corps, Ceci est mon logiciel”, October 10th, presented by Alain Fleischer and Eric Prigent, Tourcoing, France.

Opline Prize 2016, selecting Prune Nourry, Jury “Revenance”, presented by Alain Fleischer, October 1st, Paris Nuit Blanche, France.

Busan Biennale, “ORLAN – Hybrid Arstist”, September 3rd at the Suyeong Factory Courtyard and 4th 2016 at the Shinsegae Center, Busan, South Korea.

Fondation Louis Vuitton, “Le Journal – Poésie actuelle”, July 1st 2016, organized by Anne-James Chaton, Paris, France.

BNF, La BNF welcomes Karine Saporta “Philosophie du corps et danse contemporaine”, organized by Karine Saporta, 26thJune 2016, Paris, France.

Center Pompidou, Malaga, Otra Noche “, Je est un autre et la metamorphose”, 9 april 2016, Paris, France.

Grand Théâtre, Forum d’Avignon, Les Rencontres internationales 2016, “À quoi rêvent les algorithmes?”, organized by Hervé Digne, 31 march to 1st april 2016, Bordeaux, France.

Center Pompidou, Paris, “Exposer la recherche” with Sylvain Lizon, Christophe Viart, ORLAN, organized by Corinne Le Neun, Françoise Docquiert, February^8th 2016.

Museo Nacional de Antropologia, “Hibridos el cuerpo como imaginario”, “ORLAN : Les Métamorphoses du corps, l’individu à l’épreuve de l’imaginaire collectif”, organized by Antonio Saborit, Tatyana Franck, Miguel Fernandez Félix, February^4th 2016, Mexico? Mexico.

Musée des Beaux-Arts, “The body as imaginary”, Colloque Hybrides, organized by Tatyana Franck, 2,3,4 February 2016, Mexico City, Mexico.

2015

Center Pompidou, “Les Immatériaux, trente ans après”, Matière et Immatière aujourd’hui, round table with Daniel Buren, ORLAN, Jean-Louis Boissier, Bracha L. Ettinger, Miguel Chevalier, organized by Christine Buci-Glucksmann and Thierry Dufrêne, November 27, 2015.

LA PLATEFORME PARIS PHOTO, “Photographie & Événement artistique : l’unique recréé” with Philippe Artières, Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, ORLAN, organized by Donatien Grau, 13 november 2015, Grand Palais, Paris, France.

CENTQUATRE, “Table ronde: Vers l’inaccessible parité?”, organized by: Les Talentueuses, October 22, 2015, Paris, France.

FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Les Abattoirs, “Femme avec tête(s)”, October 1, 2015, Toulouse, France.

The Dali museum, St Petersburg, Florida “Conference Picasso/Dali”; 6 february 2015, USA

Round-table discussion, “L’Emencipation créatrice” PRESAGE SciencePo program. February 3th

Table-ronde, “PAUL in PARIS in PARIS”, Monnaie de Paris, January 4th

2014

Silencio, Conversation with Medhi Brit for “Interviwer la performance” November 26

Round-table discussion, Le Cube, “What kind of art in 2050?” November 24

Artist and scientist workshops, “Projet Synenergene” October 20-24

Oplineprize 2014, Bordeaux, Jury “Multiple identities in the digital age” November 28,29, France

Center George Pompidou; “In vivo, code couleur”; 18th september; Centre Pompidou, France

University of Angers; “Headless Women” performance conference; April 8, University, Angers, France

Center Vinci international de congrès de Tours; “performance and plastic surgery”; Saturday 24 May; Tours, France

Selfridges Beauty Salon; “The boom in body alteration”; London; 22 may; London, UK

2013

La Sorbonne; Pragmatisme et création seminar; December 5,Paris, France.

Corum de Montpellier; “Forum Libération: le corps, quel engin!”, November 9, Montpellier, France.

Grand Palais; FIAC 2013; October 25, Paris, France.

La Alhondiga, “Feminism perspectives in Art production and theories of art”, October 26, Bilbao, Spain.

XLVI Aica Internationnal, “congress 2013, inaugural lecture”, 24 September, Kosice, Slovakia.

Hartung-Bergman Foundation, art and feminism seminar, “Women with head(s)”,   August 30, Antibes, France

European Bioethics Forum, “Mon corps, mon image : Jeux d’identités”, January 30, Strasbourg, France

The City University of Hong Kong: School of Creative Media: “This is my body, this is my software”. 15 March. Hong Kong, China.

Musee des Moulages au Universite Paul-Valery: “This is my body, this is my software” April, Montpellier, France

 2012

Center Culturel International de Cerisy-la-salle, “Les Questions de transplantation, table ronde autours de l’Oeuvre d’ORLAN”, May 23rd, Cerisy-la-salle, France

Zagreb Museum Contemporary Art, “Femme avec tête(s)”, organized by Leila Topic, 25 April, Zagreb, Croatia

Villa Arson, “Femme avec tête(s)”, organized by Giovanni Joppolo, 9 March, Nice, France

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, “Femme avec tête(s)”, organized by Victoria di Rosa, 14 March, Sevilla, SPAIN

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Academia de Artes Guerrero, “Cuerpos en situacion Homenaje a ORLAN”, 12 March-24 May, Colombia, USA

2011

Université Paris Descartes, “What can surgery do?”, organized by Patrick Berche, Hugues Marchal, 22 June Paris, France

2010

The Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space, “Bodies of Art” Florida Atlantic University”, December 2, Boca Raton, USA

Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon, “Les femmes s’entêtent : 40 ans de mouvements de libération des femmes”, organized by Fabienne Dalli, November 24, Lyon, France

Hixson Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, “Public Lecture / Performance, “Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium” (IAS)”, November 2, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Théâtre du Rond-Point, “ORLAN, Hybridons-nous!”, La Monstrueuse Université, organized by Jean-Daniel Magnin, October 10, Paris, France

Université Paris Descartes, “Théâtre et Médecine”, organized by Florence Filippi, 28 may, Paris, France

Sciences Po, “Etats Généraux de la Femme”, organized by ELLE magazine, 7 may, Paris, France

Sciences Po, “Transeuropa Festival: Feminism in Europe in 2010”, organized by European Alternatives | Ségolène Pruvot, with ORLAN, Geneviève Fraysse, Elsa Dorlin and Michela Marzano,3 may, Paris, France

Center Georges Pompidou – BPI, “Les normes de genre dans la création contemporaine : reproduction/déconstruction”, organized by Alain Seban and Christine Détrez, 6 february, Paris, France

2009

Museo dell’Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, “Incontro con l’artista ORLAN”, for the Festival “Matilde di Canossa” Dell’Eccelenza al Femminile, 9-16 November, organized by Consuelo Barilari, with Achile Bonito Oliva, 15 november, Genova, Italy

Cordoaria Nacional, “Inside [Art and Science]”, curator Leonel Moura, November 8, Lisbon, Portugal

Center Georges Pompidou, “Un dimanche, une œuvre: le Baiser de l’artiste, d’ORLAN”, with Bernard Blistène and Emma Lavigne, October 20, Paris, France

Brooklyn Museum, “This is My Body, This is My Software: Between Western and Non-Western Culture”, april, New York, USA

Musée du Quai Branly, International Symposium on Performance, art and anthropology, “Ceci est mon corps. … Ceci est mon logiciel. Between Western and non-Western culture” March, Paris, France

2008

Yeditepe University, “ORLAN and Aesthetics Surgery”, Istanbul, Turquey

Museum of modern art, “This is My Body, This is My Software: Between Western and Non- Western Culture”, 21 august, Rio, Brazil

Courtauld Institut, “This is My Body, This is My Software: Between Western and Non-Western Cultures”, 7 februrary, London, UK

Goldsmiths university, “This is My Body, This is My Software: Between Western and Non- Western Cultures”, 4 february, London, UK

Central School of Speech and Drama Embassy Theater (UCL), “This is My Body, This is My Software: Between Western and Non-Western Cultures”, 5 february, London, UK

Fundation for art and creative technology, “Harlequin Coat”, Liverpool, UK, 10 February

2007

La maison populaire, “Your body is a battlefield”, 9 November, Montreuil, France

Holmes a Court Galerie, “This is My Body, This is My Software”, 13 September, Perth, Australia

Théatre de l’Espace Cardin, “Art contemporain : Tactiques ou nécéssités”, October 19, Paris, France

Gallery of New South Walles, “This is my Body, This is My Software”, co-hosted by the University of Technology and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 30 july, Sydney, Australia

University of Western Australia, “This is My Body, This is My Software: Between Western and Non-Western Cultures”, 26 july, Perth, Australia

Calart, “This is My Body… . This is My Software between western culture and no western culture”, 19 April, Valencia, USA

Rutgers University, “This is My Body… . This is My Software between western culture and no western culture”, March 21, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

2006

Museum Kunst Palast, “Den Körper im Blick. Grenzgänge zwischen Kunst, Kultur und Wissenschaf”, Düsseldorf Quadriennale, October, Düsseldorf, Germany

CENDEAC, “This is my body… . Ceci est mon logiciel”: ORLAN y la experiencia de la carne, July, Murcia, Spain

Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, at UCLA, “Subject of Violence”, May, Los Angeles, USA

Getty Research Institute, “The Aesthetics of Risk”, April, Los Angeles, USA

New York University Performa: “We are still Appalled 5th symposium in the Not for Sale series”, April, New York city, USA

Institute, “Critical Conversations in a Limo”, april, New York, USA

Long Beach University, March, Long Beach, USA

National Academy of Sciences and the Center for Art and Cultural Program (UMBC), “Virtual Symposium on Science and Visual Culture”, online conference, March, Washington, DC, USA

ARCO, February, Madrid, Spain

UCLA, Department of Art and Design and Media Center, January, Los Angeles, USA

2005

Telmex Auditorium, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, october, MexicoCity, Mexico

Art Center College of Design, october, Pasadena, USA

OTIS, october, Los Angeles, USA

Arthotèque, Saint-Denis de la Réunion, France

Bass Museum, Miami Beach, USA

Washington University in Saint Louis, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, USA

2004

Center National de la Photographie, Paris, France

Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia

 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

Sejul Gallery, Seoul City, Korea

2003

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain des Pays de Loire, Carquefou, France

2002

Centro de Fotografia, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

2001

Regional School of Art, Marseille, France

Le Parvis, Contemporary Art Center, Ibos, France

Festival e-phos “Hybrid body and the beast”, Athens, Greece

2000

Bregenzer Kunsteverein Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria

French Institute of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Aussen Institut, “L’homme artificiel”, Aachen, Germany

Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

1999

Pezner, “L’art charnel”, Villeurbanne, France

1998

Regional School of Art, Nantes, France

Contemporary Art Fair, Gualdalajara, Mexico

Institute of Contemporary Arts, “Totally wired, Science, Technology and the human form, This is my body. . . This is my software”, London, UK

1997

Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, UK

MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

Belem Contemporary Art Center, Lisbon, Portugal

“This is my Body, This is My Software”, Camerawork, London, UK

Lichthaus Center, Bremen, Germany

Nikolaj Church, Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

University of Washington Scool of Art, Seattle, USA

Fine Arts Academy of Brera, Milano, Italy

Université Michel de Montaigne, “Question d’identité, identité en question, ORLAN hors limites”, Bordeaux, France

CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, “Le corps d’ORLAN comme chimère”, Bordeaux, France

1996

Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik, “Body As Membrane”, Odense, Denmark

University Museum-Laboratory, Rome, Italy

Sala 1, Rome, Italy

ICA, “Woman with Head”, London, UK

The London Institute, London, UK

Académie Charpentier, Paris, France

1995

Center Georges Pompidou, “Polyphonix 14”, Paris, France

Biennale, “Sclupture”, Padua, Italy

Triple X Festival, Amsterdam, Netherland

University of Warwick, “Virtual Futurs”, Warwick, UK

Museo Reina Sofia, “Art Futura”, Madrid, Spain

Kunsthalle, Kiel, Germany

Cultural Center of Budapest, International Performance Art Meeting “Evocation, PERFORIUM”, Budapest, Hungary

1994

Kuntesverein, Salzburg, Austria

Emorig University, Atlanta, USA

Chassis Post Gallery, Atlanta, USA

Nexus Center, Atlanta, USA

The Forum, “The second annual Feminist Activism and Art Conference”, Camerawork, San Francisco, USA

NGBK, Berlin, GERMANY

1993

Penine Art Gallery, New York, USA

Landesmuseum, “Ars Electronica”, Linz, Austria

1992

Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, USA

University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Galeria Wieza Cisnien, “Kohin 92, Second International Meeting of Active Art”, Konin, Poland

1982

Université Paris 8, International Colloquium for Photography “La photo par tous les bouts”, St-Denis, France

1978

Neue Galerie, Deutsch Französisches Jugenwerk, “Action ORLAN-Corps: Etudes documentaires : la tête de Méduse”, December 3, Germany

University of Medicine Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Universidad nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogota Facultad de Artes, Colombia

Amiens University, Amiens, France

Art Academy, Berlin, Garmany

Art Center, Pasadena, USA