Night at Centre Pompidou


Together with artists, night-time scholars, and a security guard, Night explored histories, methodologies and qualities of night-time at the museum, with a program of talks, panel discussions and performances.  

18 May 2024
Forum, Centre Pompidou
9 p.m. - Midnight
 

Jochen Dehn & Loreto Martínez Troncoso, Faire Nuit (Becoming Night), performance, 2024.


Jochen Dehn & Loreto Martínez Troncoso, Faire Nuit (Becoming Night), performance, 2024.


Jochen Dehn & Loreto Martínez Troncoso, Faire Nuit (Becoming Night), performance, 2024. Credit: Centre Pompidou.




Boris Hamzeian, Beaubourg and the challenge of the total light box, talk, 2024. Photo: Hervé Veronese.

Panel discussion Urban Nights, Parisian Nights, with Luc Gwiazdzinski, Antoine de Baecque, and Anabelle Lacroix.  


 
CONTRIBUTORS:
Performances by artists Anna Holveck, Jochen Dehn, and Loreto Martínez Troncoso.
Speakers: Antoine de Baecque, Historian of nighttime, Laurent Cleret, night shift team leader in the security department of the Centre Pompidou; Luc Gwiazdzinski, geographer, urbanist specializing in rhythms, and professor at the National School of Architecture in Toulouse; Boris Hamzeian and Capucine de Rochambeau, associate researchers at the Laboratory of Permanent History (LHP); as well as Tom Lalloum and Lilou Parente, LHP students/researchers . 

CREDITS:
Produced by the Centre Pompidou, Laboratory of Permanent History, 2024.