Performative Lecture
Paulien Oltheten | La Défense, the Venturing Gaze

Accompanying Programme of NL Imagined

Sat, 20.01.2024
2:00 PM - 15:00 Goethe-Institut Hongkong Library

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In this lecture on human behavior, Paulien Oltheten discusses the findings she made in the Parisian business district La Défense. An anonymous place of transit where she weaves personal relationships with some of the passersby she chooses and follows. She manages to create unimaginable encounters between a science book and a roll of paper or a family album and a former schoolteacher's suitcase.
 
Paulien Oltheten graduated from the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2006 and has traveled the globe with her camera and notebook ever since. In her work she observes the way people behave and move through public spaces. In an ongoing process that oscillates between video, photography, and drawings, she records visual and conceptual patterns in the encounter of people and things, revealing the shifts and ruptures between them. She exhibited and performed her works at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Jeu de Plume in Paris, and the Museum of Moscow, among others. Her publications include Theory of the Street (2007), Photos from Japan and my Archive (2011) and Non (2019). She was the recipient of the Dutch Doc Award and in 2018 the Nouveau Prix Découverte at the Rencontre d’Arles photofestival.