Une commande citoyenne : entretien avec Pascal Le Brun-Cordier
[text available in French only] Laurent Vernet interviews the Artistic Director Pascal Le Brun-Cordier on a 2019 public art project involving the citizens of Tremblay-en-France.
Re-territorializing Public Space
With the dismantling of monuments of controversial figures, calls to change the names of streets and public places, as well as protests seeking a just recognition of minority groups, the public sphere, associated with the democratization of exchange between citizens, has undergone profound change, even re-territorialization over the last few years. Having taken hold in…
Interview with karen elaine spencer
Through the diverse textual, performative and material forms that characterize her practice, karen elaine spencer has developed over the last 30 years a dense corpus (…)
Massimo Guerrera, Domus (Se rencontrer vraiment) (2017)
Massimo Guerrera uses different mediums, such as drawing, writing, sculpture, photography, installation and performance, to explore the fertile space of interaction and interior shifts that exists between (…)
Laboratory thinking
Unless you are Robinson on his desert island, the arrival of Covid-19 and the current public health crisis along with the ensuing debate, notably on its origins, has reminded us of an obvious fact that (…)
Machine Edge: An interview with Erika Lincoln
Cliff Eyland: You are known to your peers as a high-tech artist, artists are never at the cutting edge of technology—it’s the military-industrial simplex (my term) that always gets there first. Thoughts? (…)
Dictatorships in the neoliberal age
The idea of dictatorship straightaway evokes a political regime in which the authority mostly rests in the hands of a single person. In just two centuries, this mode of power has risen in parallel (…)
karen elaine spencer, always the same, 2013
karen elaine spencer, in her ephemeral interventions, her paintings, drawings, prints and texts as well as spoken word works, explores the power relationships that pervade people’s daily lives, particularly (…)
Sculpture of Steel, City of Nerves. A review of Dendrites by Michel de Broin
Dendrites, a public artwork recently inaugurated along with its site— Place de l’Aviation-Civile-International —is a fascinating and consistent extension of Michel de Broin’s ongoing and prolific art practice (…)
