The past few months at the magazine have been taken up with what is, on the whole, a mundane exercise: dreaming under pressure. My colleague Lisa Tronca and I tried to envision the
“The reddened stage, designed to create the experience of sensory deprivation, introduces the last scene.” Nancy Bussières’s description of the final tableau in the play White Out resonates with me, evoking other images that conjure
While this issue’s theme of “prophecies” in contemporary art emerged organically in our team discussions, given the phenomenon’s revival in artistic practices, it is a rather difficult topic to treat in this editorial. This
Throughout history, artists have been dependent on minerals to create works of art. The colours on a painted surface are made from pigments of mineral and plant origin, the contours and angles of sculptural works
Breath, which results from breathing in and out, is vital. Lack of air, whether due to lung disease or suffocation, whether intentional or not, can be fatal. While the need to eat can be delayed
Over ten years ago, ESPACE art actuel (formerly Espace sculpture, founded in 1987) took up the challenge of reassessing its critical reflection on the visual arts, which focused primarily on the field of spatiality. The
In its most simple definition, mourning is an affective state of feeling sorrow over the loss, absence or death of someone. Yet it can also be a difficult ordeal to go through when it marks
Thanks to their song, if not their call, we hear birds more often than we see them. They attract our ear more than our eye and, time and again, despite our desire, we can never
In his novel Que notre joie demeure (Héliotrope, 2022), Kevin Lambert describes “starchitects” in the world of globalized capital – architects who owe their prestige to fabulous projects that rarely reflect social reality. Lambert’s main
Virtual reality scientists are now developing an interface that can release different smells associated with the images that the VR headset transmits. After inconclusive attempts to present films with odours in the 1950s, currently proposed
In his book Penser la pornographie (PUF, 2003), philosopher Ruwen Ogien (1947–2017) rejects the arguments of pornophobes, both conservative and progressive alike. While some consider pornography as a threat to the nuclear family and the
In the late 1990s, psychologist and sociologist Judy Singer1 developed the notion of neurodiversity, which was associated first with autism and advocacy for the rights of people with autism, then