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The theme of this issue of ESPACE art actuel is “Monuments/Counter-Monuments.” The monument is not a new concept; the notion emerged with the awareness of history. With its roots in the Latin monumentum, which signifies “that which serves as a reminder,” the monument is an object of commemoration. Its presence draws our attention to what once was, ultimately making us more mindful of the future and subtly evoking a duty of remembrance. But has this commemorative design lost its significance? Does the duty to remember depend upon building a permanent monument? A monument, especially when it evokes an event from the distant past, whether funerary or commemorative, is simply put on display. It exists for the purposes of official celebration, which circumvents the efforts required in the true act of remembering – particularly as monuments create the illusion of a collective memory.
ÉDITORIAL / EDITORIAL
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Art, mémoire et vérité
Art, Memory and Truth
Monuments/Contre-monuments
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Dialogues about National Identity: Recent Memorials in Democratic Capitals
Dialogues sur l’identité nationale : mémoriaux récents dans des capitales démocratiques
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Soft Power ou Les corps-monuments d’Alexandra Pirici
Soft Power or Alexandra Pirici’s Body-Monuments
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Going Beyond the Pillars of the Memorial Site: Berlin’s Gallery of Romani Art as “Counter-Monument”
Au-delà du devoir de mémoire : la galerie Kai Dikhas comme contre-monument Rom
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“I want to fight”: Thomas Hirschhorn and the Monument as Dialogue
« Je veux me battre ». Thomas Hirschhorn et le monument comme dialogue
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L’immersion au service de la mémoire
Immersion Serving Memory
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Protocoles optiques
Optical Protocols
art public et pratiques urbaines / public art and urban practices
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Monument aux victimes du communisme : chronique d’un coup politique
Memorial to the Victims of Communism: Chronicle of a Political Coup
comptes rendus / reviews
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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, acquaalta : l’invitation au voyage
Anne-Sophie Miclo
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Lieven de Boeck : pour une solidarité esthétique
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Pascale Marthine Tayou : Boomerang
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Jocelyn Robert. L’art par la disparition
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Paul Wong: Our Personal Universes
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Samuel Roy-Bois : La pyramide
Cynthia Fecteau
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Camille Henrot. The Pale Fox
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Martin Boisseau. Sixième traitement : dessins saturés et précarités formelles
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Clément de Gaulejac et le retour des héros
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Geneviève Cadieux, rentrée intime
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Patrick Bernatchez : l’odyssée post-apocalyptique
livres / books
100
L’art face à la guerre
101
Recréer/Scripter. Mémoires et transmissions des œuvres performatives et chorégraphiques contemporaines
102
ouvrages reçus / selected titles