Letter of Seminar
In 1991, Christian Boltanski created a work in one of the crawl spaces of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris. Hidden away, it preserves a memory—both real and fictional—of the institution's students and rejected applicants. Drawing on this work, Déborah Laks unfolds a unique reflection that intertwines teaching and ...
Take the floor! The floor is yours!”: in the second half of the 1970’s, Lea Lublin opened to all the possibility to speak freely about the nature of art. Hélène Gheysens recontextualizes this project – but also Lublin’s career - within a wider social, political and intellectual setting, one that compelled reinvention, up and ...
In 1978, Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden, then the two members of Art & Language, launched a stern attack on a certain type of political contemporary art. Their condemnation can only be understood in a context when yesterday’s utopia transformed into disenchantment. Thus, the two artists ask a question that remain topical, in a ...
Following in the footsteps of Dada and Marcel Duchamp, a number of artists have linked art and life, to the extent that they sought to do without the object itself, which the workings of the art market had sacralised. Particularly active in the 1960’s, at a time when the status of the author was ...
Using Il leone sogna la preda (2001), written by etruscologists Bruno D’Agostino et Luca Cerchiai, as a starting point, Alain Schnapp invites us to further our thinking on The Greeks, the Etruscans and images - the title of a previous book written by the same authors. The questions this text brings up are topical : thus of the visual culture ...
A work of art is only active if a certain number of conditions are met, implying the collaboration of various actors, not least the public. Alexis Anne-Braun raises here the question of restorative practices in art, as well as the ethical issues they present, through the concept of artistic activation found in the writings ...
How does one give an effective visual shape to judicial debate? This is the question asked by Franck Leibovici, poet and artist, and Julien Seroussi, a former analyst at the International Criminal Court and previously part of the « mass crimes » section of the Paris Tribunal. Here, they put forward their concept of ...
This is how Elvan Zabunyan summarizes the status of this precious and coveted metal, intrinsically linked with the history of slavery. The author unveils a significant reversal in this status : the men and women of soul and hip hop using gold, in the shape of heavy chains, most notably, in order to re-capture ...
Putting the economy on show. Circumstances, it seems, have converged to give the economy an abstract dimension, keeping people at bay by impressing without convincing. With a long-held interest in artistic knowledge on the subject at hand, Sophie Cras has opened a new path of investigation. She questions how the economy has been exhibited since ...
Anne Labourdette, as a curator at the Department of Decorative Arts at the Louvre, is well placed to study the textiles of the Order of the Holy Spirit housed in the museum. Leaning on current research by specialists of the Order and of Renaissance Parisian embroidery, she draws back the veil on the knights ...
