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Not to play with dead things

Eric Mangion, Marie de Brugerolle (dir.)

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From its Futurist and Dadaist outbursts in the 1910s and 1920s to body art in the 1970s and the new theatrical forms of the 2000s, the history of performance art is seemingly built on the same set of elements — movements, speech, the body, transience, audience orientated actions, etc. These constituents often stand for a definition of a genre, which always refused to take on traditional aesthetic forms.

Nevertheless, through history, more than simple traces such as the ones collected by the documentation of avant-garde and Fluxus events were left of this art: artists also produced real installations whose status is ambiguous once the action is over, as well as “performative” objects that may or may not be used in a performance.

The present volume, based on an exhibition of the same title curated by Marie de Brugerolle and Eric Mangion, questions the nature and the relevance of these objects in contemporary practices. Bringing together essays by the curators as well as by Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Patricia Brignone, Gérard Wajcman, Catherine Wood, and Julien Bismuth, the book documents works by artists dealing with these issues between the 1960s and today. It also documents and describes “objects” produced in performative context by Richard Jackson, Paul McCarthy, Roman Signer, Mike Kelley, Franz West, Jim Shaw, and Guy de Cointet, as well as by John Bock, Spartacus Chetwynd, Catherine Sullivan, and Erwin Wurm.

Are they relics or ghosts of their own making? Can they reactivate their initial production context? Is their hybridity a form of resistance to the streamlining of art or mere traces of their origin?

Année 2009
Textes et contributions Patricia Brignone, Marie de Brugerolle, Raphaëlle Giangreco, Éric Mangion, Gérard Wajcman, Catherine Wood, Scoli Acosta, Vasco Araujo, Emmanuelle Bentz, Julien Bismuth, John Bock, Spartacus Chetwynd, Guy de Cointet, Jordi Colomer, Brice Dellsperger, Éric Duyckaerts, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Dora Garcia, Richard Jackson, Mike Kelley, Martin Kersels, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Jacques Lizène, Éric Madeleine, Paul McCarthy, Kirsten Mosher, Yannick Papailhau, Antoine Poncet, Philippe Ramette, Jim Shaw, Roman Signer, Jana Sterback, Catherine Sullivan, Jessica Warboys, Jean-Luc Verna, Franz West, Erwin Wurm
Directeur·ice de Publication Eric Mangion et Marie de Brugerolle
Editeur Villa Arson Nice - JRP|Ringier
Design graphique Maxime Matray
Langues English
Dimensions 24 x 17 cm
Reliure Souple
Pages 232
ISBN 978-3-03764-071-5