4 novembre 2006
Environment, installation, wallpaper.
Replacing the thing by its commercial representation is a phenomenon that seems to become general. In the TV discourse, the program has officially became an excuse for publicity that is the text, clearly said. Our environment then has to adapt and furniture objects of our daily lives replaced by their ratified representation. The attention time of each potential consumer being the true commercial value, information becomes free (web, newspapers), supported in all terms by publicity.

The Sample Flat is a housing, with all furniture so to say, on advertising wallpaper (pages of catalogues) that shows objects for living at best price.
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Publié dans Wallpaper, art-merchandising, critical fusion, installation |
2 novembre 2006
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Publié dans Dump structure, note |
1 novembre 2006
Players : tous
Deux questions reviennent souvent :
1 : Tout le monde peut-il déposer des projets dans le Dump ?
MB : dans cette version (le Dump), le visiteur ne peut que classer ou commenter, quitte à proposer une variante ou un autre projet en commentaire. C’est pour moi un peu comme un bloc-notes. Dans The Dump, le projet decharge.net est ouvert à tous et toutes formes de contribution et mais ce n’est encore qu’un projet. Un autre projet que je mettrai en œuvre rapidement permettra à tous les participants de contribuer en déposant leurs projets. Quelque chose comme l’Open Dump. The Dump sera alors clairement une décharge privée ouverte à tous, et l’Open Dump une décharge publique tout aussi ouverte.
2 : La deuxième question la plus fréquente est : peut-on s’approprier librement les projets du Dump ?
MB : bien entendu. C’est l’idée. Merci toutefois de me raconter ce que ça devient. Il n’y a aucune obligation de mentionner l’origine du projet. J’apprécierais cependant de connaitre les évolutions. Je pourrais alors introduire des liens sur le site pour faire connaitre le devenir des projets.

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Publié dans Dump structure, note |
1 novembre 2006
(visual and sonorous composition)
Player: TGV (high-speed train), full country stop.
Long the line, wind is caressing with a little hill, covered with grass and herbs. This gentle playing has something sensual and one almost feels the hill vibrating with emotion. Free from sound, violence in the movement is nowhere to be seen.
Pleased…reluctant, the grass is like bristle on the skin, and wide motions remind the shifting of muscles under a horse’s trembling skin.
In his complex relation between a flux and an especially receptive substance, one meets the expressed richness of tinges that rule group relations. These are kept under flows of information or of power; each blade of grass bends under the caress, and seems, when the wind deepens, to curve besides pressure. A sound supposedly would come out, a sound starting resistant and further painful; then the whole hill would transpose this ambiguous meeting in a whispered concert. This sizable movement, which suggests an earth reaction, where the earth is as a muscled body , would be transposed by another sonorous entity, participating to the dialogue of nature abandoning herself.
As on the surface of water, distorted by the heave and waves, it is a contact area between two elements, which constitute, in other instance, the “skin†of architecture, which expresses the quality of inside/outside relations, resistance to the difference of the natures, possible hostility to exteriority, to the contact attempt.
THE dialogue establishes itself when the substance plays the meeting as a double voice score or double body choreography.
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Publié dans interactive image, interactive installation, sound and music |
1 novembre 2006
Spectacle Chorégraphique
Player : Marianne Descamps, Wolf Ka
Nous parlons du Pavillon Noir, centre chorégraphique d’Aix en Provence.
Le projet : Un spectacle chorégraphique dans le noir total. Les danseurs sont munis de casques de spéléologie. La lampe sur le sommet du casque est focalisable. Elle projette un faisceau tubulaire ou conique. Le spectacle se déroule en plusieurs temps.
Scène 1 : fumée. C’est le faisceau tubulaire qui est visible. Les rais de lumière définissent des espaces, explore la salle et le public, créent des surfaces, jouent la parallèle ou l’intersection. La chorégraphie contourne ces frontières de lumière, ces obstacles qui révèlent ceux qui les approchent.
Scène 2 : la fumée s’est dissipée. C’est l’impact de la lumière qui devient visible sur les parois de la cage de scène. Ces surfaces contiennent des zones blanches sur lesquels les points d’impact lumineux viennent s’écrire. Un tulle pourrait fermer l’avant scène pour recevoir la lumière comme dans Cent objets pour représenter le Monde de Peter Greenaway. Dans la scène 1 le même tulle pourrait retenir partiellement la fumée.
Scène 3 : les faisceaux lumineux s’élargissent pour devenir coniques. C’est l’orientation de la tête du danseur, expression de son regard, qui éclaire un autre danseur. S’éclairant l’un l’autre, les danseurs rendent visible la chorégraphie jusque-là strictement lumineuse.
Wolf évoque le fait qu’il a utilisé un caque comme ceci et qu’il ne serait pas étonnant que Preljocaj ou Frédéric Flamant aient travaillé en ce sens.

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Publié dans light, live performance |
1 novembre 2006
Performance Installation October 30th 2006
Isabelle mentioned Sylvie Fleury’s shopping bags. Without really understanding, I propose the creation of a self-installing device, to leave in museums.
It has the appearance of a bag that one carelessly forgets in an interesting room of a great museum. As a time bomb, a clock programmes the opening of the bag and it blows itself up in a structure that spreads out as an artwork taking part of the permanent exhibition. The wrapping unfolds; the basis contains a battery and a compressor. The cartel is stitched onto the artwork, mentioning: Blown-up, date, author.
In the case Blown-up was destructed by security services, several more items of the work and variants would of been anticipated.
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Publié dans art-merchandising, critical fusion, live performance, object, product placement |
30 octobre 2006
Player: FIAC 2006
Medias wish to build an image of the world further authentic than supernatural, reality shows bring a global vision to a single one, single and apparently common, of which the general vision an the media-related alchemy changes into extraordinary considerations.
Until the middle of the 19th century, the means of painting tended to transpose the extraordinary by conferring it a tangible substance.
When reversing this proposition, and considering the following, Back Frame, that is a small device integrating the cartel beneath certain painting, less or more important, in a museum; it is composed of a video camera and a transmission kite, such as WiFi.
Therefore, results a new artwork, in the homes…where a screen of the size of the museum paintings, receiving the image of the painting watchers and whom seem to be appreciating, your inside living. They even sometimes close up, to admire details (the cartel readers, in fact).
Each artwork item is titled:
Les Arnolfini, Back Frame
La Joconde, Back Frame
L’enlèvement des Sabines, Back Frame
La Femme qui pleure, Back Frame
If it is the artist who influes on the vision of the watcher, the final artwork should be signed of his name, and the conclusion would be that the eye of the watcher is formed by the artist himself.
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Publié dans Augmented Reality, critical fusion, live performance, object |
28 octobre 2006

L’art peut il se réduire à la transfiguration du sensible?
Le trauma est-il soluble dans la chroma?
Il faut préparer halloween.

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Publié dans memory, note, questions |
28 octobre 2006
October 27th, 2006
Project for an artist career

Is the Devil Curved? Installation interactive MB 1995
Florent told me about the fact that on major video websites, where thousands (millions) of them are available, the most consulted ones are the ones of which the first image represents an ass. An example is an extract of Zbigniew Rybczinski’s Tango, which begins with the scene where the girl undresses, and has great success.
If the mode of recognition and validation of the image (or else art) induced by the network, the vote, are this that was said before, one has to reconsider creation patterns.
The idea is far to be original: Ingres, Boucher, Delacroix already understood it, but it would be right, further than a communication stuff, to consider a career. Some have chosen a graphic signature (Burren’s stripes), a formal line (metallic inflatables, by Koons); others pack in object tight or reverse the portrait, this without that redundancy or/and reiteration damage the quality of their work.
The project here is to produce an artist career where all the artworks begin with an ass. It is left to know if others haven’t thought about this yet…
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Publié dans artists' career design, sex, theory |
27 octobre 2006

Player: the Fiac (International Fair of Contemporary Art) and the off Fiac (sounds like an offence)
To write a treatise of average art, not about photography in tribute to Bourdieu, but about all this lounge production on fair. The best, even, seem to choose for that in their work, the most vulgar, rapidly understandable art, matching to the lounge chairs.
Average art has its school and manuscripts. It is hard work, but even academism needs a little talent.
In the beginning of the 80’s, annoyed by the coming back of representation, one qualified as “free†as it is said about free school. We imagined creating a circle of “followersâ€, which would try with much effort to make and remake what others had made, often in a better way before. But motivation was lacking already, to allow us to reach the goal of the project. Others are more persistent.
The asset of average art, is that it sells…in fact, maybe not as well as that.
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Publié dans theory, writing |