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Field Essays campaign launch
Field Essays just launched its brand new crowdfunding campaign on Kiss Kiss Bank Bank. Support us and join the campaign now!
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In the darkness you start to imagine: Dirk Braeckman in Le Bal
Offprint brought many photographers and book lovers to Paris this weekend, it’s nice. Photographer Dieuwertje Komen took me to see the exhibition of Dirk Braeckman in Le Bal, “the place for photographers in…
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(Have to) read about: passing on history
Another book I need to have and read…! Passing on History, B 42 Editions Why do so many books give me that feeling… At Offprint there was also Manuella Editions that has…
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Thinking about Temporalités / Temporalities
Today I assisted to an Ensadlab seminar entitled Temporalités (Temporalities) here in Paris. The intention of coordinator Lucile Haute triggered me: the afternoon was meant to experience research projects directly, as opposed to “just…
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Field Essays welcomes Eugénie delaRivière
Designer and researcher Eugénie delaRivière has officially teamed up with Field Essays, for the social media part of the upcoming issue. Welcome Eugénie! Image: Eugénie viewing one of the works of the exhibition “Possibles d’un…
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nouvelle lune
Après les thèmes du minéral et du végétal, séance d’images mouvementées sur la relation souvent contradictoire de l’homme à l’animal, hier soir sur les hauteurs de Montmartre, pendant la 3e et dernière…
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Fanatic anti-fanatic
Hunger, thirst, injustice, misery, cruelty, injustice, physical torture, mental torture, illness, racism, suffering, death… : these are but a few of the many difficult issues, which artist Niki de St Phalle (1930-2002) decided to…
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Histoire(s) de cuillères
Spoons have accompanied the history of humanity. They reconcile the primary need to eat with the need to establish relations with others. They vital meaning becomes clear when collector Jean Metzger tells about his life long…
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Le titre? Il n’y a pas de titre.
En dépit de son titre bien réfléchi “L’époque, les humeurs, les valeurs, l’attention” (titre qui rappelle une autre exposition de 1987: “L’Époque, la mode, la morale, la passion”), l’exposition des attendus du prix de…
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Note on Nicolas de Staël
“Ne pas s’occuper de l’espace mais se préoccuper de l’espace.” (Not to tend space but to take care of, to care about, to be concerned with, to be preoccupied with space) In a documentary…
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Note on Courage
Today I read a quote in the morning newspaper about courage by Jean Jaures, renown founder of socialist politics in France, assassinated a hundred years ago on July 31 at the Bar…
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Brynjar Sigurdarson featured by Li Edelkoort
Brynjar Sigurdarson has been selected by Li Edelkoort as one of tomorrow’s exemplary designers in the context of the anniversary exhibition of MAK Vienna – Li believes he has the right attitude needed for…
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RIVER OF FUNDAMENT
MATTHEY BARNEY’s exhibition at HAUS DER KUNST (still on show till august 8) bewilders the mind and body iron, bronze, sulphur, salt collide, mutate, anodise, patinate or rust the gigantic cast props…
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Note on This is not the project
The symposium Traders Eu, which I attended as part of my ongoing research for Field Essays, gathered a full house of designers and researchers yesterday to celebrate the launch of a four year…
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STONE SOUL
Rythm, poetry and choreography: in Stone Soul Army, 2013 (HD Video 29’27”), Fernando Sánchez Castillo (1970 Spain) staged sessions of a Peruvian military band who produce music with stones.“In the work of Sánchez…
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MEMORY MATERIAL
viewing the works at Art Rotterdam this year memory, handwriting, repetition and tactility appear to be the recurring motifs that catch my interest – and houses, small, floating or pieced together a…
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SEVEN STONES
SEVEN STONES by FRANK SCHEFFER an artist film about artist painter ROBERT ZANDVLIET screened yesterday at iffr the painter summarises his uncompromising search for truth as ‘een leeg beeld en een stille taal’ (an empty…
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LEARNING WITH ERRORS
XAVIER ANTIN is a french artiste / graphiste in his work he looks for resistance and works with standards – variations on protocols – he spoke at an ESAD tuesday evening talk curated by ANNA…
