Tag / writing
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Reading about | what animates things
Currently reading Semeurs d’Espoirs, (Actes Sud), in which Algerian agro ecologist and writer Pierre Rabhi touches on the course of his life, his gradual understanding of agro ecology, and the need for an insurrection of…
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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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Reading about | machinic animism
“In Guattari’s “cosmology” there are all sorts of machines: social machines, technological, aesthetic, biological, crystalline, and so forth. To clarify the nature of the machine, he refers to the work of the…
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Field Essays in Residence at Cité des Arts
Field Essays has been invited by Cité des Arts, Paris, for a one year residency, from July 2014 till June 2015. I plan to use this time to realize & publish Field Essays,…
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Brynjar Sigurdarson: objects, tales, worlds
Field Essays is happy to announce its protagonist for the upcoming issue! Brynjar Sigurdarson originates from Iceland; he is interested in accounts of things that happened & in relationships between objects and stories; he is as much as teller…
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Note on Notes
12 sept 2011. _ When documenting a process, Field Essays figures out how to represent its nature and motives in text AND image (very important) _ Field Essays mirrors the design process of a designer…
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Note on Finding the right attitude
Danièle Rivière, founder of art publisher Dis Voir in Paris, has invited me to work on a series of ten books on design, to be published in the next three years. I take…
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Note on Distilling core questions
Septembre 2007 I’ve decided to draw out all the thoughts, steps and questions that led me to where I am today, since 2003 – the year in which I initiated 5050, a practice-based research…
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Note: Saying yes and following through
December 2006. A clown workshop led by Ivan Hannetin (FR) provokes a small breakthrough. I was looking for an attitude with which to invest my work. Working with clowns teaches me countless things: A hand made…
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Note: Welcoming the Other
November 2005. The Professorship of Art and Public Space of the Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam, NL) led by art historian and art critic Jeroen Boomgaard, has invited me to join them. It’s is a great opportunity to conduct…
