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Display of a particular, thematically meandering selection of printed matter, alluding to topics like “mask”, “speech” and “cultures”. Compiled from existing publications and ephemera by the artist, or by other artists and writers, it was layed out towards the gallery window.
[continue reading]‹Hinrich Sachs›
1994
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Dedicated to experimental writing and linguistics, the publication compiles selected txt messages mixing letters, or characters, and emojis…
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Ear, Mind, Eye, Pad
2019
Another Publication
2007
…aims at mediating the history of French
public TV from a contemporary perspective, by featuring Trépido, a gentle, mindful and witty snail character from the former children’s program 1, Rue Sesame.
Ernest, R2-D2, Trépido (parler aux humains)
2019
A poster announces an event, for which guests from Cameroon, India, and Lebanon were invited to orally translate excerpts from Courierspeak, a phrase-book for couriers of museum objects.
[continue reading]Courierspeak
1993El impulso recurrente de dejar de hablar … Sondear el terreno para ver lo que se avecina. “De todas formas, por el momento una de mis opciones es decir poco y no ser escuchado.” (1)
Escrita, la frase nos da una superficie útil. Una superficie en la cual estamos disponibles, preparados para que la información fluya según requiere nuestra profesión. Móviles. Sí, nos encanta estar en movimiento. De la bienal a la feria de arte; de la inauguración de la exposición de un amigo artista hasta una convención de dos días; de una cena con una coleccionista a la fecha límite de entrega de un artículo para un catálogo. Antes o después de las exposiciones o de las conferencias, damos las gracias a la organización que ha hecho posible que estemos ahí. Pero esta gratitud debería trasladarse también hacia otro lado: al bullicio familiar de la escena cultural, la actividad que hace que todo esté en continuo movimiento.
Vacaciones de sí mismo
2014
A poster, a flyer, and newspaper ads announce an evening of public discussion. The invited participants of the panel are a heartsurgeon, a canyoning professional, a self-employed architect, and a sociologist, who debate risks, and the concept of risk in their respective activities and fields.
[continue reading]Risiko(verhalten)
1998
A poster announces an event, for which guests from different professional backgrounds are invited to a public debate in relation to a complete set of the international editions of ELLE magazine. Franchised around the world, the issue of ELLE on display appears in its today 32 different regional editions, all published in the same month.
[continue reading]That We Know / Ce qu’on sait / Was man weiss
1994 - ongoing
A set of 12 volumes – 11 of them blank, the twelfth acting as a kind of index merely constituted by titles –, various papers, various dimensions, covers in green heavy duty paper, blind blocking, letterpress printing, in an edition of six. With an afterword by the writer and literary scholar Marianne Schuller.
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