Presentation of the publication
by Sternberg Press, CAC Brétigny and Work Method

with Pierre Bal-Blanc (independent curator)

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Project Phalanstère at CAC Brétigny is based on the immanence of artistic production. The project consists of a series of site-specific artworks that exceed the duration of the temporary exhibition. This book proposes to adopt a new syntax. It does not simply call for a renewal of the terminology used in the field of contemporary art programming. Its syntax has taken shape by progressively building on the complex materiality of artworks in a specific context and not by contriving itself with the help of words and discourses uttered from an abstract perspective.
This treatise proposes to activate the experience of the works in their environment, by way of an archeological study, which places each work in its larger cultural context. On site, the explanatory notes of the score allow the reader to mentally reconstruct certain works that no longer exist; or, alternatively, to entirely reconstruct Project Phalanstère at a distance.
The political aims of Project Phalanstère thus appear in the ungrammatical formulas that the works articulate and in the active resistance that they manifest against arts administration.
(Edited by Pierre Bal-Blanc)

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Language: English