Our guests: Morten Nissen et Kristian H. Kofod Copenhagen, march 2020. Toilet writing is not what is used to be: anonymous messages to the world – political, humorous, sexual, philosophical food for thought. Now, tags carry only names as their […]
Our guest: Tomás S. Criado Munich, May 2020. Only seldom do constitutional debates take the streets. However, this bureaucratically heated disputes–regularly discussed in the secluded spaces of courts–sometimes catch media attention and stir political debate. After the implementation of stark […]
Our Guest : Émeline Brulé April 2020 in San Francisco, waiting in line to enter Rainbow Grocery, a worker-owned cooperative focusing on local, vegetarian organic food. Every journey is an opportunity to discover the new signs accompanying the pandemic. On […]
Paris, April 2020. It’s the poster superimposition that strikes me first, telling me a story in two parts. The first series, slipped into plastic sleeves, is taped inside the tobacco bar window. Well protected, was the poster supposed to last, […]
Restlessly staging the transparency of our lives, permanently connected to ensure instantaneous interactions, such is our condition in the contemporary world. The life of others invades us in a uninterrupted image flow. As we are urged to act as permanent […]
Our guest : Florence Paterson Rome, november 2017. Cimitero Acattolico. No doubt the serenity of the place and the beautiful sunlight filtering through the vegetation make it a desirable last home. This “non-Catholic” cemetery near Porta San Paolo, mentioned in […]
(with some clear Foucauldian understatement) I’ve been investigating for a little while now about this type of street furniture, which to my minds looks typically Parisian (in the sense that I’ve never seen it elsewhere). Strangely enough, though, Parisians – […]
Friday Guest: Julie Fen-Chong Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. (Robert Frost) What surprised and charmed me most in Arthur’s kingdom is not only welsh language and the consequent local names “Betws-y-coed” […]
L’invité du vendredi : Nathalie Crowley Dublin, mai 2010. C’est un joli après-midi de juin à Dublin et j’aime bien passer par Drumcondra, un quartier résidentiel et tranquille où se trouve le ‘Bishop Palace’ nommé ainsi avec une certaine révérence teintée […]
L’invité du vendredi : Etienne Bellan-Huchery Paris, février 2010. En matière de discours sur le sport, la métaphore guerrière est omniprésente. Elle est très souvent utilisée, dans la presse spécialisée en particulier, jusqu’à devenir un élément banal du langage sportif. […]