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Dotted line

Paris, October 2016. The Palais de Chaillot is definitely an odd place. This “neoclassical monumentalist” architectural legacy of the interwar period contains number of Nabis and Art Deco works. Most of them have been forgotten and return to their former […]

Posted: October 28th, 2019 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Activités, Énonciations, Formes, Marquages

Paid

Marseilles, June 2019 It started with the noise of the compressor, unexpected in the middle of the afternoon in this quiet street. As it continued, intermittently, we looked out of the window to discover the unique device that caused it, […]

Posted: June 24th, 2019 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Activités, Marquages, Matières

Ni enlever, ni effacer

Toulouse, avril 2018. La première inscription date des années 1980. Petite et inscrite en noir à la bombe, elle est restée seule pendant plusieurs mois, trônant tel un trophée conquis à la barbe des propriétaires. Puis d’autres sont progressivement apparues […]

Posted: May 6th, 2019 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Marquages, Matières

Vote with one’s feet

Val Thorens, March 2019. Vacationers were surprised to see politics coming in the ski station. She must have had a long time to select a place without any traces of gliding. This recess between two tracks, under the chairlift, seemed […]

Posted: April 8th, 2019 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Énonciations, Marquages, Matières, Mots d'ordre

Reproduction

Agen, march 2019. The train is entering the station, starting the comings and goings of people who get off and on. The four of them arrive in the carriage together, dressed in the same long navy blue skirt. Two of […]

Posted: March 25th, 2019 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Formes, Marquages, Surprise

Unfinished

Paris, May 2018. For most of them, it is the last trace, the one that remains as long as the ink, the pigment or the gold resist to the attacks of rain, ultra-violet and pollution. And in this cemetery, not […]

Posted: May 14th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Formes, Instruments, Marquages

Choreology

Paris, May 2018. There are erudite notation systems to record human movement, like Meunier’s steno-choreography for classical ballet, and above all labanotation for modern dance and Benesh notation. The purpose of these so-called universal descriptions is, on the one hand, […]

Posted: May 7th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Instruments, Marquages, Modes d'emploi

Banned

Second-hand records that you’re willing to buy generally share at least three criteria: they are records that you don’t already own (at a certain point, you’ll need a database you can browse on your phone to be sure), records that […]

Posted: March 12th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Marquages, Modes d'emploi, Mots d'ordre

Clothes

Marseilles, June 2017. Sociologists have taught us that clothes are signs: they indicate, because of their choices, a professional role, groups of belongings or social positioning. But others have to interpret these signs, they must know what the gray suit […]

Posted: February 19th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Écologies, Marquages, Matières, Mots d'ordre

Anthropo-Seine

Paris, January 2018. We are used to say that the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, or Plantalocene, can be seen in severe discontinuities. When going across the town, the attentive passer-by may have some first indications. Paris is marbled by flood marks and, […]

Posted: February 12th, 2018 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Capteurs et traçeurs, Marquages

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