Archive for novembre 2012

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  SuperExcavation

  Series of Photomontages as an archeological approach to industrial food habits. Athens, Greece, October 2012.
  At first, I asked the population to name industrial food products they considered to be ‘typically Greek’ .
  I then purchased those items during what …

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  Filled under: Works about the economic crisis
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  Write-up

  Installation on which human relations are reduced to a mere mercantile exchange.
  Work displayed at the Louis Vuitton Cultural Centre for the exhibition ‘Elsewhere ‘ curated by Paul Ardenne, Paris, February to May 2011.
  Originally intended as a two-year relational …

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  The Superadditum

  Action which consisted of inviting Icelanders to become their own bank by designing their own currency and changing this into Icelandic crowns at a flexible exchange rate fixed by the artist.
  National Academy of Art, Parliament Square, and various other …

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  Filled under: Works about the economic crisis
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  Price tagged photographs

  Series of photomontages. Travel mementoes with a price. Various places. The  World 2008 to 2010.

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  The Night of August 4th 2011

  Unethical video footage witnessing the misery nearby. Rue Rambaud , Montpellier, France, night of August 4th 2011.
  Action in which the artist offered to sell this video to the FRAC for a symbolic Euro. A proposal which amounted to selling …

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  Direct subsidies

  Action performed with the coordinated effort of the eponymous collective whereby a visual art adviser from the DRAC was taken hostage in exchange for a ransom rather than a government grant.
  At the same time in a street adjacent to …

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  Guess who is coming for diner ?

  Culinary and participative action aimed at updating  a contacts network on the scale of a city (Montpellier), through the organisation of a series of 16 dinners. The dinners gave rise to the ‘graffiting’ of 16 different segments of one painting. …

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  Filled under: Shared Painting
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  Connections

  Participatory action which consisted in enabling the passengers in 10 railway stations to communicate via paintings.

  A 2 by 2 meter painting was displayed for 10 hours in the hall of one of 10 chosen stations. The passers-by were invited …

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  Filled under: Shared Painting
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  The line of the day

  Board game based on the concept of storytelling. A narration intended for the general public, aiming to influence people’s minds and lead them to certain behaviours. Pictorial elements which resuted in textual, pictorial, photograpic, audio as well as video works. …

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  Filled under: Shared Painting
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  Meeting

  Participatory action of ‘graffiting’ on paintings at private homes or in businesses.

  Multiple interventions in France and Germany, from 2006 to 2008

  Example of a painting before ‘graffitying’ at a private home. : AP nb0785, mix media on canvas. Size …

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  Doklomenta

  This action gave visitors  of the Documenta 11 the opportunity to do graffiti on or to ‘graffiti ‘ the artist’s works behind the closed doors of 11 public toilets in the city of Cassel, Germany, from June to September 2002…

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  Songlines

  Two-year relational wandering around the world on the priciple of concatenation. The pretext being to deliver messages written on pieces of newspaper to complete strangers. At the same time, epistolary chronicles of this journey sent to public figures in the …

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