Published to accompany an exhibition at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), 27 September – 26 November 2000

The work of French artist Philippe Thomas revolves around the ideas of reality and fiction. As such, there is an aesthetic ambiguity at its core: all the physical elements involved in the creation, exhibition and circulation of an artwork (the work itself, the artist, the audience, galleries and museums, etc.) oscillate between values of reality and fiction. In keeping with this, Thomas registered the trademark les ready-made appartinnent à tout le monde® and used it to fictionalise his own identity. The catalogue includes pieces created by Thomas from the seventies until his death in 1995 along with essays by writers such as Corinne Diserens, Patricia Falguières, Daniel Soutif and Bernard Blistène.

Design by Ramon Prat, Montse Sagarra and David Lorente (Actar). 2000

Centered around the themes of latent knowledges, earth uprisings and beyond borders, this second volume in the Radical Rituals series is the result of a research residency by the collaborative studio forty five degrees in the summer of 2022 across France, from 45°N 1°W to 45°N 7°E.

More just spatial practices are found in the diversity and nuances of space-making paradigms that tackle local challenges while providing concrete responses and actions to global issues. In Radical Rituals, spatial protocols are collected, following an imaginary line, the 45°N parallel, across Europe, from the Atlantic Coast to the Black Sea. The practices are named rituals because they strengthen the potential for collective action to reach systemic change. They are labeled radical because they are highly transformative and point toward possible futures.

Protagonists: Cantercel Site Expérimental d’Architecture, Viel Audon, Le Collectif La Maison, 3PA association, 23 Anères, Les communes de Saint-Blaise, La Fabric Pola, Bruit du Frigo, La Ferme des Volonteux, Association La Distillerie, ArtStock, Parc Naturel Marin du Bassin d’Arcachon, Dune du Pilat, La Maraude, Les Terrasses Solidaires, and Filature de Chantemerle Longo Maï.

The book is comprised of essays by forty five degrees (Alkistis Thomidou and Berta Gutiérrez Casaos), Joanne Puzenc, and Lea Hobson, and a conversation between Elise Misao Hunchuck and Léopold Lambert.

Order here.

Cinema between Ai and 16 mm film

22/12/202

17:00

Ivan Yakushev : Noms des eaux = experimental film generated in real-time during screening with ai visual models driven by poetic text and webcam input.

Alexandra Karelina : DVA*2 = first-ever screening twice in a row of the film investigating how reality can stack up on itself.

This post is related the upcoming film screening within the framework of the cinema club and Film Association K1NO1.

@k1no1_cinema

Motto
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

Autofiction: maybe, moving ahead, occasionally we’ll see brief glimpses of beauty.

Friday 20 Dec., we start at 7pm with three beautiful films:

Anna Biriulina – THE IMAGINARY TATARS
Film, 21min, 2022

Jean Hubert – WAITING FOR SLEEP
Film, 30min, 2018

Marina Smorodinova – COMMUNAUTAIRE
Film, 15min, 2019

Anna, Jean, and Marina—graduates of the contemporary art —each present their unique take on autofiction.

A discussion with the directors will follow the screenings—everyone is welcome!

#detalks11

Motto
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

@k1no1_cinema 6th of december (Paris)

19:00: poplight

Part 1
Meeting-reflection on the theme:
Pop-feminism in the film process as a form of political affect for self-sufficient capitalists.

Part 2
Practices of the “bottle” game or the flickering of random encounters
(voyeurism or action)
(psycho-physical training)
Passive or active (one can be an observer or a participant).

Part 3
Film screening:
“The Light Watching Me While I Watch the North”
directed by Knjazhna and Vlada Milovskaia.

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partie 1
Rencontre-réflexion sur le thème :
Le pop-féminisme dans le processus cinématographique comme forme d’affect politique pour des capitalistes autosuffisants.

Partie 2
Pratiques du jeu de « la bouteille » ou scintillement des rencontres fortuites
(voyeurisme ou action)
(entrainement psychophysique)
Passif ou actif (on peut être observateur/observatrice ou participant/participante).

Partie 3
Projection du film :
“La lumière qui me regarde tandis que je regarde le Nord”
réalisé par Knjazhna et Vlada Milovskaia. Associaton / MONOCINEMA project / Motto store

This post is related the upcoming film screening within the framework of the cinema club and Film Association K1NO1.

Motto
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris