Art writing
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RACHEL KUSHNER : ANARCHIE, SABOTAGE INDUSTRIEL ET PRÉHISTOIRE, Zone-critique
Traduit de l’anglais par Emmanuelle et Philippe Aronson et publié chez Stock, le quatrième roman de la célèbre écrivaine américaine, Rachel Kushner, met en scène la résistance rurale dans la campagne française. Finaliste du prix Booker 2024, Le Lac de la création est un œuvre politique provocatrice qui jongle entre le passé et le présent pour mieux…
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Chronique: À l’écoute
Jeudi matin, mauvaise humeur. J’avais oublié de régler mon réveil hier soir, il a fallu que je me dépêche pour ne pas être en retard pour l’école (je suis étudiante en journalisme). Je me suis précipité dans le métro au Pigalle, dans la rame bondée, avant de découvrir en fouillant dans mes poches que j’avais…
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Through the Viewing House
With a white ribbon of writing wrapped around its glass facade, the show home for Television Centre is encased in glass, sitting like an unopened present across from Wood Lane tube station, sunlight streaming through its walls on cloudless days. Television returns to television centre is transcribed in big, bold letters across the entrance like…
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Launch Night 1964: BBC Television Centre
Television Centre is aglow with anticipation. The date is April 20th, 1964, and the BBC is about to launch a second channel, BBC2, dedicated solely to the arts, drama and comedy. Its mascot, oddly enough, is a kangaroo named Hullabaloo. Meanwhile, Battersea Power Station too is aglow, in flames. As firefighters struggle to defeat the…
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Re-collecting Omer Fast
-Omer Fast is dead. This is a fact I discovered hidden within the first few pages of In Memory, a catalogue published by ‘The Green Box’ on the works of the artist in 2009, when I was conducting my own research. It was a statement made by the editors of the collection in response to…
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Hold On, It’s Just Autocorrect
Technology is terrifically endearing. The most evident of such would be the famous autocorrect, with its penchant to litter our on-screen conversations with Freudian slips and sexual terminology, bringing out the snickering fourteen-year old in us all. Just a slip of the thumb and suddenly you’re punching cats, buying mum anal beads for her birthday…
Jackie Duan 