P L S

Magazine P L  S #37
disalienating institutions
The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
Release date: 15 February 2024

Issue 37 of P L  S magazine addresses the relationships between mental health, contemporary creation, and art and culture venues, in particular through the prism of institutional psychotherapy, a set of practices aimed at disalienating institutions—initially psychiatric ones.
     This magazine echoes the awareness of mental health at the Palais de Tokyo which works on various levels, starting with the art centre’s expertise when it comes to cultural mediation, which has allowed bonds to be forged with actors in the social, psychiatric and medical fields, as well as with the people concerned. This has also led to the opening of the hamo, a new space for hosting, practising, researching and for experiences which are especially inspired by the notions of well-being and care.
     (Re)thinking cultural institutions from the perspective of vulnerability means supporting and valuing differences, and inventing new ways of caring and living together. It is also about politicising and poeticising the relationship with mental health, by seeing it as a lever for modifying society: to challenge an outdated dichotomy between “the healthy” and “the ill,” and to acknowledge a spectrum of sensibilities towards the world. This in turn raises questions about the notion of “normality,” the difficulties to include differences, and the invisible violence of normative systems.

With texts and visual contributions by:
Azza Abo Rebieh; Astéréotypie; Adélaïde Blanc; Agathe Boulanger, Sybille Chevreuse, Carine Lendrin, Léna Monnier, Graziela Susin, Camille Zuber; Mohamed Bourouissa; Collectif SMAC; Signe Frederiksen; Tania Gheerbrant; Juliette Green; Jean Khalfa; Jasmine Lebert; Pauline Lecerf; Joana Masó.

This issue is published on the occasion of a new season of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo (from 16 February to 30 June 2024), and in particular: Approaching Unreason, a group show which presents collective artistic practices in various structures associated with mental health, be they institutional or not; Mohamed Bourouissa’s exhibition Signal; the group show Dislocations, organised in collaboration with the association Portes ouvertes sur l’art.

Magazine P L  S #36
amour, amours, amourxs
The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
Release date: 18 October 2023

Issue 36 of P L  S magazine proposes to explore the multiplicity, hybridity and fluidity of identities and the ways of loving, the plurality and complexity of our affects and our sexualities. For, there may be no boundaries to the various ways in which we can live out and understand our feelings. With this in mind, this issue has been devised as a reader that compiles different sensibilities, in which the complicity and the contagions between the artists and authors’ works are just as important as their respective contributions.Telling the story of these intimacies, with reciprocity and care for the other, means reconsidering some narratives and voices that are too often neglected in conventional discourses about love. These situated, brief and incisive textual and visual contributions, open out instable and deviant perspectives, like many herbaria of fantasies sown on the fringes of our individualities. In their own way, they resolutely and joyfully subvert the limits of hegemony to flourish in the ground of elusive, subjective and political affinities.

With texts and visual contributions by:
Linga Acácio, Phoenix Atala, Jimmy Beauquesne, Jeanne Jacob, Tony Colombe. K, Rafael Moreno, Aurélien Potier, Rafael RG, ana·mona servo / Les Éditions PanPan CulCul, Myriam Ziehli ; Lars Bang Larsen ; Pêdra Costa ; Audrey Couppé de Kermadec ; Théophylle Dcx ; Gorge ; jpp ; Rafaela Kennedy & Antonia Moreira ; Lazare Lazarus, Cy Lecerf Maulpoix, Tom de Pekin ; Sands Murray-Wassink ; Nygel Panasco ; François Piron ; Liz Rosenfeld ; Assotto Saint ; Ashkan Sepahvand ; Anaïs Sière ; Vanessa Sin, Jona Bruixet Dorsey-Swann, Tropikahl Ivy St.Laurent, Mandhla, GodXXX Noirphiles ; TOMBOYS DON’T CRY.

This issue is published on the occasion of the following exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo (from October 19, 2023 to January 7, 2024): group show Hors de la nuit des normes, hors de l’énorme ennui ; Lili Reynaud-Dewar’s solo show Hello, my name is Lili and we are many; Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl’s show Doppleganger!

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Magazine P L  S #35
The Gnawing of the Termites
The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
Release date: 15 June 2023

As a prefiguration of its new formula, this issue of the Palais de Tokyo magazine is accompanying, but above all deepening and deploying the exhibition “La Morsure des Termites” [The Gnawing of the Termites]. Thanks to an updated and highly subjective archaeology of graffiti, it provides us with the opportunity to investigate what creation coming from urban culture has given to the history of forms, in aesthetic, but also conceptual, social and political terms, through such notions as the construction of identities via collective destruction, subversion of the practices and economies of art, illicit acts, resistance and a form of idealism or romanticism derived from vandalism.

In this issue:

- Hugo Vitrani, “Il morso delle termiti”: an introductory text on the exhibition "La Morsure des termites";

- Charlotte Guichard, “Graffiti. Sensitive Traces”: the presence of graffiti in the history of western art;

- Hito Steyerl interviewed by Ingrid Luquet-Gad : interview about her work The City of Broken Windows;

- Simon Johannin, “SKKI is the Limit”: encounter with the artist SKKI;

- Jérôme Denis and David Pontille, “The Care of Things”: interview about the research of these two sociologists into maintenance work, in particular based on their investigation into the erasure of graffiti in Paris;

- Nicholas de Monchaux, “Aerosol”: an history of the aerosol can since the beginning of 20th century;

- As well as images of works by Chaz Bojorquez, Aline Bouvy, A. One (Anthony Clark), Samuel Bosseur, Brassaï, Miriam Cahn, Sophie Calle, COCO 144, Martha Cooper, Miodrag Djurić DADO, John Divola, Miho Dohi, Ida Ekblad, VALIE EXPORT, Caley Feeney, FUTURA 2000, Richard Hambleton, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jenny Holzer, Antwan Horfee, Renaud Jerez, David L. Johnson, Margaret Kilgallen, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Renée Levi, Tala Madani, Mark Manders, Roberto Matta, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ari Marcopoulos, MODE 2, Tania Mouraud, NOC 167, Nestor Nomakh, PHASE 2, Alexander Raczka, RAMMELLZEE, Jay Ramier, Lady Pink, Leomi Sadler, SAEIO, SKKI©, Robert Smithson, SNAKE 1, STAY HIGH 149, Lisa Signorini, Hito Steyerl, Hervé Télémaque, Toni, Lily Van Der Stokker, Martin Wong, Gérard Zlotykamien.

Magazine PALAIS #34
The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
Release date: 15 October 2022 

This issue 34 of the PALAIS magazine accompanies and echoes the exhibition Scheherazade, at night presented at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) from 19 October 2022 until 8 January 2023, bringing together six international artists (Minia Biabiany, Miguel Gomes, Ho Tzu Nyen, Pedro Neves Marques, Lieko Shiga and Ana Vaz) whose practice summons the tumult of the contemporary world through the political power of narrative and the imaginary.
With texts and visual contributions by Alaa Abd el-Fattah, Lina Attalah, Minia Biabiany, Zoe Butt, Marie Cosnay, Alfonso Díaz, Youssef El Chazli, Miguel Gomes, Yoann Gourmel, Ho Tzu Nyen, Noémi Lefebvre, Nuno da Luz, Olivier Marboeuf, Pedro Neves Marques, Elías Quintana, Mariana Ricardo, Lionel Ruffel, Lieko Shiga, Abdellah Taïa, Ana Vaz, Antoine Volodine.

Magazine PALAIS #33
The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
Release date: 15 April 2022 

The relationships between human beings and their environments are some of our most stimulating contemporary preoccupations, in that they put into question the ideological basis of our ways of doing and of thinking. In this respect, ecological events have given rise to a merging of essential issues, which are political, economic, scientific, moral, societal and, of course, aesthetic. This season of the Palais de Tokyo’s exhibition programme, “Reclaim the Earth” (from 15 April to 4 September 2022), echoes all these questions and evokes not only the relationships between bodies and the earth, the disappearance of some species of flora and fauna, or the transmission of minoritized narratives and knowledges, but also spirits, biological energies, agriculture, gardening. While joining up with spirituality, the emotions and affects, the propositions by the artists presented on this occasion and in this issue of the PALAIS magazine intentionally turn often-serious preoccupations into poetry and resonate a positive, lively energy.

Featured in issue 33:

* A main section in dialogue with the exhibition Reclaim the Earth
- Pages dedicated to the artists featured in the exhibition Reclaim the Earth with an introductory text by Daria de Beauvais, special contributions by Abbas Akhavan (with text by Marina Roy), Huma Bhabha, D Harding, Kate Newby, Daniela Ortiz, and Yhonnie Scarce, interviews with asinnajaq (by Candice Hopkins), Sebastián Calfuqueo (by Léuli Eshrāghi), Solange Pessoa (by Liz Munsell), Tabita Rezaire and Yussef Agbo-Ola (by Daria de Beauvais), Thu-Van Tran (by Daria de Beauvais), and Judy Watson (by Hetti Perkins), as well as texts by Mylène Ferrand on Megan Cope and by Katrina Lewis, Natasha Lewis, and Elizabeth A. Povinelli about Karrabing Film Collective
- Essays by Emanuele Coccia, Arturo Escobar, Léuli Eshrāghi, Béatrice Josse, Ariel Salleh, and a conversation between Barbara Glowczewski and Elizabeth A. Povinelli.

* And also:
A contribution with text and images by Hélène Bertin and César Chevalier, essays by Pip Wallis on Mimosa Echard’s work, by Patrick Chamoiseau on Laura Henno’s work, by Adélaïde Blanc on Le Jardin aux habitant·es by Robert Milin, poems by Jeanine Leane relating to Jonathan Jones’ exhibition as well as interviews with Aïcha Snoussi (by Cédric Fauq) and with Etel Adnan and with Hala Wardé (by Yves Michaud) about the project A Roof for Silence. 

Bilingual (French/English); 204 pages (in color); 22.5 × 28.5 cm (softcover)

Magazine PALAIS #32
The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
Release date: 12 November 2021

In an echo to appeals in the collective exhibition Ubuntu, a Lucid Dream—calls for revolt, as well as for wisdom and reparation—the issue 32 of the magazine PALAIS is published on the occasion of a season of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo (26.11 2021 – 20.03 2022), which foregrounds artists whose practices cross borders and restore the capacity for action, to ideas, forms, and cultures which are more nomadic than static. Within spaces of conflict, past and present, these artists affirm equality and exchange as vital principles. Their artistic imaginaries are rooted in a world in which there are clearly no longer any centres, and indeed they help to multiply outwards the number of poles of attraction. But this fragmentation does not occlude history, quite the contrary: along with diasporas and creolization, narratives of liberation and emancipation as well as of violent stories of territorial dispossession and forced displacement emerge throughout the exhibitions, always more lucid and more audible. Beyond their singular forms of poetry, these artists mobilize and share imaginaries that are not national but rather continental, and whose tectonic shifts are irreversible.

Featured in issue 32:

* A main section in dialogue with the exhibition Ubuntu, a Lucid Dream
With the artists: Jonathas de Andrade, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Michael Armitage, Bili Bidjocka, Kudzanai Chiurai (in collaboration with Khanya Mashabela and with the participation of Kenzhero), Nolan Oswald Dennis, Lungiswa Gqunta, Frances Goodman, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Richard Kennedy, Grada Kilomba, Turiya Magadlela, Ibrahim Mahama, Sabelo Mlangeni, Meleko Mokgosi, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Daniel Otero Torres.
Texts by: Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Thulile Gamedze, Grada Kilomba, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Khanya Mashabela, Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson, Marie-Ann Yemsi; as well as a conversation between Michael Armitage and Meleko Mokgosi, and a poetry selection waxed together by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (with poems by Ama Ata Aidoo, Viola Allo, James Baldwin, Kwame Dawes, Birago Diop, Tsitsi Jaji, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Olu Oguibe, Warsan Shire, Derek Walcott).

* And also
Essays by: Cédric Fauq and François Piron on the work of filmmaker Sarah Maldoror, Elvan Zabunyan on Jay Ramier’s work, Marcelo Campos on Maxwell Alexandre’s work, and Lucille Toth on Aïda Bruyère’s project.

Bilingual edition (French / English) ;  216 pages (colour illustrations) ; 22.5 × 28.5 cm (paperback)

PALAIS 31
NATURES MORTES – Carte Blanche to Anne Imhof

On the occasion of Natures Mortes, her carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo (from 22 May to 24 October 2021), the artist Anne Imhof is the guest editor-in-chief of issue 31 of the magazine PALAIS.

After laying siege to the German pavilion with her masterpiece Faust, for which she was awarded the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, Anne Imhof has taken hold of the entirety of the Palais de Tokyo to create an all-embracing, polyphonic work. Here, she fuses space and bodies, music and painting, and her own works with those of accomplices—the artist Eliza Douglas and thirty other guests.

In this issue :
Interviews of Anne Imhof and Eliza Douglas by Vittoria Matarrese. Texts by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, Jean René Étienne, Emma Lavigne, Paul B. Preciado, Catherine Wood, Renaud Gadoury and Hugo Vitrani.
A large selection of images of Anne Imhof’s work and project at the Palais de Tokyo, including several exhibition views, and of the works of the contemporary and historical artists featured in  Natures Mortes.

Bilingual (French/English); 22.5 x 28.5 cm (softcover); 296 pages (in color)

Magazine PALAIS #30
“Future, Former, Fugitive” - A French scene

The issue 30 of the magazine PALAIS is published on the occasion of the exhibition “Future, Former, Fugitive,” presented at Palais de Tokyo from 16 October 2019 to 5 January 2020. This exhibition devoted to a certain French scene is based on an open view of belonging to a land and it escapes from the effects of a tabula rasa dictating that one generation eclipses another. It unites a good forty artists born between the 1930s and the 1990s, but who all live and work in and within their era.

Featured in issue 30

A vast interview, brings together the many voices of the artists in the exhibition. It has been put together based on their answers to a series of thematic questions which they were asked individually. It pays attention to the contexts in which their practices have developed—concerning their theoretical or artistic influences, their lifestyles and material conditions of existence, or else their relationship with transmission—and attempts to draw up a (necessarily fragmentary) panorama of what nourishes, influences and inspires their work. This interview is illustrated by over two hundred images of works.
With Nils Alix-Tabeling, Mali Arun, Fabienne Audéoud, Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Grégoire Beil, Martin Belou, Jean-Luc Blanc, Maurice Blaussyld, Anne Bourse, Kévin Bray, Madison Bycroft, Julien Carreyn, Antoine Château, Nina Childress, Jean Claus, Jean-Alain Corre, Jonas Delaborde, Bertrand Dezoteux, Vidya Gastaldon, Corentin Grossmann, Hendrik Hegray, Agata Ingarden, Renaud Jerez, Pierre Joseph, Laura Lamiel, Anne Le Troter, Antoine Marquis, Caroline Mesquita, Anita Molinero, Aude Pariset, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Marine Peixoto, Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Antoine Renard, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Linda Sanchez, Alain Séchas, Anna Solal, Kengné Téguia, Sarah Tritz, Nicolas Tubéry, Turpentine, Adrien Vescovi, Nayel Zeaiter, and the visual participation of Marc Camille Chaimowicz.

As well as six originals essays:

–A text by the curatorial team (Franck Balland, Daria de Beauvais, Adélaïde Blanc, Claire Moulène and Marilou Thiébault) presents the issues of the exhibition and offers a thread leading through it.

–“An Artist is Always More than an Artist” by Laurent Jeanpierre: he offers a socio-economic study of artists’ lives and the ways of being an artist in France today. He analyses their impact on the way art is produced, exhibited and understood.

–“Robinson and the Fugitives” by Éric Mangion: he examines the way in which a young generation of artists turns aside and moves off the beaten track so as to invent new ways of making art and sharing it.

–“Bacchus and Electricity” by Jill Gasparina: she sketches out a history of the both conflictual and fertile relations between the sciences, technologies and art in France. She highlights how a “French-style” technological imaginary nourishes contemporary artistic creation.

–“Interface Massage” by Elsa Boyer: she studies the intimate, bodily and emotional relationships which we develop on contact with digital interfaces and tools, and how artists adopt them via an aesthetic of vulgarity (i.e. commonness as well as coarseness).

–“It’s Today, Still” by Géraldine Gourbe: she examines the difficult heritage of a French identity on the current artistic scene. In an attempt to pinpoint the possible reasons for this, she goes back over an episode in the history of art in France: Nouveau Réalisme.

Bilingual (French / English); 22.5 x 28.5 cm (paperback); 216 pages (colour illustrations)

Magazine PALAIS No. 29
“City Prince/sses”

PALAIS magazine is devoting its issue #29 to the exhibition “City Prince/sses”, presented at the Palais de Tokyo from 21 June to 8 September 2019. Artists, fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians, DJs, tattoo artists, experimenters: about fifty creators coming from Dhaka, Lagos, Manila, Mexico City and Tehran have invested the Palais de Tokyo which has become an imaginary city, multiple and complex, open, messy, thundering and creative.

In this issue:

- Texts by: Fabien Danesi and Hugo Vitrani, curators of the exhibition; Tayeba Begum Lipi about Britto Arts Trust, a platform for experimentation and international exchange for visual arts based in Dhaka; Seni Saraki about Nigerian pop music; Ashkan Sepahvand on Iranian artist Mamali Shafahi; Sophie Bouillon about Aderemi Adegbite, founder of an artistic space in Iwaya district in Lagos; Kit Hammonds about the work of Mexican artist Manuel Solano; Caliph8 on a history of alternative musical scenes of Manila; Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh about Lagos soundscapes; artist-photographer Newsha Tavakolian on a history of documentary photography in Iran.

- Interviews: Fernando Palma Rodríguez by Dorothée Dupuis, about his commitment to the preservation of the cultural and natural heritage of the Nahuas of Mexico; a conversation between Ndidi Dike and Wura-Natasha Ogunji, two women artists living and working in Lagos;  a discussion between Yoshua Okón, artist and founder of the artist-run space La Panadería in Mexico City in the 1990s, and the members of Biquini Wax EPS, a collective of artists, writers, historians and curators, by Daniel Montero; contemporary Filipino filmmakers Timmy Harn and Raya Martin in conversation; the artist collective Tercerunquinto by Daniel Garza Usabiaga, about political propaganda paintings in Mexico.

- Visual contributions by: Merhaneh Atashi, Leeroy New, Afshika Rahman and Saturnino Basilla (Allan Balisi & Dina Gadia).

- As well as a large selection of images of works by the creators presented in the exhibition.

Bilingual (French / English); 22.5 x 28.5 cm (paperback); 192 pages (colour illustrations)

Magazine PALAIS No. 28 – Tomás Saraceno – ON AIR

On the occasion of his carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo (from 17 October 2018 to 6 January 2019), the artist Tomás Saraceno is the guest editor-in-chief of issue 28 of the magazine PALAIS.

Tomás Saraceno’s exhibition ON AIR is an emerging ecosystem that hosts a choreography of multiple voices belonging to human and non-human universes and in which works reveal common, fragile and ephemeral rhythms and trajectories linking these worlds. ON AIR is comprised of the myriad presences, animate and inanimate, that meet and cohabit within it. As industrial extraction mines the Earth for resources, threatening entire ecologies, ON AIR celebrates new ways of thinking and new modes of knowledge production that point the way to a planet free of borders and fossil fuels. In so doing, the exhibition responds to the debate and global challenges posed by the Anthropocene, a word coined to define an epoch in which human activity leaves an impact so great that it profoundly modifies terrestrial ecosystems.

Featured in issue 28

Reflecting Tomás Saraceno’s artistic practice and echoing his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, this issue of PALAIS magazine brings together a large variety of original contributions from philosophers, researchers, scientists, writers, curators, historians and theoreticians.

With: texts by Benjamin H. Bratton, Vinciane Despret, Anselm Franke, Stavros Katsanevas, Brandon LaBelle, Bruno Latour, Megan Prelinger, João Ribas, Mark Wigley and Estelle Zhong Mengual; an interview of Tomás Saraceno by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, curator of the exhibition; the voices of Albert-László Barabási, Robert Barry, Markus J. Buehler, Luca Cerizza, Tim Choy, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Sasha Engelmann, Milovan Farronato, David Haskell, Jen Hauser, Peggy S. M. Hill, Caroline A. Jones, Leila W. Kinney, Eben Kirksey, Jonathan M. Ledgard, Sofia Lemos, Michael Marder, Derek McCormack, Roland Mühlethaler, Jussi Parikka, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Filipa Ramos, Nicholas Shapiro, Étienne Turpin and Philip Ursprung; as well as a large selection of images of Tomás Saraceno’s work.

Magazine PALAIS No. 27
“Another Banana Day for the Dream-Fish”

PALAIS magazine is devoting its issue #27 to the exhibition “Another Banana Day for the Dream-Fish”, presented at the Palais de Tokyo from 22 June to 9 September 2018. This exhibition brings together creations by around 30 artists and craftspersons, based around the imaginary of childhood, its foundation myths and contemporary transformations. Constructed like a tale, with many levels of interpretation, the exhibition, with a dramaturgy conceived by the artist and filmmaker Clément Cogitore, transforms the Palais de Tokyo into a huge initiatory journey.

In this issue:

Sandra Adam-Couralet and Yoann Gourmel, the curators of the exhibition, present its challenges, between everyday spaces and dream territories, stupor and amazement.

Kodama Kanazawa, the associate curator, examines the spatiotemporal hybridity of childhood.

Special contributions from artists in the exhibition: Petrit Halilaj, Anna Hulačová, Chihiro Mori, Rachel Rose, as well as the artist and mangaka Yuichi Yokoyama who has produced an original manga about the figure of the chimera.

The artist and curator Ydessa Hendeles takes an interest in the history of the teddy bear, as an important 20^th-century figure.

The linguist Aliyah Morgenstern and the sociologist Régine Sirota offer a selection of texts about the moments and rituals that make the stuff of childhood, with articles by Julie Delalande, Christine Détrez, Kevin Diter, Nicoletta Diasio, Nathalie Mangeard-Bloch and Virginie Vinel.

The historian John R. Gillis analyses what he calls the “inslanding of children”: the separation in the modern era between the space for children and that for adults and the isolation of each child within its protective sphere.

Ferdinand Cazalis retraces the history of playgrounds and brings out their anchorage in the political history of the West, from 1770 to today.

A selection of pieces produced by the pupils of the Torcy elementary school (Paris), who were invited to react to the exhibition “Another Banana Day for the Dream-Fish”, as part of an educational project with the Palais de Tokyo.

In a special contribution, Clément Cogitore unveils the notebook for his dramaturgy of the exhibition “Another Banana Day for the Dream-Fish”, whose interpretation and production were confided to different craftspersons.

In a series of interviews, Muriel Prouet and Grégoire Talon go back over the expertise and creative daring of these craftspersons (a cabinet-maker; a creator of textile art and embroidery; an embosser, printer and shaper of velvet; a master glass-maker; a master pleater; a mosaic artist; a sculptor of metal; and a sculptor of stone) as well as their collaboration with Clément Cogitore.

Bilingual (French / English); 22.5 x 28.5 cm (paperback); 216 pages (colour illustrations)

Magazine PALAIS N° 26 – Camille Henrot – “Days are Dogs”

On the occasion of her carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo from 18 October 2017 to 7 January 2018, the French artist Camile Henrot is the guest editor-in-chief of this issue 26 of the magazine PALAIS, devoted entirely to the exhibition “Days are Dogs.”

For this exhibition, Camille Henrot brings together an extensive group of her own works along with contributions from international artists with whom she maintains a productive dialogue. The invited artists are David Horvitz, Maria Loboda, Nancy Lupo, Samara Scott, and Avery Singer, as well as the poet Jacob Bromberg. The exhibition “Days are Dogs” explores the ways in which the invention of the seven-day week structures our relationship to time. It reveals the way the notion of the week reassures us—giving us routines and a common framework—just as much as it alienates us, creating a set of constraints and dependencies. Each of the seven parts of the exhibition is accordingly dedicated to a day of the week, an allegory for a series of emotions and activities associated with each day which the artworks reflect.

Following this same organisation into seven parts, this issue of the magazine PALAIS explores the different themes of the exhibition.
With: texts by Ben Eastham, Orit Gat, Haidy Geismar, Chris Kraus, Miranda Lash in conversation with Lora Ann Chaisson, Chris Sharp and Polly Staple; an interview with Camille Henrot by Daria de Beauvais, the exhibition’s curator; with original contributions by the guest artists: Jacob Bromberg, David Horvitz, Maria Loboda, Nancy Lupo, Samara Scott and Avery Singer; as well as a large selection of images of Camille Henrot’s works.

Bilingual edition (French / English); 22.5 x 28.5 cm (paperback); 192 pages (colour illustrations)

Magazine PALAIS # 25 - The Dream of Forms

The magazine PALAIS is devoting its issue # 25 to the exhibition “Le Rêve des formes” [The Dream of Forms], presented at the Palais de Tokyo from 14 June to 10 September 2017, and organised on the occasion of the twentieth birthday of Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains.

The exhibition “Le Rêve des formes” has been conceived as an imaginary landscape, a monstrous garden cultivating perishable forms, germinating surfaces, and protuberant organisms. With a good forty artists and scientists, the show has been designed along two routes: on the one hand, the rediscovery of the world of the living in all of its diversity, through an exploration of dynamic, mimetic or naturalistic forms; on the other, an exploration of mutant or algorithmic forms, inspired by mathematics, computing and artificial intelligence. The exhibition “Le Rêve des formes” aims at questioning the meeting points between artistic and scientific research: how do today’s artists and scientists come up with original visual solutions, which help to reinvent the geometry of thought, outside familiar territories?

In this issue

Alain Fleischer and Claire Moulène, the exhibition’s curators,introduce what is at stake in the exhibition “Le Rêve des formes.” Olivier Perriquet presents the work of the research group which, at Le Fresnoy, brought together both artists and scientists from different fields around the question of the “incertitude of forms,” thus preceding and nourishing the exhibition “Le Rêve des forms.”

* Special contributions from artists and scientists taking part in the exhibition

The artist Anicka Yi is here in conversation with three biology researchers she recently worked with on the conception of new works. The composer Arnaud Petit explores how music creates a dialogue between words, writing and mathematics. The artist Hicham Berrada and the researcher Annick Lesne focus on moving, self-organised forms. The stage director Jean-François Peyret and the neurobiologist Alain Prochiantz share their fascination in primates through a mischievous encyclopaedia. The artist SMITH and the cosmologist Jean-Philippe Uzan have imagined the history of a new humanity, on a quest for an organic link with the stars. Bertrand Dezoteux, in an animated film, has invented an interconnected world inspired from the research of the biologist Lynn Margulis into the arrival and development of life on earth.

* In a special dossier

The literature researcher Marielle Macé is in conversation with Claire Moulène about the “forms of life.” In a “speculative fantasy,” the biologist, philosopher and science historian Donna Haraway imagines a symbiotic future between the various species on earth. Jens Hauser, exhibition curator and mediology researcher, analyses how, by adopting biotechnologies as a medium, artists have shaken up the relationship between art and life. The philosopher Fréderic Neyrat examines our humanism in an essay about transhumans, posthumans, androids and cyborgs.

Bilingual (French / English) ; 22,5 x 28,5 cm (paperback) ; 216 pages (colour illustrations)

PALAIS # 24 - Urban Art

The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo

Around the Lasco Project, the Palais de Tokyo’s programme dedicated to urban art, PALAISmagazine is devoting its latest issue to artists whose work has been developed in the street.

The Lasco Project was initiated in 2012, and stands as one of the most astonishing successions of urban art in a cultural site, reaching into the slightest nook and darkest cranny of the Palais de Tokyo. For it, almost sixty international artists have produced interventions, some of them monumental, others secret, which confront the Palais de Tokyo’s plain architecture, and infiltrate into its interstices.

Contents of this issue:

* Interviews, encounters with artists, special contributions

André interviewed by Olivier Zahm; Azyle, interviewed by Hugo Vitrani; Philippe Baudelocque interviewed by Bénédicte Philippe; Craig Costello interviewed by Barry McGee; dran interviewed by Maurizio Cattelan; Evol interviewed by Pedro Soares Neves; Stelios Faitakis by Nadja Argyropoulou; Futura, Mode 2 and Boris Tellegen interviewed by Nicolas Gzeley, with an original visual contribution; An original visual collaboration between Antwan Horfee and Ida Ekblad; JR interviewed by Jean de Loisy; Olivier Kosta-Théfaine interviewed by Mohamed Bourouissa; Lek & Sowat and their guests of the Lasco Project by Philippe Vasset ; OSGEMEOS interviewed by Allen Benedikt; Felipe Pantone interviewed by Evan Pricco; Cleon Peterson interviewed by Myriam Ben Salah; SKKI ©; Vhils; Fabrice Yencko interviewed by Hugo Vitrani

* Theoretical essays and original texts

- An essay by François Chastanet drawing up a geography of urban signatures through a study of the contributions of the New York style of graffiti and the calligraphic inventions of Los Angeles and São Paulo graffiti.
- “The Trapdoor,” a short story by Oscar Coop-Phane.
- An essay by Jacob Kimvall on the complex relationships between artists practising graffiti or street art and public institutions.
- A text by Hugo Vitrani introducing the Lasco Project.

* As well as books for further reading selected by Nicolas Gzeley and Hugo Vitrani.

Bilingual (French & English)
216 pages in color; Format: 285 x 225 mm

Michel Houellebecq - “To Stay Alive”
The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo

Issue 23 of PALAIS Magazine is entirely devoted to Michel Houellebecq’s exhibition “To Stay Alive,” presented at the Palais de Tokyo from 23 June to 12 September 2016. This is an exceptional event, because it is the first large-scale show devoted to Michel Houellebecq as an artist. This is also a special issue of PALAIS magazine with Michel Houellebecq as guest editor-in-chief.

Featured in issue 23:

This issue of PALAIS magazine follows the organisation of the exhibition in chapters. Thanks to a series of unpublished interviews with Michel Houellebecq, a selection of his writings (essays, poems, novel extracts) and texts by guest authors, it provides a discovery of Houellebecq’s visual universe, and its intertwining with the many creative forms which the writer uses (music, cinema, performance…).
Contents: photographs and a selection of texts by Michel Houellebecq as well as a series of interviews between Michel Houellebecq and Jean de Loisy, Yan Céh, Robert Combas (edited by Richard Leydier), Benoît Delépine, Nelly Kaprièlian, an essay by Stéphanie Moisdon and portfolios by Robert Combas, Marie-Pierre Gauthier and Renaud Marchand.

Bilingual (French & English)
192 pages in color; Format: 285 x 225 mm

PALAIS # 22
“I Love John Giorno”
The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo

Issue 22 of PALAIS magazine is entirely devoted to the Ugo Rondinone’s exhibition “I Love John Giorno” at the Palais de Tokyo (October 21, 2015 - January 10, 2016), the first retrospective of the life and work of the American poet John Giorno, a key figure of America’s counterculture since the 1960s.

An iconic character in Andy Warhol’s early films, Giorno was influenced by Pop artists who opened his eyes to the idea of “found poetry,” and he captured the real-life colloquial language of advertisements, television, newspapers, and street slang. Seeking to create a new audience and a new relevance for poetry since the mid-1960s, Giorno has developed viral strategies to share poetry with as many people as possible. Whether recorded on albums or on an answering machine, silk-printed or painted on canvas, proclaimed on a stage or de-structured on the pages of a book, Giorno’s poems are images capable of limitless forms of technological reproduction.

With the exhibition “I Love John Giorno,” that he conceived as a work of art in its own right, Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone has reinvented the retrospective format as portraiture. “Taken as a whole, the eight chapters of the exhibition reflect how John Giorno works and help us to understand the dual influences that American culture and Buddhism had on his life and art.” (Ugo Rondinone)

Featured in issue 22:

This issue of PALAIS magazine follows the organization of the exhibition in eight chapters, each standing for one facet of John Giorno’s multifarious work and life. It includes a series of original contributions and artists’ testimonials, documents from John Giorno’s personal archives, and also a selection of John Giorno’s writings.

With contributions by: John Giorno; Ugo Rondinone; Florence Ostende, the curator of the exhibition; Marcus Boon, Laura Hoptman, Daniel Kane and Jean-Jacques Lebel concerning John Giorno’s oeuvre; Bruce Jenkins on John Giorno and Andy Warhol; Marcia Bassett and Anastasia Clarke on John Giorno’s archives; Nathalie Bazin and Vivian Kurz on Tibetan Buddhism and its importance for John Giorno; Anne Collier and Matthew Higgs about Giorno Poetry Systems; as well as by Verne Dawson, Judith Eisler, Pierre Huygue, Françoise Janicot, Scott King, Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Elizabeth Peyton, Michael Stipe, Billy Sullivan, Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Bilingual (French & English)
216 pages in color; Format: 285 x 225 mm

PALAIS # 21 - “At the Edge of the Worlds”
The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo

Issue #21 of PALAIS is entirely devoted to the exhibition “Le Bord des mondes” [“At the Edge of the Worlds”] at the Palais de Tokyo (February-May 2015). By exploring territories that lie outside the art world and bringing to light unique gestures that give way to new forms of creation, the exhibition “Le Bord des mondes” aims to renew and expand the field of our artistic attentiveness in an attempt to see, experience and conceptualize the world by liberating ourselves from the categories that order it.

Featured in issue 21:

The curator of “Le Bord des mondes”, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, presents the stakes at the heart of the exhibition and invites readers to discover the research undertaken by these creators, which goes beyond the classic definitions of art.
Jean-Marie Schaeffer, philosopher, presents a view which runs counter to a position that seeks to oppose art and everything that is not art. He considers art to be a plural world which is constantly redefining its reach and nature through its interactions and exchanges with the multiple worlds that border it.
The writer and art critic Brian Dillon proposes a classification of the forms and the individuals who have played a role in the history of the way we have examined and exhibited the world. A historical perspective on the spirit of curiosity that abounds in the exhibition “Le Bord des mondes.”

And also
David Raymond, artist, writer and poet, examines Bridget Polk’s “balancing rock” installations; Laurent Derobert, inventor of “existential mathematics,” discusses the relationship between math, art and love with the mathematician Edward Frenkel and the artist Peter Coffin; Philippe Rekacewicz, geographer, cartographer and journalist, guides us in the perusal of a map to an imaginary world invented by Jerry Gretzinger; Sandra Maunac, curator, retraces the history of Kinshasa Sape, while revealing its close connections with the city’s music scene; Hiroshi Ishiguro, who creates “geminoid” robots, talks with composer Keiichiro Shibuya, author of an opera written for the vocal synthesizer software Vocaloid; with his “beach creatures” able to move and survive autonomously, Theo Jansen throws our anthropocentrism into fresh perspective; Frédérique Aït Touati, a literature and science history researcher and stage director, dives into the heart of Tomás Saraceno’s spider webs; the food essayist Bénédict Beaugé supplies an in-depth analysis of one of Pierre Gagnaire’s dishes; Jean-Paul Thibeau, artist-researcher, tells about his meeting with Jean Katambayi, an artist-hacker-DIYer; Jane Venis, sculptor and writer, offers a study on the founding principles of chindogu, weird objects invented by Kenji Kawakami.

As well as
CKY, Carlos Espinosa, Rose-Lynn Fisher, Game of States, Iris van Herpen, Zdenek Kosek, Jesse Krimes, Kusköy, Charlie Le Mindu, Arnold Odermatt, Le Prince noir, George Widener.

Bilingual (French & English)
192 pages in color; Format: 285 x 225 mm

PALAIS No. 20 – release date October 19, 2014
The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo

The issue 20 of the magazine PALAIS reflects the new season of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, from October 2014 to January 2015, more particularly with the exhibition “Inside”. On this occasion, the questions of the inside and of interiority have inspired contributions from a large number of writers, philosophers, curators, anthropologists, historians, architects and researchers

Release date February 13, 2014

Chiming with “L’État du ciel” [The Sky’s State], the new season of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, from February to September 2014, this issue of the magazine PALAIS brings together contributions by a large number of artists, writers, critics and researchers.

Featured in issue 19:

Writings by artists
An essay by Hiroshi Sugimoto, the great Japanese photography master and collector, who confronts and conjugates Japanese thought and culture with Western ideas and  art.
A choice of writings by Thomas Hirschhorn, published in their original language, which testify to the need for the artist to define his own terms and affirm his position.
An unpublished text by the British artist Ed Atkins, in relation with one of his new pieces.

Two dossiers
“New Ghost Stories”: in texts and images, Georges Didi-Huberman, philosopher and historian, and Arno Gisinger, artist, explore the historical and theoretical concerns in their common exhibition project and the question of the montage of images as specific forms of knowledge about the world.
“Little Illustrated Dictionary of the Fall”: under the editorial lead of Marie de Brugerolle and Gérard Wajcman, nine authors (artists, writers, psychoanalysts, filmmakers, etc.) have been asked to contribute to a series of variations on the figure of the fall.

And also
Jeanne Truong, writer, concerning the recent artistic work of Angelika Markul.
David Douard in conversation with  Stef Aupers, the cultural sociologist, about his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo and the ambivalences of contemporary subjectivity.
Minoru Shimizu, the art critic, analyses the possible links between the photographic works of Hiroshi Sugimoto and the artist’s projects in the field of the traditional performing arts.
Sébastien Faucon and Agnès Violeau take a look at the issues involved in the exhibiting ofprotocol, performance and relational based works.
A focus on four artists from the emerging scene: Alessandro Piangiamore, Vivien Roubaud, Thomas Teurlai and Tatiana Wolska.

As well as special projects and visual contributions
Michaela Eichwald; Michael Riedel; the 2013-2014 residents of the Pavillon Neuflize OBC, the creation laboratory of the Palais de Tokyo.

Bilingual (French & English)
232 pages in colour; Format: 285 x 225 mm

Out on June 20^th 2013

In this issue: contributions of young curators presenting their exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo and in Parisian galleries and art spaces, as well as the issue 7 ½  of the journal The Exhibitionist.

Published at the occasion of “Nouvelles vagues”, the 2013 summer season of the Palais de Tokyo, this issue of PALAIS underlines the importance of the recently defined curator figure and sheds light upon current exhibition practices developed by the latter. This figure, which emerged in the context of a general questioning of the artistic institutions in the 1960s, has now become inseparable of a reinterpretation of art history through the prism of the exhibition as a medium. In order to testify about this transformation in the art ecosystem, the Palais de Tokyo presents the projects of 21 young curators or curator groups (of 13 different nationalities) selected after an international call for proposals, and leads along 32 galleries and art spaces all over Paris.
The magazine PALAIS devotes its issue #18 to the 53 exhibitions that constitute “Nouvelles Vagues,” including original contributions by the young curators invited by the Palais de Tokyo and the Parisian galleries.

Special guest for this issue: The Exhibitionist, an American journal on curatorial practices and exhibition making, offers a subjective exhibition history through six peculiar examples, in both English and French, covering 70 pages to be discovered inside PALAIS magazine.

Bilingual (French & English)

360 pages in color ; Format: 285 x 225 mm

Released on 25 February 2013

In this issue: Julio Le Parc, New Impressions of Raymond Roussel, François Curlet, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Joachim Koester, Evariste Richer…

Echoing the Palais de Tokyo’s new season, this issue of PALAIS is infused with the poetic genius of Raymond Roussel, great explorer of invented worlds, causing us constantly to topple over into a different mental geometry.

Contents of this issue: essays by Matthieu Poirier on Julio Le Parc, Niklas Maak on François Curlet, Dieter Roelstraete and Yann Chateigné Tytelman on recent works by Joachim Koester, Amélie Lavin on Dewar & Gicquel; visual contributions by Takahiro Iwasaki and Evariste Richer; a focus on seven artists from the emerging contemporary scene (Marcos Avila Forero, Hicham Berrada, Gauthier Leroy, Lars Morell, Jean-Michel Pancin, Pierre Paulin, Clémence Seilles); under the heading “Hell as discussion,” Nadja Argyropoulou, curator, and Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, architect, discuss Greece’s “demonization” as a symptom of the European crisis.

PALAIS also invites François Piron, curator of the exhibition “New Impressions of Raymond Roussel,” to create a dossier in dialogue with this venture. In it, he comments on the writer’s whimsical personality and on his mysterious work in which, as Roussel stated, “Nothing real must enter.” Accompanied by historians, by art critics and artists, Piron approaches the topic diagonally to consider the propagation of Roussel’s work through that of many artists.

Bilingual (French & English)

192 pages in colour; Format: 285 x 225 mm

PALAIS No. 16

Release date: September 27, 2012 - Delivery within September 27th 2012

In this new issue: Imagination Adrift, Fabrice Hyber, Neïl Beloufa, Damir Ocko, Markus Schinwald, Ryan Gander, Helen Marten...

Following the development of an artist’s thought, witnessing the circumstances of his creativity, discerning the interval separating an idea from its execution, seeing the artist become accustomed to his own discoveries… Closely following the creative process, this latest issue of PALAIS magazine is given over to the artists’ own words, presented in a variety of formats, echoing the exhibition program of the Palais de Tokyo.

Contents of this issue: Croatian artist Damir Očko speaks to the art historian Daniele Balit; Fabrice Hyber converses with Théo Mercier, Pierre Giquel, Pascal Rousseau and Jacqueline Frydman; a focus on eight artists from the emerging contemporary art scene (Iván Argote, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Jonathan Binet, Maxime Chanson, Mimosa Échard, Thierry Liegeois, Éponine Momenceau and Henrik Potter); an essay on Neïl Beloufa by the art critic Gaël Charbau and on Alexandre Kojève by the art historian Boris Groys; inserts, projects and visuals contributed by Helen Marten, Ryan Gander, Christian Marclay and the artists of the Pavillon; Alexis Vaillant visits Markus Schinwald’s studio. PALAIS has also invited the art critic and theorist Jill Gasparina to create a dossier that enters into dialogue with the exhibition “Imagination Adrift.” Inscribing the modern poetics of chance into a wider history of technologies and rationalization techniques, she outlines a complex history of the taming of chance in which relationships of authority, control procedures and emancipatory tactics combine.

Dossier edited by Jill Gasparina, with texts by Stewart Brand, Dunne & Raby, Éric Duyckaerts, Vilém Flusser, Holis Frampton, Jill Gasparina, Liam Gillick, Melanie Gilligan, André Gorz, Adam Greenfield, Boris Groys, Oliver Laric, Nathaniel Mellors, John Miller, Tony Oursler, Eli Pariser, David Robbins, Pierre Vadi, Camiel van Winkel.

Bilingual (French & English)

192 pages in color; Format : 285 x 225 mm

Special issue : the history of the Palais de Tokyo from 1937 to today, and until tomorrow.

Release date: April 12, 2012, on the occasion of the reopening of the Palais de Tokyo

Built for the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris to house the Musée National d’Art Moderne, the Palais de Tokyo has had a checkered history. Over seven decades of the history of the visual arts in France have come to be written through the openings, multiple renovations, and changing uses of the building. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Site for Contemporary Art has occupied the Palais de Tokyo, left unfinished after the planned Palais du Cinéma was abandoned at the end of the 1990s. In 10 years, under the stewardship of its successive directors, Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans, then Marc-Olivier Wahler, it has become an essential actor on the international art scene. In April 2012, an extended Palais de Tokyo will open its doors. With its 22,000 square meters of space renovated by the architects Lacaton & Vassal, it is broadening its mission to display the French scene in an international context. A new Palais de Tokyo, a place to explore, inhabited by artists, where, in the words of Jean de Loisy, its new president, “we do not work on art but with art, and it works on us.”
The magazine PALAIS, in the inaugural issue of its new formula, tells the story of this epic adventure in texts and images. Through several testimonials, interviews and multiple unpublished documents, it invites you to discover over seventy years of artistic life within the Palais de Tokyo.

PALAIS / let people see contemporary art in an up-to-the-minute, complex-free way, as often as possible from the point of view of the artists themselves. Every quarter, PALAIS / outlines the artistic universe of the Palais de Tokyo's program and invites many contributions from diverse fields: it features the artists presented at the Palais de Tokyo, portfolios as well as texts by art critics or philosophers, writers, artists, etc, and a guide section related to the exhibitions.

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