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Your Demise – Adam Martin, 10.07 – 10.08.2025, Giselle’s Books · Marseille

Your Demise

Adam Martin

10.07 – 10.08.2025
Giselle’s Books · Marseille

Opening Wednesday 9th July, from 6pm

Employing multimedia installation, photography, indie-game environments and narrative design, Martin examines the collision of personal memory with larger systems of power. His practice explores the charged inner life of the young, disaffected male as it intersects with systems of desire, labour, and institutional power. Seduction and unease co-exist in his works, drawing viewers into spaces that feel at once intimate and disquieting. Martin frequently appropriates the formal devices of visual novels and other game genres, using their language of “agency” and “choice” to expose how authorship and narrative are, in fact, tightly scripted.

Adam Martin (b. Iowa, USA) lives and works in New York.
Recent presentations include exhibitions at Galerie Buchholz, Cologne; Etablissement d’en face, Brussels; Gandt, New York; and LOMEX, New York, among others. Your Demise is the first presentation in France of his work. It will open on selected days between the 10th of July and the 10th of August 2025, as well as by appointment.

This exhibition is produced independently, without financial or logistical assistance from any state, territorial authority, or any other public body.

Giselle’s Books would like to extend its gratitude to Salomé Burstein and Alexis Etienne for their support.

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Giselle’s and Friends at MISS READ Berlin – 13 – 15.06.2025 – Haus der Kulturen der Welt · Berlin

Giselle’s with Friends

Miss Read Berlin

With : Bulletin B, Cry Mimi Cry, Hoot, Zitto Editions, Movie Intl. & Buzzer Reeves

Friday, June 13, 5–9pm
Saturday, June 14, 12–7pm
Sunday, June 15, 12–7pm

Come find us at Miss Read this weekend, featuring our recently published titles along with a selection of titles from publisher friends. 

The seventeenth edition of MISS READ introduces a special focus on Ecological Publishing and Ecologies of Publishing. Globalization has led to the widespread adoption of Western societal models, extractivism, and platform industries, including the inherent unsustainability of publishing economies. The environmental movements, which have been gaining strength in recent decades, seek not only to counter the threat of ecological collapse, but also to address issues within the arts, economics, and politics.
Sustainability and subsistence—the place of humans within nature—are pressing issues worldwide.

For the occasion we are glad to bring along some pairs and have their titles resold over the weekend.
We are glad to present: Bulletin B, Zitto Edition, Crymimi cry, HOOT, DMovie Intl. & Buzzer Reeves. 

Bulletin B is a periodical edited by Maria Jooyoung and published by Giselle’s Books, taking its name from a semantic play on translation, borrowing from the phonetic of the word 비형식 in Korean — an inverted allusion to an ʻunofficial newsletter.’ In this spirit, the publication is a B-side of sorts, an underbelly of words and ideas. An irregular gathering of contemporary and archival findings spanning poetry and prose, cultural research, and musings from Korea and its diaspora.

Zitto Editions is a private initiative based in Berlin and Los Angeles that offers works of art for humanitarian causes. 100% of proceeds are donated.  Zitto was born to create a platform for solidarity and exchange, all artworks featured on this website have been generously offered by the artists.

cry mimi cry is a non-profit publishing house founded in 2022 by Traduttore, traditore. cry mimi cry is small and independent. It publishes and distributes artists’ books, anthologies, collections and works of fiction without recurrence of form or format and is committed to the quality of printing, paper and binding. cry mimi cry is a pun taking root in the mimicry, corresponding in French to the child’s game of imitation (from the essay «Des jeux et des hommes» by Roger Caillois). The adaptive strategy operated on the edited object allows, as the mask, to emphasize the expression of the embodied subject, in its entirety.

HOOT is a printed conversation, a transcribed dialogue with a worker in the field of art, a collective around the notion of work as an activity, method, environment, symbol and necessity. Each issue will be transcribed according to the language used and shared in the conversation.

Artist Daragh Reeves established Buzzer Reeves in 2022 in his apartment in Kreutzberg, Berlin with an eclectic group show titled ‘Sailors of the Land’. His program aims to exhibit work in direct collaboration with aritsts and curators from his personal network, bringing together people who would not normally meet or show in the same space and promoting international exchange. The program theoretically has no fixed address and exhibtions can happen in any venue where the entrance buzzer reads ‘reeves’. 

Bulletin B - Issue 01, edited by Maria Jooyoung, published by Giselle's Books, 2025.

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[POSTPONED] One Night Stand with Anna Colin, Alice Dusapin & Éditions Villa Arson – from 6:30PM 18.05.2025 – Giselle’s Books · Marseille

One Night Stand

with Anna Colin, Alice Dusapin & Éditions Villa Arson

& selected authors Night Caps

18.05.2025 – from 6:30pm

On the occasion of the release of Espaces pédagogiques alternatifs – De l’utopie à l’institutionalisation, Anna Colin, 2025

« Grounded in empirical research, Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionalization is a critical inquiry into the establishment, development, and transformation of alternative pedagogical and social spaces. Written by Anna Colin, a former director and co-founder of Open School East, an independent art school and community space founded in London in 2013, this essay-length book explores the instituting factors, organizational life cycles, and alignments and misalignments between values and practices that permeate such a project. The essay delves into the qualities and prerequisites for what Colin calls « multi-public educational organizations. » It also scrutinizes the hurdles associated with the effort to remain alternative, including processes of habituation, temptation or pressure to scale up, ethos-bending fundraising exercises, and long tenure, as well as the plain desire for stability and sustainability. 
Alternative Pedagogical Spaces proposes where to look for a reconceptualization of waiting, slowness, and longevity, and asks how these ideas may benefit cultural practice and the design of future institutions (or the redesign of existing ones). Overriding the common assumption that success equals longevity, the author searches for institutional models that resist chrononormativity, drawing from social movements, psychotherapy, biology, and permaculture. »

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The Scratching the Surface collection offers self-reflexive accounts by pedagogues working with and in art schools, university departments of creative writing and of visual arts, and the educational spaces of art centers and museums—institutions often presumed to be progressive. The series interrogate the transformative possibilities and constraints of emancipatory pedagogies in the fields of visual art, performance, literature, art history, research, and art criticism.The series is particularly interested in artistic pedagogies in contexts of coloniality. Taken from a poem by Audre Lorde, the title underlines the determination to undo and question certainties, bias, norms, and the fabric of pedagogical models. Co-published with the Villa Arson in Nice, Scratching the Surface is edited by Sophie Orlando (scientific editor) and Alice Dusapin.

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Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionnalization
Anna Colin
Postface with Catherine Quéloz
2025
Published by Villa Arson & Sternberg
Collection directed by Céline Chazalviel, Alice Dusapin & Sophie Orlando
132 pages, 10,5 x 15,5 cm

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Anna Colin is programme director of the MFA Curating and co-director of the Centre for Art and Ecology, Goldsmiths, London. Besides Open School East, Anna worked as associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2014–20), associate director at Bétonsalon, Paris (2011–12), and curator at Gasworks, London (2007–10). She co-curated Chaleur Humaine, the 2nd Dunkirk Art & Industry Triennale (2023–24) on the relationship between energy and the arts since 1973. She holds a PhD in cultural geography and has a training in arboriculture.

« Issu d’une recherche empirique, Espaces pédagogiques alternatifs : de l’utopie à l’institutionnalisation enquête sur la manière dont les espaces de pédagogies alternatives se créent, se développent et se transforment. Cofondatrice de l’école d’art indépendante et espace communautaire Open School East, initié à Londres en 2013, Anna Colin en a été la directrice entre 2013 et 2021. Elle explore dans cet ouvrage les facteurs permettant l’implantation de structures, leurs cycles de vie, ainsi que le décalage possible entre les pratiques et les valeurs qui les font exister. L’enquête analyse les caractéristiques et les prérequis à ce que Colin appelle « les établissements pédagogiques multi-publics ». Elle se penche également sur les situations épineuses qui guettent les projets résolument alternatifs : processus d’habituation, tentation ou nécessité de s’agrandir, collectes de fonds qui malmènent l’éthique de travail, longévité, ou le simple désir de parvenir à la viabilité et à la stabilité. Espaces pédagogiques alternatifs se propose de reconceptualiser les notions d’attente, de lenteur et de longévité et tente de définir ce qui pourrait profiter aux pratiques culturelles et à la création de futures institutions (où à la refonte de celles qui existent déjà). Plutôt que d’envisager une équivalence entre succès et pérennisation, l’autrice part à la rencontre de modèles institutionnels qui résistent à la chrononormativité, prenant leur source dans les mouvements sociaux, la psychothérapie, la biologie et la permaculture. »

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La collection « La surface démange » propose des récits réflexifs provenant de pédagogues en écoles d’art, dans les départements universitaires d’écritures créatives et d’arts visuels, les centres d’art et les musées – des institutions souvent considérées comme progressistes. La collection souligne les possibilités de transformation et les contraintes rencontrées par des pédagogies artistiques à visée émancipatrice dans le domaine des arts visuels, de la performance, de la littérature, de l’histoire de l’art, de la recherche académique et de la critique d’art, toutes élaborées dans des contextes empreints de colonialité. Tiré d’un poème d’Audre Lorde, le titre évoque notre désir de questionner les normes, les biais, les impensés des formes pédagogiques, mais aussi de témoigner de ce qu’elles suscitent en nous. La collection « La surface démange » initiée par Sophie Orlando (éditrice scientifique) et Céline Chazalviel est aujourd’hui dirigée par Sophie Orlando et Alice Dusapin.

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Espaces pédagogiques alternatifs : de l’utopie à l’institutionnalisation
Anna Colin
Postface Catherine Quéloz
2025
Publié par Villa Arson & Sternberg
Collection dirigée par Céline Chazalviel, Alice Dusapin & Sophie Orlando
132 pages, 10,5 x 15,5 cm

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Anna Colin est directrice du programme du MFA Curating et codirectrice du Centre for Art and Ecology, Goldsmiths, Londres. En plus de sa participation à l’Open School East, Anna a travaillé comme commissaire associée à Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2014-20), elle a été directrice associée de Bétonsalon, Paris (2011-12) et commissaire à Gasworks, Londres (2007-10). Elle a été co-commissaire de Chaleur humaine, seconde Triennale Art & Industrie de Dunkerque (2023-24) dont la thématique était la relation entre l’énergie et les arts depuis 1973. Elle est titulaire d’un doctorat en géographie culturelle et possède une formation en arboriculture.

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One Night Stand with Aurelia Guo, Salomé Burstein & Dépense Défensive – from 6:30PM 13.04.2025 – Giselle’s Books · Marseille

One Night Stand

with Aurelia Guo, Salomé Burstein & Dépense Défensive

& selected authors Night Caps

13.04.2025 – from 6:30pm

On the occasion of the release of New York Temps, Aurelia Guo, 2025, published by Dépense Défensive.

« Composed of personal narratives, quotes, and collages, partly from The New York Times, New York Temps suggests a discontinuity of inner states, accentuated by the multiplicity of speakers: the voices follow one another, becoming at each moment what they were not in the previous one, learning and listening to everything that is not themselves. Through questions of intertextuality and sampling in poetry, the text bears an immanent violence—made more interior, made its own—a discomfort not only felt, but also imposed, like a protest. »

Original title : NYT. First published by Gauss PDF in 2018. Translated in French by Salomé Burstein.

Aurelia Guo is a writer and researcher based in London. She is a visiting fellow at London South Bank University. She is the author of World of Interiors (Divided, 2022).

« Composé à la fois de récits personnels, de citations et de collages provenant notamment du New York Times, New York Temps suggère une discontinuité des états intérieurs, accentuée par la multiplicité des orateur.ices : les voix se succèdent à elles-mêmes, sont à chaque moment ce qu’elles n’étaient pas celui d’avant, apprenantes et à l’écoute de tout ce qui n’est pas elles. À travers des questions d’intertextualité et de sampling en poésie, le texte porte en lui une violence immanente – rendue plus intérieure, faite sienne –, une gêne, non seulement ressentie, mais aussi imposée, comme une protestation. »

Titre original : NYT. Publié pour la première fois chez Gauss PDF en 2018. Traduit de l’anglais par Salomé Burstein.

Aurelia Guo est écrivaine et chercheuse à Londres. Elle est également l’autrice de World of Interiors (Divided, 2022).

Reading of New York Temps, 2025, by Aurelia Guo with Salomé Burstein and Dépense Défensive at Giselle's Books, Marseille, 13.04.2025.

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(PUBLICATION) We Don’t Live Here Anymore – Tarren Johnson

We Don't Live Here Anymore, by Tarren Johnson, published by Giselle's Books, 2025

We Don’t Live Here Anymore

Tarren Johnson

A fragmented reflection on movement, absence, and the unraveling of identity within the shifting landscapes of departure and return. Tarren Johnson explores the tension between private longing and public expression, where moments of love and vulnerability emerge in transient encounters.

Tarren Johnson grew up in North County San Diego, where she began dancing and writing as a child. She continued her studies at CalArts in Los Angeles before moving to Europe, where she built a decade-long career in the performing arts. Her debut book of poetry, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, also serves as the foundation for the stage work of the same title.

Publisher:  GISELLE’S BOOKS
Release date: 20TH MARCH 2025

1ST EDITION OF 500
Format: 12 x 17 cm

ISBN : 9782959831201

design & artwork by Joel cocks

PRICE : 16 €

PUBLISHED BY GISELLE'S BOOKS

We Don’t Live Here Anymore by Tarren Johnson – Publication Release – 20.03.2025, New Theater Hollywood · Los Angeles

We Don't Live Here Anymore, Tarren Johnson & Joel Cocks at New Theater Hollywood

We Don’t Live Here Anymore

by Tarren Johnson

Afterparty & Publication Release

20.03.2025 – from 9:30pm

On the occasion of We Don’t Live Here Anymore by Tarren Johnson & Joel Cocks at New Theater Hollywood, Los Angeles

 

We Don’t Live Here Anymore

Tarren Johnson 

A fragmented reflection on movement, absence, and the unraveling of identity within the shifting landscapes of departure and return. Tarren Johnson explores the tension between private longing and public expression, where moments of love and vulnerability emerge in transient encounters.

Tarren Johnson grew up in North County San Diego, where she began dancing and writings a child. She continued her studies at CalArts in Los Angeles before moving to Europe, where she built a decade-long career in the performing arts. Her debut book of poetry, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, also serves as the foundation for the stage work of the same title.

 

Text by Tarren Johnson

Design & artwork by Joel Cocks

Published by Giselle’s Books,  2025

 

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We Don’t Live Here Anymore

Tarren Johnson 

Une réflexion fragmentée sur le mouvement, l’absence, et l’effilochage d’identité dans les paysages changeants des départs et des retours. Tarren Johnson explore la tension entre le désir privé et l’expression publique, où moments d’amour et de vulnérabilité émergent lors de rencontres transitoires.

Tarren Johnson a grandi dans le comté nord de San Diego, où elle a commencé à danser et à écrire lorsqu’elle était enfant. Elle a poursuivi ses études à CalArts, à Los Angeles, avant de s’installer en Europe, où elle a mené une carrière dans les arts du spectacle. Son premier recueil de poèmes, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, sert également de base à l’œuvre théâtrale du même titre.

 

Texte par Tarren Johnson

Design & illustrations par Joel Cocks

Publié par Giselle’s Books,  2025

 

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We Don't Live Here Anymore, Tarren Johnson & Joel Cocks at New Theater Hollywood

To order & find more information on We Don’t Live Here Anymore, head over to our ‘All the books’ section : 

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One Night Stand with Mégane Brauer, cry mimi cry & Air de Paris – 5:30PM 02.03.2025 – Giselle’s Books · Marseille

Lucas Jacques-Witz & Ryder Morey-Weale TALKS WITH Alice Dusapin ABOUT Giselle’s

One Night Stand

with Mégane Brauer, cry mimi cry, Air de Paris

& selected authors Night Caps

02.03.2025 – from 5:30pm

On the occasion of the release of Les Rois du Monde, Mégane Brauer, 2025, published by cry mimi cry.

“On the occasion of Mégane Brauer’s first solo institutional exhibition at MAC Marseille, Air de Paris and cry mimi cry publish Les Rois du Monde, an artist’s book based around the text “cry me a river”; an auto-fiction exploring social violence visible from the street against a backdrop of shattered capitalism. This text is accompanied by documents, drawings and photos in preparation for the exhibition, as well as an unpublished critical text by Élisabeth Lebovici.”

Published by cry mimi cry, a non-profit publishing house founded in 2022 by Traduttore, traditore.

The work of Mégane Brauer, a graduate of the Institut des Beaux-Arts de Besançon, transforms the situations of the working classes, giving them the place they don’t have. Her works move back and forth between memories, poetic writing and plastic reality.

« À l’occasion de la première exposition personnelle institutionnelle de Mégane Brauer au MAC Marseille, Air de Paris et cry mimi cry publient Les Rois du Monde, livre d’artiste articulé autour du texte « cry me a river »; auto-fiction explorant les violences sociales visibles depuis la rue sur fond de capitalisme éclaté. Ce texte s’accompagne de documents, dessins et photos préparatoires à l’exposition ainsi qu’un texte critique inédit d’Élisabeth Lebovici. »

Publié par cry mimi cry, une maison d’édition associative à but non lucratif fondée en 2022 par Traduttore, traditore.

Le travail de Mégane Brauer, diplômée de l’Institut des Beaux-Arts de Besançon, fait de textes et d’installations transforme les situations des classes populaires, leur donnant la place dont elles ne disposent pas. Ses œuvres sont des allers-retours entre souvenirs, écriture poétique et mise en réalité plastique.

Reading of Les Rois du Monde, 2025, by Mégane Brauer at Giselle's Books, Marseille, 02.03.2025.

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Misc(2) – Giselle’s Books, 24-28 February 2025, ESADTPM · Toulon

Misc(2), Giselle's Books, 2025 edited by Anna Bellini, Luna Cetelet, Lubin Coutable, Kolette Ferrari, Basile Ghosn, Elsa Kovalenko, Chiara Lucisano, Lucie Poles, Margot Roy-Syllebranque, Pierre-Antoine Vesperini

Misc(2)

Giselle’s Books

24 – 28 Feburary 2025

After its first edition focusing on the editorial archive of the Magasin CNAC in Grenoble, this second issue is the result a week-long collaboration with students of the Toulon School of Arts — ESADTPM. Drawing from a discarded collection of publications stored in the institution’s basement, the reader is invited to confront with around eighty excerpted fragments reclaiming these excluded and forgotten ensemble.

Miscs is a fictional structure which reactivates the editorial format of miscellanies— composite collections combining a variety of excerpts ranging from popular literature or historical anecdotes to cooking recipes and juridical documents.

Contributions by

Anna Bellini, Luna Cetelet, Lubin Coutable, Kolette Ferrari, Basile Ghosn, Elsa Kovalenko, Chiara Lucisano, Lucie Poles, Margot Roy-Syllebranque, Pierre-Antoine Vesperini

Released at Laverie Peiresc, Toulon.
Heartfelt thanks to Basile Ghosn and ESADTPM for their invitation.

Après une première édition centrée sur les archives éditoriales du Magasin CNAC de Grenoble, ce deuxième numéro est le fruit d’une semaine de collaboration avec les étudiants de l’Ecole Supérieure d’Arts de Toulon – ESADTPM. À partir d’une collection de publications abandonnées dans les sous-sols de l’institution, le lecteur est invité à se confronter à environ quatre-vingts fragments extraits qui se réapproprient cet ensemble exclu, oublié.

Miscs est une structure fictive qui réactive le format éditorial des miscellanées – des collections composites combinant une variété d’extraits allant de la littérature populaire ou des anecdotes historiques aux recettes de cuisine et aux documents juridiques.

Contributions de

Anna Bellini, Luna Cetelet, Lubin Coutable, Kolette Ferrari, Basile Ghosn, Elsa Kovalenko, Chiara Lucisano, Lucie Poles, Margot Roy-Syllebranque, Pierre-Antoine Vesperini

Lancement à la Laverie Peiresc, Toulon, le 28 Février 2025.
Merci à Basile Ghosn et à l’ESADTPM pour leur invitation.

Booklaunch of Misc(2) at Laverie Peiresc, Toulon, 28 February 2025.

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Lucas Jacques-Witz & Ryder Morey-Weale TALKS WITH Alice Dusapin ABOUT Giselle’s, 20.10.2024, organized by Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris Internationale · Paris

Lucas Jacques-Witz & Ryder Morey-Weale TALKS WITH Alice Dusapin ABOUT Giselle’s

Lucas Jacques-Witz & Ryder Morey-Weale TALKS WITH Alice Dusapin ABOUT Giselle’s

20.10.2024 – 3pm

Organized by Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris Internationale · Paris

Artistic practice, publishing and curating in “non-institutional” environments and spaces – curated by Alice Dusapin

Cycle of talks organised by Fondation Pernod Ricard at Paris Internationale
from the  16th to the  20th of october 2024

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« Lucas Jacques-Witz (1993-) is an archivist and art director, and Ryder Morey-Weale (1994-) is an artist. Together in 2020 working out of Marseille, they launched Giselle’s, a research project dedicated to publishing editorial formats and that extends into public programs, exhibitions, residencies, an archive, and a book acquisition fund. Giselle’s is also a shared initiative of SYSTEMA, which every year promotes artist- and curator-run spaces and organizations, as well as not-for-profit collaborative projects at the Palais Carli in Marseille at the end of the summer. This conversation will provide an opportunity to revisit the activities of Giselle’s and their working methodology, which constantly redistributes the energy it generates, deploying a singularly autonomous identity. »

Alice Dusapin is an editor, independent researcher and curator. She lives and works in Lisbon.

Co-founder and co-director of the magazine octopus notes and the publishing house Daisy, she also co-runs the project space Ampersand in Lisbon. She is the author of the first monograph on the video and performance artist Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944-1976). She is currently writing the first monograph on the American physicist, publisher and poet Bern Porter (1911-2004) and a book on the history of the Andy & Karen Stillpass collection in Cincinnati.

www.parisinternationale.com

www.fondation-pernod-ricard.com

 

Artistic practice, publishing and curating in “non-institutional” environments and spaces – curaté par Alice Dusapin

Cycle de talks organisé par la Fondation Pernod Ricard à Paris Internationale
du 16 au 20 octobre 2024

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« Lucas Jacques-Witz (1993-) est archiviste et directeur artistique, Ryder Morey-Weale (1994-) est artiste. Ensemble, ils initient à Marseille en 2020, Giselle’s, un projet de recherche dédié aux formats éditoriaux qui s’étend à travers des programmes publics, des expositions, des résidences, une archive et un fonds d’acquisition de livres. Giselle’s est également à l’initiative partagée de SYSTEMA qui tous les ans promeut les espaces et organisations gérés par des artistes ou des commissaires, ainsi que les projets de collaboration à but non lucratif au sein du Palais Carli à Marseille à la fin de l’été. Cette conversation permettra de revenir sur les activités de Giselle’s et sur leur méthodologie de travail qui redistribue sans cesse l’énergie qu’elle génère, déployant ainsi une identité singulièrement autonome. »

 

Alice Dusapin est éditrice, chercheuse indépendante et commissaire d’exposition. Elle vite et travaille à Lisbonne.

Co-fondatrice et co-directrice de la revue octopus notes et de la maison d’éditions Daisy, elle co-dirige également le project space Ampersand à Lisbonne. Elle est l’autrice de la première monographie sur le vidéaste et performeur Wolfgang Stoerchle (1944-1976) et prépare actuellement la première monographie sur le physicien, éditeur et poète américain Bern Porter (1911-2004) et un ouvrage sur l’histoire de la collection Andy & Karen Stillpass à Cincinnati.

www.parisinternationale.com

www.fondation-pernod-ricard.com

 

Lucas Jacques-Witz & Ryder Morey-Weale TALKS WITH Alice Dusapin ABOUT Giselle’s

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SWARM – Inventory, 19.10.2024, The Salon by NADA & The Community · Paris

Giselle's Books - The Salon by Nada and The Community - Swarm, Inventory

SWARM

Inventory

19.10.2024
The Salon by NADA & The Community  ·  Paris

Giselle’s Books presents a reactivation of a historical work by the British collective Inventory. Swarm was first introduced as an installation in 1999 during CRASH! Corporatism & Complicity, a group exhibition at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art. It consists of a body of fifty adhesive prints of propaganda, rants and calls to protest, which are expected to be gradually removed from the exhibition space and scattered in the streets. 

Swarm is particularly representative of Inventory’s practice, which is concerned with discursive art forms, usually deployed through texts and essays, as in their eponymous journal published between 1995 and 2005.

www.thesalon.paris

Giselle’s Books présente une réactivation d’une œuvre historique du collectif britannique Inventory. Swarm a été présentée pour la première fois sous forme d’installation en 1999 lors de CRASH ! Corporatism & Complicity, une exposition collective à l’Institute of Contemporary Art de Londres. Il s’agit d’un ensemble de cinquante impressions adhésives contenant de la propagande, des râles et des appels à la protestation, qui progressivement retirées de l’espace d’exposition et dispersées dans les rues.

Swarm est particulièrement représentatif de la pratique d’Inventory, qui s’intéresse aux formes d’art discursif, généralement déployées par le biais de textes et d’essais, comme dans leur journal éponyme publié entre 1995 et 2005.

www.thesalon.paris

Swarm, 1999-2024 by Inventory, presented by Giselle's Books at The Salon by NADA & The Community, Paris, 19.10.2024.
Swarm, 1999-2024 by Inventory, presented by Giselle's Books at The Salon by NADA & The Community, Paris, 19.10.2024.
Swarm, 1999-2024 by Inventory, presented by Giselle's Books at The Salon by NADA & The Community, Paris, 19.10.2024.
Swarm (detail), 1999-2024 by Inventory, presented by Giselle's Books at The Salon by NADA & The Community, Paris, 19.10.2024.

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