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WISHLIST – Martin Laborde, 28.08 – 12.10.2025 – Giselle’s Books · Marseille

WISHLIST

Martin Laborde

28.08 – 12.10.2025
Giselle’s Books · Marseille

Opening Wednesday 27th August, from 6pm

From 2017 to 2024, Laborde’s studio located in Lisbon, was hosting episodic instalments of Ampersand – a program he co-founded which has been kept in operation fostering friendships and numerous collaborations. Ampersand is currently itinerant (Ana Jotta, Marian Goodman, 2025; Jean Painlevé, Culturgest, 2024).

He is also among the three editors of the journal octopus notes. His work has been presented recently at Mala and FarO (Lisbon), Treize (Paris) as well as with gallery Air de Paris (Romainville and Monaco). He is currently working on a publication gathering years of collages to be published by Dope Press (Los Angeles), Giselle’s Books (Marseille) and Daisy (Paris) including, among others, texts by Wayne Koestenbaum, Oscar Tuazon, and Marie Canet.

Martin Laborde. WISHLIST, 27 August - 12 October 2025. Exhibition view. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. WISHLIST, 27 August - 12 October 2025. Exhibition view. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. WISHLIST, 27 August - 12 October 2025. Exhibition view. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Mirror, mixed material, 14 x 17 x 169 cm, 2025 & Ashtray, mixed material, 15 x 15 x 126 cm, 2025. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Mirror (Jess C.), 2025. Mixed material, 20 x 18 x 92,5 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. White Wall, 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Cake, 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Eye & Stripes, 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. PINK, 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Shaped Horse, 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Hair & Dots, 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Lucas, 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Two Roses, 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Ryder, 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Blue S.L., 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Peonies, 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Grocery List, 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Blue C.D., 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. WISHLIST, 27 August - 12 October 2025. Exhibition view. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Boy (strawberry & artichoke), 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Boy (aluminium), 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Martin Laborde. Green Lemon, 2023/2025. Mixed media, 21 x 29,7 cm. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025

This exhibition is produced independently, without financial or logistical support from any state, territorial authority, or public institution.

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One Night Stand with Jess Cole – from 6:30PM 07.09.2025 – Giselle’s Books · Marseille

Reading of Retail Therapy, 2025, by Jess Cole with at Giselle's Books, Marseille, 07.09.2025.

One Night Stand

With Jess Cole & WORMS
& Selected Night Caps

07.09.2025 – from 6:30pm
Giselle’s Books · Marseille

On the occasion of the release of Retail Therapy, Jess Cole, published by Worms, 2025

Hosted in WISHLIST by Martin Laborde. Billboard design by Claude Eigan for Giselle’s Books, 2025.

Retail Therapy is a raucous and darkly funny meditation on consumerism, survival, and self-worth in an era of economic decline. Through biting dialogue and immersive detail, Jess Cole crafts a vivid portrait of working life on the crumbling high street—where ambition collides with corporate indifference, and identity is both a performance and a commodity.

Set in the basement of a fading department store, the novel follows the HOTshop GIRLS as they navigate shifting sales tactics, impossible targets, and the slow erosion of their own aspirations. Between stockroom politics, relentless corporate oversight, and the absurd logic of retail, they carve out moments of wit, camaraderie, and fleeting resistance against a system designed to wear them down.

Jess Cole (she/her) is a writer based in South London. She has written for Vogue, The New York Times, The Guardian, and is a regular contributor to MARFA. Her creative practice spans dramaturgy, performance pieces, and prose. Cole finds wit—especially when it’s quick and sharp—deeply sexy, a sentiment that pulses through her writing.

Reading of Retail Therapy, 2025, by Jess Cole with at Giselle's Books, Marseille, 07.09.2025.
Reading of Retail Therapy, 2025, by Jess Cole with at Giselle's Books, Marseille, 07.09.2025.
Reading of Retail Therapy, 2025, by Jess Cole with at Giselle's Books, Marseille, 07.09.2025.

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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

Your Demise brings together a recent body of interactive works by Adam Martin, incorporating photography, game environment, sound and narrative design. Central to this exhibition are two visual novels (Your Demise, 2025 and The Gotham Art Whores League, 2024) that use the format of clickable, choice-based storytelling using their language of « agency » and « choice » to reveal how narrative and authorship are often tightly scripted.

Martin’s practice engages with the charged inner life of the young, disaffected male as it intersects with structures of desire, labor, and institutional control. Bridging personal memory with larger systems of power, his installations seduce and oppress at once, drawing viewers into spaces that feel intimate and unsettling.

Adam Martin (b. Iowa, USA) is a New York-based artist. His work has been exhibited at Galerie Buchholz (Cologne), Etablissement d’en face (Brussels), Gandt, and LOMEX (New York), among others. Your Demise is his first solo exhibition in France.

Adam Martin. Your Demise, 10 July - 10 August 2025. Exhibition view. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Adam Martin. Your Demise, 10 July - 10 August 2025. Exhibition view. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Adam Martin. Your Demise. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Adam Martin. Your Demise (Vasectomy Daddy). Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Adam Martin. Your Demise (Vasectomy Daddy). Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Adam Martin. Your Demise (Deerly Yours (4 2Night)). Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Adam Martin. Your Demise (Gay Reproduction). Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Adam Martin. Your Demise (Deerly Yours (4 2Night)). Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Adam Martin. Your Demise (Vasectomy Daddy). Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Adam Martin. The Gotham Art Whores League. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Adam Martin. The Gotham Art Whores League. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025
Adam Martin. The Gotham Art Whores League. Marseille : Giselle's Books. Documentation by Jonas Remillieux © Giselle’s Books and the artist, 2025

This exhibition is produced independently, without financial or logistical support from any state, territorial authority, or public institution.

Giselle’s Books extends its sincere gratitude to Salomé Burstein, Alexis Etienne, Andreja Juskaite, Martin Laborde, Sébastien Pont and Jonas Remillieux for their support.

Content Disclaimer
This exhibition contains explicit content, including references to sex and violence.
Viewer discretion is advised.

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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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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

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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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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.

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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.

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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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Misc(1) – Giselle’s Books – 06.03–26.05.2024 – Le Magasin CNAC · Grenoble

Misc (1), Giselle's Books - Le Magasin CNAC, Grenoble

Misc(1)

Giselle’s Books

06.03 – 26.05.2024
Le Magasin CNAC · Grenoble

Miscs is a fictional structure, its launching issue activates the experimental gallery at Le Magasin (Grenoble) and dives into its publishing history. Since the art center’s creation in 1986, their activities brought together an eclectic panorama of books and other printed materials. Rather than taking the approach of an anthology, Misc(1) proposes a selection of 73 excerpts bootlegged and available to take away. 

After a residency in Grenoble, we became interested in the singular history of piracy in the region’s printing industry. The 19th century saw the development of miscellanies, composite collections combining a variety of excerpts from popular literature, historical anecdotes and cooking recipes. As forerunners to magazines, these artefacts bear witness to a locality and alternative editorial productions. 

Misc(1) reactivates this forgotten publication format in an installation that stretches across the gallery, giving a central place to reading and editing. In this gallery turned printing annex, pages can be manipulated in a way that renews the experience of these books and reactivates their circulation. 

Miscs est une structure fictive, son numéro de lancement active la galerie expérimentale du Magasin (Grenoble) et plonge dans son histoire éditoriale. Depuis la création du centre d’art en 1986, ses activités rassemblent un panorama éclectique de livres et autres imprimés. Plutôt que d’adopter une démarche anthologique, Misc(1) propose une sélection de 73 extraits facsimilés à sélectionner et à emporter.

Après une résidence à Grenoble, nous nous sommes intéressés à l’histoire singulière de la piraterie dans l’imprimerie de la région. Le XIXe siècle voit se développer les miscellanées, recueils composites réunissant divers extraits de la littérature populaire, des anecdotes historiques et des recettes de cuisine. Précurseurs des magazines, ces objets témoignent d’une localité et de productions éditoriales alternatives.

Misc(1) réactive ce format de publication oublié dans une installation qui s’étend sur toute la galerie, donnant une place centrale à la lecture et à l’édition. Dans cette galerie transformée en annexe d’impression, les pages peuvent être manipulées de manière à renouveler l’expérience de ces livres et à réactiver leur circulation.

Giselle’s Books, Misc(1), exhibition view at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; 6 March–26 May 2024 © Magasin CNAC; Courtesy of Giselle’s Books Documentation: Pascale Cholette
Giselle’s Books, Misc(1), exhibition view at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; 6 March–26 May 2024 © Magasin CNAC; Courtesy of Giselle’s Books Documentation: Pascale Cholette
Giselle’s Books, Misc(1), exhibition view at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; 6 March–26 May 2024 © Magasin CNAC; Courtesy of Giselle’s Books Documentation: Pascale Cholette
Giselle’s Books, Misc(1), exhibition view at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; 6 March–26 May 2024 © Magasin CNAC; Courtesy of Giselle’s Books Documentation: Pascale Cholette
Giselle’s Books, Misc(1), exhibition view at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; 6 March–26 May 2024 © Magasin CNAC; Courtesy of Giselle’s Books Documentation: Pascale Cholette
Giselle’s Books, Misc(1), exhibition view at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; 6 March–26 May 2024 © Magasin CNAC; Courtesy of Giselle’s Books Documentation: Pascale Cholette
Giselle’s Books, Misc(1), exhibition view at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; 6 March–26 May 2024 © Magasin CNAC; Courtesy of Giselle’s Books Documentation: Pascale Cholette
Giselle’s Books, Misc(1), exhibition view at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; 6 March–26 May 2024 © Magasin CNAC; Courtesy of Giselle’s Books Documentation: Pascale Cholette
Giselle’s Books, Misc(1), exhibition view at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; 6 March–26 May 2024 © Magasin CNAC; Courtesy of Giselle’s Books Documentation: Pascale Cholette
Giselle’s Books, Misc(1), exhibition view at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; 6 March–26 May 2024 © Magasin CNAC; Courtesy of Giselle’s Books Documentation: Pascale Cholette
Giselle’s Books, Misc(1), exhibition view at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; 6 March–26 May 2024 © Magasin CNAC; Courtesy of Giselle’s Books Documentation: Pascale Cholette
Giselle’s Books, Misc(1), exhibition view at Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; 6 March–26 May 2024 © Magasin CNAC; Courtesy of Giselle’s Books Documentation: Pascale Cholette

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