JEMAGWGA

Author: jemagwga

  • CAIRN

    PREMIER MANIFESTE DE CAIRN – 21 Juin 1976 – PARIS

    CAIRN: association cooperative de production et de distribution de travaux artistiques.

    CAIRN: centre géré et animé par les artistes eux-mêmes.

    CAIRN: une volonté d’indépendance à l’égard de tout groups de pression, culturel ou autre.

    CAIRN: une ouverture vers un esprit non-sélectif refusant les critères d’ordre esthétique.

    CAIRN: une liberte de penser et d’agir…

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    ETRE FEMME

    ETRE EMPIRIQUE

    FAIRE, MEME SANS COMPETENCE

    PLAGIER SANS HONTE

    ETRE CUCU OU BANALE

    MAIS PRODUIRE ET DIFFUSER:

    MA LIBERTE A CAIRN

    Gwylene Gallimard, in Document édité par la Coopérative CAIRN, 1st quarter 1977

    CAIRN, an artists-run cooperative created in 1975 in Paris, organized over twenty five exhibitions, created an edition of silkscrens, developed video works and published catalogues and a magazine (10 issues). CAIRN challenged criteria of selection. There was no selection based on aesthetic or biographical criteria. From twelve to twenty members rented a space together that served as a gallery and a collective studio. CAIRN also challenged the way French critics and the field in general were talking about art. The magazine was written, fabricated and promoted by CAIRN members. Today, a few members still meet every year in France and engage in lengthy conversations about their own journey as artists.

     

     

  • Portraits are Artsy Bully…

    ADDRESS: 3A.100, Piccolo Spoleto 1993

    Composition on the move: a make-up of Madame 1and Messieurs 2 & 3, Monsieur 4, Mesdames 2 & 3, Messieurs 3 & 5. Portraits are artsy bullies; they erase in the memory all other aspects of the model… Furnishing drawings? Is that the deal? “If the concept of ‘work of art’ can no longer be applied to the thing that emerges once the work is transformed into a commodity, we have to eliminate this concept with cautious care but without fear, lest we liquidate the function of the very thing itself…” (Berthold Brecht quoted by Walter Benjamin)