2/6/2001
Digital Deviance
Magasin, Grenoble
Digital Deviance combines multiple artistic strategies of resistance according to this principle of digitality: infiltration, sabotage, insertion, simulacre... The issue is to experiment an art which aims at direct action into society. A network of international artists under-represented in France will be offered a visibility.
L'ECOLE DU MAGASIN
This curatorial training program gives students the practical
experience and mastery of the conceptual, methodological and
technical tools pertaining to the organization and reception of
exhibitions. Framed by a teaching staff which directs and defines
the curatorial program over ten months, the 10th session
composed this year of four curators did researches and had
specific meetings (artists and theorists) in order to develop the
conceptual elaboration of the project.
THE PROJECT
Digital Deviance questions and reconsiders the artistic strategies
of resistance to the power structures connected to digital
methodology. The term of "digitality" implies a principle of thinking
and action. It qualifies a way of interpreting the world and acting
within it. Digital methodology, transmuting an established order
from one system to another, is usually linked to technological
applications without however being bounded to them. Inherent to
the phenomena of cultural and social resistance, this "digitality"
expresses itself through these tactics that appropriate the
principles of neo-liberal and capitalist system to fight it better. In
the same way, the strategies of resistance conceived by artists in
the Sixties use this digital principle and manifest themselves
through visual, aesthetic and social interventions (Hans Haacke,
Group Material...). On the initiative of the curators, the
artists-activists collective Critical Art Ensemble was invited to
collaborate on the formulation of the project statement upon with
the theoretical and methodological content of the exhibition is
based (this text is available in the press kit and on the site of the
10th session).
THE EXHIBITION
Digital Deviance combines multiple artistic strategies of resistance
according to this principle of digitality: infiltration, sabotage,
insertion, simulacre... The issue is to experiment an art which aims
at direct action into society. A network of international artists
under-represented in France will be offered a visibility
THE SITE
Designed as an educational and evolutionary tool, the site created
by the 10th session presents the theoretical process and the
different steps of the curatorial project.
http://10emesession.free.fr
Contact press: Ecole du Magasin: Aurélie Gandit, Nathalie Gilles,
Christine Laquet, Jean-gbançois Sanz
155, cours Berriat
38028 GRENOBLE Cedex 1
tel. 04 76 21 64 75 - fax 04 76 21 24 22
e-mail: 10emesession@free.fr
Exhibition open 12 - 7 pm every day except Mondays
Admission: 20 F, concessions 10 F
MAGASIN - Centre National d'Art Contemporain -
155, cours Berriat - 38028 Grenoble Cedex 1
phone: +33(0) 476 21 95 84 - fax: +33(0) 476 21 24 22