Interview
As its name indicates, this centre d’art located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques is first and foremost concerned with images, be they photographic, video or multimedia. Beyond photography in the strict sense, since being founded in 1983 it has been open to all forms that incorporate images in all their diverse formats and modes of appearance. Beyond exhibitions, the centre d’art gives special attention to printed images through editorial work developed with artists. The centre d’art is undergoing a transition and will reopen in new spaces in autumn 2013.
readArtist and art school teacher David Coste has been collaborating with the centre d’art for several years. The appropriation of images, diversion and reference lie at the heart of his work and echo the centre d’art’s programming, particularly in its editorial policy and the question of printed images.
Interview is a video conceived by David Coste himself, who sketches several portraits: the portrait of an artist through his work, his collaborations and a critical perspective; a background portrait of artistic, educational and editorial projects undertaken by a centre d’art in a rural location; finally a portrait of the relationships that have been developing around an organisation for nearly 30 years, between artists, art-world actors, future actors, students, viewers and regions.
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ORGANIZING UN COUP DE DÉS
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For the summer edition of uncoupdedés.net magazine, I have let myself be inspired by Mallarme´s dice play to shift away from a regular textual introduction. In favor of the actual produced material and the heterogonous spirit I found in the magazine, I limited myself to use what is already existing – titles and content – to produce a minimal intervention: , and lies listen to,, at the, she said, as a for of, while he said ? . a , . The economy of words deploys a visual and musical dimension of the assemblage, flames the collective effort, fulfills magical strategies, provokes memorization or, perhaps, simply incorporates the fundamental action given by this invitation: ORGANIZING UN COUP DE DÉS.
Manuela Moscoso
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Bolstered by its success and visibility, uncoupdedés.net is restarting and subjecting existing content to new voices. In 2014 and 2015, several personalities from outside France will be asked to become our editorial writers for one season. Their task will be to place the contents of the whole magazine in perspective, presenting them differently through the prism of their subjectivity and their own work contexts. Catalina Lozano (Colombia), Zasha Colah (India), Moe Satt (Myanmar) and Manuela Moscoso (Brazil): each guest editor will reformulate the actions of the centres d’art, various aspects of which they will have been able to perceive through the magazine. Each editor-in-chief will “roll off” a cross-cutting text, presenting an original re-examination of the resolutely fluid geography of the centres d’art. uncoupdedés.net repeats the challenge from the poet Mallarmé, resurrected in the cinematographic art of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, 1977). The guest editors, coming from a variety of disciplines, will widen the circle of expression even more. Choral and fragmentary, uncoupdedés.net takes just as much after puzzles as it does after memories, and naturally calls for cut-outs of every kind…
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MANUELA MOSCOSO
(Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Manuela Moscoso is a Brazil-based curator. Recently she has curated 12 Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador; Yael Davis in the Museo de Arte do Rio Brazil; Fisicisimos, Universidad Torcuato di Tella,The Queens Biennale in the Queens Museum New York; or Before Everything in CA2M (Madrid). Together with Sarah Demeuse is Rivet, a curatorial office investigating notions of deployment, circulation, exercise, and resonance. Their research has materialized in projects in Spain, Norway, Lebanon and the US. Manuela Moscoso holds an MA from Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.