Jochen Gerz : In Case We Meet (édition bilingue, français-anglais)

by jochen-gerz-centre-georges-pompidou-jean-michel-bouhours-georges-heck, Georges Heck

In case we meet, ou l'hypothse improbable pose tel le vu dsabus d'une unit celle de la rencontre de l'artiste et du public, de l'original et de sa reproduction, de l'tre et de son image, de l'un et de l'autre. Sous cette formule sont rassembles les ralisations de Jochen Gerz qui, depuis 1969, utilisent la vido en tant que moyen d'enregistrement, support d'une image dont la performance est le lieu critique, voire en tant qu'lment d'installations ou de " comptes rendus " de mises en situation du public par l'artiste. Paradoxe du rapport l'outil chez un artiste qui n'hsite pas piger, dans l'uvre mme, l'imposture des mdias. Jochen Gerz, artiste vido Inclassable Jochen Gerz. In case we meet, or the unlikely hypothesis put forward like the disillusioned wish of that of the meeting between the artist and the audience, between the original and its reproduction the being and his image, the one and the other. This expression sums up Jochen Gerz's works; since 1969 he has been using video as a means of taping, as a medium for pictures where performance is the critical locus, not to say as an element of installations or "report" of the artist's setting the audience "onstage". The artist has established a paradoxical link with tools and doesn't hesitate to trap the media's deception in his own work. Is Jochen Gerz a video artist Jochen Gerz cannot be classified.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002