by Liza Maignan & Fiona Vilmer “Sleep No More” is one of the titles that was rejected for the science-fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956). An extra-terrestrial phenomenon identically replicates the bodies of the inhabitants while [...]
by Amina Menia “Algiers has never stopped changing throughout the centuries:Berber, Phoenician, Roman, Arab, Andalusian, Ottoman, French.It has known and assimilated all styles.It shifts, lashes out, snorts like an asphalt animal.It sheds its skin like an urban reptile.” Excerpt from [...]
by Myriam Amroun Operating in a context such as Algeria – and particularly for the professions gravitating around art and culture – has become, by necessity, a project for life.1 The fact of “staying” and establishing oneself there is not [...]
by Natasha Marie Llorens The first and most significant aesthetic task of French colonization was to map space.1 To dispossess people of their land, the colonial regime had to know that land. It produced a vast quantity of drawings to [...]
by Katia Porro In 2015, La belle revue initiated our column “Global Terroir” with the desire to highlight the artistic scene of a foreign territory situated beyond the major capitals, to address the problematics specific to remote localities similar to [...]
by Julie Portier It’s a shame that the rhythm of publication of La belle revue, in its paper version, does not allow us to pick up a text from where we left off in the previous issue, in the manner [...]
Lou Ferrand: The situationist concept of “psychogeography”,1 connecting the city to something akin to emotions or desire, and more specifically the book La Nuit by Michèle Bernstein came to mind when I was preparing this conversation. In this book, two [...]
by Marie Bechetoille Artist Fallon Mayanja composes and assembles poetic texts and sound works linked to other bodies and other voices, which are deployed during performances and within installations. The idea is first to listen – but to really listen, [...]
by Sophie Lapalu Sophie Lapalu: You are a musician, performer, dancer, composer, photographer, choir conductor, researcher, DJ, activist, and researcher at the Research Cooperative at the École supérieure d’art de Clermont-Ferrand. How do you introduce yourself? Gérald Kurdian: I think [...]
by Carin Klonowski An art space whose name you think you’ve heard before. A big space, with a waxed concrete floor, why not on old industrial premises. You haven’t got it all wrong, but you’re nevertheless far from reality. There’s [...]
by Isabelle Henrion The Bastille Art Centre in Grenoble is a place with somewhat paradoxical visibility. Perched atop the Fort de la Bastille, an emblematic tourist spot in the city, it is accessed via the “Bulles de Grenoble”, an urban [...]
by Emilie d’Ornano On the national scale, many artists’ workshops and entities dedicated to the visual arts have a fragile economy. It has become essential to imagine new schemas of cooperation and mutualisation, in order to engage in an examination [...]
by Simon Feydieu Checkers The attraction to a mirror is variable; it refers to our degree of narcissism, voyeurism, or simply the fascination that all optical effects can produce – such as reflections, but also transparency and diffraction. In the exhibition [...]
by Lillian Davies “It’s a little like the inside of my brain”1, artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul explains, describing his most recent exhibition, Periphery of the Night at the institution where curator and director Nathalie Ergino founded Laboratoire Espace Cerveau2 with artist Ann [...]
by Raphaël Brunel 1.It’s a foggy December morning. To alleviate a splitting headache, I drink cup after cup of coffee at the counter of Le Bastringue. The person I’m meeting is late – it’s out of character. I plunge my hand [...]
by Pedro Marais While many of today’s researchers are not reflecting “on” elements of the living world, but through the lens of their agency – the mushroom for Anna Tsing or lichen for Vincent Zonca – philosopher Dénètem Touam Bona [...]
