UOVO 17: Faits Divers.
Middle-aged man shot by a teen boomhead who was blasting noise along with gunfire... Faits Divers is a French journalistic term for 'Human Interest' stories, a way to provide an encounter with the unexpected and extraordinary ruptures in the quotidian. The art world itself often gains coverage in the mainstream press under the rubrique of Fait Divers: a performance practice or an artist’s intervention similarly engages the directness, immediacy and 'realness' that defines the seduction of Fait Divers in popular media. According to Roland Barthes, it is its immanence which defines the Fait-Divers: 'disasters, murders, rapes, accidents, thefts, all this refers to man, to his history, his alienation, his hallucinations, his dreams, his fear.'
Issue 17, with ideas, reactions, chronicles and (Old) News from all over the Art-World, an opinionated guide to artists-run spaces, interviews and projects, features breaking news and current affairs – faits divers for Faiths-Divers.
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PEOPLE
HELLO: 220 days
Yoann Gourmel and Elodie Royer with Adam Carr
Tony Conrad with Hans Ulrich Obrist
This One’s Optimistic
Adam McEwen with Raina A. Lampkins-Fielder
Affecting Abstractions
Falke Pisano with Lillian Davies
Uncertain Pilgrim
Gareth Moore with Andrew Bonacina
I’m Interested in Using the Image to Erase Itself
Jesse Ash with David Lewis
Yes or No, Yes and No
Tris Vonna-Michell with Adam Carr
A Multiple ‘I’
Omer Fast with Joanna Fiduccia
A Presence You Can’t Avoid
Tania Bruguera with Francesco Stocchi
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TXT
General Idea
Hans Ulrich Obrist with AA Bronson
Short Introduction to Old News
by Jacob Fabricius
Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) 1970-1984
by Tom Marioni
The Art Chronicles / Les Faits Divers
by Marcel Janco
Scary Scenes (on the Side of Compassion)
Angelo Di Marco with Clovis Goux
Observing the Observatory
by Rony Levy
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VIEW
An Opinionated Guide to Commercial
and Non-commercial Spaces Run by Artists
Curated by Marcel Janco
A Gentil Carioca — Asia Song Society — Associates
Between Bridges — BizArt — Champion Fine Art
Edicola Notte — Evolution de l’art — Exit — Flaca
Friesenwall 120 — La Panaderia — More Fools in Town
Mother’s Tankstation — Oporto — Orchard — Pierogi
Plan b — Reena Spaulings Fine Art — Sala Diaz — Signal
Spiritual America — The New Chinatown Barbershop
The Shop — The Wrong Gallery
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INTERLUDE
Lower Music Now
Compiled by Marc-Olivier Wahler
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SET
Curated by Guillaume Sorge
Winter Family: Garden
Beach House: Gila
El perro del mar: Glory to the World
Midnight Karaoke: In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Fairmont: Bikini Atoll
Sebastien Tellier: Sexual Sportswear
Glass Candy: Computer Love
Lykke Li: Window Blues
Black Mountain Queens: Will Play
MGMT: Week-end Wars
The Ruby Suns. There Are Birds
Sam Amidon: Little Johnny Brown
Rafter: Slay Me
Poni Hoax: Faces in the Water
