“The exhibition understood as trap-machine ”
“How can artists and artworks stage a ‘dramatisation’ of abstract concepts ?”
“The question of the construction of other possible worlds is perhaps more urgent than ever”
“experimenting with all possible cuts, in a constructivism of the signifier performed ‘anartistically’ ”
“Where does Europe take Place?”
“expression=construction=decoration”
“The operation engages with nothing less than the image of power in its relation to the power of the image that animates it and gives it a discursive existence”
“Not only potential empirical destruction but also epistemic disturbance”
“Video becomes by memorizing itself as a medium of memory”
“That which, in the gallery, is not of the gallery but leads to the outside, to the contingent disorder of the world”
“It’s clinically sterile and clean—and that’s way more violent”
“If liberalism is intrinsically violent, then how does this problematise our perception of the art world as a free space for expression?”
“At the convergence of violence and control, spectatorship, and universality, the human body and its integration into a global machine”
“To understand the image again as a critical-political project”
“Moulène reactivates abstraction as a vector of disjunction and unity of art, philosophy and science”
“Site-specificity now runs the risk of being assimilated into a capitalist logic adept at transforming specificity into reproducible symbol and immaterial value”
“We’ll start with this introductory course. First I’ll place the notion, then I’ll examine its function.”
“Complicity is the embracing of contingency through a rigorous and twisted mode of closure”
“Psychological, private and claustrophobic, a withdrawing from the world in hubris. This almost reactionary withdrawal, segmentation of space and privacy is strangely comparable to the work of Critical Theory”