The “Le Pen phenomenon” designates the sum constituted by the elaboration of a politicalbrand located at the far-right and by the conflictual reactions that it provokes within theFrench society. The objectivization of this phenomenon lies in the analysis of the FrontNational ideology as it is this o...

The “Le Pen phenomenon” designates the sum constituted by the elaboration of a politicalbrand located at the far-right and by the conflictual reactions that it provokes within theFrench society. The objectivization of this phenomenon lies in the analysis of the FrontNational ideology as it is this o...

Nul is aware of the crucial role Nicolas Bourriaud has played in contemporary art as head of institutions, exhibition commissioner and art critics for more than 25 years. Too often associated or even ‘reduced’ — sometimes up to caricature — with relational aesthetics, however, he has produced other...

This reflection looks at the literary motive of the garden, drawing on the works of Claude Simon (Les Mariques, Le Jardin des Plants) and Patrick Chamoiseau (Texaco, Biblique des Later gestes). The garden, which is particularly relevant to the world, makes it necessary to take account of the commona...

While modernity believed that it was possible to build on the elimination of mythic thinking and the advent of a entertainment society, in the empty hours of a humanity that secularised conscience and limited us to a lay daily life, academic writing appears to be a poetic, mythobiographic approach t...

This article deals with the interpersonal, educational, aesthetic and “democratic” scope of situations which, tending to become widespread in many countries, increasingly place children “with artists” on the occasion of the residences of artists in schools or educational centres. It develops a dual...

The issue of ‘participatory museology’ has long been defined since the 70s by means of socio-political issues and identifiers for the recognition of ‘communities of audiences’. In an exhibition setting out a broad space for the communicational logic of media devices, to the detriment of ‘artistic me...

Projected for national and municipal museums of modern art on the occasion of the 1937 world fair, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris today is an international centre of contemporary art, known, too, by virtue of relational aesthetics brought forward by its co-founder (with Jérôme Sans) Nicolas Bourriaud....

The purpose of this dissertation is to decompose the spectrum of commentary, historical and literary, along with the multiple visual counterpoints, that were generated from the work of Édouard Manet in the first half of the 20th century. Manet allows for this « total methodological exercise », in Pi...

Defining the installation is complex. Alain Alberganti contributes to this large company by focusing on the analysis of one of the forms of the installation, the so-called immersive one, which raises more than any other the question of the spatial and relational value of the art. His study, a publis...

, between health discourse and regulator on the dangers of exposure to screens and the commercial appetites of the film industry, which stifles the diversity of creativity, cinema as an aesthetic, sensory and relational experience for young people, struggling to exist in thinking about cultural and...

The author wishes to demonstrate that, at the end of its production and reception, the image appears naturally to be relational. It is from a “techno-logic” point of view (technical and logical, as expressed by Bernard Stiegler); in terms of its perception and unveiling of content, according to Berg...

This thesis is a study of the artistic productions of Fred Forest through the comprehensive catalogue of his work from 1963 to 2008. Seizing the various practical and theoretical aspects labored by the artist : in the context of an art said as sociological, taking the quotidian and the ordinary as o...

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Cet article deals with the interpersonal, educational, aesthetic and “democratic” scope of situations which tend to become more widespread in many countries and place children increasingly “with artists” during the residences of artists in schools or educational centres. It develops a dual historica...

Nicolas Bourriaud has provided recent developments in arts with a theory of relational aesthetics, which is not based on forms, but on “proximity” – the arts operating within the sphere of intersubjectivity. This paper, which presents the works of two female artists, Lygia Clark and Marina Abramović...

‘titrebSummary’/titreb. This study aims to show how whether or not belonging to schools in priority education areas (EPAs) or classroom level can influence students’ self-assessment. 421 students from EC1 and CM1 from the Academy of Orléans-Tours were asked about their respective levels of self-asse...

The article focuses on the idea of participation in contemporary art practice, analyzed through Carsten Höller’s artistic production. Starting from Guy Debord’s essay La société du spectacle, the public is no longer seen as an alienated mass of spectators, but it begins to participate by taking part...

This dissertation analyzes the concept of well-being in the writings of George Eliot in order to account for the question of the individual in his/her relationships with the other and others such as animals and the environment so as to obtain physical, moral as well as personal and social well-being...

more than two thousand years of philosophical and physical thinking, we inherit the two separate concepts of space and time. The physical theory of relativity promotes a closer association between time and space, but it does not change this conceptual dichotomy: it links the readings made on the rul...

The latest mobile screens (tablets, hybrid terminals, smartphones) usually present as haptic interfaces create an unprecedented relationship between a viewer who has become a ‘user’ and an audiovisual object that is now manipulable. By using the ‘user experience’ as an essential feature of the aesth...

If democracy has always been or has required a space of sharing, a spatialized modality of being with others in a domain of commonality susceptible to accommodate the world’s singularities, then the question numerous twentieth-century thinkers, artists, and writers raise is how recent economic, poli...