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État des Lieux #1
Contacts (Relation, bricolages et travaux de consommation)

  • Nicolas Bourriaud
  • Monica Bonvicini
  • Claude Closky
  • Alicia Framis
  • Liam Gillick
  • Joseph Grigely
  • Swetlana Heger + Plamen Dejanov
  • Pierre Joseph
  • Ben Kinmont
  • Agence / Agentur
  • Mathieu Mercier
  • Navin Rawanchaikul
  • Gitte Villesen

The exhibition is curated by Nicolas Bourriaud

ÉTAT DES LIEUX
To mark our tenth anniversary in the year 2000 and everyone’s entry into the Third Millennium, we decided to give the Centre of contemporary art an even greater opening. The outcome is a special program called État des lieux, aiming to set up an inventory of the various aspects of current art.

Going against established practice, we decided to invite guest curators and ask them to take stock of what is happening in art now, with a view to describing the present and outlining the future. The project broke down into four events-exhibitions – four inventories – spread out over the entire year.

These État des lieux, events or exhibitions circumscribed in space and time, bring together artists in the broad meaning of the term, who focus on the concerns of the guest curators. Their job is to establish lines of communication between the various forms of thought for which art is the medium. Each of these presentations is a statement by the curator, expressive of his or her convictions.

CONTACTS – NICOLAS BOURRIAUD
Contacts joins together artists of which the practices maintain close relationship with this emergent economic field, that we already call the “quaternary sector”, founded on the mutual exchanges, the personalized services, or the lesser known sector of bricolage or house work. The works presented in Contacts draws a cartography where are mixed the inter human, bricolage and the active recovery of the flow of goods.