Episode V: Le Salon Turc
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam recently acquired Ulay’s pivotal work Irritation – There Is a Criminal Touch to Art (1976),…
Pierre Bal-Blanc
Episode IV: Parterre / The Stalls
The systems of governance that Michel Foucault and Deleuze & Guattari taught us to identify as “sovereignty,” “discipline,” and “control”…
Episode III: Speech of an Object
Hi, my name is Pierre Bal-Blanc. I was born in the small working-class town of Ugine, in France. I live…
Episode II: Index of Household Consumption1
“She jumps from the second floor to avoid being beaten.”2 Chased by her drunken lover, with a blood alcohol level…
Anna Halprin’s Dance Deck
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Anna Halprin’s dance deck, built outdoors on a…
Episode I: An Introduction
On Monday, March 2nd, while having breakfast at the Hotel Albert 1er in Toulouse before running the workshop “Exposition collective…
Marta Minujín’s The Parthenon of Books: A Living Elevation of Social and Cultural Relations
A collective endeavor of Greek antiquity — no less than eighty different artists worked on the frieze alone — the…