Katrin Gattinger's first published essay. With a preface by Pierre-Damien Huyghe
La Lettre volée, collection "Essais", Brussels.
Presentation:
Ruses at work. Because in an unfair world, governed by battles of interests, we sometimes need to play tricks, this essay asks the question: what can art do? But rather than looking at the works from the point of view of efficiency, the aim is to observe their inventiveness, to grasp the complexity of their modus operandi. The ruses that make us believe and act while remaining hidden, that enthuse us with their ability to lead a lost cause to triumph, are at the heart of this book, with a preface by the philosopher Pierre-Damien Huyghe. Through a study of the 'practical intelligence' of the processes and logics of five works by artists Peter Rösel, Made in Éric, Olive Martin & Patrick Bernier, Judith Deschamps, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, this essay explores their resistance by drawing on stratagems observed elsewhere (military camouflage, the art system, political actions on justice, internet scams) and the theories devoted to them. These works, from which emanate knowledge, know-how and tricks, invite us to look at how these artistic gestures can help us to think through the conflicts of reality and imagine ways of acting: Spy sculptures that surprise a flagrant offence of inattention; an immobile artistic position that makes a bailiff flee; an unexpected collaboration between artists and lawyers that activates the creative power of the judge; an anticipated dialogue that makes the director of an artistic institution the active principle of the trap that is set for him; stories of scams that lure away the clichés that are (or are not) the daily bread of swindlers.
"RUSES À L'ŒUVRE - Modes d'agir avec l'art contemporain"
(janvier 2025)
S’enforester
(2022)
Katrin Gattinger and Nelly Massera (dir.), S’enforester, University of Strasbourg, Cahier Chronique n°30, December 2022, 162 pages,(french).
Work entirely produced with 22 students from the Master of Visual Arts Theory & Practice at the University of Strasbourg following a workshop in the forest. Texts and images by young artists. Introductory text “Other ways of crossing sensitive space” by Katrin Gattinger (p. 9-21). ISBN 978-2-38213-003-2
Work entirely produced with 22 students from the Master of Visual Arts Theory & Practice at the University of Strasbourg following a workshop in the forest. Texts and images by young artists. Introductory text “Other ways of crossing sensitive space” by Katrin Gattinger (p. 9-21). ISBN 978-2-38213-003-2
« User du langage formel de l’autorité pour établir des formes de soulèvement. À propos de quelques créations personnelles relatives au mobilier de l’espace public. »
(2022)
in Lise Lerichomme, Sophie Suma, Regards sur le paysage urbain (Views on the urban landscape), Brussels, La Lettre Volée, April 2020.
« Le mobilier urbain comme figure d’ajustements artistiques du politique »,
(2022)
in Lise Lerichomme, Sophie Suma, Regards sur le paysage urbain (Views on the urban landscape), Brussels, La Lettre Volée, April 2020.
« Prises de vue clandestines comme exercice du (contre)pouvoir de l’art : Trevor Paglen et Mohamed Bourouissa reprennent le contrôle du visible »
(2019)
Intermediality - History and Theory of the Arts, Literature and Technologies, no 32, « Cacher / Concealing » (fall 2018).
Online on Erudit : https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/im/
Online on Erudit : https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/im/
« Borderknots : Récit du pouvoir et pouvoir du récit. Ou comment mettre les discours à l’épreuve de l’art »
(2018)
in ARNAUD, Jean (dir), ESPACES D’INTERFÉRENCES NARRATIVES : Art et récit au XXIe siècle, PUM, 2018, 249 - 277.
In Situ, Enjeux Actuels
(2017)
Directed by Katrin Gattinger, Thibault Honoré, Sandrine Israel-Jost,, ACCRA, Approches Contemporaines de la Création et de la Refléxion Artistiques), Université de Strasbourg, Cahier Recherche n° 30, 2017.
With contributions of Cyrille Bret, Judith Deschams and Bernard Goy, Thibault Honoré, Sandrine Israel-Jost, Lise Lerichomme and Daniel Payot. Introduction by K.Gattinger.
With contributions of Cyrille Bret, Judith Deschams and Bernard Goy, Thibault Honoré, Sandrine Israel-Jost, Lise Lerichomme and Daniel Payot. Introduction by K.Gattinger.
"Why Participate? On the Concrete Experience of Participatory Performances"
(2016)
in S. Bianchini and E. Verhagen (dir), PRACTICABLE ‐ From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary, Cambridge, MIT Press, Leonardo Book Series, 2016.
In Situ : Un lieu, des projets
(2016)
Published by Katrin Gattinger. Cahier Chronique N°27, Université de Strasbourg.
Publication of the artistic and textual results of a workshop with the students of the High School of the Arts of the Rhine ( Hear) and the Master's degree Art Plastic Reasearch of the Faculty of Arts in the symbolic building " The Patio " of the campus of the University of Strasbourg (with J.-F. Gavoty, K. Gattinger, Th. Honoré, I. Isehayek, F. Ruiz de Infante, J. Saint-Loubert Bié, G. Starck). Texts and pictures by students, introduction by Katrin Gattinger.
Publication of the artistic and textual results of a workshop with the students of the High School of the Arts of the Rhine ( Hear) and the Master's degree Art Plastic Reasearch of the Faculty of Arts in the symbolic building " The Patio " of the campus of the University of Strasbourg (with J.-F. Gavoty, K. Gattinger, Th. Honoré, I. Isehayek, F. Ruiz de Infante, J. Saint-Loubert Bié, G. Starck). Texts and pictures by students, introduction by Katrin Gattinger.
"Mode d’emploi pour une plaidoirie, ou comment l’art et le droit performent pour la justice. Étude de cas de X. et Y. c/ Préfet… Plaidoirie pour une jurisprudence"
(2015)
Document, fiction et droit en art contemporain, Académie royale des Beaux arts de Bruxelles, Presses universitaires de Provence (PUP, Aix-en-Provence), 2015.
« "À portée de main, de pied ou de roue." L’espace atteignable dans les pratiques graphiques performatives contemporaines »
(2014)
in Alexandre Holin, Nathalie Poisson-Cogez, Espaces dessinés / Espaces du dessin, Lille, Septentrion, 2014.
Entretien avec Emanuel Raab
(2013)
Tête-à-tête, Entretiens, Le Bord de l'eau, 2013
« Une sculpture dont la matière serait le droit »,
(2011)
Crossed Interview with Sylvia PREUSS-LAUSSINOTTE, Sébastien CANEVET, Olive MARTIN and Patrick BERNIER (realized with Olivier Grasser), Tête-à-tête, (Entretiens), Le Bord de l’eau, Bordeaux, May 2011.
« Nez dans le guidon »
(2009)
Parade, Ecole Supérieure d'Art du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Tourcoing, 2009, p. 22-33.
"Imitation : quand la pub crée des moutons, l’art produit des déviations"
(2008 )
Correspondances, publication of the Université de Strasbourg, under the direction of Jean-François Robic (will appear).
Entretien avec Yan Duyvendak
Correspondances, publication de l’université de Strasbourg, under Jean-François Robic's direction (2008 to appear 2016).
« Dessiner la performance »
Acts of the colloquium Le Dessin Hors Papier, under Richard Conte's dir., Abbey of Maubisson, cerap, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, Publications of the Sorbonne, on 2009, p. 100-115.
« Quelques repères pour réorienter le réel »
Acts Colloque-Disloque : L’art et le politique interloqués, cerap, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, L’Harmattan, 2005, p.181–190.
« Faire sauter le suspens : L'image comme plan de construction »
La Voix du regard N°18 ("Et Re!" Recyclage, reprise, retour), autumn 2005, p.92-103.
« La création collective n’a ni chef, ni rênes ni cheval », Entretien avec Germain Rœsz
interview de Germain Roesz (with Anna Guilló), « La création collective n’a ni chef, ni rênes ni cheval », [plastik] n°4, publications de la Sorbonne, winter 2004/2005. Text in french.
« Dévorer l’inconsistance »
Livraison n°3, Rhinocéros, Strasbourg, 2004, without pagination.
Article K. Gattinger, "Dévorer l'inconsistance", Livraison, 2004
« Sauter aux Calanques »
Va y avoir du sport (catalog) and A vos marques : Sport, Art et Architecture (Acts of the colloquium), Galerie Filles du Calvaire, cérap, Université de Paris 1, publications de la Sorbonne, 2002, p. 183-186 ou/et p. 37- 40.
« La Maison-refuge: kit à consommer - plagier la stratégie économique ou comment rendre crédible une micro-utopie »
La voix du regard n°14 (« L’économie à l’œuvre »), autumn 2001, p. 32 – 39.