Poétique du chantier
Conference centred around the last issue of the art review LIGEIA, dossiers sur l’art, special « Poétique du chantier ».
If the West has cultivated for a long time the taste of ruins, the aesthetic modernity has widely developed a » poetics of the construction site « , this often downgraded reality and source of noise pollutions having been the object of an aesthetic requalification in the art since the beginning of the XIXth century. Urban motive, industrial landscape, but also metaphor of the work in progress, the construction site is an ambivalent space, between demolition and construction. And this is why it can appear as a « lieu-source », paradigm of the aesthetic modernity.
On the occasion of the publication of the last issue of the art review LIGEIA, the files on the art, and of its wide report about « Poétique du chantier » co-edited by Jean-Max Colard and Juliette Singer, works continue with this open conversation around the construction site, its aesthetic current events and the contemporary forms of art.
Maylis of Kerangal, writer, author of the novel Naissance d’un pont, publishing Verticales, Fémina prize 2010.
Vincent Ganivet, artist.
Chris Sharp, critic and curator of the exhibition »Under destruction » (with Gianni Jetzer, director of the Swiss Institute of New York) at the museum Tinguely, Basel.