Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Multimedia artist feels free as he gets back to basics By Lin Qi, China Daily/Asia News Network Thursday, September 1, 2016 Art graduates are now increasingly opting to create installations, videos and other mixed-media pieces. But You Jin is different. The artist, who majored in multimedia art, is focusing on painting — a subject that …

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Observer blog – Edouard Malingue Gallery (Hong Kong) will showcase a neon text installation by French artist Laurent Grasso (*1972). Over seven meters wide, Visibility is a Trap, 2012, is a direct reference to Michel Foucault’s theory of Panopticism as elaborated in the theorist’s seminal text ‘Discipline and Punish’ (1975). Picture from the archello site

Postmodern Velázquez, New York Times, Dec 11 2014 In Michel Foucault’s  essay on Velázquez’s  baroque masterpiece “Las Meninas,”  he comments on Velázquez’s decision to insert his self-portrait into the painting’s narrative, planting a seed that would bloom into postmodernism. That blossom continues to flower. “Las Meninas Renacen de Noche (Las Meninas Reborn in the Night),” …

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JOURNÉES EUROPÉENNES DU PATRIMOINE 20 & 21 Septembre 2014 Hommage à Michel Foucault Exposition~Promenade Vendeuvre-du-Poitou « Le jardin du Philosophe » Vendeuvre du Poitou est situé dans le Haut Poitou, au nord de Poitiers, au milieu des vignes et des terres maraichères, « creusé dans les collines, entre les vallées de la Pallu et de …

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Alexa Lawrence, See 11 Heady Books Transformed into Ikebana Flower Displays Posted on Art News, 06/18/14 Camille Henrot channels Japanese zen gardens with an installation of floral odes to her favorite books The gracefully balanced flower arrangements of Camille Henrot’s installation “Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers” (2012-2014) occupy the second …

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Foucault : la prison aujourd’hui 19-30 mars 2014 Lausanne Dix jours d’événements autour des représentations de la pièce de théâtre FOUCAULT 71 Voir – télécharger le programme complet Voir aussi: L’INTOLÉRABLE HIER ET AUJOURD’HUI (Texte d’Anne-Catherine Menétrey-Savary, Le Courrier, 3 mars 2014) et autour de la manifestation: La question de l’abolition de la prison