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

A.C. Lee, Postmodern Velázquez and a ‘Hip-Hop Nutcracker’, 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 …

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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