Thomas Hirschhorn
dal 1/10/2004 al 3/10/2004
Segnalato da
1/10/2004
Thomas Hirschhorn
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
24h Foucault. For the 20th anniversary of Michel Foucault's death, Hirschhorn has produced a gigantic installation devoted to the thinking of the man who wrote The Order of Things and Madness and Civilization, and whose influence on world thought has never been greater. A teeming art exhibition, a philosophical festival and a gigantic happening, '24h Foucault' (24 Hours Foucault) is designed as an international symposium that will bring together around Foucault's work a series of writers and philosophers.
"24h Foucault"
One of the most important European artists of his generation, Thomas Hirschhorn (born in 1957 ; lives and works in Aubervilliers) has already created a series of "monuments" to the great philosophers of our time, from Gilles Deleuze (exhibition " La Beauté ", Avignon, 2001) to Georges Bataille (Dokumenta, Kassel, 2002) by way of Baruch Spinoza (Spinoza Monument, Exhibition " Midnight Walkers and City Sleepers", Amsterdam, 1999).
For the 20th anniversary of Michel Foucault's death, Hirschhorn has produced a gigantic installation devoted to the thinking of the man who wrote The Order of Things and Madness and Civilization, and whose influence on world thought has never been greater.
A teeming art exhibition, a philosophical festival and a gigantic happening, "24h Foucault" (24 Hours Foucault) is designed as an international symposium that will bring together around Foucault's work a series of writers and philosophers. These speakers will step up to the podium hour after hour nonstop from noon on Saturday, 2 October, until the noon the next day.
24h Foucault is a work in 8 elements :
1- The auditorium
2- The library /documentation center
3- The audio and video library
4- The exhibition
5- The Peter Gente's archive
6- The bar-lounge
7- The souvenir-shop
8- The newspaper
A unique event, "24h Foucault" will take place in a setting entirely created by Hirschhorn after the model of a conference room, making manifest Foucault's thought through an immense mass of documents and images.
The installation will also include a video room featuring rare documents, as well as an audio terminal for which the "Michel Foucault Archives" has agreed to make the entirety of the recordings the philosopher took part in available.
Hirschhorn describes his project in these terms: "I want visitors to leave transformed by the experience of '24h Foucault'. I want visitors to become active, to participate… I want visitors to '24h Foucault' to grasp the energy, the force, the necessity of Foucault's work… I want visitors to find themselves inside a brain in action."
Curator: Nicolas Bourriaud
Program developed by Daniel Defert, Philippe Artières, Marcus Steinweg, Guillaume Désanges, Thomas Hirschhorn
Partners :
A coproduction of thePalais de Tokyo, site for contemporary art, and Paris's Festival d'Automne
This event is part of the program developed for the 2004 "Nuit Blanche" organized by the City of Paris.
With the assistance of the Centre Michel Foucault and the American Center Foundation.
Both institutions have kindly made unpublished documents available to the artist.
In the image: Thomas Hirschhorn, esquisse pour "24h Foucault", 2004.
Palais de Tokyo,
Site de création contemporaine
13, avenue du Président Wilson
F - 75116 Paris