According to the 1954 Hague Convention and its passages concerning the protection of cultural monuments in the circumstances of armed conflicts…
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Personal Monuments (Copenhagen 2000)
Également publié dans Site-specific installations Mots-clefs : personal heritage Commentaires fermés
The Parachute (Maastricht 2000)
Construction of a parachute
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Assembly manual
Take a second hand parachute, either green or white, measuring eleven meters in diameter. Hang it between trees in a park or between walls in a courtyard or even in a public square. Apply rings to the junctions of the fabric and stretch nylon threads between such rings and the surrounding [...]
Laralia (Dale 1999)
This work is entitled Laralia. The dictionary tells us that, in ancient Roman times, the Lares were the ancestors’ spirits, whose images, made out of painted wood or cast wax, were collected and worshipped in a specially designated part of the mansion called the Laralia.
These pictures were periodically displayed in processions, and then set on [...]
A travers les images (1993)
Faire appel aux bons offices documentaires de l’image (photographique) révèle notre bonne volonté, certes, et on ne saurait s’en abstenir.
Mais il faudrait prendre garde de lui confier, à la belle image, tout le champ de la fonction reproductrice, au-delà de sa tâche d’instrument médiateur vers ce qui a été; il se pourrait que, comme le [...]