Julia Marchand
Associate Curator at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles and EXTRAMENTALE Founder and Artistic Director, a curatorial platform devoted to adolescent symptoms in contemporary art. Based in Arles, France.
Danarti magazine, Tbilisi Danarti magazine is an independant publication that makes rooms for alternative visions on con-temporary subjects and historical givens. Co-founded in 2011 by Goldsmiths College alumni Elene Abashidze, and mostly funded by Kunsthalle Zurich, Danarti addresses issues related to the post-nineties in Georgia (Georgia 1990’s: Tips on Survival – edition n°5), to the art of avant-garde painter and stage designer David Kakabadze (1889-1952 – the latest edition ) as well as to the LGBTQ community in Georgia with a special edition paying homage to Bianca Shigurova, a transgender woman who was found dead in her apartment in 2016.
2. Voiture 14, Marseille
Over the last few months Marseille has developed a healthy art scene with the setting up of new spaces that coincide with the wave of settlements of emerging artists. Voiture 14 plays a crucial role in the making of that scene by thinking and acting collaboratively. The founder Myriam Mokdes has partnered with Les Filles de Bledards, Leaving Living Dakota, RIAM Festival and Manifesto 21 for her recent exhibitions and performances have included works by Marseille-based artists including Sara Sadik, Sol Cattino, Moeasha 13 and Nicolas Perez, to name a few.
3. LINK, by Mohamed Bourouissa
What is the relationship between sex and technology ? This sentence is taken from latest fim by Mohamed Bourouissa, LINK, produced by Unenployed Magazine. After his striking exhibition this summer at Les Rencontres d’Arles, Mohamed takes us into the realm of sexuality, human obsolescence and artificial intelligence, and above all desire from which arises his own curiosity. There is no glorification but a mere observation of the mechanics of desire, and perhaps the expanded love in which we all participate. The film will be shown within an installation at Schinkel in January 2020.