CIEL VARIABLE 71 - Image World
EDITORIAL - Image World
By Jacques Doyon
In this issue, we feature works that, in their profusion and scope, offer a glimpse at the condition of the world as it is manifested and revealed through the mechanisms for fabrication and circulation of images. These image systems are of different dimensions, ranging from identity as it is defined in proximity and culture,
PORTFOLIO - Chih-Chien Wang, The Centre of the Forest Is a Lake Like Mirror
What began as a self portrait project eventually became an image world depicting the objects and beings that nourish Wang’s identity.
Domestic Trajectories
During the past three years, I accumulated images on different attempts, but all the attempts had similar results, I treated them all as my self-portrait. . . . No matter what the camera focuses on, people or still life, the consciousness of self-cognition hence is hidden in my art practice. The image presents a part of the objects themselves and a part of my mirror-self, from which I discover my existence. –Chih-Chien Wang
PORTFOLIO - Emmanuelle Léonard, Resguárdeme
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available.
Resguárdeme ne veut pas dire « regarde-moi », comme un lecteur francophone pourrait être porté à le croire, mais bien « protège-moi ». La magie de cette pièce, diffusée simultanément sur cinq écrans, tient dans le lent balayage de la foule pour repérer les gardiens de sécurité et s’en approcher jusqu’à une prise de vue en très gros plan.
Emmanuelle Léonard : une histoire de l’œil
This article was originally published only in French. No translation is available. – Read the Abstract
Par André-Louis Paré
Notre société n’est pas celle du spectacle, mais de la surveillance...1
Lorsque, à partir des années 1970, le philosophe Michel Foucault déclare que l’architecture de la surveillance a de nos jours remplacé celle du spectacle,
PORTFOLIO - Roy Arden, The World as Will and Representation
Roy Arden’s piece presents a kaleidoscopic flux of some 10,000 images extracted from the web, depicting different manifestations of the concrete world. Structured around arbitrary entries, it deploys so many numerous variations that we are left in a state of amazement and confusion.
Notes on The World as Will and Representation (Archive, 2004–)
By Roy Arden
I have collected images since I was a child; the first were usually cut with scissors from Life magazine. I also then began collecting images in my mind. I remember the journalistic images of the civil-rights marches, of Vietnam, the Beatles, and so on, that began to accumulate in my mental archive.
Les mots et les choses, Alternating Currents in Roy Arden’s Net.art
In The World as Will and Representation, his first-ever online/Internet art project, acclaimed Vancouver artist Roy Arden returns to the archival tropes, modes, and motifs that helped give decisive shape to his landmark works from the mid-1980s, the best known of which are the Rupture, Abjection, and Mission “series” or “suites.”
(Un)framing Interior Views Cultural Geography in the Work of Lynne Cohen
Since the early 1970s, Cohen has lived and worked in no fewer than nine countries, photographing unpopulated interiors in public and private establishments such as schools, spas, and laboratories. Her practice has been informed by her nomadic lifestyle.
