Third chapter of a collaboration with the artists Mariana

Castillo Deball, Alex Cecchetti, Will Holder, Benoît Maire

and Falke Pisano, begun on the occasion of the residence

of the 22^nd International Studios of Frac des Pays de la Loire

between September and November 2008, this book anticipates,

prolongs or transposes the works presented in the exhibitions

Chapter 1 (the discrete situations) from November 8^th, 2008

to February 22^nd, 2009 at Frac des Pays de la Loire in Carquefou

and Chapter 2 (the repetition) from March 7^th to May 3^rd, 2009

in the Parc culturel de Rentilly, upon the invitation of the

Frac Ile-de-France.

Conceived as the first chapters of a book, these two exhibitions

gathered together works whose combinations drew the outlines

of narrative situations, that the texts written or republished by

the artists in this Chapter 3 come to reactivate. Theoretical essays

in the form of short stories, scripts of performances, manifesto

or movie scenario, these authorized narratives suggest crossed

trajectories and constant and mutual transformations between

language, ideas and forms in the practices of these artists.

Yoann Gourmel