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Dérives

Spring / Summer 2005

[In French] La question de mobilité a souvent été traitée par les artistes à travers la figure de celui qui marche, de l’arpenteur. Longtemps représentée, cette mobilité s’incarne désormais dans de nombreuses pratiques artistiques contemporaines. Comme autant de variations sur le thème du flâneur baudelairien, le nomadisme, l’errance, la déambulation, le voyage, les dérives diverses constituent des moyens par lesquels nombre d’artistes observent le monde et proposent d’en faire l’expérience.

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Immersion

Winter 2026

This issue is interested in all forms of immersion in contemporary art. How are artists critically engaging with immersive technologies? Conversely, what kinds of practices are challenging technology in their pursuit of immersion? How are these experiences breaking down the boundaries between spectator, body, and art? We put forward proposals that rely on listening and sustained attention rather than on amplification and sensory overload – works using devices that are sometimes relatively simple and non-invasive, sometimes a little more elaborate, but in which participation is, with a few nuances, neither passive nor devoid of critical thinking.

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