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  • CHAMBERS - video
    "CHAMBERS" is Stenger's second movie in the Virtual Reality TRILOGY, programmed in web-based VRML, it was also conceived for immersion. Narrative, recurrence, timelessness, all 3 aspects of time are at play, in this emotional progression through the...
  • DYNASTY - video
    "DYNASTY" is Stenger's third Virtual Reality movie, programmed for web-based VRML, but also conceived for immersion.

    Synopsis:
    A child again, you encounter ancestors from a remote past, who welcome you to your Dynasty.
    Together you will reach a...
  • ETERNAL SHELVES -
    "ETERNAL SHELVES" is Stenger's first Web Based VR work programmed in early VRML 1.0, silent and un-animated.

    3D words expressing the most intense emotions in a human history (exile, transe, etc.) are sitting on gray shelves, creating sparks of...
  • A revolutionary Poetry Book, programmed in Web Based VRML and conceived for immersion.

    Texts translated from "Vite de la Banane", available at the New York Public Library, and the urbana Champaign Library of Illinois.
    Read by the author.

    The...
  • The PERMANENT exhibition of the Arc de Triomphe conceived and directed by Maurice Benayoun and Christophe Girault, architect, is being dismantled to give place to a souvenir shop.

    To react to this obscene act of institutional vandalism, Maurice...
  • Back to Back -
    Two people, watching Blind Love Ready Made are sitting, earphones on, in front of their show, generated abstract shapes moving at the rythm of an invisible couple orgasmic vocalizations.
    This solitary pleasure is only disturbed by the fact to...
  • Stolen Life -
    Two concepts have marked 21st century creation, the metaphysical consequence of which is obvious to everyone, despite their apparent differences.

    The first is the idea that it is the spectator who creates the picture and the second is that the...
  • White Cube -
    The spirit of contemporary art

    Most of the sensible minds have understood, since now long, that there is no reason to produce significant artwork nor explore virgin territories. It is a fundamental fact: it has to « be like contemporary art »…as...
  • Out of the dump -
    communiqué Centre des Arts

    Pour ce dernier volet de la saison, le centre des arts invite l’esprit prolifique de Maurice Benayoun à investir ses espaces ainsi que ceux de la Médiathèque George Sand d’Enghien-les-Bains autour de deux propositions...
  • L’exposition à la médiathèque George Sand présente le travail vidéo de Maurice Benayoun - La série Quarxs réalisée entre 1990 et 1993 en collaboration avec le dessinateur de bandes dessinées François Schuiten et l'écrivain Benoît Peeters. une des...