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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...

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...

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...

Discovering the secrets of nostalgic "circuit bending" it seems that here the drive immediately sadistic turns of its true purpose. The crushing nature of games against child trying to convert sounds, notes and voice stuttering, screaming,...

Two years before the turn of the century, a committee chaired by Jean-Jacques Aillagon, at the time director of the Centre Pompidou, was entrusted with the task of defining the ceremonies to celebrate the millennium. Oddly enough, I was invited to...

La première acquisition du fonds FAME de soutien à la création Emotion Forecast est bâtit sur le modèle des systèmes prédictifs du stock market.

Que se passerait-il si l’économie et les échanges étaient fondés sur l’état émotionnel de la planète....

Bored by a vision of the world dominated by B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) that seem for so many people to be the only way to consider human interactions, I would like to start a series of works called H2H: Human to Human.
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The Dump - recyclage d’idées est une sorte de laboratoires d’idées artistiques. Les artistes ont été encouragés à prolonger les concepts d’un autre artiste, à utiliser les concepts entreposés sur le blog de Maurice Benayoun. Au lieu de recettes...

3 versions of the project from the Dump: Titlism

"Can we imagine a work wandering like a lost soul in search of a meaning, simply because it had become impossible to give it a permanent title? Would each proposition give the picture a different...