Être présente et absente simultanément : l’action furtive

Furtive actions are artworks which take place at first in the public place and which are then communicated within the field of art. In the street, these commonplace gestures realized without spectator go unnoticed for those who walk past them. In museums, what is presented is the mark of a past acti...

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Main Author: Sophie Lapalu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2018-11-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/7355
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spelling doaj-0d1886c29b6c4dda9c4d12b8ba6d9a432020-11-25T00:00:45ZengCentre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"Sillages Critiques1272-38191969-63022018-11-0125Être présente et absente simultanément : l’action furtiveSophie LapaluFurtive actions are artworks which take place at first in the public place and which are then communicated within the field of art. In the street, these commonplace gestures realized without spectator go unnoticed for those who walk past them. In museums, what is presented is the mark of a past action. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Purloined Letter, and the seminar that Jacques Lacan dedicated to it allow us to draw the structure of this type of artworks, always both present and absent simultaneously.http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/7355Contemporary artfurtive actionabsencepresenceindistinguishableordinary
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author Sophie Lapalu
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Être présente et absente simultanément : l’action furtive
Sillages Critiques
Contemporary art
furtive action
absence
presence
indistinguishable
ordinary
author_facet Sophie Lapalu
author_sort Sophie Lapalu
title Être présente et absente simultanément : l’action furtive
title_short Être présente et absente simultanément : l’action furtive
title_full Être présente et absente simultanément : l’action furtive
title_fullStr Être présente et absente simultanément : l’action furtive
title_full_unstemmed Être présente et absente simultanément : l’action furtive
title_sort être présente et absente simultanément : l’action furtive
publisher Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
series Sillages Critiques
issn 1272-3819
1969-6302
publishDate 2018-11-01
description Furtive actions are artworks which take place at first in the public place and which are then communicated within the field of art. In the street, these commonplace gestures realized without spectator go unnoticed for those who walk past them. In museums, what is presented is the mark of a past action. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Purloined Letter, and the seminar that Jacques Lacan dedicated to it allow us to draw the structure of this type of artworks, always both present and absent simultaneously.
topic Contemporary art
furtive action
absence
presence
indistinguishable
ordinary
url http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/7355
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