The Fondation Pernod Ricard announces two new essay commissions published on its editorial platform.
TextWork #38: The Voice as a Site of the Possible
Anne Le Troter according to Sofia Lemos
“written text, too, can serve as a means of destabilizing the long-standing opposition between logos and phōnē. In Le Troter’s practice, writing is not subordinated to thinking, nor does it function as a fixed repository of meaning. Instead, it becomes a score, a porous script that anticipates its own sonic fracture. I understand the relationship between writing, uttering, and listening in her work as a challenge to the dominant philosophical privileging of logos—the notion of rational, semantic discourse...”
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Sofia Lemos is a curator and writer whose work engages the intersections of art, performance, and discourse, with a sustained focus on ecology and critical practice.
TextWork #39: Carrying histories: Earth and fire, metaphors and metamorphosis, in the ceramic practice of Thu-Van Tran
Thu-Van Tran according to Michelle Antoinette
“Birth, life, and death, she explains, are always in communion in Buddhist thinking. It was in this sense that Thu Van Tran connected the cycles of nature and culture to the elemental forms of earth and fire to create her new ceramic works during her residency at PICA. Alongside this interest in nature’s cycles however, is also her interest in the impacts of colonisation and industrialisation on the Australian landscape and Indigenous Country—indeed, these intersecting themes of nature, colonisation, and industrialisation repeat throughout Tran’s oeuvre as consistent lines of enquiry.”
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Dr Michelle Antoinette is Associate Professor in Art History and Theory at Monash University, Naarm/Melbourne. She lives and works on the lands of the Indigenous Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation.
Upcoming TextWork publications
Yto Barrada according to Yasmine Seale
Christian Bertin according to Skye Arundhati Thomas
TextWork fosters and supports the work of artists active in the French art scene through the publication of long-form critical essays produced by international writers. With this program, the Pernod Ricard Foundation reinforces its commitment of over 25 years to supporting and disseminating this art scene. TextWork is conceived with the support of the French Ministry of Culture.
For more information: textwork@fondation-pernod-ricard.com.
