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ECHO DELAY REVERB – éditions B42

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ECHO DELAY REVERB
ART AMÉRICAIN ET PENSÉES FRANCOPHONES

Naomi Beckwith, Emma Bigé, Judith Butler, Audrey Célestine, Pauline Clochec, Huey Copeland, François Cusset, Aria Dean, Guillaume Désanges, Éric Fassin, Jackqueline Frost, Florian Gaité, Renée Green, Emmanuel Guy, Élisabeth Lebovici, Catherine Malabou, Sophie Mendelsohn, Émilie Notéris, Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, Camille Robcis, Tiphaine Samoyault, Adam Shatz, Mawena Yehouessi, Elvan Zabunyan

designer deValence
format 190 x 250 mm
pages 240 p.
ISBN 9782494983397

L’ouvrage est publié en coédition avec le Palais de Tokyo, en parallèle de l’exposition « ECHO DELAY REVERB » visible du 22 octobre 2025 au 15 février 2026.

Tout au long du XXe siècle, des penseur·ses, activistes et poète·sses dans la sphère francophone ont transgressé les genres et modifié les perspectives sur le monde contemporain. Néanmoins, au-delà et parfois avant leur reconnaissance en France, leurs idées ont été traduites aux États-Unis et ont servi à fabriquer des outils pour une vision critique des institutions, de l’art comme de la société, contestant des normes sociales, esthétiques et linguistiques, ouvrant à de nouvelles manières de voir et d’agir. Si le concept phare de French Theory a été défini dans les années 1990 pour évoquer la réception enthousiaste que les États-Unis ont réservé à des auteurs comme Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze ou Jacques Derrida, d’autres figures, telles que Suzanne et Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé, Édouard Glissant ou encore Monique Wittig, ont été déterminantes pour le champ de l’art comme pour les études postcoloniales, féministes et de genre. C’est l’histoire de cette circulation des idées, de leur résonance et appropriation par plusieurs générations d’artistes outre-Atlantique que déploie cet ouvrage qui prolonge l’exposition éponyme conçue par Naomi Beckwith au Palais de Tokyo.

Source: ECHO DELAY REVERB – éditions B42

Diasporic Landscapes of Longing, bell hooks. 1994.

Looking toward Morne Tranchant, 1927

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Image from page 33 of "Bulletin - United States National Museum" (1877)
Text Appearing After Image:
Looking toward Morne Tranchant from the lower slopes of La Selle. note scanty cover of forest Near Furcy, Haiti, April 9, 1927.

Image from page 33 of “Bulletin – United States National Museum” (1877)

Smithsonian Institution

United States National Museum

Buttetin 155

THE BIRDS OF HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

by

ALEXANDER WETMORE

Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

AND

BRADSHAW H. SWALES

Honorary Assistant Curator of Birds United States National Museum

January 27, 1931

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On the necessity of gardening: an abc of art, botany and cultivation

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On the necessity of gardening: an abc of art, botany and cultivation, Editor: Laurie Cluitmans
Contributors: Maria Barnas, Jonny Bruce, Laurie Cluitmans, Thiëmo Heilbron, Liesbeth M. Helmus, Erik A. de Jong, René de Kam, Alhena Katsof, Jamaica Kincaid, Bart Rutten, Catriona Sandilands, Patricia de Vries. Design: Bart de Baets

On the Necessity of Gardening appears simultaneous with the exhibition The botanical revolution, on the necessity of art and gardening that will be on view from 11 September 2021 to 9 January 2022 in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht (NL). The publication is categorically not an exhibition catalogue, but is positioned as an autonomous project. Both the exhibition and publication stem from a longer-term research by Laurie Cluitmans into the development of the cultural-historical, philosophical and social significance of the garden in relation to our current way of life. valiz.nl

Henk Wildschut, Rooted, Zaatari Camp, Jordan-April-2018. Henk Wildschut photographed the improvised gardens of people who have lost their homes and ended up in refugee camps.
KJM in botanical revolution

The garden as a place of hope and resilience

Parallel to the exhibition in the Centraal Museum, the exhibition Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers? can be seen in Nest art space in The Hague.

Staying South by Logan Lockner

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Art in America, November 17, 2021 10:53am.

Lockner’s article surveys a sample of artists based in the American South, Coulter Fussell, Katz Tepper, and Adler Guerrier.

This series of overlapping, sometimes contradictory impressions is perhaps best conveyed by Guerrier’s use of techniques such as solvent transfer and collage in works on paper that create ghostly, overlapping black-and-white images of both natural and urban landscapes, often punctuated by cascading geometric shapes or intricate compositions. These works temper representation with more opaque visual poetics, creating images of a place that feel both familiar and far away. 

Rebecca Solnit – Orwell’s Roses

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To read, via nyer https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/rebecca-solnit-on-the-politics-of-pleasure

…a natural history of gardening, a dissection of the rose as capitalist metaphor, or a defense of art and beauty as a bulwark against the annihilating forces of totalitarianism.
…pleasure as a form of resistance

roses–they became a symbol for the whole contemporary world.

Part of living in the contemporary world is knowing the conditions under which [ANYTHING & EVERYTHING]…are produced

…suggesting that meaning is inherent in materials, if you pay attention to them, and meaning is also inherent in the process of making.