Essay

An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.

The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.

A counter-history of contemporary art, where experience becomes form, and aesthetics is redefined as a radical relationship with the living.

The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.

The choreographic in cinema.

Eyal and Ines Weizman explore the history of the before-and-after image, from its origins in 19th-century Paris to today's satellite surveillance.

In this essay, Thierry de Duve leaves the aesthetics and history of the art to approach, under the religious prism, two anthropological questions that the mutation of the symbolic order in progress makes pressing: the difference of the sexes and the future of the politics of emancipation.

The Heideggerien deconstruction of metaphysics by Reiner Schürmann.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.