Photographic drift in Saint-Denis in the footsteps of the ghost of Osugi Sakae, Japanese anarchist-activist who would have held a speech there 100 years ago. A way for artists to put the urban reality of le Grand Paris under pressure.
Artist-photographers Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber traveled through Saint-Denis following the footsteps of Japanese anarchist Sakae Osugi. He made a speech in this city on May 1st 1923, before being expelled and murdered a few months later by the military police in Japan. This book is one of the many pieces of evidence of the situationist investigation that artists operate in different metropolises around the world (Osaka, Tokyo, Paris, Chongqing...) grouped under the name of "Cartographie Dynamique".
The text that accompanies this book is the fruit of another wandering, that of Marie Tesson, from Saint-Denis to the Pleyel Tower. A way of extending the reflection on what lies beneath the many layers of the city's architecture, particularly those of the megacity.
Marie Tesson teaches at the Nantes School of Architecture. She personally conducts a large investigation work on architecture and urbanism by walking. She used to live in Saint-Denis.
Katja Stuke (born 1968) and Oliver Sieber (born 1966) live and work in Düsseldorf. They have been producing a plethoric artistic and photographic work for several decades. This takes more particularly the form of publications that they manage autonomously thanks to their publishing structure Bohm Kobayashi.
