Peeping Tom's Digest #04 – Paris (Le Grand and beyond)

This fourth issue of Peeping Tom's Digest is unusual in taking as a starting point the city of Paris, where the members of Peeping Tom reside. To conserve a necessary distance in regards to a scene they were already familiar with, the collective privileged initiatives and actors for whom a certain detachment (geographic, temporal, emotional, economic, ideological, etc.) was chosen or imposed: foreigners living in Paris or in residency, French people based abroad, nomads and dromomaniacs passing through, initiatives situated in Parisian suburbs or elsewhere in France, the student milieu, actors who have left the artistic scene or whose financial independence placed them outside of the art world, the points of view of other professions, isolated, transversal or unclassifiable practices, etc. The contributions as a whole question notions of territoriality, affiliations, and isolation, and draw a portrait, one largely made in counter-relief, of the “Parisian art scene.”
The collective's residency at the CNEAI (Centre National Edition Art Image in Chatou, a Parisian suburb) between 2014 and 2015, allowed the establishment of five work groups, organized around events, both private and public, which nourished the editorial concept: dinners, performances, round tables, etc.
This bilingual issue brings together more than 70 participants in about forty texts and artistic contributions in both French and English. It is accompanied by a poster showing the genealogy and common thread of its elaboration as well as a supplement entitled RURAL, Special Limousin. An online extension presents unseen contributions.