“LISTEN, THERE IS NOTHING TO SEE’ Audiodescription: a palliative tool or an aesthetic experience?”
Emma Bourges
This article looks at the relationship between art and language in its most pragmatic museum format: audio description for the blind and partially blind audiences. It outlines the main stages in the multi-sensory writing project I initiated to contemporary artist Dominique Boisard to produce an audio description of her painting Le Parasol Vert. Does this particular form of narration offer these audiences an experience that is likely to move them emotionally, rather than simply informing them? Audiodescription performed by actor Stéphane Duhaut.
Key words : audio description, blind and partially blind audiences, Dominique Boisard, Stéphane Duhaut.
“Turning the dark years into a golden age”?: protest grammars and the compulsion to repeat, from Gerhard Richter to Don DeLillo »
Inès Juster
This article aims to consider the contradictory legacy of Germany’s years of lead, and in particular of the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF), in contemporary cultural practices.
Through a cross-reading of 18 October 1977 by painter Gerhard Richter and “Baader-Meinhof” by novelist Don Delillo, it examines how the memory of the RAF and post-68 political grammars have been differentially transposed into contemporary art and literature, and what new interpretative possibilities open up through their intersection.
Key words: Gerhard Richter, Don DeLillo, Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF)
“Nathalie Léger’s La Robe blanche, or literature as a museum of art that is not exhibited”
Pierre-Olivier Pire
This article tackles the relationship between art and literature, based on Nathalie Léger’s book La Robe blanche that tells the story of Brides on tour, an artistic performance by Pippa Bacca. The study of the links established between art and literature in this article focuses mainly on the way in which performance is translated to writing. In this text, Léger makes a particular use of ekphrasis, which she applies to artistic domains beyond the pictorial arts, to affirm her status as a writer. Finally, this paper aims to demonstrate that writing can function as an exhibition space for art that has not been put on display.
Key words : Nathalie Léger, Pippa Bacca, ekphrasis
“A new correspondence between visual arts and literature via the digital transcription of textual dynamics”
Claude-Patricia Tardif
This article examines the interactions between visual arts and literary text, breaking with the usual processes of illustration, representation, or interpretation. It draws on the research-creation project Narra which explores the visual qualities of written language and employs it as a medium. The artistic approach, based on the length of the paragraphs, renews the relationship between literature and contemporary art, between the text and the image, by revealing an unexplored text rhythm.
Keywords: Digital artwork, Data Art, literary texts, paragraph length, textual segmentation