Staphane Gilot: Mondes Modeles / Model Worlds (English and French Edition) - Softcover

Beaudry, Eve-lyne; Beaupre, Marie-Eve; De Meredieu, Florence; Kealy, Seamus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2920325477 ISBN 13: 9782920325470

Publisher: ABC Art Books Canada Distribution, 2012

Synopsis

Stephane Gilot explores various forms of utopia and dystopia, architecture, social structures, cosmology and epistemology. With a multidisciplinary approach involving installation, video, maquettes and drawing, he develops a wealth of ideas on the notion of worlds. This book focuses on two major works: MULTIVERSITE/Metacampus (2012) and La Cite performative (2010). The latter is a synthesis of the artist's varied practice: small-scale models of earlier projects and other architectural projections stand on a platform like a miniature city, with some of the buildings housing performance videos. MULTIVERSITE/Metacampus is akin to a forum for research, experimentation, exchange and reflection on the university as a utopian exemplar and for imagining its potential as a place for the emergence, development and circulation of ideas and knowledge. This generously illustrated publication includes a rewrite of Borges's famous Library of Babel adapted to Gilot's visual universe, essays on MULTIVERSITE/Metacampus, and an essay on La Cite performative.

Edition details

• Publisher: ABC Art Books Canada Distribution
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2920325477
• ISBN 13: 9782920325470
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 125