Thierry Geoffroy/
Colonel
FORMATS
/Topics forms and methods
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I still work with "Art Formats" (
"Format Art " ) activating them as globally as possible but also
creating new ones . The
first Manifeste is from 1989 .
The aim of " Art
Formats " is to activate critical plattforms
globally
as response to a
world with emergencies . Emergencies have to be treated " in
time before it is too late ". Some of
the most known Art Formats are :
"Emergency Room" , "Critical
Run " , "Biennalist "
," Debate Rave " .
Art
Formats" ( "Format Art "
)
ART FORMAT :
Emergency Room
This format has been activated at MOMA/ PS1 New
York /// PAN /
Napoli /// Athens /// Berlin /// Copenhagen/ Paris// Hanoi /
Wroclaw
This format is for professional artists to express about
Emergencies . Now before it is too late . Artists are thermometers and
we must know what they think about today , today before it is too
late . In Emergency
Room artists can point
at dysfunctions in real time meanwhile their expression can have an
impact . In Emergency Room the exhibition changes
daily . Emergency Room is a special room builded as part of the
format . The
Emergency Room artists come when they are burning . . Emergency
Room
is the central structure for all awareness muscle
formats listed below .
ART
FORMAT : Critical Run
Critical Run is also an Art Format :
Here particants are running while
debatting . Critical run have been activated in London /
Moscow/ Rotterdam
/ Siberia / Barcelona / Bruxelles / Paris / Napoli / Hanoi /
Sydney etc
...
. In
this Art Format others than professionel artists can
participate
in the running debate . Run debate are
filmed and then exhibited . Subjects like "apathy ", "the role
of the artist ", " emergencies " , "gentrification " are
examples that have been run-debated . Coming at Venice
Biennale and Documenta . This format can be ( and has been )
activated the same
day in different part of the world .
ART
FORMAT : Biennalist
Biennalist
is an Art Format
commenting on Biennales and other cultural managed events while
they happen . Often
biennales promote themselves with
thematics . Biennalist take those thematics very
seriously , and explore them on location. Sometimes
Biennalist collabore with Emergency Room artists to provide a
burning content that cannot wait ( today is
today , today before it is too late ) . Biennalist often activate the
Penetration format , the Critical Run format as well
as Rumeur art format .
There
is not a good Biennale without Biennalist".
ART FORMAT :
Penetration
Penetration is also part of the Art Format group .A
Penetration is an artist's act of
placing an artwork within
another artist's already existing exhibition ,with his permission
.
Curator can also be asked .The Penetration are asked mostly when
artists from Emergency Room have
no Emergency Room to express about emergencies . Penetrations are then
organized
The Protest Fashion 
THE ART
FORMAT : "DEBATE RAV "
It concern mostly young people going to festival and parties .
Exhibiting opinions and debating is encouraged to train and
grow the
Awareness Muscle .
The Protest fashion is also turn toward emergencies.
Rave
debate is a format to rave and debate at the
same time / it can be combine with the
protest fashion .It took place first time at PS1/ MOMA
Awareness
Muscle Training
The Awareness Muscle is like the memory it has to be trained daily in
order to grow . It was activated at PS1 /
MOMA
.,
Toronto UTM and
The
Protest
School
It was launched at the Roskilde festival for the first time connected
with flash mobs and marchs as well than activities on camp.
then in documenta magazine 2007 with Kunst.EE .
The
Academy of Emergency Art
SLOW DANCE
DEBATE .( PS1 /
MOMA /Toronto UTM /
Important topics are shared while slow dancing . No more loneliness i
front of the medias .
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When not doing working format art : my
thematics are
- tourists- immigrants-colonialists
I am also interest in exhibiting space traditionals but also TV ,
social medias , news papers , street etc ....
work
about National Identity ( use of characters like the tourist or the
immigrant )
Medias
spaces
TV as
exhibition space / work on
printed
media
/ fashion as medium / ambassade as exhibition plattforms /
wikipedia / facebook etc ...
Manifestes ( Moving
exhibition 1989/sport Art 1990 / Emergency Room 2003)
/ Formats
and Dictionary
( some words from the
dictionary are with music)
Manfeste
1989 / Manifeste Sport Art 1990 / Manifeste
Emergency Room ( 2003)
Recession
art
Art Forum Berlin / Statens Museum
for Kunst / Paris Fiac / Galerie Taiss / etc ....
Work
about Mobile
Phones , Flashmobs
Wikipedia
, Facebook, Google and
Myspace as spaces.
Spamming
fest /
territory concepts on domaines / social medias
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peintre de la justice ( 1991-2001)
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