Thierry Geoffroy/
Colonel
FORMATS
/Topics forms and methods
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In 2011 more than ever
: I work with "Art Formats" ( "Format Art " ) . The
first Manifeste is from 1989 .The aim of " Art Formats " is to
expand critical plattforms
globally as
response to a
world with emergencies that could be treated in time . Some of
the most known Art Formats are :
"Emergency Room" , "Critical
Run " , " Debate Rave" , "Penetration " , "Biennalist "
Art
Formats" ( "Format Art "
)
ART FORMAT :
Emergency Room
is a format
that has been activated at PS1/MOMA /// PAN /
Napoli /// Athens /// Berlin ///Copenhagen/ Paris// Hanoi
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 . In Emergency
Room they can point
at dysfunctions in real time . 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 to express about
emergencies . Emergency Room tries to be actif in permanence and
exists in
every capital to dog watch . 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 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 are
examples that have been run-debated . Coming at Venice
Biennale and Documenta : This format 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 .
Biennalist has been actived at the Istanbul Biennale 2007 /
Venice Biennale 2007 / Athens Biennales 2007 / questioning the official
Biennale themes :" Optimism in the Age of Global War",
'think with the senses - feel with the mind ":'Destroy Athens' . Biennalist is preparing a very large operation at Venice Biennale 2009 (
in colababoration with artists from Emergency Room ) " 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 RAVE" "
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 Center
The awareness muscle is like the memory it has to be trained daily in
order to grow . It was activate in Toronto UTM and at PS1 / MOMA
.
The
Protest
School
It was launched at the Roskilde festival for the first time connected
with marchs and flash mobs as well than activities on camp.
the in documenta magazine 2007 . Critical work need to be combine with
the
Awareness
muscle training .daily
The
Academy of Emergency Art
ART FORMAT SLOW DANCE .( PS1 /
MOMA ) ( Toronto UTM)
Important topics are shared while slow dancing . No more loneliness i
front of the medias .
the
dictionary
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As
a "
private artist " ( on my own ...when not doing format art ) : my
thematics are :colonialism , immigration , propaganda ,
tourism,
quadridimensional journalism , identity , stimulation ,work
with TV , Social Medias , Mass Media , and other public space are naare still of
high interest
work about National Identity ( work on TV , collection
of evidence )
Medias spaces
TV as
exhibition space / work on
printed
media
/fashion as medium / ambassade as exhibition plattforms /
wikipedia / facebook etc ...
Manifestes / Formats
and Dictionary
( some words from the
dictionary are with music)
Manifeste
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
Colonel
peintre de la justice ( 1991-2001)
" My parents in
Algeria " / Colonialism / Bio Colonialism
Work in social medias
Wikipedia , Facebook, Google and
Myspace as spaces.
Spamming fest /
territory concepts on domaines / social medias