Artist-Run Spaces, around and about – 2012-2015-2017

Argument

Artist-Run Spaces, around and about. 2012-2015-2017 traces the history of the research programme of the Art Master’s at ESAD in Reims. Interested in the independent character of this type of self-managed structure that exists throughout the world, we decided to make it a school. From then on, the unique sociocultural, political and aesthetic characteristics of Artist-Run Spaces began to unfold. Their forward-looking and international programmes, their collaborative economy and their unifying dimension based on a shared energy are all areas for exploration. Questions of visibility in an already established art network give way to questions of emergence and resistance in economic and cultural contexts that are sometimes not very favourable to artistic production. In addition to this, we are keen to meet several Artist-Run Spaces to understand their specific characteristics. A journey is thus taking shape between the United States, France, Argentina and Morocco, to which a particular focus is given here. Alternating documents, communications and conversations, this edition is structured according to the territories surveyed, in a free and original nomadism. But it also shows how a whole new generation of young artists who are familiar with these collective organisation and dissemination practices (Le Marquis, Firstlaid, Chevaline Corporation, Chers Amis) have been able to draw inspiration from this model to create a founding system in today’s art.

The graphic design of the book, edited by Rozenn Canevet, was the subject of a graphic design workshop supervised by Brice Domingues with Aymeric Drogon, Clarisse Espada, Inès Fontaine, Johan Héloïse, Cécile Lenrouilly, Louise Malclès, Cindy Paris, Manon Rouyer and Charlotte Tanguy. Three graphic versions have been produced and distributed on the ESAD Reims website. One is published and distributed by Les presses du réel.

Contents

• Foreword: the art of ‘making common cause’
  Émeline Eudes
• Prologue: Art’s Students-Run Spaces
  Rozenn Canevet, Guillaume Leblon

I 2012-2013 We Have a Wonderful Possibility.
Artist-Run Spaces: New Forms of Art Production?
Rozenn Canevet

• A Parallel Universes: The Oficina Proyectista
  Mabel Tapia
• B Concepts: The Difficulty of Defining. Independent Spaces?
  Fabiana de Moraes
• C Amateur-Run Space
  Patrice Joly
• D Irma Vep, an artist-run space in the Champagne-Ardenne region
  Laurent Montaron
• E E IL Topo histoire et renaissance4
  Frédéric Liver

II 2014-2015 The Moroccan experience. Excursus in the artist-run spaces of the Ourika Valley in Marrakech, Rabat, Casablanca
Julien Amicel, Rozenn Canevet, Manuela Marques, Claire Peillod

• F [LE] 18 in Marrakech
  Hicham Bouzid
• G The Ultra Laboratory in Casablanca
  Rita Alaoui
• H La Source du Lion in Casablanca 1
  Hassan Darsi, Florence Renault-Darsi and David Ruffel
• I Casamémoire in Casablanca
  Mathilde Blondeau
• J Racines in Casablanca
  El Mehdi Azdem
• K Kulte Gallery in Rabat
  Yasmina Naji
• L MMP+ in Marrakesh
  Mostafa Aghrib
• M Voice Gallery in Marrakesh
  Rocco Orlacchio

III 2015-2017 Epilogue: a new generation
The Art teaching team of the ESAD in Reims

• N Thursday, Portmanteau & …
  Shqipe Gashi
• O Le Marquis
  Camille Besson, Théo Demans, Julian Myron, Raphaël Rossi, Erwan Sene, Maxime Testu
• P Chevaline Corporation
  Armand de Benoist de Gentissart, Caroline Chauvelot, Théodore Dumas, Brieuc Rémy
• Q Romaine.co
  Raphaël Rossi, Maxime Testu, Simon and Thomas Guigue
• R Firstlaid
  Jesse Wallace, Thomas Collinet, Zoé Sylvestre
• S Dear Friends
  Carla Adra