This writer, born in Arles in 1951, has written essays and numerous articles on current affairs, images, art and media, as well as a number of literary works, pieces for theatre and dance, films and video creations. He is a member of the editorial committee for the review “Lignes”. He hosts courses on the history of avant-garde and aestheticism in a number of universities, including the Sorbonne, in Aix and in the Schools of Art of Caen, Avignon and Aix. The Who have been his musical inspiration since he was a teenager, and his masters in the field of thought are Edgar Poe and Victor Segalen. In his writings, he dreams of the author concealing himself to such an extent that the reader slips into his place and thinks that he himself has written what he has just read.
He prefers the “essayist” so as not to crush the human element. He claims authorship of works of non-fiction, inverted morality tales and comical “pot-shots” at the art of reading.
You therefore have to start from something, from an initial contact. Some people have decided in advance: schools, associations, some business people, and the future residents or “passengers” of the CENT QUATRE. Others engage themselves according to what happens, chance meetings, ideas that come, temptations that appear. I picture myself in the 19th century as it has fallen to me to be a little bit everywhere: a traveller among migrants settled somewhere for a little time, for a little while.
There are questions as well, “starter” questions, one might call them, that I have raised: they carry everybody into the movement to a certain extent. Where the movements are going (in reality or just in thought) is the basic question. It is a question of each person’s “here and now”, viewed by each person from their own perspective.
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