Book Launch : L'arte della sovversione

A rendezvous, a discussion I had with Marko Stamenkovic is part of the book "L'arte della sovversione" (Multiversity: pratiche artistiche contemporanee e attivismo politico) edited by Marco Baravalle with contributions by among others  Claire Fontaine, Brian Holmes, Maurizio Lazzarato, Antonio Negri, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Judith Revel, Marco Scotini, ,... 

Contour Biennale for Moving Image, Mechelen (B)

Vita Nova's exhibition première will take place during Contour Biennale for Moving Images, in Mechelen (Belgium).

"Vincent Meessen’s new film ‘Vita Nova’ takes as its point of departure a cover of the French magazine Paris-Match, from 1955. On this cover, a child soldier is depicted in the act of making a military salute. The artist subsequently embarks on a search for Diouf, the child soldier, weaving an elaborate narrative that brings together phantoms from the colonial past, the writings of Roland Barthes – who wrote about this particular image – and issues that centre on the representation and re-writing of history, its repressed narratives, as well as the spectral nature of photography."