Tag Archives: Art and Revolution

André Laude, anarchist poet

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

For André Laude (1936-1995), for his poetry, for his fiery beauty … Toute mon expérience poétique s’articule autour de cette perspective : la poésie doit changer la vie. André Laude: Working class family.  Exiled to Paris, will later rejoin his homeland: … Continue reading →

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Karen Karslyan: Poetry as transgression

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

From a friend of Autonomies … Karen Karslyan is a writer. He is in love with words; their texture, music, variations. He may stretch them and minimise them, turn them into objects that scream and images that see other images … Continue reading →

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For Abbas Kiarostami: The singular beauty of truth, or the illusion of being

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

No artist, in any country, is free.  S/he is a living contestation. Pier Paolo Pasolini The films of Abbas Kiarostami are now complete.  With Kiarostami’s death this last July 4th, the worlds of his creation are now fixed, at least … Continue reading →

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For Siné

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Le dessin est une arme de combat. Siné The art of Siné, or Maurice Albert Sinet, struck like a boxer’s punch to the side of the head.  But the dizziness was not intended for a ko, but to wake us … Continue reading →

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Nuit Debout: The arts of rebellion

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

What makes night within us may leave stars. Victor Hugo The radicalness of a political movement can be measured by the extent of its resonances in different spheres of life and the extent to which it transgresses and creates thresholds … Continue reading →

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For Gato Barbieri

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

When I play the saxophone, I play life, I play love, I play anger, I play confusion, I play when people scream … Gato Barbieri For the free jazz artist that he was, is, Gato Barbieri, who died on this … Continue reading →

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Erasure as resistance: The street artist Blu gives back/commons the walls of Bologna

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Street art doesn’t exist, there is just you and the world outside. Do what you like in the best way and think about what you are doing. Blu, Kolah Studio Interview Capitalism is a machine of appropriation, capturing agencies and … Continue reading →

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For Jacques Rivette

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Julius Gavroche

Quel est le but du cinéma? Que le monde réel, tel qu’offert sur l’écran, soit aussi une idée du monde. Il faut voir le monde comme une idée, il faut le penser comme concret. Jacques Rivette We are all rehearsing parts … Continue reading →

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The art of the violence of sovereignty: The refugee as the face of exception of our time

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Francisco Goya, Saturn devouring his son (1819-1823) If Theodor Adorno could once state that after Auschwitz, to write poetry is barbaric, how much greater the violence of pictorially and plastically representing the horrors of the same event, and of nazi … Continue reading →

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Rebellious graffiti, testimonial photography: Art against austerity in greece

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Julius Gavroche

Greece … is a laboratory in which the resistance of a population to authoritarian governance can be measured. Maurizio Lazzarato, Governing by Debt The task of art is not to change reality but to show and evoke it. The mimetic … Continue reading →

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