Artists in Conversation: Franck Leibovici

PLATFORM3, 2012

PLATFORM3 celebrates three year anniversary with a collective project of local artists. Initiated and supported it by the international artist Franck Leibovici (1975, FR), which begs the question: How does open up the ecosystem of a work of art? An interview:

Through workshops with the artists and the curatorial team of a new exhibition PLATFORM3 concept was developed. The joint project, "a public moment", runs until 28 April.

We thank the busy Franck for the interview, despite the lack of time devoted to our questions.

Have you always been interested in collective projects? What was the inspiration behind this project, "a public moment"?

Brazil (Rio) and poetry.

Rio, because I've discovered there that it is a good test for the evaluation of an artwork is to consider whether this is a collectively generated. if not, it was the factory for "interesting". when it occurs but a suitable collective emotions and causes, then the group it immediately.

poetry, from the basic, fundamental question that the position of this area again and again arises: to what kind of "life form" leads us to the practice, writing, which I develop?

One of the first questions you've asked the artists of PLATFORM3 was: What practices are part of the ecosystem of your work of art? In the course of two workshops, we have jointly created keywords to describe the ecosystems PLATFORM3 artists. How would you answer this question yourself?

through projects such as "forms of life" and "a public moment".

Have you come across something unexpected in the course of this project? Perhaps you have discovered a new element that you want to integrate into a new project?

yes, new paths to describe, phenomena that are held for "immaterial."

The collective projects you initiate in coming from your idea that the artwork more than one object, rather a part of common gestures and situations in a row, ethical, political, economic and artistic positions. Why such an approach to art is important, perhaps even necessary today?

as we now know not what is actually an object. an object is not what we think. it's more than that ...

and we do not know what is practical one. (And it is also more than that).

How did you get this idea that the artwork belongs to an ecosystem developed?

it does not belong only to themselves but also generates

by trying to understand or to describe how people use art works, or how they work, they can.

and by attempting to describe these things that have to date no visualizations or presentation form.