{"node_view":"\u003Carticle class=\u0022node\u0022\u003E\n  \u003Ch1 class=\u0022node-title\u0022\u003EWe are all writers\u003C\/h1\u003E\n\n  \n\n          \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-description field-type-textauthor field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EDescription\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003E\u003Carticle class=\u0022filtred_html\u0022\u003EFor the International Book Festival in Nice, over five of the six days of the event, Jean-Pierre Giovanelli and Jean-Paul Th\u00e9not invite the visitors to write a text. The texts were machine-typed and sent to an offset printer on site. There were over 160 participants. Each person received a copy of the completed collection, which was declared property co-owned by of all the participants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe participation ended with a signing by all the authors, which, given their number, created considerable confusion. A few writers at the festival reacted violently, arguing that it was an affront to the book trade, which was entirely correct. The event was thus a success.\u003C\/article\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \u003C\/section\u003E\n      \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-concepteur field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above field-personne\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003ECreator\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-items\u0022\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003EJean-Pierre Giovanelli\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item odd \u0022\u003EJean-Paul Thenot\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \t\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-executant field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above field-personne\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EPerformer\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-items\u0022\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003EJean-Pierre Giovanelli\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item odd \u0022\u003EJean-Paul Thenot\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \t\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-organisateur field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above field-personne\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EProducer\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-items\u0022\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003EJean-Pierre Giovanelli\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item odd \u0022\u003EJean-Paul Thenot\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \t\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n\n    \t\u003Carticle class=\u0022node-effectuation\u0022\u003E\n  \u003Ch1 class=\u0022effectuation-title\u0022\u003E\u003C\/h1\u003E\n\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-topologie field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003ETopology\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003Estore\/company\/shopping mall\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-lieu field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EPlaces\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003EPalais des expositions\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n\n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-date-de-debut field-type-text field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EStarting date\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003E05 12 1978\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n\n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EAdress\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022street-block\u0022\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022premise\u0022\u003EFestival International du Livre\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022addressfield-container-inline locality-block country-\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022locality\u0022\u003ENice\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n    \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-contexte field-type-text-long field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n  \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003EBackground\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n  \t  \n\n              \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003EFor the International Book Festival in Nice, May 12-17, 1978.\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \n\n    \t  \u003C\/section\u003E\n  \n\u003C\/article\u003E  \n          \u003Csection class=\u0022field field-name-field-contexte-theorique field-type-textauthor field-label-above\u0022\u003E\n    \t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-label\u0022\u003ETheoretical background\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\n        \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field-item even \u0022\u003E\u003Carticle class=\u0022filtred_html\u0022\u003E1- May 12, 1978. Nice. International Book Festival.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the street, red posters with white lettering: \u201cWE ARE ALL WRITERS. YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME AND WRITE YOUR BOOK, SIGN IT, AND TAKE IT HOME, AT STAND 532, LOCATED IN THE EXHIBIT HALL AT THE INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL.\u201d Provocation? Affirmation? Questioning?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2- Inside the festival, in a space added for the occasion with tables, chairs, pencils, and paper, guests have the opportunity to write whatever they feel without censorship. As they write, the texts written here throughout the festival (it\u2019s the rule of the game) are assembled and printed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E3- Jean-Pierre Giovanelli and Jean-Paul Th\u00e9not propose to the visitors to be the coauthors and co-owners of a book written, printed, and signed on the spot during the International Book Festival. This project recreates all the steps in the making of a book: conception, writing, publishing, production, signing\u2026\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E4- AGREEMENT by the parties herein: The coauthors of the book entitled \u003Cem\u003ENous sommes tous des \u00e9crivains\u003C\/em\u003E, anthology produced at the proposal of Jean-Pierre Giovanelli and Jean-Paul Th\u00e9not at the International Book Festival in Nice, May 12-17, 1978, agree to: 1) refer to the Law of March 11, 1957; 2) in accordance with Article 10 of said Law, accept that the printing of this edition be strictly limited to a number equal to that of its coauthors, plus thirty to be sent to the laboratory; and 3) authorize Jean-Pierre Giovanelli and Jean-Paul Th\u00e9not to exhibit, analyze, and have analyzed the publication and its method of production.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E5- This artistic practice essentially concerning communication and social stimulation aims to demystify and question the creative and literary processes at the level of mental and socio-economic conditioning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E6- At the same time as the writing (word), another book of filmed interviews (image) is being written by the career writers convened at the festival for book signings. We inquire as to their position on our work. In no particular order, we cite: Alain Decaux, Jean-Edern Hallier, Michel Droit, Ionesco, Lucien Bodard, Michel Poniatowski, Robert Merle, Jean Marais, the Duchess of Bedford, Bernard Pivot, Vil\u00e9m Flusser, Pierre Cochereau, Patrick Poivre d\u0027Arvor, Jean d\u0027Ormesson, Bernard Gavoty, Abraham Moles, Jean Medecin, Fran\u00e7oise d\u0027Eaubonne, Bernard-Henry Levy, Jacques Faizant, Marie Cardinal, Pierre Miguel, Fran\u00e7ois Chalais, Jacques Chancel...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E7- Several writers are coauthors of the book: Lucien Bodard, Pierre Miguel, Ionesco, Patrick Poivre d\u0027Arvor, Marie Cardinal, Bernard Pivot. In addition, the illustrators: Greg, Wiaz, Redon, Fred.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E8- This stand is the only place in the Book Festival where anyone writes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E9- After four days, we have to stop, given the large number of people and texts, to keep our bet for Wednesday afternoon (day of the signing), for each copy for some 160 participants to be printed and ready to take home.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E10- The last day of the festival, all copies of the book are printed, as many as there were participants, plus several copies for later analysis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E11- Physically, it is quite an achievement: seven or eight of us worked nearly 18 hours a day\u2026 a group of people who didn\u2019t know each other and met through this activity\u2026\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E12- The list of coauthors is an integral part of the book, each copy capable of communicating without us at a later time\u2026 these future connections triggered by the process escaping us.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E13- The process is begun as a stimulant for communication. Many things afterwards escape us: the various dedications signed by the coauthors, their discussions, the meetings that arose during the signing, the blank page at the end of the book proposed by Fran\u00e7oise Chauveau that leaves this work definitively unfinished\u2026\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E14- In 1450, Gutenberg invented the printing press and moveable type\u2026\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E15- The writing of the coauthors is no longer handwritten but objectified, \u201cprinted.\u201d It\u2019s not yet a very great distancing (it\u2019s not very \u201chard,\u201d i.e., IBM print), but at least it\u2019s \u201cmechanical.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E16- Did Mac Luhan kill Gutenberg? In fact, it seems that the visual penetration of our time is quasi nonexistent\u2026 There is a certain inability to decode, analyze, interpret the image, which is even more surprising since we are supposed to be in a century where the image has supplanted (?) the written word\u2026 Scrambled images (TV\u2026) swallowed without chewing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E17- The canvas is followed by the social fabric: the grinding of colors and stretching on a frame is replaced by experimenting with a group of people, a representative sample, and a video\u2026 The representation of reality is succeeded by the questioning of that social reality and how it functions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E18- The great subjectivity of the artist gives way to intersubjectivity and communication. The myth of the artist dissolves in a collective work of art. Art is no longer an object of speculation but a mental production, a social participation, a questioning\u2026\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E19- A rupture is currently taking place. The participation in \u003Cem\u003ENous sommes tous des \u00e9crivains\u003C\/em\u003E visualizes it and shows both the epistemological connection maintained with the social sciences, and the distance, by the corruption instituted at the level of methods and objectives.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E20- The essential material of this practice is the social field. The problems are no longer focused on methods of transformation of the physical material but on the transformation of the social and mental space. This artistic practice that takes into account the socioeconomic aspects and the social reality is a questioning, not to comfort the established order or to suggest a new system of responses, but to question the social relationships with the aim of transforming them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E21- Coauthors and co-owners, the guests participate in the demystification of creation and book writing, as well as of certain intellectual and socioeconomic processes, from conception to actual production. A book, an object ordinarily considered subjective, is produced collectively. The social connection is real: no exquisite corpse, no esthetic discourse, each person is co-owner.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E22- Even if a later analysis (at various levels\u2014sociological, esthetic, linguistic\u2026) allows the release of themes, contents, frequencies\u2026 this \u201cmaterial\u201d is not finality. In no case will it serve as a later manipulation. This work is non-coercive and is at the level of questioning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E23- Paradoxes: Ordinarily, an author dedicates a book to the readers; here, the coauthors were dedicating the book to the other coauthors\u2026\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E23 bis- Paradoxes: The book printing is limited to the number or coauthors to avoid future commercialization, but the rarity of the copies provokes a return to the commercial issue\u2026\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E23 ter- Paradoxes: initial technical questions for the book: How many pages? (?); How many people? (?); How many reams of paper are needed? (?); How much time for printing? (?); How many copies? (?)\u2026 So many unsolvable questions from the onset\u2026\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E24- The written thing: mystification and demystification; everything is done under the gaze of everyone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E25- The establishment of networks of mass broadcast (TV, press\u2026), in accelerating information, has caused a noncommunication, a unilateral information. Our approach is centered on communication, a new theme in art history. Exclusive hermetism is replaced by the practice of dialogue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E26- The participation is conducted within the social fabric starting from the field of knowledge in sociology and with the aim of exerting a questioning and critical function into the social environment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E27- The proposed questioning does not aim to impose laws or response systems, even dogmatic conclusions, but to establish a dialog. It is non coercive and non manipulative.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E28- We bypass the narrow frame of the artistic micro-milieu in order to work outside the gallery or museum: in the street, with a diverse public or mass media. Our practice is opposed to the fetishism of objects. Our practice doesn\u2019t \u201cproduce\u201d anything.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E29- This artistic practice no longer belongs to some inspiration, but to the problem of meaning. It is didactic, inasmuch as by practicing in the global social field and the art field, it is directed at questioning and conditioning coming from social determinism, in order to provoke changes in behavior.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E30- The will to oppose logic and the irrational or dialectic also shakes up the traditional relationships between artist, critic, (exclusive) public, and work of art. 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