fondcommun

a workshop residency from 8 to 20 february at the Train Fantôme

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For over two years we have been following closely the development of fondcommun "problematic press organ", a project originally initiated by Vincent Bonnet and David Bouvard, from Marseille, two artists otherwise involved punctually in our projects. fondcommun is back at the Train Fantôme for the layout completion of the next issue.

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fondcommun at the Train Fantôme
During his residency in february 2011, Vincent Bonnet – David Bouvard having meanwhile left the edition project – has mainly made contact with people from Grenoble willing to get involved in the forthcoming issue of fondcommun, and again he covered the front of the Train-Fantôme with potential future pages of the publication. On the 21st june, the people from Grenoble that have contributed to the next issue are invited to work together on the final layout. The workshop is open to the public.

tuesday 21st june from 10 to 16.
come share lunch with us
(if there is too many of us the market is right by)

fondcommun
"fondcommun is a problematic press organ of bi-yearly publication, an "atypical" type of magazine — in between the artists' review and the free morning paper. It constitutes of facts that shape, within the space of the printed page, probelms. Intempestive, heterogenous and shared, current and anachronistic, raw and sophisticated, these facts are produced by people involved in creation processes. We assert that in-forming is first about producing a form. This form is a way of looking for new usages at the margin of those instituated in the fields of arts, politics, buisness, entertainement, finance and medias."
Beyond our visible involvement in the issue "zero" of september 2009, Vincent Bonnet and David Bouvard had also opened working discussions to the audience of our project "Habiter au bord de la panique #2" (at the Théâtre 145 in Grenoble, in october 2008) while working on issue "one": and proposed a second "reflection workshop" for issue "zero-one" during our "Week-End occupé" at the Train Fantôme in january 2010. That workshop had given way – among other things – to a beautiful billsticking of the layout pages around the Train Fantôme.


at the cipM
Vincent Bonnet also invited us to participate in an intervention at the cipM (International Center for Poetry of Marseille) on march 11th, 2011. We hed been offered to work something out of the problematic of the image (printed image, exchanged/transposed image) ; we have given out a sixty-odd images that had been found and reframed, and which thereafter were used as the starting point of the conversation.

to be continued infondcommun and cipM


The residency of fondcommun was part of the Train Fantôme development project, supported by the FSE (European Social Fund) for the year 2011.