Pré-biennale The pre-biennale was not a reduced version of the future biennale. It was a temporary fixation of the project at the moment when its research, map, application, website and room-based presentation began to form a single structure. The initial idea of a distributed exhibition…

situation de déplacement Displacement is not only a biographical theme. In u:topos : biennale, works, languages, instructions, routes and forms of presence move from one state to another. The biennale does not appear as a single space of contemplation, but as a distributed situation of…

cartographic preparation Before the website and the application appeared, a cartographic preparation was already taking place in Avallon. Micro-questionnaires, interviews and spatial observations were collected in order to understand how different groups perceive the city. The complete map is not published. Only fragments of the…

conditions u:topos : biennale se développe dans des conditions marquées par l’absence de nombreux éléments habituellement considérés comme nécessaires à l’apparition d’un grand événement artistique. La biennale ne dispose pas d’un soutien institutionnel stable, d’un budget fixe, d’une équipe permanente, d’un lieu central ou d’un…

transformations An artwork is not moved into the city as a finished object. It enters u:topos : biennale through a transformation: scale, material, duration, place, mode of appearance and relation to the viewer may all change. What is preserved is not the form, but the…

première trace publique de u:topos : biennale The first public trace of u:topos : biennale appeared inside an exhibition at La Tannerie in Avallon. At this stage, the biennale did not yet exist as a public structure, but only as a sentence fixed in a…