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Johan Grimonprez

| every day words disappear | Michael Hardt on the politics of love, 2016

Johan Grimonprez (*1962, Roeselare, BE) navigates the boundaries between theory and practice, art and cinema, documentary film and fiction, the other and the self. In his practice spanning film, installation and curatorial work, he explores new methods of narration with regard to a given multiplicity of realities.

The video work | every day words disappear | pairs a conversation with the political philosopher Michael Hardt with excerpts from Jean-Luc Godard’s film Alphaville. Godard’s dystopian world portrays a society in which all words related to the idea of love and affection are forbidden – requiring the protagonist to invent new words to express her feelings. This is juxtaposed with sequences from the interview Michael Hardt on the politics of love, in which the philosopher explores the question of what a society would be like that is based on love rather than fear. With this montage of Godard’s film and Hardt’s statements, Johan Grimonprez proposes a reinvention of our instruments for collective political action.

EINZEL- UND GRUPPENAUSTELLUNGEN U.A.:

ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE (2021); Museum Of Modern Art, New York, US (2011); S.M.A.K, Gent, BE (2011); The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, GB (2010); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE (2002)

WEBSEITE:

https://johangrimonprez.be