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Friday, 18 April 2008
UOVO/17
Faits Divers
Middle-aged man shot by a teen boomhead who was blasting noise along with gunfire... Faits Divers is a French journalistic term for 'Human Interest' stories, a way to provide an encounter with the unexpected and extraordinary ruptures in the quotidian.
The art world itself often gains coverage in the mainstream press under the rubrique of Fait Divers: a performance practice or an artistís intervention similarly engages the directness, immediacy and 'realness' that defines the seduction of Fait Divers in popular media. According to Roland Barthes, it is its immanence which defines the Fait-Divers: 'disasters, murders, rapes, accidents, thefts, all this refers to man, to his history, his alienation, his hallucinations, his dreams, his fear.'
Issue 17, with ideas, reactions, chronicles and (Old) News from all over the Art-World, an opinionated guide to artists-run spaces, interviews and projects, features breaking news and current affairs ñ faits divers for Faiths-Divers.
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