Pierre Bal-Blanc

A score of performative gestures, drawn from the conceptual art and body art scenes from Central and Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s.

A book that documents an oral presentation given by Pierre Bal-Blanc to a jury of professionals, as part of his application to curate the 7th Berlin Biennale. Devised as an exhibition in several acts, the session adheres to the rules of a score performed by its author or by a third party.

The catalogue of a cycle of exhibitions that took place over the course of four years, from a reflection on the notion of the “mediation” of artworks (withDavid Lamelas, Benoit Maire, Dominique Petitgand, Giasco Bertoli, Robert Breer, Esther Ferrer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ben Kinmont, Jirí Kovanda, Martha Rosler...).