An unapproved Wikipedia draft authored under the conceptual label Jeff Wall Production, initiated by curator and essayist Pierre Bal-Blanc.
Currently declined by Wikipedia due to insufficient third-party citations, the text now returns in book form as both a documentation and a performative act—one that challenges the institutional protocols of authorship. By publishing this rejected draft, the book supplies the very evidence of "notability" that the Wikipedia system demands, while simultaneously critiquing the mechanisms of citation and verification. It is both a workaround and a conceptual mirror held up to encyclopedic authority—a document that stages its own entry into legitimacy by becoming the reference it was once denied.
Jeff Wall Production is a production brand initiated by
Pierre Bal-Blanc (born 1965 in Ugine, France), a curator and essayist known for reflections on institutional frameworks and the history of performance art.
As director of CAC Brétigny (2003-2014), Bal-Blanc developed scores for performance exhibitions including "La Monnaie vivante/Living Currency" (later performed among others at Tate Modern London, 2008 and the 6th Berlin Biennale, 2010). He co-curated documenta 14 (2017) and was a guest curator of the
9th Lyon Biennial (2007). His extensive publications' list includes
Project Phalanstère (Sternberg Press) and The Death of the Audience (Niggli / Secession). In 2024-25, The Cynics Republic, Bal-Blanc's exhibition constructed as a score and renewed on a daily basis with the use of dematerialized resources (scores, protocols, films and sound pieces), took place at the
Palais de Tokyo, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
Jeff Wall Production began in 1988 as a title for Bal-Blanc's first critical text on the artist
Jeff Wall and has since evolved into an artistic and curatorial platform encompassing exhibitions, performances, and critical essays. As a conceptual apparatus, it functions through the logic of scoring, branding, and philosophical bootlegging—recalling the subversive strategies of artists like
STURTEVANT and Mutlu Cerkez, and thinkers such as Diogenes and Deleuze.
