Biografie

– Coorganisation of the „Art and Research“ group at the Marc Bloch Center, with Etienne Jollet, Professor of Art History at the University of Paris 1, and Marion Picker, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Poitiers (the group was created by J. Velasco, Etienne Jollet, and Boris Grésillon, Professor of Geography at the University of Aix-Marseille). – Research Grant from the Centre Marc Bloch de Berlin, 2018 and 2019. – Research Grant from the DAAD, 2017. – PhD in Art and Arts Sciences, Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2017. – “Artist Researcher” at Art and Sciences laboratory, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2011-2013. – Member of the Leonardo Electronic Directory (LED).

Zusammenfassung

This work is about the question of art territories, but not for their repercussions on their neighbourhood, but for their contribution to the plastic creation itself. In the first part, the terms of the research are defined: the word „strategy“;

the „art districts“ according to their use;

the „people of art“. The second part presents, in addition to a historical synthesis, six territories of contemporary art: Faubourg Saint-Denis (Paris), which is the backbone of this work, Macarena (Bogota), San Telmo (Buenos Aires), Belleville (Paris), the Red Hook (New York) and the city of Berlin. The third part analyses the individual work of seven contemporary art personalities who lived in Faubourg Saint-Denis since 2000: Nathalie Heinich, Nicolas Bourriaud, Jean-Philippe Antoine, Thomas Hirschhorn, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Pierre Huyghe and Olga Kisseleva. The last part links this research with the work of its author. The conclusion highlights a series of hypotheses emerging from this study: places of art as an instrument of identification of the different groups working in art;

the notion of „debate“ as a form of strategy, with an internal level (who participates and in what capacity) and a global level (the role of art in society);

artists considered not as a socio-professional category, but as „products“ of every social group;

art as a form of participation in a common territory more than as a self space.