PALAIS n° 23: Rester vivant / To stay alive
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Exhibition catalog; based on the exhibition "Rester vivant" held at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 23 June - 12 September 2016. Text in French with parallel translation in English.Ouvrage publié à l'occasion de l'exposition évènement présentée au Palais de Tokyo, du 23 juin au 11 septembre 2016. Textes en français et en anglais.RESTER VIVANT, exposition évènement dont le catalogue éponyme est entièrement conçu par Michel Houellebecq. Rester vivant, titre de son premier recueil de poèmes, est une reconstitution de l'univers mental de l'écrivain. 120 photographies de Michel Houellebecq seront reproduites ainsi que des oeuvres d'artistes invités comme Robert Combas, Renaud Marchand ... Seront reproduits des extraits de La Carte et le Territoire, d'Approches du désarroi (essai théorique, réflexion sur le monde contemporain, l'art, l'écriture, le travail, la conversation, la politique ...), de La Possibilité d'une île et des poèmes extraits des recueils La Poursuite du bonheur et Le Sens du combat.PALAIS magazine is dedicating its issue 23 to Michel Houellebecq’s exhibition “Rester vivant”, presented at the Palais de Tokyo from 23 June to 12 September 2016.This is an exceptional event, because it is the first large-scale show devoted to Michel Houellebecq as an artist. This is also a special issue of PALAIS magazine with Michel Houellebecq as guest editor-in-chief.This issue of PALAIS magazine follows the organisation of the exhibition in chapters. Thanks to a series of unpublished interviews with Michel Houellebecq, a selection of his writings (essays, poems, novel extracts) and texts by guest authors, the issue provides a discovery of his visual universe, and its intertwining with the many creative forms which the writer uses (music, cinema, performance…).Contents of this issue: photographs and a selection of texts by Michel Houellebecq as well as a series of interviews between Michel Houellebecq and Jean de Loisy, Yan Céh, Robert Combas (edited by Richard Leydier), Benoît Delépine, Nelly Kaprièlian, an essay by Stéphanie Moisdon and portfolios by Robert Combas, Marie-Pierre Gauthier and Renaud Marchand.This issue of PALAIS magazine has been co-published with Flammarion.Alternative ISBN: 978-2-84711-061-6 / ISSN: 1 951-672X