Guided Tours in the Comfort of Your Own Home
Summary
111
Tourism
Spring Summer 2024
Because it is essential for it to be open to the world, art is particularly affected by concerns related to planetary travel. From a position at the intersection of contemporary art, leisure, ecology, and destination culture, Esse no. 111 observes artists’ and critical thinkers’ strategies for revisiting the very notion of tourism. Although the harmful impacts of the tourism industry are beyond question, the thematic section avoids falling prey to tourismphobia and simply pointing out its failures. Rather, this issue offers a guided tour of situations and places where art and tourism converge.
Editorial
Feature
The Grand Tour, between Biennials and the Ancien Regime
The Artist-in-Residence, Just Another Tourist?
Open Skies of Night : On Caroline Déodat’s Sous le ciel des fétiches
Planes, Trains and Car Bombs: Departures from the Adjectival Orient
Destination in the Cave Replica Genre
Walking Tours with Tsai Ming-liang
Corvo, or the Corsican Nuthatch: A Tale of Two Twitches
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Plastics
Winter 2025
Analyzing plastic in the field of art runs the risk of raising many environmental dilemmas. Far from extolling plastic yet without denying its utility, this issue is interested in our ways of coexisting with synthetic material in order to evaluate the consequences and seek alternative solutions and to claim a kinship with what gives this material its glory: its plasticity, which expresses the power both to receive and to give form.
Cover: Dan Lam
Nibble, 2020.
Photo: courtesy of Dan Lam Studio, Dallas