Tu nais, tuning, tu meurs

Exhibition-IN

Curator
Marc Monjou, Rodolphe Dogniaux
Nadine Besse
Site
Musée d’Art et d’Industrie
2 place Louis Comte
Date
From 12/03/2015
To 15/06/2015
Hours
Monday to Friday
from 9am to 6pm
Saturday and Sunday
from 10am to 7pm
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Tu nais, tuning, tu meurs

A waning form of popular, working class and non-learned culture, often considered «kitsch», pointless and vulgar, tuning remains a marginal practice, neglected by «established culture». And yet it appears that tuning questions in a disconcerting way the relationship with objects in post-industrial societies: beyond its social and identity- related values, tuning can indeed be considered as a creative practice that mobilises categories detached from technical performance alone, close to aesthetic values sanctioned by «legitimate culture». This material culture can then - all things being equal and at least hypothetically - be compared to the values of design that it is reactivating from scratch. One of the intentions of the Tu nais, tuning, tu meurs exhibition consists of using tuning to put to the test design understood as an aesthetically policed discipline, culture-bound and subservient to the command, real or supposed, of the markets. In the light of tuning considered as an unofficial practice, both a captive of and liberated from official consumerism, the issue here is to reconsider the question of beauty in creative design in general, by challenging the standard, appropriation, hybridisation, quotation, the relationship with the surface, the motif, etc., to get the measure of certain impasses in material culture. Between design and contemporary art, and by its use of «tuned» objects, video, installations, sound, photography, graphics, digital art, the Tu nais, tuning, tu meurs exhibition puts tuning or different varieties of tuning (in the widest sense) on display, examining them as living forms of contemporary material culture.

WITH

ANGERS TUNING CREW (FRA), Jennifer ALLORA (USA) & Guillermo CALZADILLA (CUB), Xavier ANTIN (FRA), Aurélien ARBET et Jérémie EGRY (FRA), Camille AYME (FRA), Safouane BEN SLAMA (FRA), David BOURCELOT (FRA), Alain BUBLEX (FRA), Benedetto BUFALINO (FRA), Patrice CARRÉ (FRA), Simon COLLET (FRA), François CURLET (FRA), Simon DAVIDSON (AUS), DOMEAU & PERES et Michaël OUALID (FRA) / Sébastien JOUSSE (FRA), Jan Hinrik DREVS (DEU), Sam DURANT (USA), Olafur ELIASSON (DNK), Sylvie FLEURY (CHE), Caroline GARNIER, Romain GAVRAS (FRA) / DJ MEDHI et Thomas BANGALTER (FRA), Julie GAYRAL   (FRA), Luis GISPERT (USA), Ronan GLON (FRA), Konstantin GRCIC (DEU), Hans HEMMERT (DEU), Kévin HOULEY (FRA), Severija Ičirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė (LTU), iXOOST Company (ITA), Maxime LAMARCHE (FRA), Bertrand LAVIER (FRA), Romain LE LIBOUX (FRA), Arik LEVY (ISR), Charles LOPEZ (FRA), Franck MAGNÉ (FRA) / Société Bluecar / Autolib', Cyril MAGNIER (FRA), Thomas MAILAENDER (FRA), John MCCRACKEN (USA), Samir MOUGAS (FRA), Monsieur MOO (FRA), Cyril PAUGNON / Olivier PEYRICOT (FRA), Régis PERRAY (FRA), Olivier PEYRICOT (FRA), Julien PREVIEUX (FRA), Antonio RIELLO (ITA), Pierre-André SCHALLER / VERNEY-CARRON SA (FRA), SISMO (FRA), Damien SORRENTINO (FRA), SUPERFLEX (DNK), TobeUs (ITA) : Matteo RAGNI, Giulio IACHETTI, Odoardo FIORAVANTI, Italo LUPI, Alessandro GUERRIERO, Michele DE LUCCHI, Mario BELLINI, Andrea BRANZI, Alessandro MENDINI, Jean-Jacques URCUN pour Thierry MUGLER (FRA), Marijn VAN DER POLL (NLD), Xavier VEILHAN (FRA),