Thierry Geoffroy/
Colonel
Topics forms and methods
Emergency :
Emergency Room
is a format
that has been activated at PS1/MOMA /// PAN /
Napoli /// Athens /// Berlin ///Copenhagen/ Paris
This format is for professional artists to express about
Emergencies . Now before it is too late . Artists are thermometer and
we must know what they think about today -today . Here they can point
at dysfunctions in real time . In Emergency Room the exhibition changes
daily .
For Emergency Room a special room is builded . The
Emergency Room artists come when they are burning to express about
emergencies . Emergency Room goal is to be permanent and exist in
every capital to be a dog watch . Emergency Room
is the " head quarter " central structure for all awareness muscle
formats listed below .Soon an Emergency Room in London and in
Barcelonna .
Critical Run
Critical Run is also format where particants are running while
debatting . It has been activated in London / Moscow/ Rotterdam
/ Siberia / Barcelona / Bruxelles / Paris / Napoli etc ... . In
this format others than professionel artists can participate
in the running debate . As burning artists from Emergency Room
aggree that there is emergencies to look at and to care about ,
the critical run is the
logic way to make debate. Run debate are
filmed and then exhibited . Subjects like apathy, the role
of the artist , emergencies are
examples that have been run-debated . Coming at Venice
Biennale and Moderna Museet / Stockholm.
Biennalist
Biennalist is an art format
commenting on Biennales and other cultural managed events while
they happen . .
Often biennales promote themselves with
thematics . Biennalist take those thematics very
seriously , and explore them on location. Sometimes
Biennalist collabore with Emergency Room artists to provide a
burning content that cannot wait ( today is
today , today before it is too late ) . Biennalist can sometimes
activate the Penetration format , the Critical Run format as well
as Rumeur art format .
Biennalist has been very actived at the Istanbul Biennale 2007 /
Venice Biennale 2007 / Athens Biennales 2007 / questioning the official
Biennale themes :" Optimism in the Age of Global War",
'think with the senses - feel with the mind ":'Destroy Athens' . Biennalist is preparing a very large operation at Venice Biennale 2009 (
in colababoration with artists from Emergency Room ) " There is not a good Biennale without Biennalist".
Penetration
Penetration is also a format .A
Penetration is an artist's act of
placing an artwork within
another artist's already existing exhibition ,with his permission
.
Curator can also be asked .The Penetration are asked mostly when
artists from Emergency Room have
no Emergency Room to express about emergencies . Penetrations are then
organized .

Protest fashion
Rave debate
It concern mostly young people going to festival and parties .
Exhibiting opinions and debating is encouraged to train and
grow the
Awareness Muscle . The Protest fashion is also turn toward emergencies.
Rave debate is a format to rave and debate at the
same time / it can be combine with the
protest fashion .It took place first time at PS1/ MOMA and will
be activated at
the final party of Copenhagen distortion 2009 together with the final party Copenhagen
distortion 06/06
Awareness
Muscle Training Center
The awareness muscle is like the memory it has to be trained daily in
order to grow . It was activate in Toronto UTM and at PS1 / MOMA
.
The Protest
School
It was launched at the Roskilde festival for the first time connected
with marchs and flash mobs as well than activities on camp.
(documenta magazine ) . Critical work need to be combine with the
Awareness
muscle training . daily
Slow dancing new sharing ( PS1 /
MOMA ) ( Toronto UTM)
Important topics are shared while slow dancing . No more loneliness i
front of the medias .
Delay :
work about National Identity ( work on TV , collection
of evidence )
Colonel
peintre de la justice ( 1991-2001)
Medias spaces
TV / work on
printed
media
/ fashion as medium / ambassade as exhibition plattforms /
wikipedia / facebook etc ...
Recession art
Stop with investing . Art Forum Berlin / Statens Museum
for Kunst / Paris Fiac / Galerie Taiss / etc ....
Manifestes formats
and
dictionary
Emergency Room / Critical Run /
Penetration are formats /+ the Manifest from 1989
Work about Mobile
Phones , Flashmobs
Wikipedia , Facebook, Google and
Myspace as spaces.
Spamming fest /
territory concepts on domaines .
Fashion ( Protest fashion /
Cheating fashion )
Bio-colonialism " My parents in
Algeria "