Tatiana Trouvé Expands Bureau of Implicit Activities at Palais de Tokyo
From May 7 to June 16, 2002, Tatiana Trouvé showcased an enhanced iteration of her project, the Bureau d'Activités Implicites (BAI), at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Over the past five years, Trouvé has developed a space dedicated to unrealized concepts and suppressed aspirations, without producing tangible works. The Module des titres catalogs titles for these unexecuted pieces, while the Archives contain prototypes and unsent letters. The Module administratif comprises official documents pertaining to the artist's life. New additions included the Module d'attente, which captures the sounds associated with waiting, and the intriguing Strike Module, which unveils concealed objects and actions via slide projections. The accompanying text was authored by Elisabeth Wetterwald.
Key facts
- Exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, from May 7 to June 16, 2002
- Tatiana Trouvé's Bureau d'Activités Implicites (BAI) is a five-year ongoing project
- BAI generates and manages unrealized projects, unfulfilled intentions, buried desires
- No actual works, objects, or representations are produced by the BAI
- Module des titres stores hundreds of titles for unrealized works
- Archives contain vacuum-packed prototypes, unsent correspondence, sketches
- Module administratif uses official documents like ID cards, job letters, CVs
- Two new modules debuted: Module d'attente (Waiting Module) and Module de grève (Strike Module)
- Module d'attente records soundscapes of waiting; includes a mini recording studio Polder
- Module de grève triggers a slide projection revealing hidden objects and activities
- Polders are micro-societies grafted onto modules, operating squat-like
- Text by Elisabeth Wetterwald
Entities
Artists
- Tatiana Trouvé
Institutions
- Palais de Tokyo
Locations
- Paris
- France
Sources
- artpress —