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ART, MUSIC, ARCHITECTURE, FILM, SHOPPING, NEWS AND THINGS TO MAKE AND DO… DISPATCHES ART, MUSIC, ARCHITECTURE, FILM, SHOPPING, NEWS AND THINGS TO MAKE AND DO…
DISPATCHES
so rife with allusions and
associations – literary,
cinematic, historical and
personal – that trying to
outline it here is like
reducing a 5,600-word Borges
story to an umlaut. Which is
just one of the audacious MIND OVER MATTER:
undertakings Briand pulls off MATHIEU BRIAND 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968),
in Paris: while Ubïq is a an out-of-print comic book by
variation of Ubik (1969), the
UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey is Juan Giménez, an acid trip title of a sci-fi novel about
the title of French artist near Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse shifting realms of reality
Mathieu Briand’s yearlong and a 1951 outbreak of mass and unreality by Philip K.
ten ‘chapter’ exhibition of hallucination in a small Dick, the dots over the ‘i’
drawings, painting, videos, French town caused by ergot, pay tribute to Tlön, the
machines, sculptures and a cereal parasite and the mysterious world described
interactive installations, active ingredient of LSD, in encyclopedic detail in
reaching its midpoint in traced back to a baker named Borges’s speculative short
Paris right now. And in Roch Briand (no relation), story ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis
Briand’s lexical cosmology, and you appreciate why Tertius’ (1940). The dots also
Ubïq means ‘everywhere’, Ubïq, like the effects of a represent the earth and the
as in ubiquitous, which psychotropic substance, is moon and the space between
describes both the artist’s not something you can lucidly them, where, for Briand,
global presence of late describe, but must swallow the ubiquity of Ubïq is even
(Los Angeles last year, MIT outright and experience more ubiquitous; and/or two
until April and the Tate firsthand. Christopher Mooneywheels or circles, which
Modern’s Turbine Hall in May; UBÏQ: A Mental are equally omnipresent. MATHIEU BRIAND: UBÏQ:
Odyssey, 2006 hometown Marseilles before Add pirate ships, Kubrick’s A MENTAL ODYSSEY
(installation that; Paris, of course, and
view, MIT List TO 5 JANUARY 2008,
Visual Arts Center, Basel this June; China and CHAPITRE IV: 6–23 JUNE
Cambridge, MA). Lausanne on the horizon) GALERIE MAISONNEUVE,
Courtesy the and this Mental Odyssey,
artist and Galerie PARIS, WWW.GALERIE-
Maisonneuve, Paris a phantasmagoria of works MAISONNEUVE.COM
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