Le tournant ludique

A blank score by Alphonse Allais, Marche funèbre composée pour les funérailles d’un grand homme sourd (Funeral march for a great deaf man), an interpretation of language based on the croaking of frogs (Jean-Pierre Brisset) and the semantic journey between "billard" (billiards) and "pillard" (plunderer) by Raymond Roussel, announced a way of associating words, sounds and images at the end of the 19th century. From Marcel Duchamp to Robert Filliou, from Marcel Broodthaers to Raymond Hains, the borders between arts and disciplines are porous. Cyril Jarton explains the open rules of a World Game which is gradually set up in the wake of the "playful turning point", reassessing the basic dimension of the game.

Talk by Cyril Jarton