Festival / Evening
Philippe Buschinger,
Urban gothic : an epigraphic journey amongst good and evil
25 Feb 2013
The event is over
In the contemporary city, literally tattooed with inscriptions of every kind, the gothic serves as a symptomatic indicator. It makes it possible to summon God and Satan in every register, both authentic and in parody. It lends its traits to both ancestral tradition and to a recalcitrant stance, to official statements and subversive discourse, to conformism and anti-conformism, to extremes of all kinds and the silent majority, to constructive emotion and destructive affect, to work well done and a thoroughly botched job. It divides into sectors as it is sectored, but in all sectors and for all sectors at once.
In the contemporary city, literally tattooed with inscriptions of every kind, the gothic serves as a symptomatic indicator. It makes it possible to summon God and Satan in every register, both authentic and in parody. It lends its traits to both ancestral tradition and to a recalcitrant stance, to official statements and subversive discourse, to conformism and anti-conformism, to extremes of all kinds and the silent majority, to constructive emotion and destructive affect, to work well done and a thoroughly botched job. It divides into sectors as it is sectored, but in all sectors and for all sectors at once.
When
From 2:30pm
