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Title: Une Nuit (One Night)
Author: Jean Reaper
Hardcover
Published: 2007
Pages: 233
Language: French
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Mixing happening and graphic experimentation, the collective Un Nuit produced posters over the course of several nights, from 2002 to 2005, to reinvent the urban environment in an ephemeral way.
Three times already since 2002, mainly (but not exclusively) in Paris, the collective Un Nuit has taken the initiative to cover several hundred posters executed in the workshop several hundred billboards “4 by 3”. This book is intended to provide as comprehensive a account as possible of these events. In addition to the photographic archive, the only remaining trace of an effort intended for destruction, One Night,the book, brings together the few documents that enabled the organization — largely decentralized and self-managed — of the three operations.
The collages ofA Night are the realization in the public space of an atmosphere created over the weeks by the spontaneous encounters of dozens of situationists. To the warlike logic of target and impact of advertising campaigns, the collective responded with eccentricity, life, partying. Originally, a first meeting place, La Place sans Nom (located at the intersection of Oberkampf and Saint Maur streets) serves as a forum. It was there, from April 2000, that the first exchanges occurred by an increasingly provoked coincidence. It was there, during ever more regular appointments, that the first steps of a process of increasing ambition were developed. At first savagely cleared by the actions of the international sampler, the double panel adjoining the wall of the Coal café became a welcoming surface for a first collage cycle called Implosion/Explosion. Then, with enthusiasm far exceeding the capacity of this single window of visibility, the need for larger action was urgent enough to arouse the desire for a first Night on May 24, 2002 and a second on May 9, 2003 and a third on May 20, 2005…
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