Michel Journiac

Michel Journiac , born the October 7th 1935 with Paris and deceased the October 15th 1995 with Paris, was an artist plastics technician French particularly emblematic of the Body art.

He studies initially the Théologie and the Philosophie. In 1969 it creates Messe for a body action during which the public is invited to consume a roll carried out with its own blood. It is interested in the body, sexuality, with blood, but also with the clothing and in particular with the social function of this last ( trap for a transvestite ).

Its complicity, starting from 1968, with the Critic art François Pluchart, which defends its work because of the subversive character and of the poetic energy which emerge some, will make it possible this one to carry out a critical and sociological reflection in narrow symbiosis with its practices, and those of other artists like Herve Fischer or Gina Pane. François Pluchart thus discovers the practice of an art of the gesture, or of an art of the action which, as he writes it “opens on a way incomparably more fertile, that of the Corporal art”, of which he will be made the theorist in the articles of the review ArTitudes , that he creates in 1971. François Pluchart will be even punctually at the origin of certain actions of Michel Journiac, like that of the check or that of the referendum of April 27th, 1969 .

Catalog of films

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Site Michel Journiac

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