VIDAL, Lilou (ed.)
This Is My Body, My Body Is Your Body, My Body Is the Body of the World

[EN] This is My Body… offers a feminist and queer interpretation of a variety of artists’ and poets’ works from the late 1960s to the present. It links and articulates language and the body, the way both are alienated and constrained within ideologies, and how they can expand beyond binarisms and norms into new narrative and poetic mechanisms. Supporting curatorial practices which aim at encompassing social and political change, Paraguay is happy to publish a second book with curator Lilou Vidal, after her Guy Mees, The Lost Space. Richly illustrated, This is my body… includes newly commissioned essays by Quinn Latimer, Émilie Notéris and Lilou Vidal and an anthology of artists’ texts: poems, hypertexts, scripts, notes, song lyrics, quotes, or extracts from these pluri-linguistic thoughts.

[FR] This is My Body… propose une lecture féministe et queer d’œuvres et de textes produits depuis la fin des années 1960, qui articulent le langage et le corps, les idéologies qui les régissent et les inventions qui les poussent au-delà des normes et des binarismes. Après son Guy Mees, The Lost Space, c’est le second ouvrage publié par Paraguay de avec la curatrice Lilou Vidal, marquant notre volonté d’accompagner les pratiques curatoriales innovantes qui tiennent compte des changements politiques et sociétaux. Richement illustré, This is My Body…  comprend de nouveaux essais de Quinn Latimer, Émilie Notéris et Lilou Vidal ainsi qu’une anthologie de textes d’artistes: poèmes, hyper-textes, scripts, notes, chansons, citations et extraits de ces pensées plurilinguistiques.


This Is My Body, My Body Is Your Body, My Body Is the Body of the Word accompanies the eponymous exhibition conceived by curator Lilou Vidal at le Delta in Namur, featuring works by Simon Asencio, Gianfranco Baruchello, Tomaso Binga, Irma Blank, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Ernesto de Sousa, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Karl Holmqvist, Derek Jarman, Ketty La Rocca, Hanne Lippard, Mélanie Matranga, Rory Pilgrim and Michele Rizzo.

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Published by Paraguay Press, 2019
Design by Boy Vereecken with Antoine Begon
Exhibition Catalogues / Queer Culture