TMF PRESENTS: UNRELEASED

Unrealized Works – Cahier d’artiste published by Pro Helvetia & Edizione Periferia

A collection of works and performances unrealized for various reasons outside the artist’s will. Essays by Samuel Gross, Marie-Eve Knoerle, Irène Languin, Luca Pattaroni and Claude-Hubert Tatot. (French, English), Edizioni Galleria Periferia, 2021

ISBN 978-3-907205-19-8

“Elena Montesinos is a cultural agitator in the best possible sense. She bubbles over with ideas for artistic or curatorial projects. These are not always realised, for a variety of reasons: because of exorbitant production costs, because they are rejected outright, because they are too unsettling, or simply because they are illegal. In her Cahier d’Artistes entitled UNRELEASED, 20 unpublished projects are given a literary staging by The Montesinos Foundation. The Cahier offers audiences a journey through Elena Montesinos’ world of fantasy, in which she can realise her activist and transformative potential without restriction. Because collaboration and a variety of voices are so important to her, she invited five of her companions to write a short text each about different aspects of her work.”

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Interview (in French) for La Spirale or Review (in French) in Le Courrier