Works
JE SUIS UN VÉRITABLE ARTISTE
Steve Giasson. JE SUIS UN VÉRITABLE ARTISTE. Digital print on paper, edition printed in 32 ex. Exhibition "troisième génération" pad pépinière artistique daviers, 29 March to 8 April 2012, Angers. 2012
In 1972, the conceptual artist Keith Arnatt have been photographed as a sandwich man, holding a placard which reads: I'M A REAL ARTIST to create his Trouser-Word Piece. This photograph was accompanied by a philosophical text that questioned the term "real". However, Arnatt’s piece remained ambiguous: Was it simply tautological (an artist says that he is an artist within a work of art...) or was it ironic? Forty years after the creation of Trouser-Word Piece and in a similar spirit, my poem JE SUIS UN VÉRITABLE ARTISTE questions the possibility of having a “real”/stable identity.