Loris Gréaud

At first: a white book, a cover on which subsists a mark, a name, Loris Gréaud - the artist. A title, "EnextenD", stretches out on it like a distorted palindrome, leading us towards an endless book… Atypical because of its inverted pagination, the book plunges the reader into a new kind of aesthetic experiment. A great number of cross-references opens out onto infinite possibilities of cross-reading, and web-links unfurl a deferred time, a deferred space. The reader becomes the actor of a performance created by the artist around numerous authors and sensory experiments. Following certain oral traditions with their varying and multiple narratives, "EndextenD" leaves it to its reader or co-producer of a unique text: the course of the narrative is never set in a definite direction. At any time it can branch off into boundless variants, into unlimited twists and turns.

Co-founder of a production and post-production company, Loris Gréaud has developed a passion for cinema. From the sound to the picture, he seizes the production logics, combining the technical dimension of the first cinema machines with the most up-to-date scientific and technological stakes. Thus, these experiments make up hybrid and unsettled spaces where the identity of the visitor-actor-spectator-reader is constantly brought into play. This dissemination of identities is diffused as a questioning of the narrative process in which fiction and perception merge. Like Byron Gysin's "dream machines", "EndextenD" is a book designed to be read with one's eyes shut.

Authors and contributions

The End pour Lorris, Holmqvist / Declaration, Tom McCarthy / La mer, Bertrand Marcadé / Mars Morse Dance, Fabrice Hyber / A.E.D.R., extrait Jean Anouilh / On the trail of Deathless Franju, Mark aerial Waller / Radio-activités, Frédéric Langlois et Frank Smith / Dark Light, Pascal Rousseau / Teleportation, Anton Zeilinger, Loris Gréaud, Hans Ulrich Obrist / To end to extend, Catherine Strasser / Répertoire, Olivier Michalon / This procès, Igor Spanjol / Strange dualism’s, Julie Greer / The Scene is nox, Thomas Boutoux/Klima / Subject is a vehicule, Pierre Dean, L.G. / Hide and Seek, Allison G. Moore.