Inscriptions & Interpretations, 2025 (Since 2012)
Mathieu Tremblin & Co.
Texts, stickers, performance, trail camera.
Inscriptions & Interpretations is the result of collaboration between Mathieu Tremblin with Léa Hussenot, Corentin Seyfried and Thomas Lasbouygues.
Inscriptions is a kind of public diary of the inhabitants’s uses, observed and commented upon by Mathieu Tremblin, which unfolds across various surfaces—walls, urban furniture, and discarded objects.
Interpretations is the performance version of Inscriptions series. The texts, describing inhabitants’s uses, become dance scores to be interpreted by performers Léa Hussenot and Corentin Seyfried and recorded by multimedia artist Thomas Lasbouygues using trail cameras scattered throughout the urban space.
Concept: Mathieu Tremblin, Léa Hussenot, Corentin Seyfried, Thomas Lasbouygues.
Text, intervention, photography: Mathieu Tremblin.
Performance: Léa Hussenot, Corentin Seyfried.
Recording: Thomas Lasbouygues.
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About the Artist
Mathieu Tremblin (born 1980, France) is a visual artist and an associate professor in visual arts at ENSAS – Strasbourg Architecture School. He lives in Strasbourg and works across Europe and beyond. His work is inspired by anonymous, independent, and spontaneous practices and expressions found in urban spaces. He uses simple, playful creative processes and actions to question the systems of regulation, representation, and symbolism that shape the city. Tremblin also develops a research-creation practice that takes the form of urban intervention series, editorial experiments, exhibition curation, and residency programs. His research-creation is interested in: tools and storytelling that support urban interventions (like Office de la créativité, Die Gesellschaft der Stadtwanderer, Public Domain Public); sensible diagnosis and urban survey approaches (Folksotopy, Capter la ville); the URL–IRL dynamics in publishing and urbanism (Éditions Carton-pâte, Book Brutality festival); collaborative and co-creative protocols (Porte-parole, Paper Tigers Collection, Affichage libre); the connections between creativity, micro-history, and social struggles (Fonds documentaire de l’Amicale du Hibou-Spectateur, Post-Posters, Arts & luttes seminar).
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