Micro-publication — Cahier des nuisances 03
February 3rd, 2023
The cahiers des nuisances are micro-publications with texts, drawings, and photographs by Reinhardt and de Gaulejac that outline the observations, anecdotes and emotions behind their inquiry into the world of the white grub. Part artist-book, part field guide, this self-published series is the matrix for a shared language that grew out of their experimental collaboration. (In French only.)
Cahier 03 (Les témoins) [The Witnesses]
In this notebook, we meet with a few Laval-based experts to discuss the white grub. We also discuss our burial of a witness plate inside an infested lawn. This copper plate is designed to collect phantasmatic traces of an underground life that would be impossible to translate onto paper through engraving. But this true-false hope also reveals another puzzling dialectic for our investigative duo. It condenses our most contradictory aesthetic tendencies: are we conceptual minimalist monsters or effusive figurative idiots?