[syndicate] Transitioners: Le Producteur, an exhibition by Societe Realiste at La Synagogue de Delme, France.

[Jean-Baptiste Naudy]

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CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN LA SYNAGOGUE DE DELME

TRANSITIONERS: Le Producteur
Opening on Friday, December 14, 2007 at 6pm.

Exhibition from December 15, 2007 to February 17, 2008


La Synagogue de Delme welcomes Société Réaliste for their first personal
show in an art center in France. Société Réaliste is an artistic
cooperative, created by Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy in 2004. Their
activity consists in developing various research enterprises, successively
dealing with territorial ergonomy, experimental economy, counter-strategy,
or political design, as is the case of the project Transitioners, initiated
in 2006, and for which they have been invited to Delme.

Transitioners is a trend design agency, specialized in political
transitions. Transposing the principles of prospective design, generally
used by professionals in the field of fashion, to the field of politics,
Société Réaliste questions the revolution (transition?) as a central
category for contemporary Western society. How can a "democratic transition"
be produced? What is the role of design in the permanent conversion of
political flux into mythology? How can the effect of an event on citizens be
transformed into a controlled affect?
Depending on present atmosphere, Transitioners defines the general climate,
in which future social transformation movements will take place, in order to
maximize their efficiency. By examining the evolution of revolution as a
form, the project offers visual and semantic tools ready to be used by
whoever wishes to: logotypes, color charts, lexical fields, etc.

For each new step in the project, Société Réaliste conceives a new trend
collection, originated by a precise historical event. In 2007, the
inspiration for Bastille Days was the French Revolution. The 2008
collection, entitled Le Producteur and inaugurated at la Synagogue de Delme,
is based on the utopias developed during the first three decades of the 19th
century, by thinkers such as Fourier, Enfantin, Rodrigues, Cabet, Owen, or
Saint-Simon. A wide panorama (pictorial and theatrical device inherited from
that time) will be inscribed in the architecture of the art center, allowing
the visitors to discover the latest research of Transitioners.

The central question of the 2008 collection is related to the progressive
separation of liberalism and socialism. While they have a common origin and
were not differentiated by major utopist thinkers, the events of 1830 and
1848 progressively opposed them. This binary confrontation between
liberalism and socialism still constitutes the basis of our common
representations. For Transitioners, the interrogation of this ideological
chasm, of its accuracy and its contradictions, is central. The stake of the
collection Le Producteur consists in knowing how these movements share a
common ideological base, and how the later can nourish the design of future
transitions.

In 2006-07, the Bastille Days collection was presented at Trafo Galéria
(Budapest), at the Kunstpavillon (Innsbruck), on the occasion of the 2nd
Biennale of Moscow, at Mains d'Oeuvres (Saint-Ouen), at Ze dos Bois (Lisbon)
and at the Martine Aboucaya gallery (Paris).
Société Réaliste will also present Transitioners: Le Producteur from January
29 to February 24, 2008 in the context of Transmediale 08: Conspire, at the
Haus der Kulturen der Welt of Berlin (www.transmediale.de).

For further information about projects by the Société Réaliste cooperative:
www.societerealiste.net ; www.cac-synagoguedelme.org

INFORMATIONS:

Opening hours:
Wednesday to Saturday from 2 to 6 pm,
Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm
Admission free
Closed from December 22, 2007 to January 1st, 2008

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Centre d'art contemporain la Synagogue de Delme
33 rue Poincaré - 57590 Delme FRANCE
+33 (0)3 87 01 43 42
www.cac-synagoguedelme.org
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