PREMIER MANIFESTE DE CAIRN – 21 Juin 1976 – PARIS

CAIRN: association cooperative de production et de distribution de travaux artistiques.

CAIRN: centre géré et animé par les artistes eux-mêmes.

CAIRN: une volonté d’indépendance à l’égard de tout groups de pression, culturel ou autre.

CAIRN: une ouverture vers un esprit non-sélectif refusant les critères d’ordre esthétique.

CAIRN: une liberte de penser et d’agir…

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ETRE FEMME

ETRE EMPIRIQUE

FAIRE, MEME SANS COMPETENCE

PLAGIER SANS HONTE

ETRE CUCU OU BANALE

MAIS PRODUIRE ET DIFFUSER:

MA LIBERTE A CAIRN

Gwylene Gallimard, in Document édité par la Coopérative CAIRN, 1st quarter 1977

CAIRN, an artists-run cooperative created in 1975 in Paris, organized over twenty five exhibitions, created an edition of silkscrens, developed video works and published catalogues and a magazine (10 issues). CAIRN challenged criteria of selection. There was no selection based on aesthetic or biographical criteria. From twelve to twenty members rented a space together that served as a gallery and a collective studio. CAIRN also challenged the way French critics and the field in general were talking about art. The magazine was written, fabricated and promoted by CAIRN members. Today, a few members still meet every year in France and engage in lengthy conversations about their own journey as artists.