Récit de l'évolution de la pratique du skateboard, de ses origines aquatiques jusqu'à la popularité médiatique actuelle de ce sport, décrit pour la première fois par le capitaine James Cook lors de son voyage en 1779 à Hawaii. ©Electre 2024
On a day with no waves a chronicle of skateboarding 1779-2009 followed by and the forbidden conjunction and the question is which is to be the master
For an artist like Raphaël Zarka, skateboarding is above all a question of forms-forms of rest, forms of movement-they subtly extend throughout the entire history of art and science, from Galileo to Robert Morris. Both urban architecture, but also skatepark obstacles, strangely echo those forms.
The practice of skateboarding itself, as demonstrated by The Forbidden Conjunction (written by the author in 2003), always seems to create a kind of « montage » of the diverse materials and forms of the city, energizing and destabilizing structures conceived for rest and comfort, to the point of inverting their function and meaning.
Raphaël Zarka's essays thus participate in a kind of fantastic archeology ; in their way, they expand his sculptural and photographic practice. The chronology presented in On A Day With No Waves, takes a sober, even laconic-although extremely well informed-approach to a history that has otherwise generally been treated in a hagiographic mode by former, first wave skaters themselves, « old combatants » who have since converted to journalism or to sociology. On A Day With No Waves makes all the more apparent the various lines that traverse skateboarding, and links it to a whole aspect of contemporary thought on the transmigration of forms and their uses.
Elie During
Paru le : 25/01/2011
Thématique : Sports collectifs
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Raphaël Zarka
Éditeur(s) :
Ed. B42
Collection(s) : Non précisé.
Contributeur(s) : Traducteur : Chris Sharp
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-917855-19-5
EAN13 : 9782917855195
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 150
Hauteur: 21.0 cm / Largeur 13.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.3 cm
Poids: 174 g
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