66 www.libwrwosw..ulnibamro.sm.uxnam.mx Folio 007 Mi última vida My Last Life Vincent Meessen Vincent Meessen (Baltimore, United States, 1971). Lives in Brussels. He excavates post-colonial histories and their legacies under dispute, as well as their centrality for the intellectual and cultural process of modernity. He has developed a poetics of re-reading and translation, in which the document is transformed into experience and experience into a vehicle of research through films, texts, interventions, photographs, objects and diagrams. Other publications: Meessen, Vincent, Qui-vive (La Lettre Volée), 2003. Artist: Vincent Meessen Authors: Roland Barthes, Alejandra Labastida, Cuauhtémoc Medina Editors: muac-unam Editorial Coordination: Ekaterina Alvarez Romero Language: Spanish and English First edition, 2013 Extension: 56 pages Format: 8.66 in x 6.3 in MSRP: $10.6 USD ISBN: 978-607-02-4759-0 Target: University community, academics and interested public in contemporary art Vincent Meessen excavates post-colonial histories and their legacies under dispute, as well as their centrality to the intellectual and cultural process of modernity. My Last Life replicates the methods for appropriating and deconstructing myth and modern ideologies of the French semiologist and writer Roland Barthes (1915-1980), turning them back onto Barthes himself and extending them into an exploration of the dense diagram of the relationship between French literature and colonialism, inviting the viewer to rethink the genealogy of contemporary thought. Contemporary Art
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