Feel Tank:
Essay published in the exhibition catalog for the 25th Fondation Pernod Ricard Prize with Clémentaine Adou, Madison Bycroft, HaYoung, Charlotte Houette, Lenio Kaklea, Paul Maheke et Mona Varichon, curated by Arlène Berceliot Courtin

Texts and contributions:
Gianmaria Andreetta, 
Lauren Berlant, Emma Bigé, 
Théo Casciani, 
Béatrice Gross, 
François Lancien-Guilberteau, 
Clovis Maillet,
Rosanna Puyol Boralevi

Graphic design:
Des Signes

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First of all, I would like to thank Antonia Scintilla,Franck Balland, and the entire team at Fondation Pernod Ricard for enthusiastically focusing on such an ambitious, vague, and seemingly limitless subject as the circulation of affects and emotions today. I would also like to warmly thank Clémentine Adou, Madison Bycroft, HaYoung, Charlotte Houette, Mona Varichon, Lenio Kaklea, and Paul Maheke for accepting my invitation to spend these few months together and to discuss the particularities of their commitments to art, a work whose emotional burden is rarely mentioned; this was the entire intention of this project. Finally, I warmly thank the invited authors, Gianmaria Andreetta, Emma Bigé, Théo Casciani, Béatrice Gross, François Lancien-Guilberteau, Clovis Maillet, and Rosanna Puyol Boralevi, for their rich contributions. I also express my gratitude to Rachel Valinsky, who accepted to translate Lauren Berlant into French and thus introduce their thought to a new audience, and to Laura Boullic, who accompanied us in the political choices related to post-binary writing and the use of the Amiamie typography designed by Mirat-Masson. It seemed obvious to us, and its description confirmed this intuition: “Amiamie is a typeface imagined between friends and inspired by the classic Helvetica. Amiamie was designed so that we can write sweet words to each other in a multitude of weights. Amiamie is a font for all authors and poets who wish to be the new inclusive heroes of free writing” (text excerpted from the Bye Bye Binary type foundry website consulted in June 2024)