Magazine P L S issue 39 collective joy

Issue 39 of P L S magazine takes us into group dynamics conducive to the experience and learning of joy. Through festive, creative, and social endeavours, this issue highlights the role of sociocultural, educational and collective practices in art history. It particularly invites us to reflect on the notion of participation in creation. Each contribution encourages us to perceive the ever-growing scope of collective joya joy that has to do with our capacity to affect and be affected, to act and to be transformed, and to actively take part in an expansion of collective power that makes new practices and new worlds possible.

Texts and visual contributions by Eva Barois De Caevel, carla bergman & Nick Montgomery, Lela Bergougnoux & Amlie Fontaine, Les Cousines, William Drummond, Barbara Ehrenreich, Kiymis, Dimitri Milbrun, Cline Poulin, Marie Preston & Katia Schneller, RESOLVE Collective This issue is published on the occasion of a new season of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo (21.02 11.05 2025), in particularRaphal Barontinis solo show Somewhere in the Night, the People Dance, the research project Collective JoyAn Iconography, which brings together an eclectic documentation (artworks, archival images, printed matter, web materials, etc.) around the theme of collective joy, as well as the group show Collective JoyLearning Flamboyance!, which features artists and initiatives inspired by festive and social ways of occupying public space (with: Cindy Bannani with Lallab, Andrs Barn, Maty Biayenda, Moki Cherry, Thophylle Dcx, So Gweha, Lauren Halsey, Thomas Hirschhorn, Caleb Kwarteng Prah, Les Cousines, Gordon Matta-Clark, Helina Metaferia, Dimitri Milbrun, Marilyn Nance, Bocar Niang, Lorraine OGrady, Alberto Pitta, RESOLVE Collective, Pris Roos, Cauleen Smith, Endre Tt, Attandi Trawalley, Mona Varichon, Guy Wouet).