Barravento – conversations between Philippe Grandrieux & Boris Gobille
Edited by Boris Gobille

Based on a series of conversations between sociologist Boris Gobille and cult French filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, Barravento portrays the development of a new and unexpected dialogue that gradually builds up to form a mutual intimacy of ideas between the two, blurring their individual disciplines and intentions. Focusing on their particular relationship to the notion of the real, Boris Gobille and Philippe Grandrieux search for a third space within which to create a new form of text. Intended as a proto-scenario, Barravento offers itself to a wide range of readings, as fiction, script, analysis, video, and diary. Barravento includes unpublished photographs and image sequences from Philippe Grandrieux’s films. First edition in French with English translation to follow.

Boris Gobille (b. 1973, in Le Mans, France) is a writer and social scientist specialised in contemporary politics. He holds a Professorship at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. His research subjects include: May 68, the sociology of political crises, political mobilizations, the anti-globalization movement, and literary and artistic avant-gardes. He is a contributor to Metronome No. 10 (Oregon) and Metronome No. 11 (Tokyo).

Philippe Grandrieux (b. 1954, in St. Etienne, France) is a filmmaker and video artist. He has directed several documentary films (including Retour à Sarajevo, 1996) and two acclaimed and controversial feature films, Sombre (1998) and La vie nouvelle (2003). He is currently preparing a new film, Un Lac. In 2007, he has exhibited his video work at castillo/corrales, Paris, and at Montevideo in Marseille. He was a contributor to Metronome No. 9 (Paris).{www.grandrieux.com}


Unhouse - The Architecture of Dwelling Portably by Oscar Tuazon

Edited by American artist and architect Oscar Tuazon, Unhouse tells the story of the search for Bert and Holly Davis, whose work was introduced to Metronome readers in Metronome No.10 (Oregon). For over 30 years, Bert and Holly Davis have lived nomadically in the forests of Oregon, building subterranean shelters, foraging for food, and finding solutions to survival. The Davis’ have kept a meticulous record of their venture in their zine Dwelling Portably, which was first published in 1981 and includes hundreds of pages of illustrated and rigorously edited text. Written by and for a close community of hardcore hippie survivalists, the entries in Dwelling Portably range from a fugitive's account of evasive tactics, to Brother Bear's diary of goat herding in Idaho and Bert's experiments in DIY dentistry.
Unhouse incorporates facsimile pages of writings and drawings from Dwelling Portably zine’s history, plus an extensive illustrated narrative by Oscar Tuazon of his 2 year collaboration with the Davis' and his unsuccessful search for them in the forests of central Oregon, and a newly commissioned essay by Portland-based novelist and cultural activist Matthew Stadler which serves as an epilogue to the book drawing parallels between the survivalist philosophy of the protagonists of Dwelling Portably and the history and future of informal architecture that can be found in the Northwest U.S.

Oscar Tuazon (b. 1976 in Seattle, Washington) is an artist living in Paris and Tacoma. Tuazon received his education from Cooper Union and the Whitney ISP in New York. His works were shown in 2007 in solo exhibitions at Bodgers and Kludgers, Vancouver, castillo/corrales, Paris, and Standard (Oslo). In 2006, he co-edited with Clémentine Deliss, Metronome No.10 (Oregon).

On Monday, June, 11 2007, Japanese artist Takayuki Yamamoto (b. 1974, lives in Nagoya) presented a new screenplay for an animation movie called Migakikko (Belleville). Written by Takayuki during his stay at Metronome Press's residency studio in Paris, Migakikko (Belleville) tells the story of a conflict between a father and son revolving around a car washing enterprise in Belleville in the wake of Sarkozy's presidential election. Participants in this session were: Olivier Bardin, artist, Thomas Boutoux, writer and curator, and Boris Gobille, sociologist.


Takayuki Yamamoto



Boris Gobille


Olivier Bardin