Pascale Cassagnau
Pascale Cassagnau holds a PhD in Art History and works as an art critic. Based in Paris, she is in charge of audiovisual and new media content at the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), French ministry of culture. She has written extensively for Art Press, including articles on Chris Burden, James Coleman, John Baldessari, Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, and Matthieu Laurette. Her research focusses on new practices in cinema, and their interaction with contemporary artistic creation. Her essay Future Amnesia -Enquête sur un troisième cinéma (Isthme éditions, Paris, 2007) documents new film forms which are halfway between fiction and documentaries. Un Pays Supplémentaire (École des beaux-arts de Paris, 2010) deals with the role of contemporary creation within the architecture of the media. Forthcoming publications include Intempestif, Indépendant, Fragile. Marguerite Duras et le cinéma d'art contemporain (Presses du réel, Dijon, 2011) and Apichatpong Weearasethakull, Une théorie des objets personnels (Éditions Manuella Vaney, Paris, 2012). She is currently writing an essay on contemporary art and sound entitled Une Idée du Nord. La création contemporaine dans sa raison sonore.
