Copie Machine x Carré d’Art

Come edit and copy for free!

Since 2017, Copie Machine has been transforming various locations into Temporary Reprography Zones where anyone can come to edit on a self-service basis.

Welcoming all forms of action through photocopying, Copie Machine is an incentive to act and make us act. Photocopying has the capacity to transform us into “both authors and publishers”, as McLuhan predicted back in 1967. Based on the principles of copyleft, and accessible to all, Copie Machine makes available to the public over a hundred artists’ contributions that can be freely copied under a free art license. 

For this new edition, Copie Machine is inviting 10 artists for new contributions and one-day flash residencies, freely reproducible under a free art license. For a few days, everyone will be able to take advantage of unlimited access to this collection to create an edition or photocopy their own documents free of charge.

This event will be accompanied by gatherings and workshops with the public, as well as the launch of the Copie Machine catalog.

With: antoine lefebvre editions & Laura Morsch-Kihn

The artists:

antoine lefebvre editions

antoine lefebvre editions is the name under which artist-publisher Antoine Lefebvre develops his publishing activities as an artistic practice. 

Since 2010, all his artworks have been published, and his publishing activity is a work of art. Antoine Lefebvre is also a teacher-researcher in design at the University of Nîmes, where he is developing his studies on artist fanzines through the ARTZINES project. He explores the world of alternative publishing through various roles (artist, publisher, bookseller, researcher, curator, etc.), and his projects tend to entertain the possibility of an art freed from the spectacular economy of attention.

Laura Morsch-Kihn

Based in Arles, Laura Morsch-Kihn is an artist-publisher and founder of Objet Artistique Non Identifié (OANI). After working for the art market, she now devotes herself to her artistic practice and research in various forms: publishing, photography, pedagogy, informal research, collaborative and contextual approaches. Through OANI, she leads a curatorial activity with projects taking the form of exhibitions, fairs, with Trafic: independent publishing fair in Marseille and Rebel Rebel: fanzine fair (2015-2018), also in Marseille, and residencies with Éditer les territoires, Interagir avec la ville and Publication Rebel Rebel.