The originates from a talk between agnès b., Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist in 1997. Six to eight issues are published each year. Each of them is made by an artist who makes it his own and brings it up to a singular work of art. By means of its gratuitousness as well as of its size and circulation, the is an atypical periodical which is distributed in a scattered way

(one hundred thousand copies are spread out over the world in museums, galleries, bookshops, schools, movie theatres, shops, etc.)Made up by the French writer Alcanter de Brahm at

the end of the XIXth century, the is a punctuation mark used at the end of sentences (as an exclamation or a

question mark) to point ironic passages in a text.

publisher : agnès b. / editor in chief : Hans-Ulrich Obrist / ironie@agnesb.fr / www.pointdironie.com / c/o Fonds agnès b., 17 rue Dieu, 75010 Paris, France / tél. +33(0) 1 40 03 54 66

already issued :

0 Jonas Mekas 1 Joseph Grigely special C.B./Remember James Lee Byars 2 Gilbert & George 3 Douglas Gordon 4 Marlene Streeruwitz 5 Annette Messager 6 Lawrence Weiner 7 Christian Boltanski 8 Itsuko Hasegawa & Dan Graham 9 Gabriel Orozco 10 Claude Lévêque 11 Hans-Peter Feldmann special Martin Parr 12 Harmony Korine 13 A. Ohannessian & Toni Negri 14 Louise Bourgeois special 2000 Frédéric Bruly Bouabré 15 Roni Horn 16 Richard Billingham 17 John Giorno & Ugo Rondinone 18 Rosemarie Trockel 19 Cedric Price 20 Ken Lum/hommage à Chen Zhen 21 Raymond Hains 22 Gilbert & George 23 Thomas Hirschhorn 24 Yona Friedman special Navin Rawanchaikul 25 Matthew Barney 26 Christian Boltanski 27 Hanne Darboven 28 Raqs Media Collective 29 Edouard Glissant 30 Claude Closky 31 Yoko Ono 32 Paul-Armand Gette 32 bis Hors série 33 Philippe Parreno 34 hommage à Michel Foucault 35 Yona Friedman special Nancy Spero 36 Tacita Dean 37 Ed Ruscha 38 Ryan McGinness 39 Richard Prince 40 Damien Hirst 41 hommage à Raymond Hains 42 Tobias Buche 43 Hreinn Fridfinnsson 44 Hugues Reip & Melanie Counsell 45 Robert Crumb 46 Carlos Cruz-Diez 47 Koo Jeong-A 48 Walid Raad 49 Ryan McGinley special Stephane Hessel 50 Christian Boltanski special PierreReimer 51 Dayanita Singh 52 Etel Adnan

le point d’ironie

tara oceansn° spécial

Here is one of the treasures of the Tara Oceans expedition: plankton. The photographs on display, under the artistic

direction of agnès b. Troublé, are those taken by the scientists of Tara Oceans. These photos reveal the living world to us in

all its beauty and diversity.

Tara is a schooner dedicated to scientific exploration. She has been on the high seas since 2003, following an initiative by

Etienne Bourgois and agnès b. Troublé, the aim being to gain a better understanding of the impact of global warming on

ecosystems. She has so far made 7 expeditions.

Between 2009 and 2012, Tara carried out an expedition lasting 2½ years which explored all the world’s oceans. This

expedition, known as Tara Oceans, was the first ever attempt to make a global study of marine plankton, a minuscule life

form which extends from marine viruses to fish larvae to jellyfish.

Scientists have recently discovered the importance of plankton for climate: not only can the plankton population be very

quickly affected by climatic variations, but it can itself in turn influence the climate by modifying the absorption of carbon.

In a context of rapid physical and chemical change, like the acidification now being observed in oceans, there is an urgent

need to predict how plankton will evolve. Studying it is like taking the pulse of our planet.

Tara has taken 27,000 samples which will be analysed in the laboratory: enough to give us hitherto unknown insights into

plankton. A new global database is to be created in order to better understand the overall regulation of the earth’s climate.

About a hundred scientists from more than 12 different research areas (oceanographers, biologists, geneticists and

physicists) are involved in the project.

crustacé lucifer des îles galapagos

foraminifère

larve de poisson

larve de corail

crustacé amphipode de méditerranée

foraminifères

diatomées

TARA OCEANS : ÉTUDE PLANÉTAIRE DU PLANCTON

mollusque planctonique

méduses des îles galapagos

radiolaire polycystine

dinoflagellé des îles galapagos

siphonophore des îles galapagos

larve de calamar

larve planctonique dinoflagellés des îles galapagos

annélide de méditerranée

crevette

radiolaire acanthaire

foraminifère

radiolaires polycystines

MARIN UN PROJET D’ E.BOURGOIS, E.KARSENTI, AGNÈS TROUBLÉ, R.TROUBLÉ, J.WEISSENBACH,

radiolaires polycystines et phaeodaires de méditerranée

ceinture de vénus, un ctenaire

porpite

dinoflagellés de l’océan indien radiolaires acanthaires

larve de crustacé de l’océan indien

mollusque ptéropode gymnosome

larve d’hémichordé

G.GORSKY, C.SARDET, C.DE VARGAS, F.BENZONI, C.BOWLER, U.KRZIC, E.REYNAUD, D.VELAYOUDON,

ptéropode

crustacé copépode de patagonie

dinoflagellé

exo-squelette de dinoflagellé

ver polychète

exo-squelette d’un coccolithophore

salpe des îles galapagos

crustacé amphipode de méditerranée

radiolaire acanthaire de l’océan indien

radiolaire acanthaire

radiolaire

S.KANDELS-LEWIS, S.SPEICH, S.GONZALEZ-ACINAS, J.RAES, F.NOT, D.IUDICONE, S.PESANT, M.FOLLOWS,

S. SPEICH, M. SULLIVAN, L. VALLETTE…

diatomées de méditerranée

diatomées de méditerranée

larve de copépode

mollusque ptéropode de méditérannée

méduse femelle des îles galapagos

ver marin

© C.Sardet/CNRS/UPMC/Villefranche - M.Ormestad/E.Rottinger/Kahikai - E.Reynaud CNRS/UCD - C.deVargas/F.Not/S.Colin/M.Carmichael/J.Decelle/N.LeBescot/CNRS/UPMC/Roscoff - C.Guiguand/RSMAS - C.Gerigk/Cosmos - A. De La Morinerie - Tara OceansNous tenons à remercier tous les laboratoires et instituts scientifiques qui ont participé à l’expéditionnu

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