| Summary: | How and why would an artist choose to present works from a fellow artist? More than just presenting a work that still remains largely unknown, I wanted to give account of an experience, the one of my encounter with Jeffrey Perkins. It meant for me to bring light on a certain type of knowledge through this experimental method of encounter. I've been first interested in Jeff Perkins’ work because of some matters that underlie and connect it to mine, such as the use of some ethnographic materials/methods in the art field (the figure of an “artist-ethnographer”) and the rerouting of some activity done merely to earn a living (the figure of an “employee-artist”). I have then distinguished, through those interdisciplinary areas, a third figure, the one of an “artist-curator.” To illustrate some various points of interest and thoughts that came out of this meeting, I first did a writing assignment (Master Thesis), articulated in four points: Experience and trans-mission / Jeff ethnographer outsider? / Jeff writes HIS story / Re-appropriation. The present text is a non-exhaustive display of this former work, coming with some longer-term effects over my thoughts and practice, and some restitution patterns I'm brought to today.
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