Art by Telephone… Recalled was initiated by the Translation research program co-directed by Sébastien Pluot and Fabien Vallos at the École supérieure des beaux-arts d’Angers. A series of seminars focused on questioning the notion of the original and the autonomy of the work, the destitution of the figure of the author, the ethical consequences of the processes of delegation, translatability and operativity, and the phenomena of versioning and the dissemination of meaning. It allows us to rediscover an exhibition project and contributes to an understanding of artistic practice since the 1960s.

In 2012, five exhibitions were held simultaneously at the Cneai= , the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d’Angers in Paris, the Capc, musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York and the San Francisco Art Institute. In 2014, a new series of exhibitions took place, this time successively at La Panacée, Centre de culture contemporaine in Montpellier, and at the Beaux-Arts in Angers.