Spirit of Boz

In 2008, Julien Friedler has created an association for contemporary art called Spirit of Boz who coordinates the program Be Boz Be Art.

Be Boz Be Art consists of a series ofcultural and artistic projects designed from the art as "for and by the masses."The association is a platform that the artist can use as an alternative totraditional arts. In doing so, the association makes art accessible to a wider audience, where art is the least expected or even totally irrelevant. From this perspective, art is used as a means to improve social cohesion.

The Boz is a universe full of enchanters, created by Julien Friedler. It comes from a singular experience of the divine, enhanced by a string of artworks (videos, paintings, performances, installations, etc.). Interacting with each other, these works are also connected to a core book: “The Book of Boz”. Three characters will explore it from side to side : Jack Balance (a metaphysical clown revolting against his creator); Me (an hyperbolically narcissic clown covered by mirrors); and its Scribe (a third clown, responsible of the others’ destiny). The lattest will be held up to public obloquy by his readers.

The Boz will be conceived as an always expanding universe, which spearhead will a new art form, designed by and for the masses, on a minimal support (a questionnaire, any object,...): BE ART.

Eventually, the main stake of this plan will be to give an answer to the moral misery so important in our societies. In this purpose, we’ll imagine a village of boz, thought as an ideal to reach. In an article published in Gynaika, Julien Friedler will even define the Boz as a modern myth.