L’Amicale du Hibou-Spectateur
20 juin @ 18:00 - 20:00 CEST
What do monikers, anti-fascist censorship, imaginary birds, and cinephile graffiti have in common? All are part of the sprawling and unconventional Fonds documentaire de l’Amicale du Hibou-Spectateur — a collective archive exploring forms of “wild” writing in public space.
The Owl-Watcher Society (Amicale du Hibou-Spectateur) is an informal research group launched in 2021 by Jiem L’Hostis and Mathieu Tremblin, joined by Stéphane Bruneau. Made up of artists, researchers, and curious onlookers, the group digs into vernacular inscriptions — from graffitomania to name writing — and shares its findings through publications, exhibitions, and public events.
For this special evening at Le Grand Jeu, the collective presents the latest additions to their living archive:
🔹 North American Monikers by Myles Hunter
🔹 Graffiti in Comic Books digitized by Obisk 93
🔹 Cinephile Graffitomania from Brittany by Les Frères Ripoulain
The presentation is rounded out by fresh releases from Éditions Carton-pâte:
🔸 Osez Zorro by Stéphane Moscato — a visual investigation of antifascist erasures in Southern France
🔸 Street Impressions by Brad Downey — a photographic record of swastika censorships in Sofia, Bulgaria
🔸 Corpus Crispi by Taïeb — an urban fairytale that doubles as a therapeutic purge of a certain feathered hallucination
Join us for an evening of fringe publishing, rogue archives, and wild narratives — and meet the people who collect what the streets leave behind.
🗓 June 20
🕕 6 PM – 8 PM
📍 Le Grand Jeu, Paris