Issue 39 of P L S magazine takes us into group dynamics conducive to the experience and learning of joy. Through festive, creative, and social endeavours, this issue highlights the role of sociocultural, educational and collective practices in art history. It particularly invites us to reflect on the notion of participation in creation. Each contribution encourages us to perceive the ever-growing scope of collective joy—a joy that has to do with our capacity to affect and be affected, to act and to be transformed, and to actively take part in an expansion of collective power that makes new practices and new worlds possible. Texts and visual contributions by Eva Barois De Caevel, carla bergman & Nick Montgomery, Leïla Bergougnoux & Amélie Fontaine, Les Cousines, William Drummond, Barbara Ehrenreich, Kiyémis, Dimitri Milbrun, Céline Poulin, Marie Preston & Katia Schneller, RESOLVE Collective This issue is published on the occasion of a new season of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo (21.02 – 11.05 2025), in particular Raphaël Barontini’s solo show Somewhere in the Night, the People Dance, the research project Collective Joy—An Iconography, which brings together an eclectic documentation (artworks, archival images, printed matter, web materials, etc.) around the theme of collective joy, as well as the group show Collective Joy—Learning Flamboyance!, which features artists and initiatives inspired by festive and social ways of occupying public space (with: Cindy Bannani with Lallab, Andrés Barón, Maty Biayenda, Moki Cherry, Théophylle Dcx, Soñ Gweha, Lauren Halsey, Thomas Hirschhorn, Caleb Kwarteng Prah, Les Cousines, Gordon Matta-Clark, Helina Metaferia, Dimitri Milbrun, Marilyn Nance, Bocar Niang, Lorraine O’Grady, Alberto Pitta, RESOLVE Collective, Pris Roos, Cauleen Smith, Endre Tót, Attandi Trawalley, Mona Varichon, Guy Woueté).
