With this issue of PARIS LA we are celebrating an anniversary: It’s our 10th issue! For this special occasion we decided to dedicate the issue to the city of Los Angeles. In this context we’ve invited the French and the Americans, people greatly involved in today’s culture, to play around with the verbatim idea of PARIS, LA. As you will see, the result is not a straight line. As Sylvère Lotringer, the publisher of Semiotext(e), says: Los Angeles is “a city which is built on a hundred faults.” In other words, a dangerous place to live, while at the same time a motor that contributes to movement and change.

contents

JENNIFER WEST: MIND AND MATTER
By Martha Kirszenbaum

PORTFOLIO CECI N’EST PAS…
By Sébastien Paquet

CELUI QU’ELLE ESPÉRAIT
By Neil Beloufa

HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE 
Jorge Pardo in conversation with Oscar Tuazon

LOST IN LOS ANGELES
By Andrew Berardini

A CENTO
By Public Fiction

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING UNFINISHED 
Sylvère Lotringer in conversation with Dorothée Perret

cover
MICHAEL JACKSON ESTATES (2013). By Pentti Monkkonen

centerfold
CHANEL WINTER 2013 AD CAMPAIGN REMIX by PFL