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Pierre Saurisse is an art historian and critic, and completed his PhD in France. He is a Consultant Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute, in London, and an associate member of the research team “Art History and Criticism”, based at the University of Rennes (France). In 2007 he published a book on chance in European and American art in the 1960s (La mécanique de l’imprévisible, L’Harmattan, Paris). Other publications include articles on Allan Kaprow, Valie Export, Yoko Ono, and myths in performance. He is currently writing an article on darkness in early New York happenings. At the 2008 AAH Annual Conference, in London, Saurisse presented a paper about artists at work in films in the 1940s. This question of the image of the artist will be explored through more recent art on the occasion of his participation in the conference Image de l’artiste, which will be held in Paris this Summer. He will also participate in a conference on chance organized at the University of Aix-Marseille next June.