Anne-James Chaton is a writer. That’s what people say about him most often. He is also a musician and performer, who for several years has been exploring the landscapes of experimental sound poetry. Anne-James Chaton is also a visual artist, although his artworks have always been more discreet than his literary work. The fields of experimentation are however the same—it is always about writing.

I have the solution for the planet is dedicated to this specific kind of production and brings together for the first time eighteen series of works created between 2003 and 2022. The series are deliberately scattered throughout the publication, thwarting any attempt at a purely chronological or thematic reading, since each series is linked to another, and the repetition of some of them produces a saturation effect that is essential for immersing oneself in the work. The guiding principle in presenting the works has been to avoid reproducingthem systematically. Even if some of them have a definitive physical materiality, here others find a new form, specific to the printed page.

The works are accompanied by notes written by Anne-James Chaton. Like rules of composition, they explain the appearance and functioning of each series. The book is punctuated by three unpublished texts by the editor and writer Frédéric Boyer, the art historian and critic Jo Melvin, and Emmanuel Tibloux, director of EnsAD (École normale supérieure des arts décoratifs), and concludes with an interview between Carsten Nicolai and Anne-James Chaton conducted in spring 2022.

All texts have been published in their original language.