Podcast Voices of Citizen Art

Citizen art allows us to come together to invent, stay curious, share new imaginations and change the game in this changing world. 1 Thursday out of 2, meet the artists, scientists, mediators, educators and association leaders who contribute to creating a more ecological, inclusive and fulfilling society. This first season is available on all your listening platforms. Enjoy and share!

Meet those who make art a driver of citizenship and commitment

For more than 10 years, we have supported a wide variety of people and projects on the path of transition, encouraging crossovers between disciplines and approaches to bring out innovative solutions. It is to give them a voice and share their experience with as many people as possible, that we have decided to create a podcast series “The voices of citizen art”.

During these interviews, you will discover women and men, artists and actors in the field, who lead these projects on a daily basis and make citizen art a reality, a shared art, a creator of meaning and social ties, the result of encounters, an art that mobilizes and federates to imagine a sustainable future.

Episode 1: The Ambassadors, beyond the collapse of the Alps

Faced with the collapse of the Alps, due to the melting of the permafrost, how can we give citizens back their power to act in this overheated world? In Annecy, the École supérieure d’art (ESAAA) questions the mountains as a symbol of the challenges of climate change and creates new forms and perspectives for the world to come. Interview with Stéphane Sauzedde, the effervescent director of the ESAAA, his students and the resident artist and sculptor Io Burgard. Here, we talk about climate, punk, recycled materials, new sensations, sharing, social transformation and of course creation and art!

Children’s House (2/11): When creation participates in awakening

How can we give back to children marked by trauma and a bumpy journey the desire to unfold and trust again?

Meeting with Emmanuel Paris, deputy director of cultural affairs at the Maisons des Enfants de la Côte d’Opale, in the presence of Benoît Destiné, botanist and landscape architect, Paul Vanberten, actor and Daniel Vaudran, ceramist and educator, not forgetting the children welcomed at the Bertinghen farm: Swann, Dany, Yanis, Louca, Ethan, Azzedine, Camille, Noé, Elias.

Patrick Bouchain (3/11): The construction site hut

Architect, project manager and scenographer, Patrick Bouchain shares here his conception of architecture as a back and forth between the inside and the outside, the understood and the misunderstood. For him, you have to be invisible in order not to be fought and to be able to act in society. With La preuve par 7, he develops projects on different scales, from villages to large cities. By playing with case law, it restores common sense in the judgment related to the affairs of life. Patrick Bouchain is the 2020 winner of the Committed Citizen Artist Award. Interview, in Paris, with Mélanie Bouteloup, independent curator and head of exhibitions at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Art and science (4/11): making the digital footprint visible

How can we poetically show these waves, wifi, 4G, 5G, which pass through us? And, more broadly, what can science bring to art? Raphaëlle Kerbrat, artist and doctoral student at ENSADLAB, the research laboratory of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, has made digital technology her breeding ground for creation and research. As part of her thesis, she participated in the Reflective Interaction program, directed by artist-teacher-researcher Samuel Bianchini and supported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation’s Arts and Sciences Chair. It takes us through the intangible traces of the digital world.

Meeting with Raphaëlle Kerbrat and Hugo Scurto, postdoctoral researcher at EUR ArTeC (University of Paris 8 / EnsadLab). Thanks to Christophe Pornay, director of ENSADLAB, Rémi Sagot-Duvauroux, Julie Sauret.

Paris Mozart Orchestra (5/11): When the orchestra invites itself to the sideboard

How can we bring young people in schools in priority education networks into contact with the world of culture and creation? For the past 11 years, the Paris Mozart Orchestra, created by conductor Claire Gibault, has been coming to them through the Orchestre Au Bahut program. After several workshops during the school year, the presence of the orchestra in the school marks the culmination of a long process, where the high standards, curiosity and joy of the children are all fertile ground for creation.

Meeting, at the Marais de Villiers de Montreuil college, with Claire Gibault, conductor, founder of the Paris Mozart Orchestra and the international competition for women conductors La Maestra, in the presence of Alexandra Grimal, musician and composer of the melologue Le jardin en mouvement inspired by the eponymous book by Gilles Clément, Jairo Coronado Vargas, music teacher, double bassist Stanislas Kuchinski, not to mention the students of the fifth grade class May-Britt Moser, named after the Norwegian neuroscientist.

A podcast by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, produced by wave.audio. Executive producer: Isabelle Duriez. This episode is written and presented by Léa Minod and directed by Guillaume Girault.

Neïl Beloufa (6/11): The spiral strategy

Visual artist and director, who has conquered the world of contemporary art, Neïl Beloufa looks back on his practice and the strategies he puts in place to continue to work differently while remaining within the system. “There’s no point in being at the center because when you’re at the center actually. The only thing you can do is crush those who want to get close to it.” He strives to create micro-possibilities to emancipate himself and highlights the technological battle in which he intends to participate, in particular by accompanying high school students in his workshop. Neïl Beloufa is the 2020 winner of the Committed Citizen Artist Award.
Interview in her studio in Montreuil with Mélanie Bouteloup, independent curator and head of exhibitions at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

A podcast by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, produced by wave.audio. Executive producer: Isabelle Duriez. This interview is written by Mélanie Bouteloup and produced by L’arrière-boutique Studio. Design by Léa Minod and Guillaume Girault.

PEGASE (7/11): when design enters middle school

How can we transmit to teenagers from neighbourhoods far from cultural venues a taste for artistic practice and develop their curiosity? How can we open up new horizons for them?
Since 2018, the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation and the Academy of Versailles have launched PEGASE, an experimental program for the generalization of the arts in schools. Nearly 7,000 students from 5 schools are involved in about thirty new projects each year. At the Eugénie Cotton middle school in Argenteuil, several classes of 4th grade are working together to create foundations for the school garden. An unexpected opportunity to immerse yourself in nature, design and museums.
Meeting with Ambre Delaunay, librarian teacher and cultural referent of the PEGASE program, and Malaury Rosier, French teacher; with Designer Xavier Auffret; as well as with the students of the 4e1 class.

Recetas Urbanas (8/11): The architecture of complicity

Santi Cirugeda and Alice Atout from the architectural collective Recetas Urbanas reveal here their main mode of action: self-construction, respecting classic urban planning procedures or carried out in an illegality that allows for a precedent. The most important thing for them? To create community, to make the city a laboratory and space for conflict resolution, as is the case with the social and community center of the Cañada Real neighborhood in Madrid. This is what they call the architecture of complicity, where the experience of living together counts more than the building built.

They are the 2020 winners of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation’s Committed Citizen Artist Award.

Julio Jara (9/11): A corriente

An artist who is not involved in any school or discipline, Julio Jara devotes his life to making visible and supporting the most vulnerable. He tells us about his life at the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception in Leeches located 28 km from Madrid. For the past twenty years, he has been involved here with people whose life paths are on the margins of society. To be open to digressions, to make sure to stay next to what society expects of us, to be interested in what is happening around norms, while crossing poetic and political action… This is his vision of art, of commitment, of life, on the fringes of the current…

Julio Jara is the 2020 winner of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation’s Committed Citizen Artist Award.

This interview is written by Mélanie Bouteloup and produced by L’arrière-boutique Studio. Translation and dubbing: David Rousseau. Design by Léa Minod, Emmanuel Baux and Guillaume Girault.
A podcast from the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, produced by wave.audio. Executive producer: Isabelle Duriez.

Cristina Pato (10/11): In-between

To form a community is to know how to listen beyond differences. Musician, writer and educator Cristina Pato talks about the importance of music in her life and the role played by art in society. She thinks of her commitment with the idea of being “in-between”, of connecting disciplines, cultures and varied horizons.
Involved in educational and social projects, including Silkroad, created by Yo-Yo Ma, she has carried out a program focused on memory and diversity through the arts, as holder of the Chair of Spanish Culture and Civilization at New York University.

She is the 2020 winner of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation’s Committed Citizen Artist Award.

This interview is written by Mélanie Bouteloup and produced by L’arrière-boutique Studio. Translation and dubbing: David Rousseau. Design by Léa Minod, Emmanuel Baux and Guillaume Girault.
A podcast from the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, produced by wave.audio. Executive producer: Isabelle Duriez.

11 episodes to stay curious, share new imaginations and change the game

A sound creation studio directed by Thomas Baumgartner, wave.audio has one ear that listens to the world of culture and the other is connected to social issues. For this series, he called on Léa Minod, a reporter of the sensitive and the human. On the radio, listeners know her for her reports on France Inter, France Culture, but also France Musique or Arte Radio. For the winning artists of the Committed Citizen Artist Award, the interviews were conducted by Mélanie Bouteloup, Independent Curator and Head of Exhibitions at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.