We wish to contribute to the emergence and development of artistic projects that create the conditions for real citizen participation, from their genesis and throughout their realization. The “Médiations et Démocratie culturelle” call for projects is focused in 2020 and 2022 in the Hauts-de-France region. These cultural democracy projects are inspiring responses to the needs of our society, in search of meaning, wonder and collective projects.
The Artistic Quarter
This participatory program of artistic and cultural activities is run with and for the residents of Hazebrouck’s Pasteur Foch priority district, which is currently undergoing urban renewal. It creates spaces for encounters and artistic expression, accompanying the transformation and reappropriation of this neighborhood in the making. Carried out with regional artist collectives, at the crossroads of the performing, plastic, visual and landscape arts, it invites us to question the notion of living together and the notion of territory. The actions, which can be adapted to suit local residents and partners, will be presented at a major festive event…
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Human-powered wonder and wonderment project
La Brouette Bleue has been asked by local residents to co-construct a varied cultural offering, combining professional and amateur practices. A truly participatory event, the project is built around a street arts and circus company that will enable the public to take part in the “Yes Future” parade, creative workshops to encourage amateur practices, and an artistic residency under a big top where professional artists will meet. Supported by shopkeepers, associations, artists, local residents and cultural structures, it is based on the desire to promote openness to the unknown, to others, and to bring dreams and the extraordinary into the life of this rural area.
Rollin(g) stones – our soil / our territory / our future Citizen art project
The Pierre Rollin district, classified as a priority in the city of Amiens’ policy, is undergoing urban renewal until 2026. For two years, Superamas will develop an artistic project to support residents in a fun, shared and co-constructed way by multiple partners (institutions, national education, landlords, associations, etc.). Rollin(g) Stones is structured around three main axes: “Our soil”, a work of investigation and research on the history of the soil, of the different periods of urbanization; “Our territory”, highlighting individual and collective territories; “Our Future”, creation of common rituals to symbolize and perform the geographical transformation based on the lives of the inhabitants, their histories, their cultures.
At both ends/ Talking standing up
This project proposes a participatory artistic work focusing on certain territories of the Thiérache, located on the borders of the Nord and Aisne departments, far from the economic and transport hubs. The objective is to bring out with the inhabitants the issues specific to these spaces, to make them vectors of artistic and cultural creation in order to change representations and encourage resilience. Four artists in residence will take a new look at the identity of this territory through various practices (architecture, visual arts, engraving, object theatre, music), mediation and dissemination actions (meetings, collection of testimonies, collective work, workshops, etc.).
Hmmm!
This project brings together Merville stakeholders to create a citizen dynamic in order to transform the city by allowing new collective uses. It is a question of bringing about a change where quality of life and territorial development are combined with creativity, art and culture, relying on artists and their know-how. Several festive meetings will allow the mobilization of the inhabitants to lead to participatory works that will experiment with solutions around ecology, culture, comfort, attractiveness, living together.
Café Œuvre d’art
The Maison du Colonel is a cultural third place where residents, craftsmen and multidisciplinary artists interact during moments of artistic creation to culminate in the eco-renovation of a wasteland with the Japanese artist Kinya Maruyama. The project is that of a cultural place open to all; A café wanted, designed, designed and eco-built by the inhabitants. A café that will be a work in itself, self-constructed and civic, a work of social utility, living and appropriate by all, supported by a State Public Order.
For revealed youth
Born of an alliance between cultural players and those involved in popular education, social action and solidarity, this project continues the dynamic begun to broaden the perspectives of young teenagers/adults and combat identitarian isolationism. In the Dunkirk area, the project has already involved over 600 people in a collective creation in 2019. Today, the aim is to support young people’s cultural and even professional careers, to change the way they are portrayed, and to strengthen cooperation and the role of culture. The project is multidimensional: artist residencies, events, innovative and cooperative training in the performing arts.
Aux Arts citoyens
Residents, associations, amateur and professional artists and craftsmen, an establishment of services and assistance through work for people with disabilities, the Avesnois ecomuseum and the elected officials of this rural living area, have decided to invent together a way to fight poverty and isolation through artistic and craft practices, meetings and exchanges. Thanks to an artistic and cultural office in the heart of the village of Féron, the project aims to become a new participatory model of artistic and citizen mediation, through several flagship spaces: the associative café, a former goat farm, museum premises, but also the public space.
Culture de Quartier
Located in a priority district in the east of Roubaix, Culture de Quartier is a place that brings together educational and social actors to create actions with people in precarious situations. With the DÉTOURNOYMENT project, everyone expresses their reality, their vision of the world and takes part in the life of the City: artistic workshops and cultural outings for audiences who are unable to attend; intergenerational action in crèches and nursing homes; exchanges with other priority neighbourhoods in order to question current societal issues; book huts with events.
The school that’s looking for itself
It is an art school, a school of life that draws on the nearby territory to create its educational program, in co-construction with its audiences. The objective is an exchange of knowledge and collaborative learning, based on a history, which can be common, Art, or lived. The first step is to look together (Maki Suzuki – åbäke, the FRAC Grand Large and the participants in these walks) for a subject, an epicenter as the only starting point of this art school. This search is done together, by walking. This discussion is a guided tour that turns into dialogue and action.
Cultural rights through artistic experimentation
The reception of three artists on the Dunkirk territory, in addition to the work they will carry out with the inhabitants of the neighbourhoods, will serve as a basis for an extensive reflection on public policies with regard to cultural rights, as part of an action-research project. In addition, the representatives of this collective will participate in meetings and action research at the national level within the Culture 21 Network. This approach, undertaken by a local authority, is aimed at devising a new culture of public action.
Poetry in 2 half-words digital
ALIS is a performance company founded by Pierre Fourny, inventor of Poésie à 2 mi- mots, a special typeface that cuts words horizontally to create other words. It takes on an itinerant dimension thanks to the typo baladeurs, which make it possible to produce typo tickets, poetic micro-shows printed on a ticket, distributed according to meetings and events. They are also designed to choreograph words, encouraging interaction between the “spectator-creator” and the artist. By continuing to reflect on how words can be enhanced, and by adapting to the needs of those involved, this project offers a playful and unique artistic tool.
Terri’Toi’Art
Initiated by associations, institutions, artists, elected officials, companies, craftsmen and the inhabitants of the Creil industrial basin, this project aims to discover the territory, in particular the industrial heritage, through meetings and artistic practice. Residents will be able to rediscover and take a new look at this territory, marked by industrial decline and impoverishment. The experience of art, cultural mediation in the broad sense, artistic creation and dissemination are present at all levels of this “cascading” project. It takes shape through a diversity of projects envisaged (disciplines, places, actors).
The ATTACAFA Bridge
Designed with a program of workshops and shows in mind, the mobile module LE PONT will circulate throughout Lille’s micro-territories (crossroads, pedestrian streets, foot of buildings, squares, etc.), creating connections between neglected areas of the city and its center. Each time it passes, the association will seek to leave a trace in partnership with local artists and structures. These interventions will be an opportunity to give ourselves the power to act and reappropriate urban space to make the city hospitable.