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28/11/2003

Mobilities

La Fabrique de couleurs, Montreuil

Transimages 2

Mobility of humans, circulation of information, mutations of representation

A project of Synesthésie and Dana Diminescu (sociologist, research attaché of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, program of migratory circulation)

This project is at once virtual and anchored in the proximity; it is an object of reflection and debate, artistic and human emotions, and of participation.

The concept

The process of globalization and to a larger degree what is now called 'globalism' lead to new societal and artistic practices. Globalism is characterized by new economic relations between big financial centers and emerging nations, and by mutations of production modes. It implies radical changes, which translate into accumulated flexibility - or mobility - (of work, markets, products, humans...) and into a deterritorialisation of capital as well as of cultural practices.

The migratory movements of people, but also of goods and information, increase the exchanges and the interactive processes with the other. We are witnessing the emergence of complex mixed identities, which lean on heavy, geographically extended relational networks. This manifests even more the precarious and temporary dimension of these new mobilities. The term of 'globalization from below' describes the constitution of transnational communities which 'step back from traditional schemes of adaptation of immigrants' (Alejandro Portes, Acts, 1999). An integration from below of migrants coming from the former Communist countries is thus observed in Europe. This takes place through a 'deinstitutionalization of hospitality' (Dana Diminescu).

With this edition 14 of Synesthésie, we propose - by means of workshops and artistic events - to analyze these processes, establishing a parallel between the migratory circulation (transnationalism) and the current impermanence of artistic representations.

The migratory flows, just as the fast flows of images, scenarios and sensations diffused by the mass medias create 'a new order of instability in the creation of modern subjectivities' (Arjun Appaduray, Modernity at large: Cultural dimensions of globalization, 1996)

Mobility is the power to change position often and to establish relations between different spaces in which we evolve. It is organized around a process of individualization and affirms and valorizes itself in individualism. It modifies our emotional behavior and our feelings of social membership.

In the artistic domain, the impact of globalism is equally felt in the circulation of artists and their works, in the positioning of criticism and in current artworks. A circuit of international, contemporary art is put into place, which could open up for a dangerous standardization of strategies. With the collapse of avantgarde ideologies, the monolithic representations break down and the closed cultural identities are fragilised. New models of society are emerging. The artist participates in this debate and even their critical positions are tinted by a postmodernist irony.

The impermanence of contemporary, artistic representations is notably expressed through procedural practices, where the status of the image is questioned by the bias of its extreme fragility, by its reading, which is - from now on - imperatively contextual, and by the doubt, which accompanies any attempt to describe a reality or a simple truth (we have already debated this theme in Transimages 1.)

We want to problematize the notions of impermanence and instability through the concept of mobility. In our contemporary era, we spend our time reconstructing contexts, not only by trying to act on these contexts such as they are or as we perceive them, but also by modifying our perceptual framework.

The artistic procedures integrated in this notion of mobility are looking for systems of equivalence and arbitrariness in order to reconfigure current problematics. Their propositions, which modify our perceptive framework, demand a particular attention from the public; a co-presence.

Our intention is to positivize the concept of mobility and to present it as a challenge lanced to contemporary societies in order to realize a dynamic process and thereby elude the notions of withdrawal or hegemony, which are often associated with globalization.

Général Opening : saturday 29th november

La Fabrique de couleurs, 5-7 rue Garibaldi, 93100 Montreuil, métro Robespierre
Permanent information point upon the manifestation
>29/11 : General opening et 3.00 am
7 am : live concert with Emmanuelle Gibello, Jimmy T., Sylvie and Patricia, Vincent Epplay
>29/11-20/12 Exhibition : Pierre-Jean Giloux, Suncana Kuljis, Guillaume Paris
>Les 6-7/12 from 2 am to 8 am : Pratiques d'échanges, (Bibliomail - Nouvelles technologies en Afrique - Atelier des langues), Bordercartograph.
>Le 20/12 from 4 am to 8 am : Fête des langues, Bordercartograph.

Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, 14, rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris, métro Saint-Germain-des-Prés
>1-15/12 : Art Orienté objet, Chapelle de l'ensba
>9 et 16/12 at 8 am : vidéoprojections of Art Orienté objet, Alain Declercq, Rainer Ganahl, Nicolas Floc'h, Laurent Grasso, Jan Kopp, Hassan Khan, salle de conférence du Palais des études

MSH-Paris, 54 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris, métro : Saint-Placide, Saint-Sulpice, Sèvres Babylone
>2/12 : 9.30pm to 6.00 am: Conférences : Marc Abellès, Michel Gaillot, Samuel Bordreuil, Thierry Davila, Danilo Martuccelli
3 to 5 am: Round table : Roberto Martinez et Michel Gaillot
(reservations : mobilites@synesthesie.com)
18h30 : Live performance of Tsuneko Taniuchi
>2-20/12 : Exhibition of Edouard Boyer, Raphaël Boccanfuso, Bordercartograph, Florence de Comarmond, Bruno Guiganti, Roberto Martinez, Tsuneko Taniuchi, The Yesmen

Palais de Tokyo, Site de création contemporaine, 13, avenue du Président Wilson 75016 Paris, métro Iéna
>4-20/12 : Alain Bublex, Vincent Epplay
>4/12 : signature de la monographie d'Art Orienté objet à la librairie du Palais de Tokyo

Immanence, 21 av. du Maine, 75015, métro Montparnasse-Bienvenue
>13-20/12 : Nicolas Moulin

Mobilités off :
incognito artclub 24h/24 at 16 rue Guénégaud Paris 6
3/12/03 au 10/01/04 : Art Orienté objet

stampa

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