Carte Blanche Dream City
septembersept 20 - 22
Friday september 20
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Saturday september 21
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Sunday september 22
00h00
Including Selma et Sofiane Ouissi, Radouan Mriziga, Sammy Baloji, Manthia Diawara, Samaa Wakim, Nil Yalter, Alsarah & the Nubatones, Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, Michael Rakowitz.
La Commune, centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers and The Festival d’Automne à Paris are presenting this Carte Blanche in co-production.
The Festival d'Automne gives Carte Blanche to the multidisciplinary Dream City festival in Tunis, which inaugurates the Commune's first Pavilion. Spanning the Medina of Tunis all the way to the town of Aubervilliers, Selma Ouissi, Sofiane Ouissi and Jan Goossens will be making use of artistic creation in the form of a new urban space.
From its location right in the heart of Tunis, Dream City focuses on context-based new work which has a direct link with local urban realities. It does this by inviting Tunis-based and international artists to invent and create work which is committed to the city in some way. By accessing, in discreet fashion, the informal spaces of the medina, such as cafes, streets, and abandoned houses, Dream City highlights local social and political realities in a global context, and also the threats facing the field of artistic creation. In Aubervilliers, just as in Tunis, the Tunisian artistic team will be unveiling different artistic propositions in unusual, significant places within the area, and in close connection with the local population and its socio-cultural structures. Readings, installations and videos, dance performances, films, conferences and concerts will be used to draw up a living map of the senses and thoughts in action. With this Carte Blanche, the Festival d'Automne embraces both a vision and an eclectic program, whilst putting in place a new-found aesthetic and artistic complicity with its Tunisian partner. Across the Mediterranean, dream cities share the same territory.
In the same place
Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué Biokhraphia
These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia et Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.
Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué Riding on a cloud
These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia and Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.