Six artists have been invited to keep the values and joys of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games alive and vibrant in the memories of Plaine Commune residents, international visitors and future generations along this 5-kilometre walk, the first of its kind in Europe.

Conceived as monuments, masterpieces of a new shared heritage, the works punctuate the redeveloped promenade along the Canal Saint Denis. Strollers can discover poetic, committed and humorous works that play with the elements, context and living things. Their presence underscores the importance of ecological issues in building a common future, and contributes to writing a new collective narrative, in the service of building a world that is inclusive and respectful of ecosystems in all their diversity.

The works on the tour

Entre deux rives by Charlotte Denamur presents itself as a triumphal, colorful arch that inaugurates the artistic journey.
An immense drape magnifies the Stains bridge, and opens like a theatrical curtain onto the river axis, dedicated to the fervor and spectacle of the Olympic Games.
Created by digitizing some one hundred of the artist’s paintings, the canvas evokes an aquatic garden, reflecting the thousand and one shades of twilight.
With its monumental scale and flamboyant hues, it marks the final step on the road to the festivities and the ultimate in excess.
A tribute to the arches crossed by the victors and to the bridges that stand tall, Entre deux rives is a work of connection that invites us to come together, to cross social, cultural and symbolic boundaries, and opens up a dreamlike horizon, a space for contemplation and celebration.

Opposite the new Aimé Césaire metro station, Mathieu Lorry Dupuy ‘s Playground installation features a group of children, evoking the second day of the games dedicated to young athletes in ancient Greece.
As if suspended in time, a dozen childlike figures play, engage in strange oaths, parades and tributes, innocently reinventing the rituals of the games in all their dimensions – recreation, overcoming, concord and confrontation.
In dialogue with the industrial landscape, the work is both a reenchantment of the site and a tribute to the past of this working-class neighborhood that has seen so many generations of children evolve, grow, learn and discover the world.
The unusual manufacturing process, based entirely on locally collected and 3D-printed plastic waste, gives the sculptures an unprecedented graphic and colorful quality.

Along the Quai François Mitterrand, visitors can immerse themselves in Couleur du temps, a monumental fresco by Flora Moscovici spanning 250 meters.
The invitation is to contemplate a luminous work, inspired by the colorful variations of the Canal Saint Denis sky and the soft, shimmering shades reflected here, on the surface of the water, particularly at sunset.
Flora Moscovici’s work is the fruit of observation of architectural details, atmosphere, surrounding colors and traces of successive occupations, and aims to create a “different space”, offering an affective reading of the place, charged with new sensations.
Using an ecological lime-based paint, she reveals over twenty-five main hues and more than fifty subtle blends, like a poetic hymn to the world’s infinite transformations.

Opposite Parc Eli Lotar, perched atop an antique-inspired column, stands the popular and sporting figure of a female kangaroo holding an object that closely resembles a rugby ball.
But in reality, Victoria Klotz ‘s L’entraide et l’évolution is an oversized egg of a tern, a sea swallow that frequently nests on the quays of the Canal Saint Denis.
The kangaroo, which seems to have jumped up to protect the egg, becomes both a symbol of agility and balance, and of protection and solidarity with vulnerable species.
Between cosmopolitanism and biodiversity, this kangaroo from the antipodes acts as a landmark for Games travelers.
Bird nesting boxes concealed in the column’s marquee offer passers-by the spectacle of the passerines that freely inhabit the work.

The new Lucie Bréard footbridge is adorned with L’Envol, an emblematic bronze figure: a young boy who defies the laws of weightlessness to free a bird.
Imagined by Lucy + Jorge Orta, this Genuis Loci, or genius of place, is a figure of play, but also a call to future generations, a gesture of hope for a world more aware of ecological challenges, a dynamic and poetic image of renewal for a neighborhood in the making, at the heart of urban and ecological transitions.
With all the fervor of youth, he shows us the road ahead, so that the future of this industrial landscape becomes more inclusive for its population and its environment.

Opposite the Jardin de l’Ecluse, from July 25 to August 3, 2024, Abraham Poincheval took up residence in his work La Bouteille.
Measuring 580 centimetres in length and 190 centimetres in diameter, it became a veritable vessel inhabited by the artist this summer.
Positioned opposite the Stade de France, it enabled the artist to observe the spectacle of the Olympic flame from the canal.
For ten days, he stood on the edge of the quay, where residents, fans and intrigued tourists would pass by.
Abraham Poincheval, who is used to extreme practices, echoes notions of confinement, isolation and immobility, opening himself up to meditative journeys and questioning the resilience of bodies and their environmental interactions.
Bottled up in this way, Abraham Poincheval surrounds himself with the bare essentials of life – water, food, first-aid kits and conveniences – and a plant ecosystem that turns the cabin into a garden, a greenhouse, a bedroom, a kitchen, a living room, a dining room and a dry toilet all in one.
The La Bouteille experience takes up notions of performance and endurance to question them: in a fast-paced society with intensified lifestyles, isn’t immobility a remarkable effort, a potentially political object, a performance of self-sacrifice or self-mastery?

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Performance evening with Anna-Katharina Scheidegger, Anaïs Tondeur, Stéfane Perraud and Aram Kebabdjian, followed by the presentation of the book Grand Tour 2020 – Meetings across Europe on Art and Ecology.

Wednesday, November 28, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.
At the Museum of Hunting and Nature

Four artists nominated in previous editions of the COAL Prize deliver performances linked to the new imaginary of the melting ice. Based on the story of a cold wave that froze Europe 11,500 years ago, Le Cri de l’Eophone byAnaïs Tondeur presents the results of an expedition revealing the role of oceanic circulations in the climate balance. Projected to 2050, Stéfane Perraud and Aram Kebabdjian make, with Black sunThis is a fragile tribute to the utopian “Saturn” program initiated at the beginning of the 21st century, which aimed to stop the advance of dry zones and the retreat of cold zones on the surface of the globe through the massive implantation of solar ice machines. Anna Katharina Scheidegger offers us her vision of a fragile world and an aching nature through a performance on the ice mixing an ethnological, environmental and psychoanalytical approach.

The critic and essayist Pieter Van Bogaert will conclude the evening by sharing his own experience of engaged artistic practices on the occasion of the release of the book Grand Tour 2020 – Meetings across Europe on Art and Ecology published by the European network Imagine2020 art and climate change, of which COAL is the French representative. The book will be on sale November 29 at the Marianne Goodman Bookstore.

This last evening of the cycle of nocturnes organized by COAL in echo to the exhibition Tierra del Fuego of Angelika Markul will be followed by a friendly drink and a signing of the book.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Admission subject to availability, no reservation required
Ticketing opens at 7pm on the evening of the event.
Full price 8 € / Reduced price 6 €.
Open from Tuesday to Sunday
The ticket allows you to visit the museum and the exhibitions free of charge the same day and in the month following the night.

Place and time:
Museum of Hunting and Nature
62 rue des Archives
75003 Paris

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Within the framework of its support by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, COAL participates with its Laboratory of sustainable culture at the event “We are not the number we think we are” on February 2 and 3, 2018, starting at 10 a.m., at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. This event is proposed by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, in partnership with the “arts & sciences” Chair (supported by the École polytechnique / the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs – PSL / the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation) and the Cité Internationale des Arts.

This event will bring together hundreds of artists, researchers and working groups from a wide range of geographical and disciplinary backgrounds around an unprecedented experience, continuously for 36 hours. The thread that runs through this rich program is the novelistic universe of The Compass Rose (1982), a collection of short stories by the American science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin. Participants will try to draw the landscape of what might exist in the future by drawing some threads from these news stories and will try to get out of their comfort zone, to accept the unpredictable, to wade into the unknown and to question again the value of evidence, doubt, accident and investigation.

Thanks to the richness of the program and the international speakers, everyone will be invited to take the time to reflect on scientific, ecological and civic concerns, but also to participate in the processes of work and development of knowledge.

With this event, the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation creates a moment of renewed dialogue between artists, scientists, thinkers and the general public. Through meetings, participative workshops and shared experiments, the desire to cross the boundaries between experts, specialists, creators, students and novices, but also to explore and discover new aesthetic, multi-sensory and creative experiences. Bringing all these actors into dialogue should make it possible to ask this fundamental question: how can we invent forms that summon and represent, that activate and mobilize, in order to imagine a desirable future and a project for society that emerges from the collective will?

With the participation of COAL :

Seminar “Composing knowledge”.
Friday, February 2, 9am-1pm
Coordination: Valérie Pihet (independent researcher) and Julia Morandeira Arrizabalaga (independent researcher and curator)
With Loïc Fel from COAL, and about forty project leaders supported by the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation

The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation, convinced that the new era we are living in calls for a transdisciplinary and collaborative production of knowledge, has been running a call for projects since 2015 entitled “Composing knowledge to better understand the challenges of the contemporary world”. As part of the event “We are not the number we think we are”, she invites all the project leaders supported in France and Spain to draw together a common horizon of thought during a seminar. Participation by invitation only.

Workshop The Accacia Seed Author
Saturday, February 3, 4:30-5:30 pm
With, among others, Nathalie Blanc, Design Office, Ewen Chardronnet and Loïc Fel.
Presentation and performance of the work of Aliens in Green, co-produced by our Laboratory of Sustainable Culture #2, La Table et le Territoire.

Find the whole program HERE

We are not the number we think we are
Friday, February 2 10am – Saturday, February 3 10pm
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

Sylvain Gouraud. La verse, Boutigny sur Essonne, 2014.

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The COAL team is now part of the 5 structures in charge of the in charge of the 2017-2018 “shared worksites” of the Grand Paris Express cultural program.

The artistic and cultural program of the Grand Paris Express 2017-2018

For more than a century, transportation networks have echoed the place of art in the city. The first metro systems in the world, from Paris to Moscow, bear witness to a remarkable demand for artistic and aesthetic quality, with the intervention of leading designers. This tradition continued in the 20th century with the deployment of ambitious architectural, artistic and cultural programs in Montreal, Munich, Stockholm, Naples and Singapore. It is on the basis of this heritage that the Société du Grand Paris has designated art and culture as integral parts of the metro project. This reflection, conducted by a committee of renowned experts, led to the appointment of an artistic and cultural management team.

Alongside the 37 architects already at work and the designers, this artistic and cultural management team, led by José-Manuel Gonçalvès, facilitates the appropriation of the project by the inhabitants, accompanies the launch of the building sites, and participates in the invention of welcoming and benevolent places. All in

Imagining a new metropolitan identity, thanks to artists and creators from all aesthetic horizons. This approach pays particular attention to the uses and territories crossed by the new metro, by involving cultural institutions and creative resources in the Île-de-France region. The Grand Paris Express will directly serve more than 270 existing or planned cultural sites (Château de Versailles, Cité de la céramique, etc.).

in Sèvres, MAC VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine, Opéra de Massy, etc.). By 2022, nearly 60 construction sites will have been launched and 16 new stations will be inaugurated. During this time of construction, the goal is to launch several hundred artistic and cultural activities along the 200 km of future lines.

Each year, in connection with the work site calendar, artistic, cultural and festive gatherings are organized to unite local energies around the work sites.

Circular economy, co-construction, sustainability are the themes that guide the implementation of these actions. These meetings, entitled “KM” (for kilometer), bring together residents, workers and the territory’s vital forces around popular events.

Each specific or spectacular act of civil engineering on the construction sites, such as the installation of cranes, the launching of a tunnel boring machine or the shifting of a slab, will give rise to an artistic proposal interpreted with the territory, around a construction site meal, a performance-machine, a visualization in augmented reality of the station…

These elements will help give an idea of the creativity of the network. The local actors and structures are associated with the production of these events to announce a program of shared acts during the time of the construction site. In addition, in connection with the “Classes du Grand Paris Express” (see Associated Projects), work on the construction site fences, with local schools, will be designed to create large frescoes common to the network.

Associated structures

COAL is thus one of the first 5 associated structures, invited to deploy their cultural intervention devices, several times a year, on the same site, or even on other territories. The local anchoring to the territory will guide all the achievements. The other structures invited for 2017-2018 are: the Collectif Parenthèse, Si Architects, Malte Martin/Agrafmobile and Yes We Camp.

Federative events will be organized throughout the construction period. We will keep you informed of upcoming dates and you can already discover the artistic program of the Grand Paris Express and consult the website Culture of the Grand Paris Express.

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After Scotland in the framework of a workshop “Sols Fictions” in Aberdeen with KFI (Knowing from The Inside); Ljubljana in Slovenia as part of the Summer Lab of the Imagine2020 network and then the Festival Vivant from September 15 to 17 at the University of Paris-Diderot, the laboratory of sustainable culture – 1st session Les Sols – is presented at the OFF program of the Nuit Blanche 2016, on October 1st, with the installation Petrichor, or the smell of the city’s floors.

Practical information

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The work Petrichor by Anaïs Tondeur and Germain Meulemans can be seen from 7pm to 1am in the main staircase of the Lycée Charlemagne
14 rue Charlemagne
75004 Paris
Metro : St Paul (line 1)

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From September 15 to 17, COAL and the residents of LAB – Les sols, participate in the Festival Vivant at the University Paris-Diderot-Paris VII, with the presentation of two works by Anaïs Tondeur, Yesenia Thibault-Picazo, Marine Legrand, Germain Meulemans and Alan Vergnes imagined during the LAB – Les sols! Videos to be discovered or rediscovered during this festival with an exceptional program.

Festival Vivant
September 15-17, 2016
on the campus of the University Paris-Diderot
Exhibition at the Espace Buffon, 15 rue Hélène Brion 751013 Paris

The works presented at the Festival Vivant

Biomining – The nugget gleaners
Yesenia Thibault-Picazo, Germain Meulemans and Alan Vergnes
HDV color video, 3’25
2016

Since the 1990’s, phytoremediation and phytomining have been practiced for the decontamination and extraction of heavy metals and metalloids contained in soils and propagated by our activities. These techniques are based on the collaboration with hyperaccumulating plants and associated bacteria, which by a process of bio-accumulation, store in their tissues a sometimes very high quantity of elements. The current technology involves harvesting the plants and then incinerating them to extract the desired elements from the ashes.

Biomining ou les glaneurs de pépites suggests, through a fiction, the potential advances of this soft extraction technique and participates in the recent debates around remediation technologies; it is an invitation to question ourselves about our ecological future. Often perceived as a solution to pollution problems, aren’t these methods a way to unload and escape our environmental responsibilities?

In this possible future, extreme soil pollution has made cities uninhabitable; this is the difficult prerequisite for their new status as mines. The project presents the evolution of three species with extracting properties: the fungus Sarcosphaera coronaria known to extract arsenic, the Indian mustard (Brassica juncea) for cadmium, and finally the bean (Vicia faba) for aluminum. These new varieties concentrate most of these elements in their seeds, thus renaming the miners as ‘nugget gleaners’.

Galalithe – Taking care of the soil
Anaïs Tondeur and Marine Legrand
HDV video, Col, 12’13” – Human milk concretion
2016

In the form of an invented ritual, the video installation Galalithe – from the Greek gala, milk, and lithos, stone – accompanies the earthworms in their enterprise of regenerating the soil.

This performance consists in depositing a large cup, made from human breast milk hardened by heat, on a soil impoverished by industrial activities, until this organic and mineral cup mingles, by disintegrating under the vagaries of weather, to the earth to feed the worms. Through this symbolic gesture, Galalithe is helping to make the soil fertile again by affirming the reciprocal nourishing link that unites us to the soil, the support of our human lives. Galalithe also echoes the digestion process of earthworms, which assemble ingested rock and plant particles to generate the actual soil. The film presented here relates the preparation of the Galalith and then the offering to the earthworms in a soil of the Seine-Saint-Denis.

These works were created as part of LAB de la culture durable, the first session on soil.

The LAB, Laboratory of Sustainable Culture, is a research-action program imagined and launched by COAL, coalition art and sustainable development, in July 2015. Its first session brought together, under the sponsorship of Nathalie Blanc, geographer of the LADYSS, the artists Yesenia Thibault-Picazo and Anaïs Tondeur and the scientists Marine Legrand (PhD in environmental anthropology at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle), Alan Vergnes (PhD in Ecology, temporary teaching and research assistant at the University of Montpellier 3 Paul Valéry and at the Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive) and Germain Meulemans (doctoral student in anthropology at the University of Liège and at the University of Aberdeen), around the theme of soils. The resulting exhibition “Sols Fictions” is the result of nine months of research and transdisciplinary exchanges within the LAB, which offers us an original poetic approach to the soils of the Anthropocene.

For a long time, soils were perceived as a simple inert and static support, an inexhaustible resource, an infinitely manipulable material. However, in reality, it is a moving, living environment, today weakened because of human activities.

As well as being a living environment for many animal and plant species, the soil is also the support for the landscape and an extremely rich genetic reserve. With a strong cultural and social significance, it is also the support of human activities, the environment of conservation of archaeological remains and memory of past climatic and biological conditions, a source of building materials, fuels, minerals and pigments.

From the study of soil fauna to the study of fertilization rituals, many ways of being interested in soils coexist, but rarely enter into dialogue. In order to recreate a connection with soils and to encourage a dialogue about them, the LAB proposes to bring together various approaches to soils from the natural sciences, the social sciences, art and crafts.

To begin the discussion, the LAB’s bias was to imagine that the separation of disciplines had never happened. Within the framework of the Festival Vivant, three works developed collectively, Petrichor, Galalithe and Biomining, are presented and reveal experiences born from the mixture of different types of knowledge of the soil.

Find the works of Sols Fictions on : http://cargocollective.com/soilfictions/

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COAL invites you to a signing session and video screening in the presence of the artists and Veit Stratmann at the REcyclerie on the occasion of the release of the book Man made clouds by Hehe.

This event is part of the September program dedicated to Germany and Nuclear Europe of the possible REcyclery. Each month, COAL contributes to this program by presenting a committed European artist.

Wednesday, September 21 at 7pm
Atthe REcyclerie – 83 boulevard Ornano, 75018 Paris
Free of charge / Free access

“MAN MADE CLOUDS” – HEHE, TO BE RELEASED (MID SEPTEMBER 2016)

Clouds occupy a special place in our imagination; their innumerable forms and combinations offer infinite possibilities of metaphors. In the graphic culture, far from being neutral forms, the representations of clouds really express a philosophy. And yet, although much has been written about clouds and despite their frequent interventions in art, design or architecture, few authors have dealt with man-made clouds, these “man-made clouds” resulting from our consumer society.

Produced by industrial emissions, exhaust fumes or cigarettes, artificial clouds shape a landscape charged with multiple meanings, from a critical as well as social point of view. More explicit in that than the clouds shaped by nature, the clouds of human origin seem made to carry political ideas. The present work questions the perception, the representation and the phenomenology proper to these clouds of human origin; it tries to decipher the multiple meanings that they can have.

The “manufactured” cloud, of human origin, is at the heart of the consumer society; when it diffuses in the air, it constitutes a flagrant manifestation of this consumption. But in everyday reality, the very people who trigger such emissions often make them invisible, by disguise, by burying or by displacement. Thus, industrial production and consumption of non-renewable resources are fading from the collective consciousness.

The work explores the cloud as a metaphor, which aestheticizes the emanations to place them in the field of a critical vigilance. Here, the clouds of human origin are highlighted and transformed. By shifting our fascination with natural clouds to man-made clouds, we perceive them – and ourselves – differently. The work of artists Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen (HeHe) which is discussed here questions the unbreakable relationship between man and his environment. The very notion of natural clouds, pure and clean, inaccessible to mankind, belongs to a bygone age.

More information : hehe.org.free.fr – editions-hyx.com

THE ARTIST COLLECTIVE HEHE

A Paris-based artist duo composed of Helen Evans (UK, 1972) and Heiko Hansen (Germany, 1970), HeHe’s work questions the ever-increasing energy needs of our contemporary society by “visualizing” its social, industrial and ecological paradoxes through installations that are often performances. HeHe’s directory presents the worst cases of technological disasters, revealing the hidden dimensions and consequences of such ecological threats. HeHe’s installations-performances are the “machines” themselves: oil rigs, nuclear power plants, incinerators, cars, cranes and electrical appliances of the consumer society. In situ installations or sinister stagings, the machine becomes a theatrical device in an apocalyptic landscape of fluorescent color.

In another research project about mobility ( Train Project), the Métronometransporteon an abandoned railway track (Parisian small belt) the travelers in a bubble of dream and utopia.

HeHe is regularly invited in festivals or events to realize specific installations: Bruges Triennial (2015, 2016), Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou in Cajarc (2016), Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art (2015), Nuit Blanche, Paris (2014), Le Voyage à Nantes (2006 & 2013), FACT & The Arts Catalyst (2013), Skor, Amsterdam (2012), Cape Farewell (2012), Invisible Dust (2011), Centre Pompidou (2007), Luxembourg: European Capital of Culture (2007).

Their monumental project NuageVert, realized in 2008 in Helsinki, uses a laser beam to draw an outline on a cloud produced by a power station; the green cloud changing size according to the consumption of the inhabitants. The installation was awarded the prestigious “Golden Nica” at the Ars Electronica festival in 2008 and has received many other awards: honorable mention at the Arts Electronica (2012), the “Environmental Art Fund” in Finland (2008), the “Zero One” in San Jose (2008) and the “Cynet Art” in Dresden (2001).

Three events are planned between now and the end of the year: the release of their book (mid September) Made Made Clouds published by Editions HYX, with the support of Cnap, the von Braun Foundation (Germany) and Pollinaria (Italy); a series of installations Cloud Crash (October – February 2017) for Cape Farewell in collaboration with the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry and a monumental sculpture Gone with the Wind (November) in Utrecht for Public Works (Foundation Kunst+City of Utrecht).

HeHe is represented by the Aerosplastics gallery located in Brussels.

On the occasion of this signing session, the video works Fleurs de Lys by Hehe and Une colline by the artist Veit Stratmann about the nuclear issue will be screened.

“FLEUR DE LYS” (2009), HEHE
Video, 4 min. 45 sec.

The Fleur de Lys installation simulates the fusion of a nuclear core. The cooling tower of a miniaturized atomic power plant and its post-industrial landscape are immersed in an aquarium. At regular intervals, a cloud escapes from it, in a sound and light staging simulating a miniature catastrophe echoing the imagination of Hollywood cinema.

“A HILL” BY VEIT STRATMANN
Video 5 min. 46 sec.

“A Hill” is both a study and a plastic device imagined by the German artist Veit Stratmann, in response to the program “Art for future generations” of the National Agency for the Management of Radioactive Waste (ANDRA). This study and its working group question the means of maintaining the memory of nuclear waste storage sites and the information on their contents through the centuries to come. More information on ressource0.com

Practical information:

MAN MADE CLOUDS book signing and video screening
Wednesday, September 21 at 7pm
Atthe REcyclerie – 83 boulevard Ornano, 75018 Paris
Free of charge / Free access

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Tweets, videos, poems… your creations on the theme “Why culture” and broadcasted on social networks will be presented during a show dedicated to digital creation on June 5th. In partnership with COAL.

France Culture and the Pompidou Center organize during the weekend of June 4 and 5 an event called “Imagine”, two days of creation at the Pompidou Center in Paris (Beaubourg). In this context, a program will be entirely dedicated to native digital creation. In a quirky and Dadaist way (as we will also celebrate the centenary of the Dada movement), we will present the works of a dozen artists, as well as poems, texts, sounds etc.

You can participate in this real art-kathon of a weekend whose central dimension will be the social networks and the general theme: “Why culture” (without question mark).

How to participate?
1)By posting messages on Twitter about “Why Culture” in the manner of Dada. Please use the hashtags: #WEimagine and #DadaData so that we can find your tweets and select them.

2) By posting on YouTube videos of contemporary creative art created especially for the event. Please use the tags: #ArtTubers #WEimagine and #SoftPower

3)By posting poems or haikus on Instagram with the hashtags #WEimagine and #Instapoet

The program “Soft Power, the magazine of digital creative industries” in which these contents will be presented will take place in public from the Centre Pompidou and live from 7 to 8 pm this Sunday, June 5. A project in partnership with Dada Data, the Coal Project and Bright.

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We will talk about circular economy, urban agriculture, sustainable solutions, but also lifestyle, cuisine and art of living. The common thread of this program is to draw inspiration from our neighbors, to circulate good ideas and solutions for tomorrow, to help each other, to create a European network of good practices and to eliminate borders.

Each European destination is honored during a month, through a weekend of festivities, an exhibition proposed by COAL, workshops, films, documentaries and professional meetings. The RECYCLERY will welcome all those who want to share good ideas and will relay every day on its website and its Facebook the shares that have taken place.

Each month has its own destination…

The United Kingdom – March 3-11 – In March, the REcyclerie is going to discover these English experiences and will share them with its recycling friends!

COAL opens this cycle with an exhibition by Rob Montgomery for a month of March dedicated to the United Kingdom
in collaboration with the Nuke gallery. This sculptor and poet, who defines himself as a “melancholic post-situationist”, is known for his site-specific installations created from light and text. Montgomery invests public space in the tradition of urban artists to make it a space for free expression. With subtle references to Jack Kerouac or Ezra Pound, Montgomery’s work pushes us to be more mindful of environmental and ecological issues by alluding to the unsustainability of this electric city we have created and highlighting the need for a radical transformation in our way of life.

These two works are from his last exhibition presented by the Nuke gallery in Paris where the artist explored ecological and social issues on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Nuke, the self-portrait of the polluted generation, and as part of ArtCOP21.

In partnership with Nuke Gallery and EachXOther

In April, dedicated to Greenland and Denmark, COAL will present a work from Arctic Perspective Initiative.

Greenland & Denmark – From April 9 to 16 – In partnership with the Polar Festival, we head for the fascinating Greenland, home to the second largest reservoir of fresh water and where global warming is twice as fast as on the rest of the planet.

In April, COAL presents CIRCUMPOLAR PHOENIX

Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a transnational art, science and culture working group founded by Matthew Biederman and Marko Peljhan. Eager to highlight the peoples of the Arctic, API invents collaborations between cultures, artists, hunters, scientists and indigenous engineers.

The installation presented at the RECYCLERY brings together flags of the nations and peoples of the circumpolar region!

Greece – May 4-11 – Greece has suffered the greatest economic crisis in its history. In order to rebuild, the inhabitants call upon mutual aid and develop by themselves many new initiatives that are more responsible and sustainable.

For this month of May dedicated to Greece, COAL presents the artist Nikos Papadopoulos at the Recyclerie.

Nikos Papadopoulos was born in 1970. He lives and works in Athens and studies painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Since 2000, he is a member of the Filopappou Group. He was recently awarded the new CERN Accelerate Laboratory Art Program for his work that combines the study of nature and science.

At the REcyclerie, he creates an in situ work whose starting point is Monet’s Le déjeuner sur l’herbe. The opposite of the human process, which wants that in the open air is deposited on the ground all our stuff in order to have a picnic. The artist works here the ground so that it comes to be posed like a tablecloth on our table. This tablecloth is made by different qualities of soil.

France – July 9-15 – Last year, the COP21 was the engine of an unprecedented citizen mobilization. All over France, sustainable initiatives have been brought to the forefront. To not forget them, we reserve them our month of July.

COAL invites Thierry Boutonnier to present his work “Frech Egg Vending Machine” in a new version.

Thierry Boutonnier, born in 1980 in the south-west of France, grew up in his parents’ dairy farm. He creates actions and objects in interdependence with ecosystems as for Le Domaine de Chamarande (2012), the Domaine de Belval (2014), Stuwa and the Grand Paris Express (2016). His work has been shown in Canada, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, at the Paris and Rennes Biennials and at the FIAC. In 2010, he was awarded the COAL Art and Environment prize for his project “Take roots” in Lyon.

A spelling mistake in “Frech”? It’s done on purpose! “Frech” means bad in German, it’s “French” without the N, and a little nod to Marcel Duchamp’s “Fresh Window”. A story of fall to refresh…

Hungary – November 19-25 – After the ecological disaster of the Ajka aluminum plant explosion in 2010, Hungary, which is lagging behind in terms of sustainable development, is gradually adopting emerging initiatives.

As part of Hungary Month at La REcyclerie, COAL invites the artist collective Gruppo Tökmag to present the work “Les gravures murales sont indélébiles” from November 1 to 13.

With this large-scale installation presented at La REcyclerie for Hungary Month, András Tábori and Tamás Budha of the Gruppo Tökmag collective, took as their subject graffiti, and particularly a set of engravings found on the walls of the urban space of Budapest.

Adepts of street art, the two artists consider the street and its walls as open exhibition spaces. For them, the marks left by mostly anonymous authors reveal a set of hidden phenomena, popular and civic expressions that they collect during their explorations of urban environments across Europe and reproduce in artistic installations. They currently have a photographic collection of over 6000 of these graffiti.
The artists then operate a displacement of these urban signs by modifying their scale and their support, giving them a new meaning. Like metropolitan archaeologists, they reveal the almost invisible marks, most of them a few centimeters long, and yet revealing of our society.

Here the engravings represented on a suspended brick wall are divided into three categories: those that have lost their meaning due to the difficulty of deciphering them and the effects of time, those that find unexpected interest in the eyes of the artists, and those that endure in the minds of the people, retaining their meaning, universal, beyond the centuries.
These engravings, imperfect and realized in a spontaneous impulse, question the intention of the people who realized them: what could they think, what did they want to make pass by these realizations? Are they works of art when their authors are for the most part simple passers-by?
Indelible in the sense that it is very difficult to erase them, they remain in their place and can, in this sense, be considered as irreversible markers of urban expression.

Scandinavia – December 10-16 – The Scandinavian region is a champion of renewable energy: 100% of electricity in Iceland comes from renewable sources and public transport is among the greenest in the world.

For this last month of the Europe of Possibilities program, COAL invites the artists Magali Daniaux and Cédric Pigot to propose a selection of their collection of videos triggered by the motion sensor of a camera they installed on the Ny Ålesund International Research Station in Svalbard, Norway, in 2012.

Over the years they have accumulated a collection of 178 short videos made from 2014 to 2016, which are all moments where actions took place in front of the camera: the flight of a bird, snow flurries lifted by the wind, the human presence that can be felt with the rays of light, from the headlights of the vehicles of the station.

Meeting with the artists on Friday, December 9 at 7pm.

Since their meeting in 2001, the joint work of Magali Daniaux & Cédric Pigot has been marked by the double seal of experimentation and performance. Their pieces mix diverse media and combine opposing registers with a predilection for correspondences between science fiction and documentary, advanced engineering and fantasy tales, heavy materials and fleeting sensations.

To the installations and objects, drawings and collages of their beginnings were progressively added more immaterial experiments and artistic gestures. Videos, sound creations, music, poetry, olfactory research, virtual works on the borders of digital art have formed a cycle of works dedicated to the Arctic expanses and which address issues related to climate change, economic, political and geostrategic issues, urban development and food resource management.
They are currently working in Alaska on projects dedicated to archaeology and global warming.

Their work has notably been shown at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2014, the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, Barents Spektakel in Norway, in 2013, the Oslo Opera House for the Ultima Festival in 2011, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2011, the Qui Vive International Bienniale in Moscow in 2010. They were residents at the Cité Siam in Bangkok in 2005 and at Dar Batha in Fez, Morocco in 2013, at the Schloss Solitude Academy in Stuttgart in 2015 and 2016.

Magali Daniaux & Cédric Pigot were finalists for the COAL Art and Environment Award 2010.

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What is a Barter Party?
It is an event that allows you to immerse yourself in the world of upcycling and the circular economy in a friendly atmosphere. The principle is to bring one or more objects that you no longer use and to exchange them with those brought by other participants.

What for?
It is both a good idea to get rid of your unwanted objects and a way to help the planet and others. Indeed, bartering allows to avoid the automatic sending to the waste disposal center, to limit waste and to give a second life to objects.

What is a ressourcerie?
The ressourceries collect the objects you want to get rid of to repair them and resell them without any profit. They help you to maintain, reuse, and recycle all types of goods. The principle is ecological because everything is repaired or used as raw material to create new objects, so there is no accumulation of waste. Moreover, their project is fair since they create jobs and use the money collected to develop services recognized as being of general interest.

A Troc Party is therefore a first step towards an ecological and participative system that strengthens social links and creates solidarity!

*The Ressourcerie “La Petite Rockette” will recycle the objects not recovered during the Troc Party at the Ministry of Culture.

www.lapetiterockette.org
www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr

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Conceived as a label and a publishing house, EachXOther’s clothing brand designs each year collections signed by artists, accompanied by limited editions of artworks, books and objects. For the spring-summer 2015 collection, COAL initiated a collaboration between the brand EachXOther and artists Lucy+Jorge Orta. The collection will echo the artists’ work on climate and environmental issues.

To be discovered soon on www.each-other.com

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