OCEAN SENTIMENT FESTIVAL

Sentiment Océanique is a four-day festival conceived by COAL to mark the Year of the Sea and the^3rd United Nations Conference on the Ocean (UNOC3), a major global event that will bring together heads of state, governments and over 15,000 researchers, scientists, associations and institutions in Nice next June to reach what we hope will be a historic agreement on ocean protection.

Against this decisive backdrop, COAL spotlights committed artists whose work bears witness to the richness and diversity of the Earth’s largest ecosystem, during four days of rich programming combining exhibitions, shows, workshops and encounters. The festival’s scientific partner, the Pythéas Observatory for the Sciences of the Universe (CNRS, AMU, IRD, INRAE), will be joined by oceanologists and protectors of the seabed.

This program, held on the remarkable site of Fort Mont Alban, is associated with the Biennale des Arts and is supported by the Ville d’art et d’histoire de la City of Nice.

AN OCEANIC FEELING

The ocean is our geographical, dreamlike and political horizon. A landscape without stable character or boundaries, in perpetual motion, a place where everything changes without anything really changing, at once entirely concrete and almost abstract, the ocean seems to go beyond its geographical definition to designate a sensitive experience, profoundly intimate and yet widely shared. An experience that summons what Romain Rolland called “oceanic feeling”, this emotion that annihilates temporality and space, and that immerses us in a great whole. Although essential to the planet’s equilibrium, the ocean is under increasing threat from climate change and biodiversity loss: warming, rising sea levels, acidification, pollution, overexploitation… even though it plays a vital role in regulating the climate and sustaining life, both ecologically and economically. Three billion people depend directly on its resources, making it a major geopolitical issue between cooperation and conflict.
Mysterious and little-known, explored to less than 5%, it feeds our imaginations, from ancient myths to future projections, symbolizing both origin and the unknown, exile and hope.

A FOUR-DAY FESTIVAL FOR THE OCEANS

Exhibition – shows and concerts – science bar – workshops & experiments – iodine flavours
workshops & experiments – iodized flavors

Conceived as a voyage of exploration at
through the abundance and variety of oceanic issues and the artistic forms that address them, this four-day festival offers a collective moment of discovery.

The event invites you to observe, to observe, listen to and understand underwater life, to immerse oneself in the long time of the oceans, to taste its flavors, to meditate with its energies, and to commit oneself to it, in the shared fervor of art and music. The program is supported by the artists and animated by a professional network of excellence in the field of art and ecology, in the continuity of the actions undertaken by COAL over the last 15 years.