Pastis-San-Pedro - off-site
Saturday, July 11, 2009,
FRAC PACA, 1 Place Francis Chirat 13002 Marseille
A three-language exchange attempt, carried out and presented in the form of a multi-format lecture by the artists themselves, discussing their artistic practices—heterogeneous but where the other, the elsewhere, emerges as the subject of a recurring quest, where dream, utopia, and disillusion remain obligatory passages.
Four Chilean artists invited to work and exchange in Marseille for a month and a half; two associations that don’t know each other; four artists currently working in Marseille, whether they are settled here for various reasons, integrated into a residency program, or invited for the occasion.
In response to the invitation for interaction launched by German Vidal, coordinator of Apatapelà, with these four Chilean artists, Dorothée Dupuis, artistic director of Triangle, decides to reject the obvious. For once, let’s talk about the work. Let’s decide that this too-short time, which cannot be solely dedicated to the production of works (which would be poorly suited anyway, made too quickly in too precarious a context), must be used to go out and discover, to meet. Discover what? Well, other artists. European artists currently working in Marseille, by choice or invitation.
During a conference with an undoubtedly unusual format, since it will be enacted, performed, read, sung, projected, or something else, preceded by a Franco-Chilean brunch, the artists will try to escape, without fleeing them if necessary, the words and discourses that weigh down, say too much, too poorly, or not enough. They will attempt to make us feel the poetry of an exchange between cultures, values, lifestyles, sensations, and demonstrate the possible existence of a deep and lasting communication in certain fields and territories that may have remained unexplored.
