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Un Eté au Havre, 2019

Un Été Au Havre – 29 June – 22 September 2019 – Le Havre

Under the artistic direction of Jean Blaise, great artists are invited to reinterpret Le Havre. Those who took part in the first edition of Un Été Au Havre have all, from their first steps on Le Havre soil, imagined producing works of very, very large format. Certainly to the city’s measure, at least up to what it has inspired them, the sensations it has awakened or provoked… In 2019, Un Été Au Havre returns in a stabilized format: Jean Blaise invites great artists to provoke architecture, to transform the city into a huge game board, to express their art in the public space. Ten new works and installations enrich the existing collection.

With Stephan Balkenhol, Antoine Dieu, Baptiste Leroux, Henrique Oliveira, Susan Philipsz, Erwin Wurm.

Organizers: GIP Un Été Au Havre
Artistic direction: Jean Blaise with the collaboration of Kitty Hartl
Production: Eva Albarran & Co Agency / Ateliers Puzzles

Nuit Blanche 2019

Under the artistic direction of Didier Fusillier and his artistic advisor Jean-Max Colard

A mobile, dancing, circulatory, walking, moving, carried away, sporting, festive night, mobilizing bodies, eyes and minds! For you, for all audiences, we have created a Nuit Blanche all in motion. Where the artists’ works paraded in the form of creative floats, surrounded by musical groups. Where the artists themselves wander in a singular and poetic way through the city. And without this general movement, we invite you too to actively participate in this 17th Nuit Blanche of another kind: either by a somewhat sporty ride through the capital’s prestigious cultural institutions, or by contributing to the symbolic transformation of the highway into a space and light velodrome!

Together, we propose to put in motion and question the ordinary separations between worlds and cultures: with the Parade, the field of contemporary art meets the popular traditions of celebration or carnival, while with the Velodrome, the Grande Traversée or with the artists who will invest the Ladoumègue sports centre, it is the 2024 Olympic Games that are on the horizon.

Finally, the movement is the desire to offer you a Nuit Blanche in line with the rhythm of the city, with its current challenges, with its diverse means of transport and its multiple mobilities.

Before we embark with you on this culturally eventful Nuit Blanche, we would like to thank the artists: visual artists, musicians, performers, voiding, they are the heart of our Night and have fully committed themselves to this extraordinary adventure, with the desire to participate in this great creative celebration that is Nuit Blanche. We would like to thank Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, and Christophe Girard, Deputy Mayor of Paris for Culture, for entrusting us with the artistic direction of this extraordinary Night in the Capital. A huge thank you also to the full mobilization of all the teams of the City of Paris, starting with the Cultural Affairs Department, as well as the Eva Albarran production agency. We would also like to express our sincere thanks to all the partners, public and private, institutional and business, who provided the financial and structural support needed to organise such an event.

AND NOW IT’S TIME FOR MOVEMENT AND A BEAUTIFUL ALL-NIGHTER FOR ALL OF US! 

 

L’Aube, David Teboul : panthéonisation de Simone Veil, Panthéon

L’Aube – Dawn
Trees for me, especially on the road of certain journeys, it was very cold and I remember these trees being caught in the ice, it was one of the rare moments when there was a feeling of beauty.

I was ten years old when I saw Simone Veil for the first time, on a Tuesday evening in a programme called Les Dossiers de l’écran devoted to deportation. I was allowed to watch the television because Wednesday was a day without school; the choice was King Kong or the last episode of the American series Holocaust.
I was struck by the bun of her hair, her beauty and the depth of her gaze. It was at the end of the 1970s. Years later, in 2003, when I was thirty years old, the memory of this emotion remained sharp and I decided to make a film to be able to meet her.
Her secretary’s response was final: “Mrs Simone Veil does not wish to participate in a film about herself.” I called back and laid out my arguments: “I don’t understand why Mrs Simone Veil does not wish to even meet me, does not give a chance to this desire to see and hear her.” Simone Veil grabbed the phone angrily: “You really want to see me? Be at my office tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m. But I’m warning you, my answer is no and I will not entertain you more than ten minutes. And please be on time!”
The following day, I was there and she was late, for which I was glad. The ball was in my court; I was persuaded that she would accept. She looked at me, troubled. I kept quiet. Her: “What is it that interests you about me?” Me: “Your hair bun, Mam”. I felt that she was shaken.
She then told me that none of the women in her convoy were fully shaven, that she never knew why and that it saved her life. Without knowing, I had touched upon a crucial point of her deportation. This first story led to many others.
This immediately intimate encounter was the start of the film and the friendship that followed. Our hours of filming were made up of interviews as well as many moments of her daily life, particularly at her hairdresser’s on the question of her and survival. Our trip to Auschwitz was painful and upsetting for Simone. She had come back of course for commemorations, but she had never wanted to look at the Birkenau barracks again where she had lived for several months. It was inside these barracks that she told me about their daily life, the three of them, Simone, Yvonne, her mother, and her sister Madeleine.
I had promised Simone Veil that I would one day come back to these interviews. I am able to keep this promise today, with the audio installation that I am proposing for her entrance in the Panthéon.
I wanted Simone Veil to be accompanied by her friends of convoy 71, that left on the 13th of April 1944 for Auschwitz via the Drancy camp and the Bobigny train station, 1500 imprisoned, of which 850 women, 624 men and 22 people whose identity was never known. Among them, 148 children under the age of ten and 34 children stolen from the Maison d’Izieu.

This installation is a tribute to the exceptional political career of Simone Veil as well as to her past as a survivor of Auschwitz. I also wished to distinguish the memory of racial deportation from that of the Resistance. The members of the Resistance were actors of the Liberation of France, heroic figures. Racial deportees, Jews and Gypsies, to which belonged Simone Veil, her family and many of her friends, had not enrolled to fight for the freedom of France. They were simply Jewish, like the millions of men, women and children who were gassed in Auschwitz.

This installation is a tribute to these millions of dead.

David Teboul, filmmaker, video artist and documentary maker.

L’Aube – Dawn

Visual and audio installation by David Teboul in 2 parts (neon lights and sound)

Simone Veil se confie – Simone Veil confides in me, audio installation, duration 9 hours.

Birkenau – audio installation, duration 1h56min

Les arbres à Birkenau – Trees in Birkenau, neon lights – 3m x 4m (circa)

La Force de l’Art 02 : Grand Palais

LA FORCE DE L’ART

Ministry of Culture and Communication / Delegation to the Visual Arts
Curators: Jean-Louis Froment, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Didier Ottinger
Architect: Philippe Rahm

A three-year event, organized at the initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, La Force de L’Art aims to offer a stage for contemporary creation in France and the artists who animate it, through the diversity of their origins and their aesthetic choices. Second edition of this event, La Force de l’Art 02 will unfold from the nave of the Grand Palais in Paris, from April 24th to June 1st, 2009.

Nuit Blanche 2015

NUIT BLANCHE

Under the artistic direction of José-Manuel Gonçalvès

Sponsor : Ville de Paris

Les secrets du collège Didier Daurat, Martin Le Chevallier : Collège Didier Daurat du Bourget

THE SECRETS OF DIDIER DAURAT COLLEGE

As part of an artistic commission for the college Didier Daurat du Bourget, a dozen 3cm in diameter small holes are scattered on the walls of the college, inside and outide. Each hole contains a “secret”: an image, a sound, a video … So many invitations to dreaming conceived by the artist or by the students themselves.

Sponsor: General Council of 93

The Logical Basis, Liam Gillick : Gare du Nord, Paris

THE LOGICAL BASIS

Specific creation for the Gare du Nord RER docks in November 2015. Liam Gillick proposes an in situ artwork for the redeveloped docks of the RER B and D of the subway station Gare du Nord. A series of equations modeling oceanic and terrestrial atmospheric fluxes will be placed on colored solid areas painted on concrete. The artist was inspired by the theory developed by Syukuro Manabe in the 60s, a theory at the root of science on climate change.

Sponsor: SNCF / Stations and connections.

Des corps schématiques, Julien Prévieux : Centre Pompidou, Paris

DES CORPS SCHÉMATIQUES

The work of Julien Préviex, laureate of the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2014, develops by questioning the worlds of work, economics, politics or playing or playing with control devices, advanced technologies and management theories. In Espace 315 at the Centre Pompidou, with the support of the ADIAF, the artist proposes an exhibition associating film, sculptures and drawings, whose theme is the recording of the movement.

From September 23rd, 2015, to February 1st, 2016

Sponsor: Centre Pompidou