LIMINAL, Forensic Oceanography, Border Forensics
From Sea to Sky
octoberoct 5 - november – nov 5
© CENQUATRE-PARIS – Photo : Quentin Chevrier ©
© CENQUATRE-PARIS – Photo : Quentin Chevrier ©
© CENQUATRE-PARIS – Photo : Quentin Chevrier ©
Saturday october 5
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Sunday october 6
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Wednesday october 9
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Thursday october 10
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Friday october 11
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Saturday october 12
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Sunday october 13
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Wednesday october 16
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Thursday october 17
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Friday october 18
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Saturday october 19
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Sunday october 20
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Tuesday october 22
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Wednesday october 23
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Thursday october 24
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Friday october 25
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Saturday october 26
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Sunday october 27
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Tuesday october 29
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Wednesday october 30
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Thursday october 31
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Friday november 1
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Saturday november 2
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Sunday november 3
14h - 19h
Conceived by Lorenzo Pezzani, Giovanna Reder, Chiara Denaro, Jack Isles, Tareq Tamimi, Alagie Jinkang, Stanislas Michel, Sarah Walker.
Supported by the British Council as part of the UK/France Spotlight on Culture 2024 Imagining Together programme
The CENTQUATRE-PARIS and the Festival d'Automne à Paris present this installation in co-realisation.
With the support of
Featuring different works by the LIMINAL, Forensic Oceanography and Border Forensics collectives, the multimedia installation From Sea to Sky approaches intersectional immobility and frontier-based violence at sea. The objective is to highlight the way in which the Mediterranean maritime space has been transformed into a militarized border zone.
From Sea to Sky is a multimedia installation specially created for the Festival d'Automne and CENTQUATRE-PARIS. The evidence gathered sheds light upon the role played by Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, and in particular the outsourcing of its aerial surveillance services to private contractors. Aerial surveillance has become a strategic element of the efforts made by European Union states to drive away asylum-seekers attempting to reach Europe by boat, in the course of which the latter become victims of systematic violence, on a considerable and widespread scale. Centred on two wide-reaching video works, this exhibition also includes a sound-based piece, as well as multimedia and cartographic works. Together, they enable us to dissect the real-life experiences of those who cross by boat the deadliest migratory route in the world.
In the same place
Lawrence Abu Hamdan Zifzafa
Zifzafa, is an arabic word to describe a wind that shakes and rattles all in its path. Here, it becomes the title of a performance of artist and researcher Lawrence Abu Hamdan, that enmeshes sonic composition, video game engines and spoken word, to immerse us in the heart of a movement to resist green colonialism in the occupied Syrian Golan heights.
Alessandro Sciarroni U. (un canto)
A year after the premier of IRIS at the Butte-aux-Cailles swimming pool, commissioned by the Festival d'Automne, in which he explored the Italian polyphonic repertoire, Alessandro Sciarroni brings us U. (un canto). This music-based performance piece evokes the profoundly mysterious relationship between human beings and nature.
Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué Quatre murs et un toit
In 1947, the trial of German playwright Bertolt Brecht took place in the United States in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), responsible for combating communist activism. It was here that Brecht wrote a declaration which he was forbidden to read out. The minutes of the trial, as well as this declaration, constitute one of the axes of this exuberant show.