Paris des vi(ll)es. Intimités publiques
octoberoct 9 - december – dec 9
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Thursday october 9
14h - 19h
Saturday october 11
14h - 19h
Wednesday october 15
14h - 21h
Thursday october 16
14h - 19h
Friday october 17
14h - 19h
Saturday october 18
14h - 19h
Wednesday october 22
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Thursday october 23
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Friday october 24
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Saturday october 25
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Wednesday october 29
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Thursday october 30
14h - 19h
Friday october 31
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Wednesday november 5
14h - 21h
Thursday november 6
14h - 19h
Friday november 7
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Saturday november 8
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Wednesday november 12
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Thursday november 13
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Friday november 14
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Saturday november 15
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Wednesday november 19
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Thursday november 20
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Friday november 21
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Saturday november 22
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Wednesday november 26
14h - 21h
Thursday november 27
14h - 19h
Friday november 28
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Saturday november 29
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Wednesday december 3
14h - 21h
Thursday december 4
14h - 19h
Friday december 5
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Saturday december 6
14h - 19h
Wednesday december 10
14h - 21h
Thursday december 11
14h - 19h
Friday december 12
14h - 19h
Saturday december 13
14h - 19h
Wednesday december 17
14h - 21h
Thursday december 18
14h - 19h
Friday december 19
14h - 19h
Commissaires Scénos Urbaines (François Duconseille et Jean Christophe Lanquetin, artistes et scénographes) et Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, responsable de la programmation artistique et culturelle de la Cité internationale des arts, assistés par Simona Dvorák, curatrice interdépendante.
Is Paris a hospitable city? By hosting artists in residence and the co-construction of an exhibition, this is the question that the Cité Internationale des Arts and Scénos Urbaines will be asking. In and around this place of residence located in the centre of Paris and very much at the heart of contemporary urban issues, they will be investigating, through multidisciplinary and speculative gestures, the future of the city and the place of artists within it.
Celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2025, the Cité Internationale des Arts truly is a Tout-Monde (All-World) island. Artists work and live there for the purpose of research and artistic production over periods lasting from two months to a year, and come into contact with more than 300 artists from all disciplines, generations and nationalities. In terms of their experiences, how do they navigate a path between the simultaneous presence of Notre-Dame and migrants, the gentrification of the city, and the daily challenges of the living world? Is this how they feel about Paris, is this how they perceive it? Apart from those special occasions when this diversity is celebrated, albeit in a selective manner, how does this city welcome the world on a daily basis, today, with all its different ways of life? Since 2002, these are the challenges that Scénos Urbaines have set themselves, via a series of multidisciplinary residencies based focusing on urban environments and those who live in them, to date carried out in Douala, Alexandria, Kinshasa, Johannesburg, Dakar, Saint-Denis de la Réunion, Port-au-Prince, Conakry, Strasbourg and Mayotte.
The project will be developed in two stages: between August and October 2025, around fifteen artists in residence will work together on the question of what this city is today, a place that has often thought of itself as open and inclusive. Following this, from the 8th October, an exhibition will present the results of these two months of exchanges, research and artistic production.
