[ frasq ], rencontre de la performance #17
〓 Infos pratiques 〓
Du 4 au 22 octobre 2025
8 rendez-vous et 50 artistes
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〓 Où ? 〓
Le Générateur
16 rue Charles Frérot, 94250 Gentilly
Métro ligne 7 : Porte d’Italie (10 minutes à pied)
Métro ligne 14 : Hôpital-Bicêtre (12 minutes à pied)
Bus 57 et 184 : Verdun Victor Hugo (1 minute à pied)
RER B : Gentilly (13 minutes à pied)
Tram T3a : Arrêt Poterne des Peupliers (10 minutes à pied)
Vélib (n°13111, n°42505)
The Générateur’s flagship event since 2006, [ frasq ] is a privileged moment for sharing, meeting and reflecting on performance art.
[ frasq ] is an opportunity to shake up performance art in a variety of formats: cartes blanches, open stages, documentary film screenings on iconic figures of performance art, collective performative actions.
[ frasq ] attempt to grasp the threads that weave performance in order to free oneself from those that hold it back, reactivating its emancipatory dimension.
For this 17th edition, [ frasq ] brings together more than forty artists with the aim of the potential advent of unlikely frictions between disciplines, genres, audiences and generations.
Press release to download
EDITO
But what happens to performance? Is its growing place in current creation a passing trend, a mere fashion movement bound to evaporate like a soap bubble? Is performance art dissolving into a form of soft mass, that of a so-called hybrid, multidisciplinary creation? Through its virtues, which are many (light production, temporal sobriety, ecology of means), wouldn’t it be ideally suited to the increasingly difficult economic context encountered by artists and venues? As a Festival dedicated to performance art since 2009, it’s impossible not to set this landscape as a backdrop. For all that, in its antre of 400m2, cultivating its peripheral position as a alternative to the Parisian artistic flow, Le Générateur resists and continues to assert its vision of performance art. Despite its limited resources, it provides the artists who champion it with confidence and support. Performance practice is lived here at source, and the flot of exchanges and friendships nurtured with the artists brings to the daily, a meaning to the words art and creation.
By bringing together new partners – Barcelona’s Artefacte festival, the Nemo Biennial, L’ESAAA and the École des Arts de la Sorbonne, this 17th edition of [ frasq ] invites us into its intranquil wake, that of a performance always adept at self renewal. Let us be troubled, moved by this journey which will be anything but monotonous, and on its way will burst all a priori and soap bubbles.
Anne Dreyfus
AGENDA
Saturday, October 4 at 8pm ► Show your [ frasq ] The extravagant performance show
Collective performance
Price: 5/10/20€
Monday, October 6 and Tuesday, October 7 at 8pm ► Pile ou [ frasq ] #16
Open stage to performance
Price: 5€
Friday, October 10 at 8pm ► Evening PARTA G#1: With Nastassia Takvorian – Camille Lacroix – Charles Mounal & Chloé Dorémieux
Performance, dance, sound, sculptures
Price: 10€
Sunday, October 12 at 4pm ► Les Salons de [ frasq ]
Le silence de l’atelier by Agnès CALLU – Philosopher and Art historian at the CNRS – Catherine Ursin – Cécile Cunin
Conference, projection, performance
Entrée libre
Thursday, October 16, 8pm ► Evening PARTA G#2: With Natacha Nicora – Katalin Patkaï – Camille Guibert
Performance, dance, sound
Price: €10
Saturday, October 18, 8pm ► Re/generative Performance As part of the Nemo Biennial A curatorial proposal by David Zerbib, in collaboration with ESAAA students
Performance
Free admission
Wednesday, October 22 at 8pm ► Evening PARTA G#3 With: Marc Vives (In partnership with the Catalan performance festival ArteFacte) – Emmanuel Béranger
Performance
Price: 10€
| ARTISTS |
EMMANUEL BÉRANGER / CARMEN BLAIX / YASSINE BOUSSAADOUN / LYOU BOUZON / RAPHAËLE BRICE / AGNÈS CALLU / CÉCILE CUNIN / MARIE-BÉNÉDICTE CAZENEUVE / ANTOINE CHIPRIANA / ORLÈNE DABADIE / CHLOÉ DORÉMIEUX / THÉO DUVAL / CLAIRE FAUGOUIN / CAMILLE GUIBERT / CHRISTOPHE IMBS / EMMA KERSSENBROCK / AUDE LACHAISE / CAMILLE LACROIX / CYRIL LECLERC / DAVID-OLIVIER LARTIGAUD / HOPE MOKDED / CHARLES MOUNAL / NATACHA NICORA / KATALIN PATKAÏ / KEVIN PIERRE / THALIA PIGIER / PIERRE PRADIER / LIU RENYAN / KIKI SASHIMI / HAHAHAH SUPPLAYAS / NASTASSIA TAKVORIAN / CATHERINE URSIN / UWE / SIGOLÈNE VALAX / MARC VIVES / MAKI WATANABE / DAVID ZERBIB & TEN ESAAA STUDENTS
| PARTNERS of [ frasq ] #17 |
Art schools
With a view to discovering performance art, its current events and practices, Le Générateur is inviting various groups of students from art education structures:
– La Via Ferrata, école préparatoire des Beaux-arts de Paris
– Les Arcades, école préparatoire aux écoles d’arts
– L’École des arts de la Sorbonne (Paris 1 – Saint Charles)
This first partnership is destined to develop until spring 2026 with a workshop dedicated to performance led by Julie Vayssière and cross-programming – Galerie Michel Journiac / Le Générateur (Journiac Days – March 2026).
– L’ESAAA – École Supérieure d’Art Annecy Alpes
Around the research project RE/GENERATIVE PERFORMANCE, led by philosopher and performance historian David Zerbib, on October 18, a group of students will carry out a series of artistic experiments designed to test the limits of generative AI in collective performance script formats taken from the Performance Sources database (a site dedicated to performance archives).
The ArTefacTe Festival / Barcelona
ARTefACTe5 takes on an international dimension this year with an artistic partnership conceived in close collaboration with Le Générateur. As part of this, Catalan artist Marc Vives is invited to perform on October 22 to close the festival [frasq]. In return, the artist SKALL will represent Le Générateur at the ARTefACTe festival, with a performance scheduled for November 8, 2025 at the Centre d’art Santa Mònica, alongside Catalan artist Ramon Guimaraes.
About ARTefACTe5
Created by the CLUB9 platform (the first art-action association in Spain founded in 1995), ARTefACTe is a network of programs and events that since 2020 has been promoting performance art in Barcelona. It functions as a laboratory including production, exhibition and touring projects of performative projects.
www.santamonica.cat/en
www.instagram.com/club9_performance_art
Biennale Nemo
Dedicated to digital arts, audiovisual performances, performing arts in touch with new technologies as well as the relationship between arts and sciences, Némo – Biennale internationale des arts numériques de la Région Île-de-France – presents exhibitions, shows, concerts and performances, in some twenty venues across the Paris region. For three months, with its theme “Les Illusions retrouvées“, the Biennale Némo explores new utopias in the digital age.
More info
Illustration : Elizabeth Saint Jalmes
Poster: Birgit Brendgen
Soirée PARTA G#3
Marc Vives - Emmanuel Béranger
Show your [ frasq ] #25
Pile ou [ frasq ] #16
Soirée PARTA G#1
Nastassia Takvorian, Camille Lacroix, Charles Mounal & Chloé Dorémieux
Soirée PARTA G#2
Natacha Nicora – Katalin Patkaï – Camille Guibert
Les Salons de [ frasq ]
Re/generative Performance
