As part of the Olympiades culturelles and La Métropolitaine, rendezvous international d’art contemporain de la Métropole du Grand Paris, Nuit Blanche 2024 is an opportunity to showcase an artistic program in which a thousand unexpected and poetic links are forged between the arts and sport.
With the Olympic and Paralympic Games just around the corner, and backed by a partnership between the PUC Social Club and Le Générateur, Nuit Blanche kicks off for the first time on the other side of the ring road at the Stade Charléty, with an off-the-wall soccer match involving AS Velasca. This most offbeat soccer match, played by artists, serves as an introduction to the art trail planned next in Gentilly. From Lavoir Numérique to La médiathèque, from parvis Robert Doisneau to Maison Doisneau, from Lavatronic to Générateur, the idea is above all to encourage a dynamic of original movement within the city where each.e can – according to his or her whims – stroll, stroll freely, meet the artists and discover the current creation.
Bringing together some thirty artists, Nuit Blanche 2024 thus remains a unique collective rendezvous, the promise of unlikely artistic crossovers and some welcome pile-ups between performance, live music, video, dance and visual arts.
HORS-LES-MURS / PARIS 13e
Football match from 6pm to 8pm: PUC hosts AS Velasca at Stade Charléty
Watch an exceptional match between the Paris Université Club soccer team and Italy’s AS Velasca, and cheer on a total work of art!
The AS Velasca is a soccer club founded in 2015 in Milan by artist Wolfgang Natlacen and Marco De Girolamo, Karim Khideur, Loris Mandelli and Clément Tournus. Registered with the Italian National Olympic Committee, the club is composed exclusively of amateur players. At the same time, the club’s narrative is entrusted to artists from all over the world. An aesthetic enterprise, a work of art, the club is considered by FIFA to be “the most artistic club in the world”.
A participative drawing performance, L’Effort Déchaîné with artists Véronique Devoldere and Didier Clain, as well as a demonstration-initiation to Subbuteo with the president of the Subbuteo section of the PUC, will take place during half-time.
Art & Sport evening: participative performances, encourage, draw, play!
This sporting performance takes place at the Paris Université Club – Stade Charléty, on the synthetic pitch: 99 boulevard Kellerman, 75013 Paris.
A partnership Le Générateur / Paris Université Club.
PROGRAMMING TO GENERATOR
Continuous performances throughout the evening from 8pm to 1am
As usual, Le Générateur never stops changing skin. So, like a true chameleon, its 600m2 space will be transformed in the early evening into a veritable arena dedicated to contemporary skating and dance. With their creation Within a thousand Suns, wearing rollerblades, Oktawia Scibior & Samory Ba will lead the audience into a wide choreographic whirl. Then make way for Jacques Perconte‘s masterful video installation, L’Effort, le monde. A visual and pictorial plunge XXL into the universe of the high mountains, an experience to be enjoyed in long listening or free wandering. In total contrast, the group Aerobiconoise will close the evening, carrying the audience away in a live music set, inspired by a crazy variable geometry performance.
8pm – 9pm: Within a thousand Suns
Samory Ba & Oktawia Scibior (Slippery Art Project)
Dance – Contemporary Rollerblading
By means of a choreographic writing basing its particularity on the absence of friction allowed by gliding, the two artist-skaters Oktawia Scibior & Samory Ba, wearing rollerblades, explore a choreographic language specific to contemporary skating and propose a dance putting to the test our perception of space and time.
21h30 – 23h30 : L’Effort, the world
Jacques Perconte
Exhibition – Video installation
A major figure on the digital art scene and in the French cinematic avant-garde since the late 90s, Jacques Perconte has been developing a sensitive audiovisual body of work in which environment and landscape are the vehicles of a unique aesthetic that disrupts vision as much as the technologies it implements.
In this new work, the artist takes hold with sensuality of high mountain landscapes and the efforts of a few mountaineers evolving in complete freedom and suspended between sky and rock.
L’Effort, le monde is an exhibition on view until July 13 (Tuesdays through Saturdays from 2pm to 7pm, free admission).
23h30 – 01h : AEROBICONOISE
Sophie Monroy, William Nurdin, Circuit Tordu, Yvette Lamarche, Ivan Martin and Ronan Pain-sec
Variable geometry performance – Live music
This sports and sound performance varies according to the physical and mental shape of the protagonists. The action unfolds in the middle of a minimal set, with pseudo athletes, machines and produced sound. Hoops, a cyclist and noise to make pop sweat and trasher all common sense
PROGRAMMING AT GENTILLY
Continuous performances from 8pm to 11pm
Sur la place du marché
Place du 8-Mai-1945
The Cuckoo Clock Marathon
Yassine Boussaadoun
Collective and participatory performance
With humor, Yassine Boussaadoun twists the rules of sport. By reproducing the usual decorum of a sporting event (banners, unmarked playing space, host with microphone, refreshment bar, lively music), he offers on the market square, a rather offbeat artistic experience. He invites the public to take part in a tournament unlike any other: Le Marathon de coucou.
Also known as the Cuckooathon, this marathon consists of cuckooing with the hand at an opponent for as long as possible without taking a penalty. Mixed and with no weight category, a competition can range from 4 to 400 participants. Any athlete tested positive for doping products will be excluded from the competition.
<!– /w:paragraph.htmThis sporting event, accessible to all requires a good dose of endurance. Come dressed as a coucouthonien and coucouthonienne!
Pre-registration recommended: email production@legenerateur.com
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Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneau
1 rue de la Division du Général Leclerc
Le Cabinet des Expert.e.s
Elizabeth Saint-Jalmes
Participatory performance – Visual arts
As an amused and playful critic of the workings of the Olympic Games, artist and visual artist Elizabeth Saint-Jalmes invites the public to become athletes of the imagination. With a series of banners made available at the entrance to the Maison Doisneau, participants metamorphose into creatures of a new kind. Elizabeth Saint-Jalmes proposes here a poetic and positive alternative to the ultra competitiveness peculiar to high-level sports.
In partnership with La Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneau, a cultural facility of the Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre territory.
Le Lavatronic
33 rue Charles Frérot
TRANQUILY
Lorette Pouillon & Yasmine Berthoin
Show installation – Sculpture
Assembling forms in perpetual motion, TRANQUILLE is an absurdly funny experimental landscape. Like a tableau vivant inhabited by sculptures that have reclaimed their place as theatrical creatures, Lorette Pouillon‘s installation finds its place in the offbeat space represented by a Lavomatic with its dozens of washing machines.
Parvis de La médiathèque
3 rue de la Division du Général Leclerc
Pressurized Blocks
François Dufeil & Charles Dubois
Music – Sculpture – Concert
Charles Dubois, percussionist, and François Dufeil, visual artist, take over the parvis of La médiathèque and engage in a live dialogue with its architecture. Between hypnotic rhythms and dazzling metallic melodies, the former delivers an energetic and subtle performance that explores the timbres of the materials (gas cylinders, pipes, plumbing) that are so dear to the latter’s practice.
François Dufeil, a visual artist, takes over the square in front of La médiathèque and engages in a live dialogue with its architecture.
Le Lavoir Numérique
4 rue de Freiberg
Arrière-faix
Laurent Carlier & Hélène Barrier
Augmented audiovisual performance
“Intrauterine life is like a sleepless night.
The placental double is a source of otherness, and fertile of mythologies including digital ones!”
The cord is cut but never the link.
At birth it disappears to be better present.
Let it find you!”
The Minotaur comes here to seek the exit from a labyrinth of images, reminiscences of past memories, a mixture of the future. Ariadne’s double, she pulls the threads of her lives to be reborn in her own body through the umbilical cord that links her from earth to heaven. She traces through breath, like a swimmer seeking her breath, to offer it to the world.
With soundscape by Tania Soubry through sensuous landscapes (with her kind permission) : https://taniasoubry.com.
Hélène Barrier is a visual artist and butoh dancer.
For several years, she has been pursuing a project around the Minotaur, her male alter ego and recurring totemic figure: masks, drawings, embroidery, sculptures and films form a total corpus in open scenographies where self-fiction meets mythological genealogy. This Minotaur known to all is a key that enables her to speak of otherness, of the other, different and monstrous.
Laurent Carlier is a VJ performer and director of the Vision’R VJ Festival.
In partnership with Le Lavoir Numérique, cultural facility of the Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre territory.
Parvis Robert Doisneau
58 avenue Raspail
By day, by night
A program by the Service culturel de la Ville de Gentilly
Street art – Free run
This Nuit Blanche brings together street art and free run, two disciplines that reappropriate urban spaces, hijacking their uses and inviting us to imagine the city differently.
This program brings together La Fabrique Royale for the free run (from 8pm to 8:30pm), artist Aleteïa for the participative creation of a constellation, (from 8pm to 11pm), visual artists Renzo on the façade of La médiathèque and Benjamin Laading through a moving fresco depicting the movements of a wave.
Exhibition “De jour, de nuit” from May 24 to June 8 au Service culturel.
