Echelle Inconnue

FOR WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE UNICITY OF REALITY WE ATTEMPT TO HARMONIZE ITS POLYPHONY. WHO ARE WE ? AN ORGANIC CLUSTER OF PEOPLE WHO DECIDED TO GET AWAY FROM LONELY CREATION AND ITS DEDICATED PLACES TO CONFRONT THEMSELVES TO WHOM THEY WOULD NOT HAVE MET. FROM 1998 WE ATTEMPT TO REALIZE CREATIONS WITH PEOPLE ABOUT EXPERIENCES WHICH QUESTION CITY SPACE AND TERRITORY. THE FOLLOWING PAGES PRESENTS OUR LAST ATTEMPTS.

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conferences, exhibitions, events but also the "invisible" part of the work, research, experiments, texts and articles...

Blouma

 
Walked movie in three languages

Makhnovtchina

 
Part of the work cycle : city / mobile

A research and development around the new nomadism with their "nomadic " themselves.

mobility / work / economy / light and mobile housing / digital / metropolisation / architecture.

Nigloblaster

Bureau des peurs et des angoisses

Cinnectique

 
Eviscerate the machine

Hijack of a video-game "Kinect" sensor using an urban interactive screen.

Fiche 16

 
Map of CCTV in Rouen and public discussion workshops.

« ANARCHOÔTONOME »

 
As a sign of solidarity with the arrested of November 11, 2008 in the legal case of Tarnac.

Manifest and creation of the «most dangerous place in France»

DES[S]RIVE[S]

 
A work around the Seine and its banks.

Smala

 
Redrawing the map of Abd el Kader's Smala with the algerian population of Pau, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Toulon, La Seyne sur Mer, etc.

Royan

 
June 2005. Residency in the festival captures #14 ("Human Capital"), «les voûtes du port», Royan.

Nouvelle Donne

 
Nouvelle Donne, Economy in question. International 
meeting : artists and architects at the crossroads of the political question, 
participation and intervention in public space. Presentation of work. vidéos. 
debates

Nextshop Workshop

 
«Across Napoli by the crisis»
a workshop with architect students from the Penn State University (USA)

A laboratory to explore and represent territory/stany Cambot/
Alexander Valentino/invited by the L.A.N. (laboratorio di architettura nomade) 
during the «workshop/nextshop» organised by Stalker, 
Peter Lang et Pietro Nunziante, with the participation of O.N./stalker, 
Avatar, Soa NJIT (Peter Lang), L.A.N., A.B.A Quartapittura and Penn University.

Black Block

 
May 29th - June 3rd, 2003


Intervention and cartographic field workshop during the G8 counter summit in Annemasse,
 France. for six years our programme is the same : a war. 
Fight against the official city and with the city we wish that 
is not inscribed at the cadastral survey. From there  
the possible coming of gigantic words. In the middle of the altermondialist 
village Black block is the installation of a camera oscura to attempt 
to question, from its representations, the possibility to achieve a temporary 
and fighting urbanity. Black block is the creation of a polyphonic banderole 
which answers three questions : where do you come from ? Where are you ? 
and who is your ennemy?

VEO

 
from march to june 2002


Three boroughs of Canteleu near Rouen. A work to save fictionnal characters 
with women from Dieppedalle, Le Croisset and Bapeaume.
44 days to question the sense of Veo (voir, to see) according to Saint Simon.
the watcher, the look out, the witness, the curious, otherwise the one who cures, 
who cares, who takes care of something or someone.

Nowhere, temporary name for a constructing city

 
October 2001 to May 2002.n

A work about utopic urbanism with : homeless, jobless and romani people 
in Rouen and Sotteville. Three places relied by the web and the following 
pages as a work in progress and as a place to build the city.

the question about «Where»

 
between 1998 and 2000


What happens if the territory does not exist ?

If there only were its representations and nothing else ?


11 answer maps to Where I am ? And where I was ?

10 newspapers to follow the experience.

3 happenings on the public space.

The hush-hush walls of Argonne

 
1999-2000


Orléans, the borough of the Argonne : those who have born there : 
some fourteen to twenty year old people, sons of the 70's immigration.
some newspaper which described the borough, burnt cars and broken glass. 
A four month lasting work with the sons of the city.
9 maps, some posters and an installation to express the Argonne with their eyes, 
speaking about angels, god, war and trapped feelings.

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