Artfactories

La Gare Franche - Marseille

Hélène — 2010-06-15T13:00:40Z

TEST

The site, ideal to invent and make artistic adventures, consists of a factory, a house and a ground. Thanks to the support of his partners, the City of Marseille, the Ministry of Culture and the Regional Council, the Cosmos Kolej was able to purchase the site and works on its architectural modification today.

Having asked for asylum theaters for fifteen years, the Cosmos Kolej also opens la Gare franche to the other artistic teams, to France or moreover. He invites and accompanies artists, companies and collectives, in their artistic steps(initiatives), with the theater in the cinema, the plastic arts in the music.

The Company pursues its artistic research and the experiment of new artistic forms.

L'Avant-Rue - Paris

fabien — 2009-09-01T10:22:08Z

Description

L'Avant Rue is a cultural centre open to residencies for contemporary research. This old steam factory built by the Eiffel Workshop is directed by a street art troupe : friches théâtre urbain. L'Avant Rue receives artists working on multidisciplinary and unconventionnal forms. Our main centre of interest is site specific projects. For each residency, we imagine in concertation with the artist, a meeting with an identified public sector in order to encourage completion of the project and the permeability of the artistic process .

Former use : a steam factory built in 1898 by Eiffel workshop
Surface of the site : 400 m2
Environment : Ville de Paris
Foundation year : 1999
Type of occupation : lease
Owner of the building : private person

Ground floor space: 184 m2 (16m*11,5m ),
- height : 12m - h
- Under frame : 8,49m, h
- under mezzanine : 4,33m
  available space with 8,49m height: 16*8m soit 128m2
Closed rehearsal space (currently mini cinem: 20 seats) : 45m2
Workshop (wood and construction): 48m2,
2 Mezzanines : 60,5m2 + 75m2 with point highest points at 6,2 and 5,2 mètres
Kitchen : 25m2.
a bedroom for two people is available et certain times of the year

A residency centre for multidisciplinary art forms

Installation
Street art
Circus
Dance
Plastic art
Painting
Photography
Projects involving the local community...

L'Avant Rue organizes

Painting exhibitions
Plastic and performance art work
Performances
Multimedia installation
Work in progress presentations and "meet the artists" sessions

Financial partners

Ministry of Culture and Communication
Region Ile de France
City of Paris

Networks

"Trans Europe Halles": membre,
"Actes-If" réseau de lieux culturels indépendants ,
"De Rue de Cirque" Fédération des Arts de la Rue.

La Fédération des Arts de la Rue (IDF & National)

3 bis f - Aix en Provence

2007-06-21T14:25:58Z

Name of the responsible structure : 3 bis f
Type of structure : non profit organisation
Profile of the initiators of the project : non profit organisation
Continent : Europe
Country : France
Address/tel/fax : hôpital Montperrin - 109 av du petit Barthélémy - 131617 Aix en Provence cedex 1
Phone : 33 4 42 16 17 75
fax : 33 4 42 16 18 23
contact@3bisf.com
www.3bisf.com
Contact : Sylvie Gerbault

Description

Place of contemporary art open in February 1992 within the psychiatric hospital of Montperrin in Aix in Provence,
opened with the patients of the hospital as to people of outside.

Former use of the building : house of internment for women
Environment : urban
Type of occupation : placed at the disposal by Montperrin hospital
Owner of the building : the Montperrin hospital

Infrastructures / Facilities

Room of spectacle : 93 places
Showroom : 160 m2 (including 50 m linear)
Mezzanine for workshop : 65 m2
Garden : 1000 m2
Studio : 70 m2
Workshop 1 : 80 m2
Workshop 2 : 80 m2
Workshop 3 : 50 m2
Office 1 : 12 m2
Office 2 : 12 m2
Office 3 : 12 m2

Social and artistic disciplines

Théâtre : spectacles / performances / festival / débat / résidences / exposition / ateliers

Musique : spectacles / performances / festival / débat / résidences / exposition / ateliers

Danse : spectacles / performances / festival / débat / résidences / exposition / ateliers
Festival Hors Cadre Danse

Arts visuels : spectacles / performances / festival / débat / résidences / exposition / ateliers

Financial support

Drac PACA
Conseil Régional PACA
Conseil général 13
City of Aix en Provence
Montperrin hospital

Batofar - Paris

2006-02-13T15:03:24Z

Contact

Name of the responsible structure : Bateau-Feu Ltd
Type of structure : Firm
Profile of the initiators of the project : the Batofar team
Continent : Europe
Country : France
Address : 11 quai François Mauriac
75013 Paris
Tel : 01 53 60 37 85 / Fax : 01 53 60 17 32
E-mail: mona@batofar.org
Website: www.batofar.org
Contact : Mona Van Cocto (director)

Description

Rehabilitated in 1999 out of cultural equipment by Signe et Eaux association, the BATOFAR's artistic project is firstly orientated towards electronic music and digital art.
It follows an exploration, reception and support policy for the diffusion of the European musical and visual expressions broadcasting , related to an exploration urban space and the city.
In order to fulfill its mission of prospection of experimental practices the BATOFAR aims to discover alternative cultural mediums especially by organizing meetings between European labels, places and artists and festivals dedicated to national and international scenes.
Little by little the place has become more and more opened to all sorts of current pop music, asserting an interbreeding of the cultures and preaching diversity.

Former use : lightship
Total surface of the site : 300m²
Location : on a bank of the Seine in Paris
Foundation year of the centre : 1999
Type of occupation : rent
Owner of the building : Osprey Ltd

Infrastructures / Facilities

Venue : 75m²/ 225 to 250 people
Bar
Chill out

Social and artistic disciplines

All sorts of pop music : concerts, festivals, artist residencies, djing
Visual Arts: experimental movies, vjing, performances, digital art

4-33 - Mantes-la-Ville

2006-02-10T16:33:41Z

Contact

Name of the structure : 4-33
Type of structure : non for profit association
Initiators of the project : L'Atelier des échanges culturels
Continent : Europe
Country : France
Address : 28, Bd Roger Salengro
78200 Mantes-la-Ville - France
Mail:181, rue des Pyrénées
75020 Paris
Paris
tél : 33 1 43 49 37 30 Mobile: 06 72 19 09 97
E-mail : frederic.skarbek@4-33.net
Contact : Frédéric Skarbek

Description

The concept is to open a place like a local bar with live music mixed with other rooms dedicated to any kind of artistic experiments. Anyone who has got an interesting idea or initiative is welcome to join the project.

Former use : old modelling factory
Total surface of the site : 680 m2
Location : far end of the suburbs of Paris
Foundation year of the centre : not finished yet
Type of occupation : still unsolved
Owner of the building : a public authority of urban design

Infrastructures / Facilities

Artistic experimentation warehouse (250 m2)
Cafe/bar with a live music stage
Venue
Office
Spaces to rent (150 m2)

Social and artistic disciplines:

Mainly visual arts and electrified music with extensions towards architecture, contemporary dance, etc...

Financial support: still looking forward to get one...

Networks: Autre(s)p'Arts ; collectif O.P.R. (Offre Publique de Réflexion ).

Point éphémère - PARIS

2005-09-19T17:50:24Z

Contact

Name of the structure in charge : Point Ephémère
Projet initiator: association Usines Ephémères
Continent : Europe
Pays : France
Adress : Point Ephémère
190 / 206 quai de Valmy
75010 Paris
Tél : +33 (0) 1 40 34 02 48
Fax : +33 (0) 1 40 34 02 58
e-mail : info@pointephemere.org
Site web : www.pointephemere.org

Contacts :
Directors _ Frédérique Magal / Christophe Pasquet
Visuals Arts _ Julien Amicel
Music _ Benoit Rousseau
Dance _ Chloe Arnaud
Communication _ Aude Meuret

Point Ephémère is an art centre located the 10th arrondissement of Paris, in a former dock-hall on Canal Saint Martin. Its project mixes artists' residences, public performance and an active intervention of the City of Paris.
It is lead by Usines Ephémères's team (Ephemera Factories) who has been transforming abandoned and unused buildings into temporary artistic spaces for fifteen years. This new centre for artistic dynamics is equipped with the necessary tools for artists' residence (visual and fine artists, musicians, dancers and choreographers) and public recognition of their work.
Point Ephémère has a programmed lifetime of four years. It's principle will enable a turning point in the new cultural future programmed by the City of Paris in the next coming years for the site.
Point Ephémère opened with its first live music performance, on October 2004 the 13th. Since then, musicians, dancers and fine artists have been filling the rehearsal and work studios with their work and presence, exhibitions, performances and gigs go on and the restaurant now welcomes customers every day.

The Building / History

Point Éphémère is settled in the 1400m2 former Point P building, named upon the building material brand.
Built in 1922, its first landowner dedicated this bricks and concrete art-deco architectural building to commerce. This former dock, which fully participated to the industrial life of Canal Saint Martin, dissociates itself from the start by its progressive aim. Mr Suchet, a businessman and landowner of the building enhanced the site with a playground and a ballroom for the benefit of his employees and the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. Robert Sabatier also gives a precise description of the building in his novel, Les Allumettes Suédoises.
Until December 2007, the building will be shared with the Château-Landon Fire Station, the House of Associations of the 10th arrondissement and Point Ephémère. Observation comity
Artistic direction and actions are being discussed during regular meetings with the observation comity composed with members of the area's council, social centre directors, associations' presidents and City Hall members. The comity (25 people) has a consultant's role and checks the accuracy of the actions taken and allows a real public relations work.

Sponsors
The City Hall of Paris, the Ile de France Region, the Ile de France Direction for Cultural Affairs and the National Centre for Popular Music (CNV) sponsor Point Éphémère.

A PLACE FOR CREATION...

Residences

4 visual arts studios
5 music rehearsal studios
1 dance studio
Creation workshop
Multimedia platforms (sound and image poles)

Point Ephémère offers a system of residences of 3 to 6 months for the 4 visual arts studios, the 2 music studios and the dance studio. These residences make the realisation of creative, research and production work possible on a specific project. They are destined to emerging artists.
Candidatures are called upon every 6 months by email and a different commission for each discipline chooses the artists who will benefit from the studios. The selected artists participate to the general operation of the building. As compensation, Point Ephémère sets accompaniment devices and the necessary energies up in order to help them realise their project. • Dance
1 dancing hall ... 135 m2
Methods: hour hiring and residences.
Equipment: floating parquet floor, dancing carpet, wiring for sound, cloakroom.

The residences can last from 1 to 3 months.

The dance residences at Point Ephémère are, above all, research and experimentation choreographic residences. They are an opportunity for artists not to be solely in ultimate masterpiece production and public performance logic.
The dancing studio offers a view from above on the canal. White walls and large mirrors completed by a light sound wiring. This space has two roles: dancers and dance companies for residences and hiring for dancing or kung fu lessons. This enables a mix of the publics and genres.

• Visual Arts
4 visual arts studios ... 30 m2 each
The studios are located upstairs. There are four of them, all with a view on the canal. The residences never exceed 6 months. The studios have been conceived in line, partitioned with light structures entirely removable. This system allows an easy evolution of the spaces.
Visual Arts residences at Point Ephémère take place during a six months period and are articulated around a helped project. The residence is aimed at young artists or young projects, with a need for support by a third part. Point Ephémère has a role of producer or co-producer on the residents' projects and helps with fund raising and sponsoring. Residents benefit from free access to production tools, which gives them a larger autonomy: wood and metal working studio, sound and video studios, a sound engineer and a video engineer. In addition, our guidance takes other shapes like administrative or law support or through the organisation of regular visits of the studios by professionals.
There are four visual art studios dedicated to residences of approximately 30 m2 each. A monthly and fixed fee covering a part of the general expenses will be asked as participation to each resident.
Over the 4 studios, two are dedicated to residences, one welcomes foreign artists within the context of an international exchange. The forth studio is reserved to artists producing an exhibition at Point Ephémère.

• Music
For technical reason, music residences are cancelled for the moment. They should be reintroduced in September 2005.

5 The Music Rehearsal Studios
Disposition set on schedule
Methods: residences and hiring
Opening Time: Mondays to Saturdays
Surface: 30 m2

5 soundproofed boxes on the banks of the canal are placed at the disposal of professional or amateur musicians who can hire them for periods of 1 to 6 months. These are not recording but rehearsal studios, preventing from noise harmful effects on neighbourhood in central Paris.
These spaces are set with disposition on schedule and are aimed at any artist, association or person willing to benefit from a space for creation on a specific period.

Stock and creation room

Methods: artists from all disciplines on scheduled calendar.
Surface: 80 m2

This large collective workshop is destined to all artists from all disciplines, for them to make or create pieces of work or a scene set. Directly accessible from the street, this workshop is the process of being equipped with proper machinery and tools.

Multi-media platform
Sound and image pole
Methods: artists from all disciplines on scheduled calendar.
Surface: 80 m2

Point Éphémère wished to create a powerful production tool aimed at the artists through the installation of relevant and proper audio-visual equipment. The funds were not sufficient to fully implement this ambitious project. Point Éphémère is nevertheless equipped with sound recording material aimed at visual artists and dancers and modest video tools.

...PUBLIC EVENTS...
The Concert Hall

Surface: 340 m2
Capacity: 300 personnes
The concert hall has been voluntarily designed as a cosy equipment, claiming a reduced capacity in order to favour relations with the public. Dedicated to amplified music, the concert hall is also used for hybrid performances, video projections and conferences.

The Exhibition Hall
Surface: 120 m2
Opening Time: varies according to the exhibitions / free admittance.
The exhibition hall is located next to the restaurant. Based on the edge of the canal, a huge bay window lets sunlight during the day and neon lights at night get in, and blurs notions of inside and outside. If the proximity of the restaurant constantly brings a constantly renewed public, this cohabitation implies an interesting questioning regarding the exhibition.

The Dancing Hall
1 dancing hall ... 135 m2
The dancing studio offers a view from above on the canal. White walls and large mirrors completed by a light sound wiring. The third use of the dancing hall is public and professionals performances, within a reduced capacity of 60 persons, for residents.

...AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
Bar / Restaurant

Opened every day from 12pm until 2am
Closes at 8pm on Sundays.
Light cuisine on weekend lunches.
Terrace on the bank of the canal.
Prices: from 10 to 13 Euro at lunch.

Point Ephémère's bar - restaurant is the space for public relations between the concert hall and the exhibition hall.
Its cuisine is traditional and convivial. The restaurant is open all day and, on the bank of the canal, its open-air terrace contributes, with the rest of Point Ephémère's activities, to the revival of this par of the area, which used to be forsaken in the past.

Roof terrace
Activities: performing and fine arts show, summer restaurant.
Surface: 900 m2
This gigantic space makes Point Ephémère look like an elegant cruise liner. The terrace overhangs the surrounding area and is a privileged place. When summer comes, a light cuisine restaurant is opened to the public. An events' programme is under preparation.

Dance Tutorials
Dance tutorials opened to the public are held in the evening during weekdays and in the weekend:
Mondays to Tuesdays: Capoeira by Association Canto de Capoeira
Wednesdays: Contact Dance by Stéphanie Auberville
Thursdays: Kung Fu par maitre Zong Hong
Saturdays: Eastern Dance
The dancing hall can be hired. Information and contact: Chloé Arnaud / + 33 140340248.

Private Hiring
Point Ephémère's spaces (bar-restaurant, concert hall, exhibition hall) can be hired fir private events (movies filming, showcases, corporate events, ...).

Villa mais d'Ici - Aubervilliers

2005-09-19T17:36:36Z

Contact

Name of the structure : Villa Mais d'Ici
Type of structure : non for profit association
Initiators of the project : Babette and Jean Martin (presidente and founder from compagnie Les Grandes Personnes), Alain Feffer (vice-Presidente, administrator of the project), François Hubert (founder , technical director), Marcel Auber (treasurer), Martine Mounier, Christophe Evette et Benoît Hamelin (founders)
Continent : Europe
Pays : France
Adresse : Villa Mais d'Ici - 77, rue des Cités - 93300 Aubervilliers - France
Tel : 33 1 41 57 00 89
E-mail : contact@villamaisdici.com
Contact : Babette Martin, presidente: 06 26 42 28 38

The Villa mais d'ici is a cultural center in a renovated warehouse (in relationship with the surrounding neighbourhood). The association has rented since november 2003, from a private owner, an industrial warehouse of 3 200 m2 situated in Aubervilliers, in the northern suburbs of Paris, an area popular and multicultural, classed as a “urban refurbishment area”. This project stands on 3 objectives :

1) a hothouse of small cultural buisnesses

14 structures working in the domaine of livings arts, are permanently based at the Villa:
theater compagnies, street theater, giant marionnets
video and photographic studio
sound studio
, visual and graphic artists,
decorators and set makers,
organisation of multicultural events,
light conceptualizers,
architects, scenographs, cultural and urban projects consultants engineers, The Villa provides various spaces (offices, workshops...), and houses about fifty artists. The Villa strives to achieve collaborative relations between its permanent residents, and provide them notably diverse spaces and services : workshop costumery, carpentry, hostel...

2) There are also diverse spaces available to welcome creators on temporary residence (weeks or months).

3) It develops a cultural programmation open to the local neighbourhood (from all cultural and social origins) : concerts, cinema, open dinners, workshops, debates, festive events, carnavals,... Therefore contributing to the access to artistic disciplines and intercultural dialogue for marginalized populations. Finaly to offer an alternative to open closed communities.

Entirely self-managed, the villa has fonctionned until now without any public funding, asking largely the good will and voluntary work of its members. However, local authorities and state departements are today being asked to participate in financing the restructuring and the bringing up to standard of the equipement.


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Art Centre Passerelle - Brest

2004-02-04T23:00:00Z

Contact

Name of the responsible structure : Centre d'art Passerelle
Type of structure : non for profit organization
Continent : Europe
Country : France
Address: 41 rue Charles Berthelot 29200 Brest
Tel : 02 98 43 34 95
Fax : 02 98 43 29 67
Mail : passerelle@infini.fr
Website : www.passerelle.infini.fr/frame.htm
Contact : Chantal Bideau, présidente et coordinatrice; Emmanuelle Baleydier, chargé de communication

Description

Passerelle is a 4500m2 space located in the very centre of Brest. It has been managed by an association since 1988. Passerelle is the result of a meeting of art lovers, committed to activity in their town. Passerelle is a raw, naked site Passerelle is an abandoned industrial site, whose exceptional large spaces and good natural lighting provide artists with a made to measure location. Through the sheer size of the premises, artists can give full scope to spatial expression, modifying perceptions and traditions. Passerelle enables artists to return to the primitive first steps in producing a work; it's a raw space; it allows hesitation, random experimenting; put quite simply, it enables the artistic approach. Passerelle provides artists with a raw space that lets itself be assimilated, lets artists play with the site itself. For artists, Passerelle is like an empty canvas of monumental dimensions.

Former use : banana ripening room
Surface of the site : 4500 m²
Location : center of the city
Foundation year : 1986
Type of occupation : free-lending contract
Owner of the building : City of Brest

Infrastructures

Art gallery/exhibition places : 2500 m²
Offices : 2 + a hall
Workshop : 300 m² dedicated to educational activities

Social and artistic disciplines

Contemporary theatre : diffusion

Music : diffusion

Contemporary dance : diffusion

Heritage-Architecture : diffusion

Visual art : residencies / creation / production /diffusion / debate /conference

Literature-Poetry : diffusion

Pedagogical activities:

commented visitings for children at school (simple visiting with a pedagogical organizer), for adults (guided visitings of exhibitions first saturdays of each month).

pedagogical activities: main goal of using every single child sense, its imagination, its culture through experience, observation, expression and its critical mind in an individual and collective way (fine art workshops for 6-12 years old, fine art workshops for adults, fine art training for 6-12 years old during school holidays, video workshops for students, free expression workshops for adults).

Financial partners

City of Brest
Departmental council of Finistère (Conseil Général du Finistère)
Regional council of Britain (Conseil Régional de Bretagne)
Regional cultural Direction of Britain (DRAC Bretagne)

Mains d'Œuvres - Saint Ouen

2003-09-03T15:26:57Z

Name of the responsible structure : Mains d'Œuvres
Type of the structure : non for profit organization
Initiators of the project : different non for profit organizations
Continent : Europe
Country : France
Address: 1 rue Charles Garnier 93400 Saint-Ouen
Tel : + 33 1 40 11 25 25
Fax : + 33 1 40 11 25 24
Mail : info@mainsdoeuvres.org
Website : www.mainsdoeuvres.org
Contact : Magali Terrier, communication officer

Description

Mains d'Œuvres is a cultural place open to contemporary research in the fields of arts and society. This place of work residencies, public events, meeting and experiences aims at welcoming artists from all disciplines, as well as associative and citizen experiences.

The functioning of Mains d'Œuvres relies on decompartmentalization, interaction, exchange and partnership with numerous public and private entities. The place is dedicated to all the people who seek synergies, interfaces, whatever are their artistic - music, visual arts, dance, theatre, multimedia... - or thinking and action fields - education, politics, information and communication technologies, international co-operation...

Mains d'Œuvres proposes technical, logistics and human resources to the resident artists and associations in order to accompany them in their projects and artistic production. Thus, Mains d'Œuvres intends to supply all the best conditions for the development of creations and new experiences willing to link art, culture and society.

Mains d'Œuvres also collaborates with numerous national and international networks.

This 4000m² space, with its unfinished and friendly touch, generates activity and creativity. Mains d'Œuvres wants to settle on a long run scheme while remaining adapted to the permanent evolution of the system.

Former use : a cultural and sports committee for employees of the French firm Valeo
Surface of the site : 4000m²
Architect of the rehabilitation : Nicolas Rosier
Foundation year : 1998
Type of occupation : lease
Owner of the building : City council of Saint-Ouen

Infrastructures

Production studio
17 music rehearsal studios (from 20 to 40 m²) : 8 for residencies/9 for hour rental/1 drum room/1 image and sound multimedia studio
concert hall : 125 m²/300 pers
bar
restaurant : 150 m²
gymnasium : 500m² meant for all kinds of disciplines (dance, circus, theatre, visual art, sports, etc.)
6 studios for artists and companies
offices
conference hall : 100 seats
art gallery/exhibition room: 250 m²
dance hall
1 multimedia training centre
associative spaces : 1 "pépinière associative" (offices for starting associations), 1 "pôle associatif", 3 offices for resident associations
resources centre

Social and artistic disciplines:

Contemporary theatre : residencies / diffusion / rental spaces

Music : residencies / creation / production / diffusion / training workshop / rental spaces

Contemporary dance : residencies / creation / production / diffusion / training workshop / debate / rental spaces

Heritage-Architecture : diffusion / debate / conference

Visual arts : residencies / creation / production / diffusion / training workshop / debate / conference

Circus : rental spaces

Street performing art : rental spaces

Multimedia : residencies / creation / diffusion / training workshop / debate / conference

Cinema-Audiovisual : diffusion / rental spaces

Radio-Television : diffusion / rental spaces

Solidarity-Citizenship : residencies / production / training workshop / debate / conference / rental spaces

Press : residencies / rental spaces

Other structures settled on the site

ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES

Arts sensitifs (digital arts)
Ark (musician)
AS Dragon/Tricatel (musicians)
Black Strobe (musician)
Charlie O (musician)
Compagnie Anonyme (dance)
deValence (graphic designers)
Etienne Jaumet (musician)
FlyTrap (musicians)
Helen Evans et Heiko Hansen (digital arts, design)
Herman Düne (musicians)
IXKIZIT Cie Joel Borges (dance)
Julien Saglio (visual arts)
Keity Anjoure (dance)
Kiwat Compagnie (dance)
Les Semeurs (theatre, mouvement)
Les Souffleurs (theatre)
Mendelson (musicians)
Moov'n Aktion (association)
Sciapode - Emilie Blézat (theatre and dance)
Synesthésie (artistic electronic magazine)
The Married Monk (musicians)
Véronique Caye (theatre, visual arts)

RESIDENCES OF CIVIC PROJECTS
A tous les étages (association)
ASILES (association)
Batik International (association)
Caranovana (association)
Disco Babel (association)
Du Zieu dans les Bleus (Theatre company)
Ktha compagnie (Theatre company)
LAPLATEFORME (association)
Panamako (association)
Studio de sculpture sociale (association)
VECAM (association)

Financial partners

City of Saint-Ouen
Department of Seine-Saint-Denis
Ministry of Culture and Communication
Caisse des dépôts et des consignations
Region Ile-de-France
France Active

Networks

TransEuropeHalles
Autresparts
Actes-If

L'Echangeur - Bagnolet

2002-02-07T00:03:23Z

Contact

Name of the responsible structure : Compagnie Public Chéri
Type of the structure : association loi 1901
Initiator of the project : compagnie Public Chéri
Continent : Europe
Country : France
Adress : 59 avenue du Général de Gaulle 93170 Bagnolet
Tel : 33 1 43 62 06 92
Fax : 33 1 43 62 82 48
e-mail: l.echangeur@wanadoo.fr
Website: www.multimania.com/echangeur
Contact : Régis Hébette, Antoine Beaufort

Description

The Public Chéri company came into existence in the town of Bagnolet in 1988 on the initiative of town native Régis Hébette. In 1994, the company took over a series of disused warehouses in order to:
permanently install its creation and training activity there
house, and make itself a relay for, experiments with new art forms and the dissemination of young contemporary creativity.

After two years of building work, l'Echangeur was opened to public in 1996. As an alternative, shape-shifting, multidisciplinary site, a true “laboratory of the unexpected,” l'Echangeur tries to cut across different art forms and test out new artistic expression languages that go beyond the traditional picture frame. Decompartmentalise the arts, put together a programming and public relations policy that breaks away from the sole demands of economics and media recognition. These are just a couple of l'Echangeur's main artistic project lines..

L'Echangeur is a place that fires relations between the public and artists, and more generally, between creation and the community through artistic practices, dissemination, meetings.

L'Echangeur wants to contribute to encouraging the expression of differences, the free circulation of ideas, the sharpening of awareness by encouraging people to frequent the arts and artistic practices. The space is a creativity tool, made available to artists in the best possible conditions. It is also an economic player, contributing actively to job creation, to professional integration, and more generally, to the development of a neighbourhood and a town.

Ancien usage : Ateliers de couture
Surface du site : 600m2 ( 350 m2 : salle de spectacle+ loges+2 bureaux+ bar/ 150m2 pavillon séparé :3 bureaux et espace d'hébergement)
Environnement : proche banlieue/ echangeur autoroutier de Bagnolet
Date de fondation : mars 1996
Type d'occupation : bail de location 3/6/9 reconductible
Propriétaire du bâtiment : bailleur privé

Infrastructures

bar
light meals
venue(100 seats/300 standing)
5 offices
housing space : 2 bedrooms / 1 kitchen: capacity 6 people
multimedia space in the bar (3 computer)
interior courtyard
exhibition room : Bar of Echangeur

Social and artistic disciplines

Contemporary theatre : residencies / creation / coproduction-corealisation / diffusion / training workshop / debates / conferences

Music : diffusion

Contemporary dance : diffusion / debates / conferences

Visual arts : diffusion

Street performing arts : diffusion

Multimedia : residencies / creation / diffusion / debates / conferences

Financial partners

DRAC Ile-de-France (Ministry of Culture / Region)
Regional council Ile-de-France
General council Seine-Saint-Denis (department)
City of Bagnolet
Préfecture Seine-Saint-Denis
FAS
Thécif

Networks

Actes-if network : 12 independent centres in Ile-de-France