Tailor-made incubator

An incubator for production and professionalization support has been set up, drawing on the in-house skills of our team members. Artists and writers, as well as art professionals in general, contact us to develop their projects.

BORGIAL / INSTALLATION, PERFORMANCE

ACCOMPANIED ARTIST : BORGIAL
PROJECT : Mother Water
FIRST PARTNER : cneai = and Bourse FoRTE of Région Île-de-France.

Mother Water is a performance art project imagined by BORGIAL and produced by the cneai = as part of the FoRTE #7 grant awarded by the Ile-de-France Region.
This project explores the subject of Afro-Western cultural cross-fertilization, through the symbolism of water, mythology and the history of African civilizations and their diasporas. The performance takes place in a basin of black water, directly evoking the mysticism of water in Central and West Africa, associated with the goddess Mami Wata, symbol of transformation, healing and metamorphosis. BORGIAL puts this mythology into dialogue with Western theories, notably that of Jacques Benveniste on the “memory of water”. In his performance, BORGIAL, as an archetypal hero, dives to the bottom of the water to discover relics that bear witness to a cultural syncretism between Africa and the West.

SACHA REY / FILM, INSTALLATION

ACCOMPANIED ARTIST : Sacha Rey
PROJECT : État des lieux des forces en présence
PARTNERS : cneai =, ArTeC, Culture Move Europe,
Institut Français de Barcelone, SOMA, Hangar X Triangle Astérides, Fondation des Artistes, Mécènes du Sud Aix-Marseille, CNC, Artagon et ESAAIX.

Sacha Rey’s proposed project consists of a documentary video installation broadcast on an acousmonium. It questions the notion of the collective through the relationship between humans and other forms of life. This exploration, based on the particularity of a protected Mediterranean species, the pink flamingo, is intended to forge inter-species alliances in which non-humans and the emancipation demands of minoritized people discover common issues.
What would a documentary about humans filmed from the point of view of flamingos be like?
From Barcelona to Marseille, via the Camargue and the Ebro delta, activists filmed from the speculative point of view of the pink flamingo, share and invent tools for managing conflict and violence. The aim is to avoid punitive practices such as “callout” or “canceling”. This film takes the form of a non-speciesist, bodily conversation from a critical perspective of anthropocentrism, using “activism through pleasure”.
Activists will share their memories of adelphities, through happy and collective moments, while sharing moments of reflexivity on their commitments.

Sacha Rey is developing a working methodology known as “documentary dance”, which seeks to interview the physical memories of participants. Through the performative arts, sports practices and non-human perception devices, his cinematic practice seeks to create a form of “empowerment” of minority experiences, with the aim of composing an ode to the multiplicity and instability of identities.

First showing: Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 11am - 10pm / Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris / Project nominated for the Prix COAL.