THESE LAST FEW YEARS new nomadic artistic projects have appeared in Europe. Ships, trucks, buses, multimedia laboratories, virtual museums or ship containers converted into spaces of creation and of artistic restitution. All these mobile devices participate in creating new artistic mobility.

Conteners [Mobile artistic network], in collaboration with SEA Europe [Laboratory for socio-anthropological research on art and the city], set up an inventory and study project to initiate a framework for reflection and cooperation.

During two days international artists, project planners and researchers will gather in Paris, to debate and exchange on their projects and practices.

How do these new mobile projects foster new artistic forms in new spaces ?
How do they provoke a new relationship with public space and with the audience?
To what extent has the new media revolution largely contributed to this expansion ?
How do new virtual cultural institutions also produce new cultural exchanges and new mobility ?

The aim is to launch a European movement of reflection and exchange upon these questions. To heighten the public and private partners’ awareness of this movement and what is at stake.
It is also an answer to the needs of the professionals: it aims at identifying good practices and helping them in the development of their project.


In the development process of this project Conteners also lauched a call for contribution in November 2007.

As a 1st step the organisers are collecting information about all mobile artistic projects in Europe. This information will be edited on a database serving as a corpus for the symposium. The different projects will also be presented on our website and through the publication of a booklet distributed during the symposium.

On the long-term Conteners has the wish to realise an on-line resource center, with an inventory of; project-contacts, technical and artistic files, bibliographies, news, contemporary issues and questions from nomadic art projects.

The call for contribution is still open, contact : nomadism@conteners.org


PARTNERS

Project supported by the French Ministry of Culture and of Communication
Délégation au Développement et aux Affaires Internationales. Délégation à la Langue Française et aux Langues de France. Mission Recherche et Technologie.

Fondation Art Dialogue

Thank you to Théâtre Paris-Villette


Flyer : Graphic design Lola Duval. Illustration Jochen Gerner


CONTACTS

CONTENERS
Antoine Beaufort – General Coordinator
antoine@conteners.org

Isabel Andreen - European project manager
isabel@conteners.org

SEA EUROPE
Fabrice Raffin – Director
raffin.fabrice@club-internet.fr