Bordeaux School of Fine Arts

France, Bordeaux
Site www.bordeaux.fr/ville/babx


At a time of change and experimental renewal at the social and economic intersections of the art arena, the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts wishes to question the current forms of existence of artists’ work. Rue Camille Sauvageau, an historically and socially important thoroughfare linking Place Saint-Michel to Place Renaudel, will be taken not as a simple space of circulation and access but as a place of intervention and exchange. The projects proposed by the teachers and their students involve setting up and bringing life to places of work and trade for a symbolic appearance of the artist as a possible participant in this same system of transactions, and in the reality of the activity and even the economy. By way of a programme involving production, action, urban systems and events (studio publication, songs, light…), this will involve creating a space shared with the public, suitable for reflection and discussion, and inventing collective forms of urban disruption, where temporary occupation and its exemplariness in its factual nature become a kind of obvious stance.


Ecole des Beaux-Arts (photo Pierre Lavesque)

Gabi Farage pour le projet Partie Commune, Photomontage, 2011

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