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    Tomorrow Is An Island / Demain est une île

    October 4 - December 23, 2016

    With, among others : Matthieu Brion, Thelma Cappello, Gaëlle Choisne, Alexis Chrun, Gabriel Gauthier & Elsa Michaud, Victorine Grataloup, Rafael Moreno, Nathalie Muchamad, Jonathan Pêpe, Shubigi Rao, Anna Ren, Sacha Rey, Ken Sortais, Lucas Semeraro, Eden Tinto-Collins, Jason Wee…

    Curators: Mélanie Bouteloup, Virginie Bobin & Jason Wee

    Tomorrow Is An Island / Demain est une île is a pro­ject by artist Jason Wee that spec­u­lates on deep time, the fate of ‘crisis’ as a frame of knowl­edge, and the exchanges between bodies and cities. What kind of future(s) can we imagine for our cur­rent con­di­tions of fatal migra­tions, secu­ri­tized fears and asphyx­i­ated com­mons? What cul­tures of care, and what kinds of social con­tracts might per­sist between cities and their inhab­i­tants?

    We offer to take Montparnasse as a pre­text as well as a ter­ri­tory to study and to exper­i­ment, where artists will pace up and down, observe, visit and inves­ti­gate in and on the neigh­bor­hood to nur­ture the texts and art­works pro­duced during a work­shop with youger artists and writers that will take place from September 21 to September 30. Those pro­duc­tions will be shown in an exhi­bi­tion starting October 1st, 2016.

    Tomorrow Is An Island sug­gests to employ the tools of science-fic­tion in order to rethink the links between bodies and the urban space they come accross, live in, the space that absorb them or reject them. Migration issues, the so-called "refugees crisis" in Europe and beyond, and the rise of pop­ulist far-right-winged dis­courses all around the world forces us to think about the pos­si­bility to find alter­na­tive nar­ra­tives.

    We invited the curator and writer Lotte Arndt to be in charge of pro­grams and events linked with the exhi­bi­tion Tomorrow Is An Island, in the frame­work of her research res­i­dency at Villa Vassilieff in part­ner­ship with the Goethe Institut.

    Tomorrow Is An Island is sup­ported by the National Arts Council de Singapour.

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