A mobile network of artists

Les Subsistances is part of a national and international artistic network. Far from just offering residences and showing foreign productions, Les Subsistances builds bridges with artists and organisations from various countries. The aim is for French and foreign artists to be confronted with other ways to view contemporary productions.

As part of our international exchange endeavours, projects are developed with...

...l’Europe - Un espace pour la performance "A space for live art"

Live art, an artistic medium which defies definition has experienced a remarkable revival for the last few years. It remains, however, little known. In order to remedy this lack of awareness, and to emphasize the importance of new forms of live art in Europe, eight organisations and venues have entered into a partnership as part of a 5-year European project, called A Space for Live Art.

Through the programming of each partner and the different sorts of exchanges put into place -co-productions, distribution, residences, and international conferences - it is the diversity of artistic processes which is underlined here. Theory-based meetings, the setup of a professional critical corpus and the documentation of projects through sounds and/or pictures will reinforce the thinking and documentary aspect on live art. Communication and transmission will also be promoted, via the infiltration and the occupation of public space, and an educational section, including partnerships with art schools where budding talent will be encouraged.

ANTIFESTIVAL / Kuopio - Finland, 25-28 September 2008, www.antifestival.com

Les Subsistances / Lyon - France, throughout the season, www.les-subs.com

City of Women / Ljubljana - Slovenia, 9-17 October 2008, www.cityofwomen.org

Acción!08MAD / Madrid - Spain, 6-28 November 2008, www.accionmad.org

New Territories / Glasgow - UK, 11-15 February 2009, www.newmoves.co.uk

TROUBLE / Brussels - Belgium, 23-26 April 2009, www.halles.be

Interakcje / Piotrkow Trybunalski - Poland, May 2009, www.galeriaoff.pl

PANORAMA / Hamburg - Germany, 15-24 May 2009, www.kampnagel.de

With the support of the European Commission’s Culture Programme 2007-20013.

- "2ND SKIN" Project as part of the European Culture Season (project in partnership with Austria)

Les Subsistances & Tanzquartier (Vienna) have invited 4 choreographers (Alexandre Roccoli / Chris Haring / Alain Buffard / Anne Juren) + 3 designers (Sébastien Meunier / Asha Mines / House of the very island’s...) + 1 theoretician, Brigitte Felderer, to work in tandem.

“2ND SKIN” = 4 residences / 4 productions

For more information, see the “Ça Valse!” WeekEnd

...les Etats-Unis

- Résidence et création d’artistes américains aux Subsistances (Jeremy Wade, Big Dance Theater, Dan Safer...) avec l’aide du fond FACE et du réseau Fused (Réseau FUSED : 6 structures françaises : Centre National de la Danse, La Villette, CNDC d’Angers, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, CCN de Belfort et les Subsistances et 20 structures américaines)

- Workshop Université de Dallas - Du 27 avril au 9 mai 09

Pour la seconde année consécutive, la section théâtrale de l’Université de Dallas suivra aux Subsistances un workshop de 2 semaines avec des artistes en résidence. Après ’’Identité et Intimité’’ en 2008, ils aborderont cette année la question du ’’geste quotidien dans l’art’’ .

...and

Foreign artists in residence: Massimo Furlan (Switzerland), Doris Uhlich (Austria), Antonia Baehr (Germany), Yasmen Godder (Israel), Angela Laurier (Canada), Martin Nachbar (Germany), etc.

... and potential future partnerships with Africa and Asia.

Season 20072008:

11 foreign companies in residence

Daniel Aschwanden (Austria) & Peter Stamer (Germany), Antonia Baehr (Germany), Nicolas Cantillon & Laurence Yadi / Compagnie 7273 (Switzerland), Serge Aimé Coulibaly (Burkina Faso / Belgium), Kalpana Raghumaran (India), Oskar Gomez Mata / L’Alakran (Switzerland / Spain), Angela Laurier (Canada), Jeremy Wade (USA), Jörg Müller (Germany), La Maison des clowns (France / Germany / Italy / Japan), Chris Haring (Austria)