Off-site - Cultural and artistic education project / 2018-2019

Off-site - Cultural and artistic education project / 2018-2019

Supported by the Île-de-France Region and the Société du Grand Paris, the off-site high school projects are vast excursions to high schools in the Paris region, consisting of meetings and workshops led by artistic and cultural actors in collaboration with Bétonsalon – Center for art and research.

This project, initiated by Bétonsalon – Center for art and research, is conceived as a transversal collaboration between a guest artist and a highschool, offering students the opportunity to reclaim History by first becoming aware of their (hi)stories.

Over the 2018-2019 school year, artist Ève Chabanon, artist and architect Catherine Rannou, and the online media Bondy Blog, allowed students from the Julie-Victoire Daubié Highschool in Argenteuil and the W.A. Mozart Highschool in Le Blanc-Mesnil to explore different ways of designing and writing history. At the crossroads of different fields - art, architecture, journalism, cinema, dance, singing, or graphic design – three courses were organized, each giving rise to a distinct short film, nourished by a collective reflection on the present as a shared history.

How can one think of history when it is far away, in its time and places? How can it be appropriated when it is unique, written by one and for one? This off-site project where History reveals itself rich in encounters and short stories, where the unique discourse gives way to the multiplicity of voices.