Nuit Blanche 2020 takes a tour of Paris on October 3, 2020 from 18 p.m. to 2 a.m., the time of the last metro and this announcement delights lovers of in-situ art.
Especially since this 19th edition is intended to be “chiseled and delicate” in the words of Christophe Girard, creator of this flagship event and now former deputy in charge of culture at Paris City Hall.
Completely free, these resolutely festive celebrations will take the form of strolls around twenty installations and forty-two proposals in the Off.
The first can be discovered, in groups of ten, in institutions in the city, the second most of the time in the open air.
In the 2020 edition of The White Night, coronavirus obliges, digital will help to respect social distancing.
Thus, visitors will appreciate the giant labels giving information on the artists and their artistic approaches or the Nuit Blanche map available on MAPSTR, allowing them to read all the addresses of the program on their smartphone, to find their way and to get around. .
Near the works, forty cultural mediators recognizable by their white windbreakers will provide visitors with information.
A piece of advice, however, before you travel: in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic, do not hesitate to contact the places to check the programming and access constraints.
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Here is our selection for Paris-Centre!
▼ Throughout Paris
• kaws – NIGHT HOLIDAY
Augmented reality, Via the ACUTE ART application
Start by scanning the sky that the “companions” of Kaws, the New York artist, will illuminate like fireflies to give directions to the participating places. To discover on his free mobile app.
▼ Place des Vosges
• BENOÎT DUTOUR – NIGHT DANCES
Sculpture / Installation
Plant and animal world are at the center of a fantastic ballet in the garden of one of the most beautiful squares in Paris.
• Place des Vosges – Square Louis XIII
30 place des Vosges, 75004 Paris
▼ Place des Vosges
• SOUND DESIGN COMPANY / MICHEL RISSE – KALEIDOPHONES
Plastic installation and sound experience
More than a sound decor, the company of the same name offers Les Kaléidophones, a hybrid creation between giant sculptures and sensory experience.
! REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Access via the south entrance to the square, limited to groups of ten people every fifteen minutes.
Due to the health context and new government measures, visitors will have to register in advance to access the artistic project.
• Place des Vosges – Square Louis XIII
30 place des Vosges, 75004 Paris
▼ Place Georges Pompidou
• PHILIPPE QUESNE AND ARTISTS FROM HIS COMPANY – ISLAND NIGHT
Installation and performance
At the suggestion of the Center Pompidou, director and scenographer Philippe Quesne deploys an installation taken from his show, the island of Crash Park.
• Place Georges Pompidou
Public access: at the corner of rue Saint-Merri and rue du Renard, 75004 Paris
▼ Museum of Arts and Crafts
• WINTER STORY IN THE WILD JUNGLE COLLECTIVE – AN EXQUISITE CORPSE AROUND THE MAGIC LANTERN
Screening and video
Serial drawings play on exquisite corpses projected onto the buildings of the Museum of Arts and Crafts.
• Mused by Arts and Crafts
60 rue Réaumur, 75003 Paris
▼ Saint-Eustache Church
• GUILLAUME COUSIN AND MAGIC – THE WAKE OF MEMORY
Installation
The artist Guillaume Cousin and the Magique olfactory studio take us on a journey through space-time with the polysensory installation The Wake of Memory.
• ESaint-Eustache church
2 impasse Saint-Eustache, 75001 Paris
From October 3, 2020 to October 4, 2020
▼ Saint-Eustache Church
• PASCAL HAUDRESSY –HEART
Installation / Video
How can we express our emotions and our humanity in the digital age? This question arises from this work, a 4m x 3m heart projected into the church.
The artist uses a computer program which he hijacks and introduces parasitic noises and irregular variations.
• ESaint-Eustache church
2 impasse Saint-Eustache, 75001 Paris
▼ National Center for Space Studies – Space Observatory
• AUDREY JEAN-BAPTISTE & MAXIME JEAN-BAPTISTE / ISABELLE PRIM – IN THE CLAIM OF THE ARCHIVES
Video
Here we are immersed in the daily life of a young man in Kourou, a fiction with the appearance of a documentary by directors Audrey and Maxime Jean-Baptiste.
They revisit the birth of the Guiana Space Center in a tale between fiction and documentary, while their partner Isabelle Prim conducts a morning anthropology investigation on a young astronaut.
• National Center for Space Studies – Space Observatory
2 place Maurice-Quentin, 75001 Paris
▼ Morland Mixité Capitale Project House
• LEONARD SALLE – OPTICAL SINGING
Performance / Screening
The arts of light and the kinetic arts invite you to a contemplative luminous and musical immersion in the Arsenal Library and the Morland Project House, two emblematic buildings of Paris-Centre.
• Morland Mixité Capitale Project House
19 boulevard Morland, Paris 75004
▼ Swiss Cultural Center
• MATHIS ALTMANN – POWERLIFESTYLES
Exhibition
Powerlifestyles takes the adage “work is health” and questions the cult of work inspired by the urban lifestyle in which work, life and leisure are intertwined and where precariousness can transform into opportunity.
• Swiss Cultural Center
38 Rue des Francs Bourgeois, 75003 Paris
▼ Our Lady of the White Coats
• ACOEURVOIX – VOICES IN THE NIGHT
Concert
It is a hymn to cultural solidarity invoked by Jean-Marc Rapinet, the founder of the Acoeurvoix association and its singers and musicians, some of them disabled, united in a large choir to offer this concert.
• Our Lady of the White Coats
1 Rue de l'Abbé Migné, 75004 Paris
▼ The Salty Kiss
• THOMAS JULIENNE – “TRIBUTE TO RADIOHEAD”
Concert
Double bassist, composer and arranger Thomas Julienne shares his passion for Radiohead and treats his music with crazy originality mixed with romanticism.
• The Salty Kiss
58 Rue des Lombards, 75001 Paris
▼ Museum of Art and History of Judaism (MahJ)
• MAYA ZACK – MAYA ZACK, TRILOGY MEMORY
Video
It is to the artist Maya Zack and her videos exploring memory and its construction that the mahJ opens its doors.
Here you will find a trilogy: Mother Economy (2007), Black and White Rules (2011) and Counterlight (2016-17).
Films featuring female figures committed to cataloging fragments of the past with scientific and poetic obsession.
• Museum of Art and History of Judaism (MahJ)
Hôtel de Saint-Aignan, 71 Rue du Temple, 75003 Paris
© Maya Zack – Counterlight
▼Sunside
• FABIEN MARY – TRIBUTE TO CHARLIE PARKER “WHEN BIRD MEETS MILES”
Concert
Charlie Parker, one of the heroes of modern jazz, is celebrated by Fabien Mary (trumpet), Dmitry Baevsky (alto saxophone), Guillaume Naud (hammond barley) and Stéphane Chandelier (drums).
• sun side
60 Rue des Lombards, 75001 Paris
▼ National Archives – Hôtel de Soubise
• SUZANNE - CANON
Dance performance, plastic installation, live recording and video projection
When the SUZANNE collective performs a silent poem combining minimalist movements and dance in an installation set against the backdrop of the National Archives, we admire the methodology and praise the useless gestures of its ten dancers.
• Thenational archives – Hôtel de Soubise
60 Rue des Francs Bourgeois, 75003 Paris
▼ Saint-Louis Church on the island
• BENJAMIN VIAUD – THE ITALIAN NIGHT
Concert
On the grand organ of the Saint-Louis-en-l'Ile Church, Benjamin Viaud with NuitItalienne pays homage to Ennio Morricone, the man who composed the music for more than five hundred films and television programs, and sold more than seventy million records worldwide.
• Saint-Louis Church on the island
19 Rue Saint-Louis en l'Île, 75004 Paris
▼ Saint-Merry Church
• MORAG MYERSCOUGH – A NEW NOW
Sculpture / Installation
Sensitive, the work of English pop designer Morag Myerscough rises to eight meters and illuminates this XNUMXth century church nicknamed “Little Notre-Dame”.
This colorful sculpture urges us to think about the world after the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Saint-Merry Church
76 Rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris
▼ National Picasso Museum-Paris
• PICASSO MUSEUM – EXCEPTIONAL NIGHT: PICASSO AND THE COMIC STRIP. PICASSO POET. PICASSO, READINGS, REREADINGS
Exhibition
Exceptional nighttime opening of this place which has the most important collection of works by the Franco-Spanish artist.
Free access by reservation on the Musée national Picasso-Paris website.
! REGISTRATION REQUIRED
• Picasso-Paris National Museum
5 rue de Thorigny, 75003 Paris
© Anaïs Costet
Text: Katia Barillot
02.10. 20
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