The Tide project
The Tide Project aimed to create a special “student” edition of the Festival of Research Gestures, a format already experimented at the Grenoble site of ESAD by the research unit “Artistic Hospitality and Visual Activism for a Diasporic and Post-Western Europe,” combined with the ISAC Festival organized by ArBa/Esa in Brussels.
Under the sign of the movements inherent to the climatic phenomenon of the tide, the project explored the potential of mobile entities in dispersion (populations, subjectivities, sounds, gestures, and natural resources) to challenge any homogeneity of cultural, geographical, and political identities in Europe. It also questioned the modern imperialist project of Europe, understood as both a geographical colonization operation and a knowledge operation, based on the potential of artistic practices to deconstruct homogenizing political narratives and support the construction of a monolithic European identity while developing new diasporic geopolitical narratives. The festival proposed two daily sessions: one dedicated to the presentation of students’ artistic proposals and one dedicated to experimenting with collective, improvised creation forms.
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Higher School of Art and Design • Grenoble • Valence
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Royal Academy Of Fine-Arts Brussels
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