Located in one of the most iconic historical and central buildings in Marseille, former Espace Culture, Espace Manifesta 13 will be one of the leading hubs of Manifesta 13. The space will be one for encounters and exchange, welcoming the neighbourhood and its habitants. Before the official opening of the biennial, Espace Manifesta 13 hosts frequent events such as artists meet ups, exhibitions, lectures, debates, and invites actors from across the cultural sphere to take over the former Espace Culture.
Espace Manifesta 13
42 La Canebière – Marseille
Wednesday to Sunday, 14.00 to 19.00
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Sun and Softboi unite dance in all its forms in moments of celebration, expression and liberation. They launched the “Dancefloor” dance event where they stage their unifying and inspiring vision. They will take control of Espace Manifesta 13 to communicate their love of dance.
This project is led by the Grand Bonheur music cooperative.
DJ’s : MYSTIQUE b2b Bogoss-Lacoste (18.00-22.00)
MC : Zola (18.00-22.00)
Performance : SUN (20.30)
Free entry, open to all
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Tikka presents organic sounds by TXC Velvet, aka Angel Flame and P6R6R6K followed by emo electro-pop by Lëster, a producer and dj and co-founder of the Coucou! events. He recently released “Sadness Lessons” on the bORDEL Records label.
New in the world of independent web radio, Tikka’s primary objective is to serve as a melting pot for Marseille’s alternative scene. This radio aims to be a space of free experimentation, through the creation of continuous meetings. After several months of broadcasting in an apartment, Tikka escapes from its home by taking over Espace Manifesta 13 for five musical sessions.
For this session discover the musicians TXC Velvet and.
Free entry, open to all
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Conversation between Xavier Rey, director of the Musées de Marseille and his surprise guest about Traits d’union.s, the main concept of Manifesta 13 Marseille.
Music by Radio Grenouille.
Free entry, open to all
Explore the history of identities in Marseille through the work of Sara Ouhaddou at Espace Manifesta 13 on the 10th of December.
Ouhaddou (b. 1986, FR) was born in France within a traditional Moroccan family. Her dual cultural upbringing is one that is common within France and especially within Marseille. Within her work, she delves into the notion of dual culture and draws from both traditional Moroccan art forms and contemporary artistic practices, aiming to place forgotten cultural realities into new perspectives.
Ouhaddou resided in a residency at FRAEME (La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille) for four months in 2019, where she continued her research on the history of alphabets and the way in which they reveal history of identities and the development and often replacement of civilisations. She explores the history of Marseille, interested in the unknown passages, the objects found in the various archaeological excavations of the city and its surroundings, which can lead to doubting or further unravelling the city’s complex histories.
For the special occasion of this talk, Ouhaddou will be in conversation with Veronique Colard-Bovy, the director of FRAEME. We hope to welcome you all.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s practice explores strategies of political resistance enacted through counter-memory and post-memory. Extracting and re-working narratives via history and supernaturalism is an essential part of Nguyen’s video works and sculptures where fact and fiction are both held accountable.
Nguyen received a BFA from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and an MFA from The California Institute of the Arts in 2004. Nguyen has received several awards in both film and visual arts, including an Art Matters grant in 2010 and best feature film at Viet Film Fest in 2018. His work has been included in several international exhibitions including the Asia Pacific Triennial 2006, Whitney Biennial 2017, and the Sharjah Biennial 2019.
Nguyen founded The Propeller Group in 2006, a platform for collectivity that situates itself between an art collective and an advertising company. Accolades for the group include the grand prize at the 2015 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and a Creative Capital award for their video project Television Commercial for Communism.
Explore the work of Moroccan artist Yassine Balbzioui through the screening of three of his short videos at Espace Manifesta 13 on the 23rd of January.
Balbzioui (b.1972, MA) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and work in Marrakech. Through performances and paintings, Balbzioui questions reality and appearances, often in a theatrical and humorous way. Subjects wearing masks and costumes are recurrent characters in his work, inviting the viewer into an imaginary world. His paintings are also marked by representations of animals that crosses notions of derision and of idiocy.
Balbizioui took part in numerous international solo and group exhibitions including the Karachi Biennial, Pakistan, 2019, AKAA, Paris, 2018 and Dak’Art Biennial, Dakar, 2018.
For the meet up, Balbiziou will present three videos Le voyage de Twin Freaks, Khalimna, and The fish inside me, and exchange with the public on his artistic practice and reflection.
Espace Manifesta 13 turns into a musical creation studio for ten evenings from January to June 2020! Artists (musicians / producers) from the local and regional scene will be put in the spotlight. A zoom on their creative approach which will give us an opportunity to explore their relation to Marseille and to their environment. A project led by the Grand Bonheur music cooperative.
The first event will take place on 24th of January from 18.00 to 22.00 with Charlotte Isabelle [Live].
French duo Charlotte Isabelle signed their first EP in 2016 on the Berlin label “Stroboscopic Artefacts”. After releasing a new EP on the label “Lemme” a year later and performing at festivals and clubs such at Le Cabaret Aléatoire in Marseille and La Concrète in Paris, the group plunged back into composition and developed their second live. They will unveil their first LP in 2020. At the crossroads of genres, Charlotte Isabelle produces dark, mental and cinematic electronic music.
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/
As part of the collective project led by residents and shopkeepers of Noailles district, Manifesta 13 Marseille is collaborating with the associations Jardin de Noailles, Le Bois Sacré and JarDiniEres in MaRSEiLLe to make the neighborhood greener.
At the same time, Manifesta 13 invites Cabanon Vertical, a multidisciplinary art collective, to implement a participative reflection on a transitory development on the Canebière. In the context of the biennial, Cabanon Vertical will look at the relationship between culture and society through the creation of three “sculpture-places” on the Canebière, at 42 La Canebière. Through co-design and co-construction workshops, issues of integration of art into public places and its appropriation by users will be thought out.
The idea is to create a project that will evolve, co-animated with the association Jardin de Noailles: the collection and nursery of plants within the Espace Manifesta 13, which will take place during summer on the sculptures. ”
Each Dimanche de la Canebière, urban and collective creative workshops (two per Sunday) organized by Cabanon Vertical and partner associations(creation of flower and plant boxes, plant care, etc.).
Sunday January 26
From 11.00 to 17.00, non-stop. Free entry.
New in the world of independent web radio, Tikka’s primary objective is to serve as a melting pot for Marseille’s alternative scene. This radio aims to be a space of free experimentation, through the creation of continuous meetings. After several months of broadcasting in an apartment, Tikka escapes from its home by taking over Espace Manifesta 13 for five musical sessions.
Clara de Asís (Esp / Fr) https://
Electronic guitar and objects
Clara de Asís is a Spanish sound artist and composer based in France. She is developing an approach to sound that highlights simplicity, non-intervention and active listening as a means of creation. Her work is both extremely precise and open; characterized by attention to sounds.
Her music has been presented in numerous international stages including Berlin, Prague, New York, Helsinki, Geneva, Paris, Milan, Madrid and Huddersfield. Her work is edited by PiedNu (FR), INSUB (CH), Marginal Frequency (USA), Another Timbre (UK), Elsewhere (USA) and Pilgrim Talk (USA).
Clara de Asís will present a sound piece that invites the sensoriality of deep listening. An exploration of the imperceptible, where boundaries between the audible and the inaudible, movement and tranquility are blurred.
Janna Zhiri (Fr) https://www.jannazhiri.com/
Performance
“I transform conventional, tight-loose stories, into one story, even a tired one. I am interested in” fashionable words “: youtubers, ventriloquists, … Besides, I make installations of drawings in which I perform or no.”
Radio Grenouille offers ten Traits d’union.s; a series of conversations between personalities from the world of art, culture and business as well as civil society, in which they will debate major questions that will be raised in the biennial. These conversations will be punctuated by sound clips and followed by an exchange with the public, accompanied by the warm musical programming of the Grenouille.
The first event will take place on the 30th of January with Jordi Colomer, who invites Jean Pierre Them, director of FID Marseille (Marseille International Film Festival). The session will start with the screening of New Palermo Felicissima, a film of Jordi Colomer from Manifesta 12 Palermo.
Jordi Colomer(b. 1963, ES) is a Spanish artist who works in the field of sculpture, video-art and installations. At the heart of his work is the investigation of space. Colomer also explores the utopian nature of urban planning in large cities, and the dystopic decadence and alienation connected to architecture.
In 2018 he launched with poet Eduard Escoffet, and producer Carolina Olivares, La Infinita, a self-managed cultural space based in l’Hospitalet (Barcelona) that aims to generate encounters between visual and live art forms. Colomer represented the Spanish Pavilion at 57 Venice Biennale(2017), curated by Manuel Segade, with the project Únete! Join Us!, an exploration of nomadism and collective agency.
Colomer’s work has been featured in two Manifesta editions: Manifesta 10 (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Manifesta 12 (Palermo, Italy).
Jean-Pierre Rehm has been the director of FID Marseille (Marseille International Film Festival) since 2001. He is also the curator of numerous exhibitions in France and abroad and writes regularly for exhibition catalogues and various art and cinema magazines.
In addition, he is a member of the AICA (International Association of Art Critics) and of the board of directors of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles and the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. He is also in charge of the Post-Diploma at the National School of Fine Arts in Lyon.
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Join Cabanon Vertical, a multidisciplinary art collective, for a subjective mapping workshop focused on where La Canebière crosses cours Saint Louis and cours Belsunce. Be part of a collective reflection which looks at artistic interventions in the public domain.
Free entry, open to all
Delve into the musical world of “disco-Kurdish-psychedelic” band Bien Sûre. An evening divided in two stages: first of all, an exchange on their creative process, with improvisation by several Kurdish musicians, followed by a live show of Bien Sûre.
This project is led by the Grand Bonheur music cooperative.
Free entry, open to all
Join Cabanon Vertical for a subjective mapping workshop focused on where La Canebière crossed cours Saint Louis and cours Belsunce. Be part of a collective reflection which looks at artistic interventions in the public domain.
Free entry, open to all
Conversation between musician Raphaël Imbert and his surprise guest, in which they will discuss their ideas on Traits d’union.s, the main theme of Manifesta 13 Marseille. The exchange is accompanied by the musical programming of Radio Grenouille.
Self-taught musician, Raphaël Imbert pursues an atypical path in Jazz and improvised music. One of his areas of expertise is spiritual Jazz. Since September 2019, Imbert has been the director of the Conservatoire National à Rayonnement régional in Marseille.
Pierre Oudart is the director of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Marseille (Marseille’s Fine-Art School) since 2017. Before he held various positions at the Ministry of Culture, DRAC Ile-de-France and the Centre national des arts plastiques, amongst other.
Free entry, open to all
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Delve into the world of artists, DJs and set designers Dasha and Sasha. Throughout the evening, they will present several musical and dance performances. Dasha and Sasha are co-creators of the PailletteS collective and initiators of the ISME artistic movement.
This project is led by the Grand Bonheur music cooperative.
Free entry, open to all
Manifesta 13 Marseille invites Cabanon Vertical to create workshops during Dimanches de la Canebière, in collaboration with the associations Jardin de Noailles, Le Bois Sacré, JarDiniEres in MaRSEiLLe, as part of their collective project to make the neighbourhood greener.
For this workshop, Cabanon Vertical will share its results of the two previous workshops on subjective mapping on La Canebière.
Free entry, open to all
2 workshops per day
We invite you to a live show of Charlène Darling, which is part of Parcours Chanson, a programme of the 22nd edition of Avec Le Temps festival, a festival that celebrates francophone and contemporary music from Marseille and its surroundings.
Parcours Chanson is an urban route in Marseille that showcases emerging artists from the local, regional and national scene.
A member of the band Rosie Mercie and La Ligne Claire, Charlène Darling is a self-taught composer and musician creating music ranging from the genres of pop to minimalist rock. She is about to release her first studio album this year called Saint-Guidon.
Free entry, open to all
New in the world of independent web radio, Tikka’s primary objective is to serve as a melting pot for Marseille’s alternative scene. This radio aims to be a space of free experimentation, through the creation of continuous meetings. After several months of broadcasting in an apartment, Tikka escapes from its home by taking over Espace Manifesta 13 for five musical sessions.
Session with djs and composers Chambry and Grminal.
Free entry, open to all
Conversation between architect and historian Samia Henni and Fabrice Denise, the director of the musée d’Histoire de Marseille, in which they will discuss their ideas on Traits d’union.s, the main theme of Manifesta 13 Marseille. The exchange is accompanied by the musical programming of Radio Grenouille.
Born in Algiers, Samia Henni is an architect, historian and architecture theorist. She works at the crossroads of architecture, spatial planning, and the study of colonial practices and military operations from the early 19th century to the present day. A graduate of ETH Zürich, she is currently a lecturer and researcher in history and theory of architecture and town planning at Cornell University in the United States.
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A live performance by young Marseille based rapper Dario and guests, with an introduction to his creative process and development as an independent musician. Warm up by Dj Deedy.
A project is led by the Grand Bonheur music cooperative.
Rapper, author, performer, Dario produced three EPs between 2017 and 2019 and will release his 4th in 2020. His latest track, Deadlist, was released in 2019. He founded the rap group LADJA and worked with the theatre company Mémoires Vives.
Free entry, open to all
Join us for a conversation between French Moroccan artist Ymane Fakhir and curator Julia Marchand on the artist’s practice.
Ymane Fakhir’s photographic practice merges documentary and fiction. She explores rituals, justice and the dichotomy between private and public spaces, relating to the normative dimension of social conventions. Her work is inscribed in an extensible territory between France and the Mediterranean area, and particularly her native Morocco. In recent years, Ymane Fakhir’s work has turned to short films and installations such as “The Lion’s Share” produced for the Kulte Gallery, Rabat in 2017.
Julia Marchand is Associated curator at Fondation Van Gogh, Arles and founder of the curatorial platform Extramentale.
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Conversation between members of La Zone, online magazine, and their guests, the artist Matteo Demaria, the collective Cabanon Vertical, and Degrés 127 about Traits d’union.s, the concept of the central programme of Manifesta 13 Marseille and how to position in this context artistic practices in public space.
Music by Radio Grenouille.
La Zone publishes the works of young artists in or from Marseille in relation to sociological and anthropological reflections on the metropolitan area of the city.
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A live performance by Ramó. Inspired by Voyou, Myd and François & the Atlas Mountain, Ramó presents his first tropical EP made of naïve songs, warm bass and enticing rhythms.
Presented in the context of Parcours Chanson, a programme of the 22nd edition of Avec Le Temps, a festival of francophone and contemporary music from Marseille and its surroundings.
Free entry, open to all
