Peripheral 2015

Peripheral 2015 takes place in the R-north residential complex.
Here he brings artists to interpret the concept of residing, in an investigation of the contact between dwelling and culture, between public and private, between staying and passing through, between aesthetics and beauty.

It is an inhabited, dense place. It is a large, imposing space. It is concrete and rigor, repetition and diversity. He is alive.

The intent of this edition of the festival is to reflect on the theme of living, opening a dialogue with contemporary arts and trying to actively contribute to the process of reorienting the mappings of the city and the meaning of boundaries. We chose the residency mode: seven artists will spend time, varying for each, in r-north’s spaces to create a unique work in an organic and visceral relationship with the context.
Home, intimacy, boundary, but also a place from which we can think about what exists outside, in a continuity that binds us to the rest. From this complex and almost contradictory value of dwelling comes the need to interrogate dwelling. And to do so with the language of art, which in order to exist must necessarily feed on an elsewhere.

Artists have been asked to enter this place without shoes, to experience it for days at a time, and to flesh out their artistic production in the walls of a specific time: for four days at the expiration of 5 p.m. and for four hours, the temporary residency places will become permeable to small groups of visitors.

Alongside the artists-in-residence, we have the honor of hosting Nina Dipla and Vincent Courtois, an outstanding dancer and musician who decided to accept the challenge of presenting their new productions in the context of Peripheral to R-North.

Finally, meetings will also take place with three thinkers, whom we asked to speak on the meaning of our dwelling, reviving the somewhat faded power today that words have, spreading through the air, to change boundaries.

The public will then be able to visit the temporary home of dancers, musicians, thinkers, and filmmakers, mingling with the stimuli and reactions of those who habitually live there, with those of the public, neighbors, passersby, and the artist himself, in a new relationship-open, exposed, possible.