CIRCULATIONS - A long-term artistic study of our cross-border region

Bruno Latour founded the Master of Experimentation in Political Arts (SPEAP) at Sciences Po Paris. Throughout last season, accompanied by science historian Frédérique Aït Touati, students Capucine Fouquin, Etienne Gilly and Adèle Lhoutellier conducted a survey of the festival area. By reflecting on new ways of "making a festival", they are inviting people to explore the cross-border territory, in order to question the relationships, movements and modes of interaction between the people who make up this living space.

With CIRCULATIONS, NEXT wants to give an impetus to thinking "further ahead" about the habitability and future of our shared living space. Our starting points include the artist's eye and two key features of this region: water and the border. Artists, cultural and educational partners, residents, students, associations, businesses, political decision-makers... are focusing on the issues of the coming years and developing new ways of bringing them to our attention.

The first milestone in this multi-year project will be critical and artistic research carried out by students on the Master of Experimentation in Political Arts (SPEAP) programme, founded by French sociologist Bruno Latour. The students are Adèle Lhoutellier, Capucine Fouquin, Alexis Nys and Etienne Gilly.