Considérant qu'il est plausible que de tels événements puissent à nouveau survenir.
Considering that it is plausible that such events could be repeated.
2013
Video, 28’35, color, sound
French spoken with English subtitles
Collection Frac Franche-Comté, courtesy of PEROU
In the early morning of April 3, 2013, on the edge of Route Nationale 7 in Ris-Orangis (40 km from Paris), bulldozers crushed a slum where 140 European citizens of Romanian nationality were living. Residents, architects, artists and researchers had tirelessly built, danced in, and transformed the space of the slum, as well as many representations related to it. Considering that it is plausible that such events could be repeated is a film-poem shot in the heart of this action, against the blindness that governs. This manifesto film was made in June 2013 to celebrate the beauty of what was built and to affirm the need to build again.
Artist’s Bio:
PEROU – Pôle d'Exploration des Ressources Urbaines – (France)
PEROU was founded in 2012 by the political scientist Sébastien Thiéry and the landscape architect Gilles Clément. It leads actions with architects, artists and researchers in order to make spaces for hospitality in our cities as well as in our imaginations. Today, between Rome, Paris and Brussels in particular, PEROU is coordinating a request to have the act of hospitality recognised by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.