Marseilles : our anchorage ground, our new homeland as well as our runway.
The main encounter of the festival will take place from November 9th to 13th in La Friche la Belle de Mai, but other important events (exhibitions of installations, screenings, performances, encounters....) will be criss-crossing the town from November 4th : Espace Culture (shopwindow), les grands terrains, ADPEI, Mémorial la Marseillaise, La Traverse, La Tangente, Où, Art Position, Bastide St Joseph.
Finally, thanks to our intense nomadism, we will go from October to December to Port-de-Bouc, Martigues, Vitrolles, Bédarieux, St Denis, Paris and to Italy, Cuba, Mexico and India.
Carried along by the revolutionary euphoria of the Tunisian and Egyptian people who ousted the tyrants from their thrones, the people from Syria and Yemen who don't give up, the people of Morocco, Algeria or Iran who protest as much as they can, the Palestinian people who has never stopped resisting since 1948, I started to dream of a poetical accompaniment for these emancipating accomplishments:
Video art is no more merely a contemporary art. From now on it is an art that is contemporary of the revolutions which set the southern mediterranean countries on fire since the beginning of this year. It would be an intellectual crime to protect ourselves from their spatter, to not let ourselves get covered by this froth on the daydream, passed through by its tornados, pervaded by its scents which finally make life breathable in this greedy world that nips in the bud all creative attempts.
Poetry is against order enforcement.
Political revolutions... Poetical revolutions... Same combat! Liberation is from now on spelled in Arabic: Tarhir." .Marc Mercier (short extract from the editorial of the festival)