Les barques | Le barche | τις βάρκες | القوارب


Over the past ten years, a vast and fluid archive, like memory itself, has grown up of its own… an Ark of errancy, made up of numerous sound recordings, photographic chronicles and literary experiments. Popular, exiled, experimental songs and gestures from Europe and Africa. Free documents, snapshots, singing and speaking voices tied to existing or imagined places, moments, beloved territories from which these voices became geographically or conceptually distant. An Ark divided into a multitude of faltering Barques, built from songs, poems and gestures whose fragility expresses a universality of lack.



Rather than preserving icons under the sovereign gesture of a univocal God, as in Noah’s Ark, Les Barques chooses to shelter the iconoclasts, those whose continual experience of collective disinheritance constitutes the most prevalent act of contemporaneity. A Composite Gesture, based on the same pivots as an oral tradition: no written laws, no defined protocol and, above all, the compelling need for a constant co-action.



Sur les barques…

Abou Ali, Aicha Mansouri, Ali Dehan, Alia Dhahri, Ammar, Anna Maria Civico, Anna Rosetti, Antoine Loyer, Arafat Sadallah, Arthur Chambri, Aydın Çıracıoğlu, Brahim Bouslahi,Mohamed Znaidi,Rai Uno, Chafik Dammak, Chamseddine Zitouni, Chiara Vigo, Claudia Gianotta, Cristina Vetrone, Davide Russo, Dori Rosetti, Economat Redeyef, El Haj, Emmanuelle Nizou, Fanny George, Frode Bjornstad, Gaml, Giaccomo Parmeggiani, Giovanna Turco, Giuseppe Campa, Gruppo Città di Trapani, Guillaume Maupin, Hadra Tamerza, Haythem Ben Bousaha, Haythem Zakaria, Jean-François Favreau, Jeanne ?, Joske Malbeek, Laid Bouoni, Léo Rump, Lise Barkas, Loto Retina, Loup Uberto, Lucas Ravinale, Luigi de Santis, Lukas De Clerck, Manuel Pueyo, Maria Rita Piga, Mario Gabola, Marwan Akrouti, Massoud Mansouri, Maxime Lacôme, Michela Sicuro, Modine di Bentivoglio, Nabina Gelezi, Nathalie Guida, Nicola Rosetti, Noemi, Okacha Ben Salah, Paola Magurano, Pietro Romito, Rabia Ezzedini, Radio Hito, Raïuno, Rhili Mohamed, Rochdy Machouch, Rosaria Cista, Saad Tabbabi, Salah Oucheti, Salah Tabbabi, Salvatore Urso, Scusciati, Simon Rummel, Soledad Zarka, Tahar Ezzedini, Tenore di Oliena, Vicenzo Lipari, Violeta Lopez Lopez, Yagoutha Belgacem, Yasmina Znaidi, Zaoui de Redeyef