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How to continue living in this world of crisis? 

Editorial

In 2012, Préavis de Désordre Urbain takes place in 2 periods.

Each period is focused on a laboratory – the artists have time to build and refine their projects connected to the city – and regular public meetings.

We build the 1st period (10-18 September) with the Théâtre des Bernardines, our partner since 3 years. RedPlexus and the Théâtre des Bernardines are both interested in exploring links “from the street to the stage”.

Artists are invited to work in urban spaces of the 1rst arr. Of Marseille : Noailles, rue Sénac, rue Curiol, place du Lycée, rue Saint-Bazile and in the space of Théâtre.

We are interested by this area because :

It’s a very lively area in the center of the city with cosmopolitan inhabitants.

There are lots of abandoned urban places.

The theatre is one of the spaces where the artists can experiment actions with public, passers-by in unusual hours.

In the 2nd period (16-21 September), Préavis takes place in La Friche La Belle de Mai and its surroundings.

La Friche, is an old tobacco factory, now an artistic and cultural center and a place devoted to creation. La Friche which is a territory of experiences and artistic crossfields, is a perfect place for this period of Preavis.

We collaborate with The instants Vidéos during this period in La Friche and Radio Grenouille covers the whole festival.

Artists : 

Franck Homeyer (Germany), Ornic’art (France), Nenad Bogdanovic (Serbia), Joao Garcia miguel/Sara Ribeiro (Portugal), Nicola Frangione (Italia), Joszef R.Juhasz (Hongrie), Dominique Herma (France), Colas Bailleul/Frédérique Guétat-Liviani (France), Pascale Ciapp (France), Lenka Klodova (Czech Republic), Pascale Bongianni (France), Friederike & Uwe (Germany), Lauri Luhta (Finland), Marie-claire Cordat (France), Oryctophonic Group (France, Switzerland, Japan), Anna Berndtson (Sweden), Zargrup (Spain), Antje Prust (Germany), Peter Grzybowski (Poland), Timo Viialainen (Finland)

From September 18th to 25th, 2011

Editorial : 

It is always with jubilation and a certain dose of adrenaline that a new PDU is launched. What about today’s notions of freedom and respect for everyone’s space in the public sphere?

Precariousness – especially existential – concerns everyone. This 5th edition explores micro-territories, from urban neglected to large axes and questions the limits between order and disorder, norm and normality.

Resist, dare, question.

The performers live and experiment artistic creation processes in an urban perimeter of the city center. PDU is made of strong, programmed and unannounced moments that are discovered by chance.

Take the risk of letting yourself be challenged, disturbed or even contaminated by these artistic experiences.

Christine bouvier

Artists :

 Isabelle Cavoit/Bernard Menaut ( France), Agyro Chioti (Greece), Diogo de Carvalho (Portugal), Isabelle Schneider (France), Pascale Ciapp (France), Le Corps Collectif (France), Mehdi Farjpour (Iran), Carol Vanni & Alain Fourneau (France), Angel Herrero(Portugal), Jeff Huckleberry (USA), Christian Kunter/ Remote Citizen (Switzerland), Mollie Lehberger (France), Ana Matey (Spain), Natcha Muslera (France), ( Sophie Nédorézoff ( France), The New Spastiks (Germany), Ira Optimist (Finland), Onric’art (France), Jean-Christophe Petit (France), Random (France), Noa Reshef (Israel),  Julichka Stengele (Germany),Artur Tajber (Poland), Jacques Van Poppel (Netherlands), Ze Coeupel (Germany)

Resist to the security “derive” drift 

For its 4th edition in Marseille, from 18 to 25 September 2010, PRÉAVIS DE DÉSORDRE URBAIN focuses on the notion of disorder of public order.

The security drift of our society is a source of some form of inhibition of exchanges between citizens in the public space. Performance is an artistic act sometimes subversive, often poetic, which feeds on the context in which it unfolds, while modifying it. The festival invites to derogate, overflow, disturb, disrupt but also to question, to challenge, to propose to the public unexpected experiences, stripping, other ways of living together in an urban environment.

PRÉAVIS DE DÉSORDRE URBAIN questions the links between performance, urban art, contemporary art, live performance; sketch out avenues for reflection on the citizen issue of new artistic writings in the public space; and convokes the city, the daily, the diversion of the uses citizens and social relations as ground of artistic experiments. With a dose of disorder, PRÉAVIS DE DÉSORDRE URBAIN makes these creations perceptible while inventing meetings with the public, which preserve the vitality of art in a city in context.

Artists :

 Non Grata (Estonia), Zineb Benzekri (France), Valérie Vanhoutvinck (Belgium), Nieves Corréa (Spain), Antoine Castaigne, Fabrice Pras, Benoit Rassouw (France), Peter Grzybowski (Poland), Domix Garrido (Spain), Elsa Mingot (France), Eva Doumbia, , Hilario Alvarez(Spain), Clément Aubert(France), Jean-Christophe Petit (France), Randy Gledhill (Canada),Maison Close; Compagnie Terrain Vague, Private(s), Lucas Murgida, Nuage, Antoine Castaigne, Fabrice Pras, Benoit Rassouw, L’agence des suicides, Elsa Mingot, L’accident, Non Grata, La Piscine; Isabelle Frémin. 

Post-festival edit

Cancellation without notice

On Tuesday afternoon, the mayor of the 4/5 took the firm and final decision to CANCEL the Saturday demonstration, to DELETE the promised grant, and to close the Fissiaux Center, our logistics base.

Any explanation was in vain: the decision was irrevocable.

Failure to react would have been nonsense in the logic of the Notice of Urban Disorder. We therefore asked Patrick Mennucci, mayor of 1/7, to host our event in his area. What he did

A press release was issued on Thursday evening to warn the public of the change of venue.

Intempestive tapage on Longchamp

In the night from Friday to Saturday, huge tags (between 20 and 30 of 2×3 meters) have appeared on the walls of the buildings, the window blinds and the street furniture of the boulevard Longchamp with the inscription PREAVIS DE DESORDRE URBAIN.

We immediately complained about misuse of the name of the festival and Mr. Mennucci, for degradation of the public highway.

The festival ended Saturday in a rather festive atmosphere Danaides. The public and passers-by felt apprehended, disturbed, and complicit in the actions.

This cancellation raised many questions and fueled debates among artists and the public on the freedom of expression, the freedom of creation, the limits of artistic action in the public space, censorship.

Questions that remain open.