WHAT CONDITIONS ARE NEEDED TO CREATE ART?

The Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers offer residencies to research projects in all contemporary and international artistic domains: dance, visual arts, theater, cinema, and interdisciplinary projects.

The Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers try to create contexts specific to each project, allowing artists to explore approaches and forms that are excluded from other networks and systems of production.

The Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers provide financial, technical and logistical support to the development of each project and adapts to its unique needs.

The Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers allow artists to work in the format of their choosing (performance, web site, seminar, listening session, speech, film, book...) and sometimes to work in formats they're not accustomed to or hadn't originally planned on.

Projects receiving support from the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers can also bring in outside partners likely to contribute to the project. These may include cultural, scientific and social institutions, specialists in any domain, or volunteers, especially Aubervilliers residents.

The Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers create exchanges with numerous organizations at the local and international level and strives to cross cultural, social, and geographic boundaries in the art world.

IN WHAT CONDITIONS IS ART RECEIVED?

The Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers consider what relation each project engages with the public in order to bring together the contexts most suitable to its reception and dissemination.

To present its productions to the public, the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers regularly form partnerships with publishing or distribution outlets that complement the Laboratoires' production and research activities. These include festivals, theaters, public spaces, schools, social centers, institutions, movie theaters and radio stations. The works can also be shown within the Laboratoires when the project requires it.

The Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers' infrastructure allows public participation in the research process, in particular for residents of Aubervillers and Seine Saint-Denis. What form this participation takes is a decision reached with the artist and is based on the project's individual needs and characteristics.

The Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers also works to support the dissemination of projects produced in residence by giving them administrative and logistical support, and by programming works at the invitation of outside institutions and at outside events.

For each Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers production, a special edition of the Journal des Laboratoires is published, making documentation on the project available to audience members - including critical texts, interviews, and work documents.

Yvane Chapuis & Joris Lacoste