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evento 2009: Collective Intimacy

evento 2009 is a new biennial event that takes place throughout the urban public space of the city of Bordeaux. This year's edition presents artistic, theoretical and performative interventions by over 50 participants, articulated by the notion of Collective Intimacy, the concept proposed by its curator, Didier Fiúza Faustino:

"Now is the hour for the expression of a collective intimacy such as only cities can really harbor. Cities belonging to everyone as well as to each individual. Cities where general and private interests are no longer at odds, so that a sensitive, common heritage may be constructed. Devices must be invented so as to allow installations, performances and events to spread throughout the city as stealth monuments: stealth for their nomadic, ephemeral and elusive character, monuments as objects of celebration. These new kinds of monuments invest spaces everywhere. They insinuate, infiltrate, and insert themselves in the city, altering the existing with the unexpected. Acting as unforeseen urban events, they modify ordinary trajectories and cause all kinds of deviations. They are a pretext for intimate interactions between inhabitants and their city.

In the same way that live arts must reclaim the center, the city must be given back to its inhabitants, in a genuine spirit of sharing. Let each individual claim their own share of city intimacy and choose to protect it or to expose it if they wish. Let us give everyone a choice to recreate the urban environment in accordance with their desire."

Participating artists: Dennis Adams, Lara Almarcegui, Pedro Barateiro, Collectif Berlin, Democracia, Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Julia Wolfe, Johannes Gees, Amos Gitai, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Florian Hecker, Tadashi Kawamata, Seulgi Lee, Nicolas Lelièvre, MA Asso, MAP office, Nicolas Milhé, Monoquini, Jean-Luc Moulène, muf architecture/art, João Onofre, Olivier Peyricot, Philippe Rahm, Anri Sala, Fernando Sanchez Castillo, Kristina Solomoukha, Laurent Tixador, Oscar Tuazon, Raphaël Zarka.