THE EUROPEAN PEPINIERES RENEWED THEMSELVES
With a brand new staff under the name Pépinières Europénnes de Création, the structure reborns to develop, through a vast network of partnerships in France, Europe and abroad, programs of residency for artists, mobility, exchanges, to support (co)production and dissemination of projects… with particular attention to new hybrid talents and digital cultures.
Programs
Pepinieres creates mobility, creation, co-production, distribution and workshops programs …
Networks
Pepinieres’ networks include artists/creators and structures in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia.
Art Calls
The Pepinieres’ calls offer to artist/creators residence opportunities or opportunities to disseminate their projects.
Partners
Three main axes of partnership that can benefit of funds, equities and Pepinieres networks
News
08.07 > 30.10.2022 | The Friend – John Sanborn @ Between order and entropy (works 1978-2022) | Karlsruhe – ZKM (De)
The installation The Friend as well as its VR version (co-produced by Transcultures) are presented as part of a major retrospective of the North American visual artist John Sanborn organized at the ZKM.The Friend - John Sanborn We spend our lives searching for ideas,...
03.07 > 03.08.2022 | Exhibition “NFThon: The Future” | Akropolis Kaunas (Lt)
NFThon Kaunas is a project that aims to draw people's attention to the potential of modern technologies in the field of culture and involve them in the creative process. During the first in-person NFT hackathon in Lithuania which will happen in the frame of Audra...
30.06.2022 | Les cailloux meurent aussi – Mathilde Schoenauer Sebag (Fr) | La vieille Chéchette (Be)
Transcultures is pleased to support the production of the new sound and editorial project by artist Mathilde Schoenauer Sebag, which began in 2021. With a partnership from the Atelier de Création Radiophonique et Sonore (ACSR), it is today a radio project and a book...
30.06.2022 | FABLABLAB – Dominic Lafontaine (Qc) + Nathalie Cimino (Be)| reth!nk (Be)
For the sixth edition of their digital creation / arts-science residency exchange initiated in 2015, La Chambre Blanche (artist-run center dedicated to experimentation in visual and digital arts - Quebec) and Transcultures (Centre for digital and sound cultures - La...
30.06 > 03.07.2022 | NFThon Kaunas – Hackathon | Magnum Business Center (Lt)
NFThon Kaunas is one of the regular CultureTech events from the NFThon series in the Baltics and the EU, which draw people's attention to the potential of modern technologies and solutions (like NFT, Blockchain, Web3, Metaverse, AI, XR) in the fields of culture and...
26.06 > 01.07.2022 | I am the small seed [part1] – Biba Sheikh (Lb/USA) | Davos Congress Centre (Ch)
Biba Sheikh (author, theatre director, performer - USA/LEB) currently hosted in residence by Born Global Foundation, has created a symbolism developed from workshops with students of biomimicry where themes such as sacred geometry were the bases for developing a play....
17.06 > 28.08.2022 | Postcards from Alma – Thiago Antonio | Langage Plus (Qc)
Do you have to be a poet to write poetry? And if a simple deconstruction of the order of things gave us the courage to write without complex. In his exhibition Postcards from Alma, nomadic artist Thiago Antonio Mendonça de Sousa* invites the public on a poetic journey...
Album video | Transonic Second Life – Video Sessions | Glasz DeCuir (Es)
Since 2020, at the initiative of Transcultures and under the coordination of the artist A Limb, the “Transonic Second Life Sessions” have developed in metaverses summoning several sound artists from different countries playing on virtual stages. Sound and...
CD | “Moribund Neighborhood” – Amplidyne Effect (Mk) | Transonic Label (Be)
‘Moribund Neighborhoods’ is a collection of tracks recorded at home or on the spot of the wanderings during the lockdown period, between 2020 and 2022. Each piece is a microcosm taken from improvised sessions using synthesizers, guitars, and samples to combine ambient...
Vice Versa Media arts – Crossed residencies 2021-22 | Dominic Lafontaine (Qbc) + Nathalie Cimino (Be)
For the sixth edition of their digital creation / arts-science residency exchange initiated in 2015, La Chambre Blanche (artist-run center dedicated to experimentation in visual and digital arts - Quebec) and Transcultures (Centre for digital and sound cultures - La...
12 > 13.05.2022 | AN DOMHAN HyperHéritage Fictionnel ©eUX-QUI-®EST | Université Hassan II (Ma)
In this dark and troubled time when the Black Death has once again spread from Middle-earth to the end of the world — like an in/visible fog (-! visible!-) — the legend AN DOMHAN XR (project by Gaëtan Le Coarer) resonates once again at the gates of our imaginations....
12.05 > 20.05.2022 | PRIST exhibition – Dé-réalité Des Réalités #2 | ESA Tourcoing (Fr)
From September 2020 to June 2022, the PRIST research program has set itself the goal of examining the current forms of the plural realities from which our experiences are woven. This exhibition presents the result of the theoretical and plastic research of more than...
22.04.2022 | Lament – Roberto Paci Dalo – Performance | Biennale of Venice (It)
LAMENT is the interaction between acoustic instruments (clarinet and bass clarinet) and electronic device. This sound ritual is also articulated with radio frequencies captured and processed in real time and soundscapes recorded in Bastia. Rather than attending a...
18 > 24.04.2022 | Seminar – Digital mediation platform | Maison de la Science – Bastia (Fr)
In the digital age, the quality of research results in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) increasingly depends on the completeness and relevance of the data processed. The digital divide (like the digital deficiency) greatly influences the question of...
17.04.2022 | i-REAL / d-E+E-p_d-i+V-E – Marc Veyrat (Fr) | Recto VRso – Laval (Fr)
A new i-REAL World will be tested in VR for the first time during the Recto VRso Festival du Laval Virtual 2022: i+M/PORTÉ by L-e_F-O+OL i-REAL, in the R-O+O- Like a wireframe wave 20,000 leagues under the sea, the travel-ACT® discovers a luminous and phantasmagorical...
08.04.2022 | i-REAL_The game board – Marc Veyrat – Factory vernissage | Entreprise GIUSTI – Annecy (Fr)
i-REAL is a digital arts and hypermedia project that mixes triggered VR environments using cards placed on a JE(U) - game board. These cards are i-REALIZED with/from the social network Instagram and uploaded/posted on Pinterest. Using these connections open worlds in...
06.04.2022 | Marc Veyrat – Gaëtan Le Coarer (Fr) | Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2022 (Fr)
Immersion in the 4th world of Marc Veyrat's hypermedia artwork "i-REAL", and in the Mixed Reality experience "An Domhan" by Gaëtan Le Coarer, as part of the proposal "De L'arbre in the labyrinth” (or how imaginary derivations, cognitive biases, fortuitous finds, give...
06.04.2022 | Which Transcultures today and tomorrow? Philippe Franck | Kaunas (Lt)
Philippe Franck will present the approach and action of European Pepinieres of Creation, an international network he also coordinates with Transcultures Europe organizing co-residencies, co-productions, co-distributions of contemporary artistic project (with a special...
01.04.2022 | Exaleipho – Kotryna Žilinskaitė (Lt) + Paradise Now (Fr/Be) | Uzupis 24th Birthday (Lt)
Dans le cadre du 24ème anniversaire de la République d'Uzupis, la danseuse Kotryna Zilinskaite (Lituanie) et l'artiste sonore Philippe Franck (alias Paradise Now - Belgique) proposent un événement performatif spécial, appelé "Exaleipho" signifiant en grec ancien,...
Call 2022 | Residencies – Digital & Sound Arts & new writings 2022-23 | Chateau Ephémère (FR)
In partnership with the network of European Pepinieres of Creation, Château Éphémère is launching for the 8th year its call for projects "Digital Arts, Sound Art & New Writings" for the 2022/23 season. Grants 500€ for each residence 1 to 2 additional European...
14 > 25.03.2022 | Florent Colautti (Fr) – Le spectre des attractions | Château Éphémère residency (Fr)
Florent Colautti is the laureat of the call for applications Digital Arts, Sound Art & New Writings 21_22 of the Château Éphémère and one of the 2 laureats of the Pépinières grant for this season (with the artist Marylou). In residence, he will develop his project...
12.03.2022 | Gaëtan Le Coarer (Fr) @ Nigth of ideas | St James Cavalier (Mt)
During the Night of Ideas places of knowledge and culture around the world are invited to celebrate the free flow of ideas by offering conferences, as well as screenings, and artistic performances. Almost two years have passed, punctuated by the pandemic and its...
11.03.2022 | Transonic Second Life Festival #3 @ Cat’s Circus (SL)
For the end of winter, here is the 3rd edition of this online micro festival, which is part of the "Transonic Second Life Sessions". This event offers, in different Second Life venues, concerts and audio-visual performances in various Second Life venues, bringing...
27.02.2022 | Archivio Aperto – Katatonic Silentio + Demetrio Cecchitelli (It) – Radio Residenze #1 | Usmaradio – Giardini Pensili (It)
Katatonic Silentio and Demetrio Cecchitelli were the first resident artists of the "Radio Residenze" project (in collaboration with Usmaradio, Giardini Pensili and the European Pepinieres of Creation). The artists worked in the spaces of Giardini Pensili, on the hills...
27.02.2022 | Katatonic Silentio + Demetrio Cecchitelli (It) – Radio Residenze #1 | Giardini Pensili (It)
European Pepinieres of Creation are pleased to announce a partnership with Usmaradio (University of the Republic of San Marino) for a series of 3 sound creation residencies in 2022. Each with at least 3 components: a physical residency hosted by Giardini Pensili...
03 > 10.02.2022 | SHARAWADJI !?! Arrange the unexpected – Sound arts exhibition | Carré des Arts – ARTS2 (Be)
After two weeks of workshop (at the art school of Tourcoing from January 24 to 28, 2022 then at that of Mons, from January 31 to February 3) coordinated by artists/teachers Silvain Vanot and Julien Poidevin, the GMLR (twin studio) which is the sound studio shared by...
Album EP | Servitudes/Certitudes (Correspondance confinée) | Christophe Bailleau (Fr/Be) vs Paradise Now (Fr/Be)
In 2020 and 2021, Christophe Bailleau wrote, during the various lockdown waves, short impressionist texts and poetic fragments which he grouped under the title "Metal Black". In the fall of 2021, he asked his accomplice Paradise Now (Philippe Franck with whom he...
Album | No Signal – EP de MISTY (aka Thibault Drouillon – Be) | Transonic Emergences
No signal, Thibault Drouillon aka MISTY latest EP (opening the Transonic Emergences dpt on the independent label Transonic produced by Transcultures) is the fruit of his introspection on his view of a world where interactions have been weakened during this historical...
01 > 05.02.2022 | Zone Libre – Sound Art Festival | Bastia (Fr)
Transcultures and the European Pepinieres of Creation are pleased to develop, after a first successful collaboration during the July 2021 edition, a close partnership with the association Zone Libre and its sound arts festival. For this February 2022 programme, which...
24.01 > 03.02.2022 | Workshops Digital & Sound Emergences | Gémellaire Studio Esä (Fr) – Arts2 (Be)
Studio Gémellaire (GMLR) was born from the merger of two sound creation workshops: that of ARTS2, in Mons in Belgium, and that of Esä Dunkerque-Tourcoing, in France. For two weeks, Belgian and French students will work together to prepare a collective exhibition in...