From November 16th-30th 2018, the Cité internationale des arts will host the festival’s second key event at its Montmartre site in the 18th arrondissement, transformed for the occasion into an exhibition space spread over 3 floors.
On Fridays and Saturdays, the programme continues with festive evenings featuring performances, debates and concerts in the large living room on the ground floor, the scenography of which has been entrusted to the Syrian artist Khaled Alwaera. The scenography, conceived using recycled materials, is an installation in its own right, a metaphor for a transition between two worlds, serving both as a space of conviviality and an ephemeral stage.
On the agenda for this evening:
Sam Tshabalala, a renowned musician, fled South Africa where apartheid was rampant and settled in France in 1983. Monique Pelser, based in Cape Town, from a family of white police officers, chose to focus on performance and conceptual photography. The two artists initiate a conversation on their personal trajectories and the South African memories of the 1980s to recount in sound and images the portrait of Tshabalala, an artist in exile.
The installation presentation will be accompanied by a concert by Sam Tshabalala.
Sam Tshabalala's music combines elements of South African black culture with jazz, funk or reggae rhythms. He sings about apartheid, the hopes of the people and life in the townships.
With Jack Djeyim (guitar, vocals - Cameroon), Portia Solani Manyike (vocals - South Africa), Jean-Paul Melindji (drums, vocals - Côte d'Ivoire), Sam Tshabalala (guitar, vocals - South Africa).
Monique Pelser (South Africa), in residence at the Cité internationale des arts, in partnership with the Institut français.