The City of La Rochelle – Maison des Écritures and the Cité internationale des arts are committed, with the Centre Intermondes, for the period 2020-2022, in a partnership to develop artistic and cultural exchanges. The aim is to implement a program of co-constructed and structuring residencies between artists from La Rochelle and artists of all nationalities hosted in residence at the Cité internationale des arts, with a priority focus on emerging artists.
The objectives of this partnership are to allow French artists - with particular attention paid to artists from overseas - and foreign artists who have not yet had access to national or international support (grants, competitions, etc.), to have access to work spaces and time, as well as professional support.
In keeping with their values of hospitality, the Cité internationale des arts, the Centre Intermondes - Maison des Écritures and Mille Plateaux - Centre Chorégraphique national La Rochelle wish to coordinate their actions in 2022 to welcome for a few months two Ukrainian artists (and cultural professionals) as well as Russian artists (and cultural professionals) impacted by the conflict in Ukraine.
This residency program will encourage the mobility of artists on the French territory, stimulate multidisciplinarity and exchanges between artistic practices and give visibility through in situ programming (galleries, auditorium and other exhibition spaces) and outside the walls.
1/ Two overseas residencies shared by Cité internationale des arts/ Maison des écritures/Intermondes/ will take place in 2022:
• Residency for an author from overseas from May to July at the Cité and from August to September in La Rochelle | Recipient: Odile Pedro-Leal (Guyana)
• Audiovisual residency at the Cité from July to August, and in La Rochelle from September to November, in collaboration with the Festival de la Fiction | Recipient: Cédrick Isham (Guadeloupe)
The 2021 Recipient: Emmelyne Octavie and Sarah Malléon.
2/ Within the framework of the Ukraine solidarity, two residences in sharing Cité internationale des arts/ Maison des écritures/Intermondes/ Mille Plateaux -CCN de La Rochelle will take place in 2022:
• Choreographic residency between la Cité and the Maison des écritures and the CCN of La Rochelle | Recipient: Rita Lira (Ukraine)
• Visual arts residency between la Cité and the Centre Intermondes | Recipient: to be announced