Nuit Blanche 2024: Polygonal/e

Nuit Blanche 2024: Polygonal/e Saturday 06/01/2024

Nuit Blanche is the City of Paris’s all-night signature event, an ever-expanding free art program reaching out to the Greater Metropolitan area and the cities of Le Havre and Rouen along the River Seine, which has spun a global movement in Europe, North America and Asia.

For its 23rd edition, leading up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Nuit Blanche 2024 is expanding further to include Guadeloupe, Guyane, Martinique, Réunion and Polynesia, making it its largest edition ever. Titled Polygonal/e, a pun on so-called hexagonal France, Nuit Blanche 2024 highlights global connections and traces diasporic oceanic routes across centuries.

Under the artistic direction of Claire Tancons, Nuit Blanche 2024: Polygonal/e, centers artists who address the perils of the postcolonial and post-national present, under conditions of resource scarcity in Marlon Griffith’s WE WILL NOT BOW, a deambulatory performance in homage to Mayotte in the Parc de Belleville; from colonial memories with Abdelwaheb Sefsaf’s Kaldûn requiem ou le pays invisible, a musical performance at the foot of Montmartre’s Sacré Cœur reminiscing New Caledonia’s penal colonies, and Edgar Arceneaux’s The Mirror Is You featuring Alex Barlas, which takes inspiration from his family’s French colonial roots from Acadia to Louisiana; and with rituals of recovery, with Tabita Rézaire’s monumental video installation on traditional prenatal care, L’art de naître, and Orama Nigou’s interpretation of ancient Polynesian funerary rites in Cycle de Rūmia, Acte 3, Ōivi no Rūmia.

On the cover: Nathalie Joffre_Inconsolatas © Marc Domage

Source: Pierre Laporte Communication