NO FRONTIERS 2021: Let’s Challenge Prejudices!
May 5 to 7: concerts and conferences
May 5 to 16: exhibition from 14:00 to 19:00 at IESA arts&culture
No Frontiers #4 is a multidisciplinary festival that invites us to shed our prejudices and question the way we look at inequalities. Organized by the students of IESA arts&culture, this festival is conceived as a moment of sharing and dialogue through works by contemporary artists invited for the occasion.
Migration, gender, racism, violence, inclusion and diversity are the subjects tackled by the visual artists, performers and musicians who shake up and challenge our individual relationship to society.
Rather than giving in to shortcuts, the artists question all the issues that attack, every day, the humanist values of equality and the possibilities of happy emancipation. In a spirit of openness and encounter, No Frontiers #4 partners with charitable associations to support them financially and welcome their audiences into the making of the festival itself.
Parched After the Crossing
Curated by students of IESA arts&culture, exhibition department, under the artistic direction of Mehdi-Georges Lahlou.
Exhibition from May 5 to 16, 2021
14:00 to 19:00
IESA arts&culture, 1 Cité Griset, 75011
Visual Manifesto
Parched After the Crossing brings together artists shaped by displacement: whether they cultivate roots from here or from far away, whether they claim their origins or leave them out of the picture, they share a poetic view of the globalized world, kneading their multiple identities, freely reshaping their double or triple cultures, and playing with distances, whether physical or metaphorical. They build footbridges and bridges in every direction. They clear gray areas, unless they would rather sow us there. They take us on intimate journeys or collective odysseys that will leave us by turns stunned, dazed, amazed, drained, even dried out, but that will redouble our appetite and our thirst for the world.
Through this event, conceived as a sum of all kinds, within the premises of IESA: an artistic stroll through the hallways, the meeting places, and the classrooms, the IESA campus will appear to us as a city where all elsewheres seem infinitely close and where the detour, even the rout, moves us forward, helping to fund and welcome their audiences in the very making of the festival.
ARTISTS
Clay Apenouvon, Halida Boughriet, Camille Coléon & Audrey Guimard, Arianne Foks, Will Fredo, Beya Gille Gacha, Soukaina Joual, Kubra Khademi, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, Randa Maroufi, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Fatima Mazmouz, Anna Raimondo, Enrique Ramirez, Pascale Rémita, Moussa Sarr, Massinissa Selmani.
IESA is delighted to exhibit, for the second time, Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, winner of the Juvenars-IESA Prize 2017!
MUSIC
Live Music, Streaming & Festive Emancipation!
Let’s shake our bodies and shake up our prejudices! A year of watching acoustic, intimate concerts behind a phone screen is a long time, so No Frontiers has found the formula to reconnect with the energy of a party and a live concert. Three nights of electro pop concerts, broadcast via live stream, with a stage and technical setup that spreads the energy of a real contemporary music concert. The lineup, put together by the students of the school’s Music program, combines inspirations from the emerging French electro pop scene with influences WITHOUT BORDERS.
The live concerts will be held on Twitch on May 5, 6, and 7.
ARTISTS
Dame Civile, Mauvais œil, Jaia Rose
CONFERENCES
Duty of culture: let’s question what is essential. The goal of the multidisciplinary festival No Frontiers is to prompt reflection on discrimination,
Over these three days of the festival, one conference will be presented each day. First, on Wednesday, May 5, the conference "Migrants and Their Access to Education in France" will take place. Next comes the conference "The Place of Culture in the Age of Covid-19" on Thursday, May 6. The festival will close on Friday, May 7 with the conference "Body Shaming and Gender Representation: The Sacralization of Bodies on Social Media." These panel discussions will be led by several speakers from all professions, chosen for their knowledge and personal experience of the topics addressed. whatever they may be, through music, painting, photography and film, but we also want to shed light on certain subjects through panel discussions that will allow speakers to talk and exchange views on specific issues.
CHARITY FESTIVAL
For this 4th edition, No Frontiers has decided to support an association by donating the festival’s proceeds to it.
The purpose of DROIT À L’ÉCOLE’s work is to enroll Isolated and Exiled Minors in school in France. Their mission is to welcome and prepare these minors for the schooling that is denied to them in the short term, to support the young people in their procedures, and to bring the cause of these young people, forgotten by the school system, to the attention of institutions. School, from which they are deprived, opens up future prospects for young people in social and professional terms, forges their critical thinking and prepares them for fully embraced citizenship.
MAG Jeunes LGBT (Mouvement d’Affirmation des Jeunes Gais, Lesbiennes, Bi & Trans) is an association of young lesbian, gay, bi and trans people aged 15 to 26. Thanks to its welcome centers in Paris, Strasbourg and Caen, and the social activities it offers (outings, picnics, parties, trips abroad…), MAG Jeunes LGBT allows young gay, lesbian, bi and trans people, or those questioning, to meet in a friendly atmosphere to break out of their isolation, talk and share their questions or experiences. MAG Jeunes LGBT also carries out prevention campaigns on the sexual health of young lesbian, gay, bi and trans people.
MAG is a partner of the No Frontiers #4 event.
