INFR'ACTION - Festival International d'Art Performance

INFR'ACTION 08

The fourth edition of Infr'Action - Festival International d'Art Performance will take place in Sète from September 17 to 22. We continue actively to do our best to establish a scene for performance art in France. A place where art lovers can go to discover major international artists as well as emerging new talent. It is also an event where you can go and have a nice time, in the splendid milieu of the Mediterranean city of Sète. Infr'Action also takes on the issue of cultural democracy, trying to find new ways to facilitate peoples access to contemporary art. Infr'Action is keen to answer to questions concerning gender and multiculturalism. Each year the festival invites a country of honour, like Finland (2006), the United Kingdom (2007). This year the honour has come to Canada. No need to ask why.The Canadian scene of performance art is very strong, with a new generation of emerging artists, beside having a strong tradition.The fourth edition of Infr'Action sees its first co-curator in the person of Sylvette Babin, Canadian artist and director of the Montréal based contemporary art magazine esse - arts + opinions.

This years theme focus on the theoretical and practical notion that « everybody is an artist ».


Le Festival

IInfr'Action is the the major performance art event in France. Its first edition in 2005 presented some 28 artists from 10 countries during three days. In 2006 it featured 44 artists from 18 countries during five days. The festival intend to develop the scene of performance art in France and sustain other performance art organisers with counsel and support.

Infr'Action is a moment of pure joy for the public. You will be standing on a fruit or a fleamarket in front of an international avant-garde of performance artists presenting their live. Stimulating our imaginations of what art and life could be...

The avant-garde has become popular. Infr'Action is certainly another way of distributing contemporary art. Everybody is free to go to and meet up with the art, and the artists, who are presenting their work live and direct in the public space.

Infr'Action gives you the possiblity to live five days that you will certainly not forget. To discover the avant-garde of contemporary art in the remarkable settings of the city of Sète, blending nearness and conviviality.

+info: http://www.infraction.info