Every summer at the Avignon Festival, the French National Research Agency brings researchers and artists into dialogue. A four-year contract, three editions delivered.
Avignon Festival
To stage, each year, for France's National Research Agency and within the Avignon Festival, a day on which the festival's programmed artists and researchers from different disciplines work together in front of an audience. A space for sharing knowledge, not a conference.
Framing meeting, definition of needs, venue selection and approval
Running order and schedule, coordination of technical and logistics suppliers, equipment testing
Welcome and registration desk, catering and breaks, operational control on the day
A rare interdisciplinary crossroads: writers, actors and choreographers set their work against recent research. For the Agency, a showcase for the projects it funds; for the performing arts, a way of identifying their own research needs. Across the four years of the contract, one edition was cancelled by the pandemic and another run entirely remotely.
