CULTURE AT THE HEART OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE GRAND PARIS EXPRESS PRESENTATION OF THE ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL PROGRAMME AND THE KEY MOMENTS 2020-2024 THURSDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2020 With the support of the Endowment Fund of the Grand Paris Express societedugrandparis.fr culture-grandparisexpress.fr TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. EXPERIMENTING AND CELEBRATING THE GRAND PARIS EXPRESS p 1.1. A popular success at the heart of the Grand Paris territories . Large construction site parties bringing together a total of 45,000 people 4 Participation in the first Biennial of architecture and landscape of the Île-de-France region Projects of artistic residencies co-created with the territories and the inhabitants Nomadic artworks circulating from one construction site to another Artworks in virtual reality around the construction sites Urban strolls on the metro lines A commitment in favour of photography An educational programme for youth 1.2. 2020 programme and key moments The touring construction site parties p New artistic residencies on the territories The touring of the nomadic artworks of the Grand Paris Express 6 new virtual reality artworks around the construction sites Two exhibitions to discover the train stations’ design A new edition of the Grand Paris Express Pedestrians The Great Race of the Grand Paris Express A cycle of debate-concerts to imagine and celebrate the Grand Paris 2. BUILDING THE HERITAGE OF THE FUTURE 2.1. The artist and architect “tandems”: the Grand Paris Express is creating the largest collection ever of artworks in the public space p.11 36 artists at work An artistic direction and guest curators The new projects and invited artists in 2020 p.19 2.2. A diversity of architectures, a shared design A new edition of the train stations’ Charter of architecture Design as a guiding principle A conception guide for the future squares of the Grand Paris An important commission to illustrate the territories p. 21 3. PLEYEL, AN URBAN AND CULTURAL DEMONSTRATOR 4. THE ENDOWMENT FUND, p.23 A VOLUNTARIST APPROACH 2 Editorial by Thierry Dallard, President of the Board of the Société du Grand Paris By contributing to the invention of train stations and new neighbourhoods, the Société du Grand Paris wants to reconnect with the foundation of our European cities: the squares, the public space, an urban density favouring encounters and exchanges and that will participate in the fight against global warming by limiting urban sprawl, welcoming nature and trees and favouring the use of public transport instead of the car. In this respect, architecture and culture are levers to transform our relationship to space: they are factors of social connection, creating an attachment to a territory. They ensure a human and sensitive link between the infrastructure and the users. Today, the artistic and cultural programme that has been implemented has a triple goal: Building the heritage of tomorrow, namely through original collaborations between architects and artists for each of the 68 new train stations of the network. Experimenting in the territories and heralding the upcoming arrival of the metro, inviting artists, young creators and inhabitants to propose creative projects around our construction sites Celebrating the Grand Paris Express by organising important artistic and popular events on the construction sites, allowing the involvement of the inhabitants in our adventure. Few projects have called upon such a large diversity of creators, architects, designers and artists. This collective commitment is the guarantee of a human, urban and creative ambition, essential to the implementation of our project. The central place of culture at the heart of the Grand Paris Express will contribute to building the Grand Paris of the 21st century. One hundred and fifty years after the transformation of Paris by Baron Haussmann, the idea is to draw the map of a Capital Region that is more open to the world, where the train stations of the new network become the new doors to the Grand Paris. 3 1. EXPERIMENTING AND CELEBRATING THE GRAND PARIS EXPRESS 1.1. A POPULAR SUCCESS AT THE HEART OF THE GRAND PARIS TERRITORIES From the launch of the first construction sites in 2016 until the full implementation of the network planned in 2030, the artistic and cultural programme of the Grand Paris Express is accompanying the construction of the metro by involving the territories and the inhabitants, offering a new creative territory to artists and participating in the urban insertion of the sites undergoing work. To implement this artistic and cultural policy, the Société du Grand Paris chose, as part of a public tender, an artistic direction team led by José-Manuel Gonçalvès with the collaboration of Manifesto, the Eva Albarran & Co agency and the CENTQUATRE-PARIS. Four years after its start, this programme of unprecedented geographic and temporal scale, is intensifying to become a trademark of the Grand Paris Express’ construction. More than 200 artists from different generations and horizons (performing arts, contemporary art, design, digital art, innovation, architecture) have already taken part in this adventure, involving around 200,000 inhabitants of the Grand Paris. “The Grand Paris Express construction sites are an innovative space to participate in the invention of the city of tomorrow, based on a strong cultural project that stems from the specificities of the territories united by the future metro.” José-Manuel Gonçalvès, artistic and cultural director of the Grand Paris Express LARGE CONSTRUCTION SITE PARTIES, BRINGING TOGETHER A TOTAL OF 45,000 PEOPLE. Artistic, cultural and festive gatherings, christened “KM” for the kilometres that will have been covered up to the opening of the metro, moving from one construction site to another, like a touring festival. More than sixty artists, institutions and companies have already been invited as part of the events programme (Olivier Dubois, JR, Dominique Boivin, Emile Omar, the Académie Fratellini, Groupe F, DJ Chloé, Cie La Machine, Iván Navarro, the Ecole des Arts du Cirque de Rosny, etc.). As a sign of the increasing enthusiasm for these rendezvous, more than 6,000 people participated in the last party (KM8) at Villejuif in February 2020. PARTICIPATION IN THE FIRST BIENNIAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE OF THE ÎLE-DE-FRANCE REGION (BAP !) Imagined by a multidisciplinary collective (José-Manuel Gonçalvès, Pascale Dalix, Frédéric Chartier, Pierre-Alain Trévelo, Corinne Vezzani), the “Horizon 2030” pavilion exhibited in 2019 the projects and ambitions of the Grand Paris Express in matter of architecture, landscape architecture, design, culture and urban planning as part of the first Biennial of Architecture and Landscape launched by the Île-de-France region. For the first time, the public (more than 40,000 visitors) was able to discover the models and perspectives presenting the 68 train stations of the new metro, as well as 3D immersions. PROJECTS OF ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES CO-CREATED WITH THE TERRITORIES AND THE INHABITANTS. These participative creative actions christened “Shared projects” are developed with the cities. After a first season in 2018 with six teams of multidisciplinary artists (Ne Rougissez Pas!, COAL, Yes We Camp, Malte Martin, Si Architectes, Collectif Parenthèse), three new collectives settled in 2019 in the territories close to the construction sites: Ne Rougissez Pas ! at Vitry-sur-Seine, Jan Vormann at Créteil and the COAL collective in Montrouge. NOMADIC ARTWORKS CIRCULATING FROM ONE CONSTRUCTION SITE TO ANOTHER. The first six artists have been invited to create nomadic artworks that will become part of the Grand Paris Express collection: Pablo Valbuena, Malachi Farrell, Tobias Rehberger, Alain Bublex, Vivien Roubaud, Michel de Broin. They will travel all along the route of the undergoing metro. In 2019, they were also visible at the FIAC, during the Nuit Blanche parade at Vitry-sur-Seine. 4 ARTWORKS IN VIRTUAL REALITY AROUND THE CONSTRUCTION SITES. Twelve 360° digital artworks, inspired by the future train station neighbourhoods, have been installed on the edges of the construction sites since April 2019. Chosen as part of the project tender called “Numéri-Scope”, the artists offer an artistic interpretation of the arrival of the new metro and the evolving territories. These virtual reality terminals are accessible to all, 24/7, and more than 50,000 users have already experimented with them! The 12 laureate artists are all from the field of young digital creation: Kaspar Ravel, Rémi Large, Dylan Cote- Calisson, Romain Barthélémy and Gabriel Malgouyard (AAIO collective), Raphaël Faon and Andres Salgado, Samuel Lepoil, Guillaume Seyller, Huang Wei-Hsuan, Galdric Fleury and Antoine Fontaine, Sarah Bastide and Pierre Depaz, Mona Young-eun Kim. URBAN STROLLS ON THE METRO LINES. After having taken more than 2,000 hikers along the route of Line 15 in 2018, the “Pedestrian Grand Paris Express” continued its itinerary along the route of Line 16 in 2019. These strolls, free and open to all, are co-produced with the media Enlarge Your Paris. They question our relationship to the urban landscape of the metropolis and to the act of walking, as a new means of moving about in the Grand Paris. A COMMITMENT IN FAVOUR OF PHOTOGRAPHY. As from 2013 and before the launch of the first construction sites, the Société du Grand Paris initiated a programme of photographic commissions on the route of the future network. The first works were done by Pierre-Olivier Deschamps, who produced an inventory of more than 3,000 photographs of the train station neighbourhoods before their transformation, and by Françoise Huguier, who invited herself inside the homes of the future users of the Grand Paris Express. Since 2016, the Société du Grand Paris has taken part in the national photographic commission “Regards du Grand Paris” Views from the Grand Paris undertaken by Les Ateliers Médicis in cooperation with the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap).