Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et poétiques is a non-profit art organisation (association law 1901) based in Marseille, which works in the field of video arts both locally and internationally. Our project is following two major headings that overlap, interact and enrich one another, and which links are inseparable and unbreakable: one is artistic and the other is related to cultural & poetical rights.
On the artistic level, our task is to bear witness the developments in video arts,
to disseminate and promote them, to support emerging creation and videographies that are not widely distributed, and to support artists' routes.
Our activities follow 4 axes:
- Artistic programming (exhibitions and screenings),
- Art works ambassador and go-between,
- Expertise sharer: mentoring of artists and organisations, co-creation & support of festivals, jury in festival, diploma..., conferences, lectures...
- Exchange of knowledge: publications, workshops, symposiums...
The second area focuses on cultural and poetic rights as fundamental rights. Following in the footsteps of Fluxus (the avant-garde artistic movement from which video art sprang), we believe that there is an umbilical cord linking art to life. The association is working to so that video arts are not kept into an enclave but shared largely, but also to intensify the possibilities of encounters between a multiplicity and diversity of persons (fields of art, education, social...). But our purpose is also to understand what are the political, economic, cultural challenges of the Euro-Mediterranean Region in order to get the necessary distance to perform as an actor of the word of arts and culture.
We therefor act in 2 directions:
- Image education & participation: video art awareness workshop, conversation tour of exhibitions, popular art galleries, the Programm’actors collaborative project...
- Art, citizenship & civil society: collective commitments with REF (Euromed network France), Ligue de l’Enseignement (Popular education), Territoires Solidaires: co-organisation of workshops (Libyan, Syrian youths), public encounters, forums, panel discussions...)