From December 5 to 7, Les Urbaines<\/strong> returns with a bold new edition that reflects a dynamic intersection of the cultural and political moment. Through a program blending performance art, installations, and transdisciplinary projects, the festival becomes a space for artistic exploration\u2014where new forms emerge in response to systemic injustice, contemporary struggles, and evolving social imaginaries.<\/p>\n Rather than simply showcasing artworks, Les Urbaines<\/strong> creates a critical territory where experimental artistic practices engage with the present moment. In a sociopolitical landscape marked by neofascist influences and entrenched systems of oppression\u2014whether extractivist, colonial, or imperialist\u2014the festival embraces an overtly political artistic vision. The selected pieces confront, subvert, or transcend these forms of violence, turning the act of creation into one of resistance and radical truth-telling.<\/p>\n Every project on display bears the imprint of the context in which it was created. Far from passive commentary, each piece acts as a subtle or powerful disruption of the status quo\u2014woven through poetic, political, and performative gestures that challenge indifference and provoke reflection.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udccd Aula de la Concorde \u2014 December 7, 9:00 PM\u20139:30 PM \ud83d\udccd Arsenic \u2014 December 5 (9:15 PM\u201311:00 PM) \/ December 6 (9:00 PM\u201310:45 PM) \ud83d\udccd Arsenic \u2014 December 5 & 6 (9:30 PM\u201310:15 PM) \/ December 7 (3:45 PM\u20134:30 PM) \ud83d\udccd Espace Arlaud \u2014 December 6 (4:30 PM\u20135:00 PM) \/ December 7 (1:15 PM\u20131:45 PM) \ud83d\udccd Espace Arlaud \u2014 December 6 to 14 A Festival at the Intersection of Resistance and Imagination From December 5 to 7, Les Urbaines returns with a bold new edition that reflects a dynamic intersection of the cultural and political moment. Through a program blending performance art, installations, and transdisciplinary projects, the festival becomes a space for artistic exploration\u2014where new forms emerge in…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lgbtq-infos-news"],"yoast_head":"\nArt as a Response to Systemic Violence<\/h2>\n
An Engaged and Poetic 29th Edition<\/h2>\n
Spotlight on Key Performances<\/h2>\n
Charlie Osborne \u2014 SHIP Sket & Pike \u2014 SCENE ONE\u2026 \/ SCENE TWO\u2026<\/em><\/h3>\n
Charlie Osborne presents a striking hybrid of concert, essay, and performance, fusing pop culture, horror, and hyperrealism. This work twists pop clich\u00e9s to expose the tension between sincerity and spectacle\u2014wrapped in a kitschy, romantic, and deliberately unsettling aesthetic.<\/p>\nAyoub-Jasmina Moumen \u2014 BPM: Body, Pills, Metamorphosis<\/em><\/h3>\n
This visceral performance explores the body as a site of memory, fear, and transformation. Drawing from the Tunisian stambali ritual, Ayoub-Jasmina Moumen addresses trans identity, addiction, and structural violence. The result is part political manifesto, part healing ritual, and part symbolic sacrifice.
Trigger warning: drug use, self-harm, transfeminicide, addiction.<\/em><\/p>\nPJ Horny \u2014 Personnage Principale<\/em><\/h3>\n
Blending stand-up comedy, cabaret, autofiction, and TikTok aesthetics, PJ Horny deconstructs power and pop culture through a queer, ironic, and razor-sharp lens. Subversive and smart, this performance is both entertaining and deeply political.<\/p>\nGhyzl\u00e8ne Bouka\u00efla \u2014 Djebel al-Q\u0101f \u2014 is it reachable?<\/em><\/h3>\n
This project merges documentary, speculative fiction, and Islamic mythology to follow a smuggler obsessed with an invisible mountain. Ghyzl\u00e8ne Bouka\u00efla investigates symbolic and physical borders, suspended spaces, and the intimate and political geographies that shape human experience.<\/p>\nA Living Collective Exhibition<\/h2>\n
This group exhibition weaves together films, sculptures, installations, reimagined archives, and personal narratives. The result is a fluid, multifaceted, and embodied map of the worlds that emerge throughout this year\u2019s festival\u2014an experience to be felt, not just observed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"