43rd eedition of the festival Les Uns Chez Les Autres
Curators: Julie Navarro and the FNASAT team (Fédération nationale des associations solidaires d'action avec les Tsiganes et les Gens du voyage)
This September 19th, 2013, FNASAT, the national federation whose library promotes knowledge about Gypsies [Roma, Travellers]. is hosting the Caravanes! evening, during which artists from the 19th arrondissements and Travellers will combine their historical and chimerical visions of the caravan, from the power of the nomadic dream to the illusions of travel and forced mobility of the sedentary. Role-playing, film concerts and traditional gypsy music (the Taraf de Haïdouks) will join the artistic performances.
Tami Notsani greets us with a poster-image of a maternal caravan, soft and tired. Bruno Lapeyre takes us on a graphic journey in search of an ideal caravan-world, its broadest perspectives, its hopes and illusions. Gabi Jimenez presents the diptych Expulsion, a work engaged against exclusion and racism. Damian Lebas revisits the political cartography of the nomadic people, drawing the complex humanity of turbulence and movement. Lyonel Kouro presents Hortense! La Caravane (video, super 8 format, 6'), a very sixties camping weekend with the Hortense caravan, in 1960. Laurent Quenehen presents Portrait de Chriss, enfant du voyage (short film, 6'13), directed by Agnès Quillet. Patrick Ruet and Sébastien Spicher [L'atelier du midi] present Caravanesque, a photo-novel on the history and perspective of representations of the caravan [between 1930 and 2010) and the video Les chiens aboient, a poetic creation on the issues of caravan-refuge, poor housing and social difficulties.
8pm - Concert Dessiné : Jeff Pourquié, with Terrain vague (40'), recounts the gypsy memories of Marcel, an old worker, with the jazz group Les Jacqueline Maillan. 9pm - Opening of the Brasero-Barbecue by Cafézoïde 9:30pm to 11pm -Concert by Taraf de Haïdouks [traditional Gypsy music group "Lautari" from the Romanian village of Clejani) with Gypsy dancer "Luludi Biseleski".