Le Pont Des Échanges / Ideally, this text will make you levitate © Laure Prouvost
Saturday, October 6, 2018 – From 7pm to 2am, Nuit Blanche 2018
PONT ALEXANDRE III
Le Pont Des Échanges / Ideally, this text will make you levitate © Laure Prouvost
Saturday, October 6, 2018 – From 7pm to 2am, Nuit Blanche 2018
PONT ALEXANDRE III
What has been the impact of the project?
Bibliothèques Sans Frontières (Librairies without borders) was able to:
- Collect more than 35,000 books
- Gather 15 white books designed and donated by artist Melik Ohanian, sent to recipients in more than 8 different countries, from Colombia to Bangladesh to Belgium
The Fondation Abbé Pierre was able to:
- Presented to the public its forms of support for cultural actions, which constitutes 15% of their budget
- Stimulated rich exchanges and raised awareness among visitors
Music Fund was able to:
- Collect more than 3,500 musical instruments donated by partners
- Expanded its program of instrument repair shops in 6 countries around the world.
L’atelier des artistes en exil was able to:
- Programm Wael Alkak, artist of the atelier
- Collect material donations of technological equipment
- Promoted its actions and raised awareness among visitors
Cultures du Cœur was able to:
- Conclude partnerships with cultural institutions, including the MAM (Museum of Modern Art of Paris) and the Palais de Tokyo, to organize guided tours and awareness-raising visits for the association’s beneficiaries
- Promote its actions and raised awareness among visitors
Thanks for Nothing presented: a festival of performances met with 12 contemporary artists, 5 NGOs that strive to integrate disadvantaged communities through access to culture and a giant collection of cultural objects to support their actions.
Wael Alkak, Uriel Barthélémi, Alex Cecchetti, Ryan Gander, Valérie Mréjen & Dominique Gilliot, Melik Ohanian, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Laure Prouvost and Noé Soulier offered activities especially designed and made for the occasion.
Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Julien Derouault and the Théâtre du Corps premiered a performance of their latest creation, Lorenzaccio.
Thanks for Nothing also invited the public to meet the 5 NGOs who work in favor of the inclusion of underprivileged populations through access to culture: la Fondation Abbé Pierre, l’atelier des artistes en exil, Bibliothèques sans frontières, Cultures du cœur and Music Fund.
With the support of more than 30 major public and private actors in the art world, Thanks for Nothing has set up a collection of cultural goods on the Pont Alexandre III. To date, more than 35,000 books and than 3,500 musical instruments and Beaux-Arts materials have been collected and distributed to the associations present.
The « Pont des Échanges » benefited from the patronage of Carnibird, the Fondation Abbé Pierre and Le Perchoir and the support of Sogema and Aesop.
An ephemeral bar was installed by Le Perchoir on the Pont of Alexandre III during the event. It was directed by Andrei Panibratchenko with architect Antoine Rocca. The artist Ryan Gander had expanded the Perchoir’s cocktail menu by proposing his creation «10:32, 16 mai 2015, Paris».
The collection of cultural goods was produced in collaboration with: Algam, Center Pompidou, Galleries Art Committee, Éditions Gallimard, Éditions La Découverte, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Agnès B Endowment Fund, Fonds Emerige Endowment, Lafayette Anticipations, MAC / VAL, Red House, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, Picasso Museum, and Palais de Tokyo.
