Lesgrandescampagnes

Installation performance
Creation 2024-2026

Marion Zurbach's family was part of the movement of "worker priests" who decided to occupy mansions in the northern districts of Marseille (Saint Louis) after the Second World War.

This story inspired Marion to discover the little-known history of community squats in the 15th district of Marseille and to turn it into a subject to be explored in the present day with the residents. To do this, she invited the director and trained anthropologist Giulia Angrisani to join her. Sharing this memory is the basis for meetings and creations. It brings together the stories of community squats and current questions about housing. Urban landscapes, communities of different species and flora are at the heart of the research.

A heritage under construction, and engaging those who will make the gesture of extending it.

The performance installation focuses on the notion of testimony, attempting to provide a political, social, philosophical and artistic interpretation of past and future eras. Dialogue, listening, exchange, courage and experience are the essential elements of this civil poetics. Spectators discover a range of images, sometimes grandiose and complex, sometimes simple and trivial, that require their ability to wander through the filters of reality.

Marion Zurbach: artistic director
Giulia Angrisani: director & anthropologist
Arthur Eskenazi: artistic partner
Pascale Borghi and Mohammed Kassouri: educators
Raphaël Soleilhavoup: administrator and producer
and the residents and associations of Marseille's 15th arrondissement

Partners
Coopérative Hôtel du Nord, Addap 13, Artagon Marseille, Association GERM’ Gestion écologique et renaturation des milieux