© PAST PRESENT FUTURE by Oakland International Media Academy presented (top) alongside Dionysiens Dionysiennes by Sophie Comtet-Kouyaté (bottom). Photograph by Yann Mambert
ABOUT US
Oakland/Saint-Denis is a cooperation project that started in 2018 between the cities of Oakland (California) and Saint-Denis (Paris). Regardless of what they are called - suburbs, outskirts, banlieues - the program aims at centering the margins. Artistic movements, social struggles, urban innovations: Oakland, California and Saint-Denis, France are now asserting their cultural and artistic influence and inventing solutions to the challenges of inequity and accelerated urban development that metropolises are facing. We are willing to share these innovative practices to start a dialogue around the margins.
This project is co-produced by Villa Albertine San Francisco and California Humanities, and presented by the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris Nord, Saint-Denis, SPUR, San Francisco, and Oakstop, Oakland with the support of 836M Foundation, Art Explora, the Institut Français, Périféeries, Arte and the cities of Oakland and Saint-Denis.
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The cooperation project is about sharing and questioning. Through the exchanges and encounters throughout the years, two collective productions have emerged, a publication and a short-documentary. Find them below.
Read Translating Cities and Cultures, a publication written by various stakeholders from Oakland and Saint-Denis.
Watch Empowering Cultures in our Cities, a short documentary directed by Camille Servan Schreiber going back at the two learning expeditions in Saint-Denis and Oakland in 2019.
Credits of all the photographs on this page: Yann Mambert
ONLINE CONVERSATIONS
Oakland/Saint-Denis is about exchanging with various type of city stakeholders. We organize debates with artists, urban planners, architect, city representatives and a lot of other actors of the city. These debates called City/Cité conversation series are virtual, the last one was a conversation between the two curators of the exhibition on October 12, 2022. Watch the recording here!