The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is granted every two years to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe.
The prestigious award went to the French Lacaton & Vassal architectes, Frédéric Druot Architecture, and Christophe Hutin Architecture for their Grand Parc Bordeaux transformation project of 530 apartments in France, and the French Toulouse-based BAST – Bureau Architectures Sans Titre won the ‘Emerging Architecture Prize‘ for their School Refectory in Montbrun-Bocage, a small village in Haute-Garonne, France. In collaboration with Georgia Tech School of Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Foundation in Barcelona, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the USA / Atlanta, we invite BAST in residence in Atlanta during which the team will  lead a workshop with architecture studio students and give a public talk on October 23.

The EU Mies van der Rohe Award was launched in 1988 and for over 30 years has created a network that has scanned and interpreted the construction of the European territory, composed of an emulsion of natural and cultural, vernacular and canonical, traditional and artificial elements. During the exhibition opening, Ivan Blasi, curator of Prizes and Programming at the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, gave a public lecture about the finalists and shortlisted projects of the 2019 Eu Mies Award, in the European cultural, political, and architectural contexts, from its beginnings in 1988 until now. https://miesbcn.com/prize/

All events are free and open to the public

Georgia Tech School of Music will collaborate with École polytechnique and the Cultural and Scientific services of the French Embassy to showcase the connections between art and science via Water Drums, an experimental performance that visualizes acoustic waves and enables new form of artistic creation through workshops and an immersive experience. Water Drums is an installation of the artistic group Labofactory designed in the research group in arts & sciences at École polytechnique, the production being sponsored by the Chaire arts & Sciences.
École polytechnique is among the premier scientific and engineering institutions in France. The Chair Arts & Sciences is shared between École polytechnique, École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs – Paris Sciences et Lettres, and the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. Georgia Tech’s School of Music, in the College of Design, develops cutting-edge technologies to help define music’s future, such as music informatics, robotics musicianship, and brain-computer interfaces.

Loïc Guénin, a French composer known for his unique soundscapes and graphical scores, will write a new piece of music inspired by the sounds of the city of Atlanta. It will be produced by his company, Le Phare à Lucioles, and performed in France in 2020.
Hovering between experimental rock noise with contemporary aesthetics and an electro-acoustic sound, Loïc Guénin’s music refuses to adhere to a specific category. His approach to sound and listening places him at the border between music and contemporary art.
During his residency in Atlanta, Loïc Guénin will present a series of lectures. He will also lead workshops and performances with Georgia Tech students along with a Pittsburgh, Atlanta group and the local, national, and international artists of The Fence.

The French performer and artistic director Duncan Evennou and the researcher Clémence Hallé  will present the first step of the trilogy Matters and their new research axes.
The first performance was an exploration of the archives of the inaugural meeting of the Anthropocene Working Group in 2014 at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. The second performance will be an exploration of the relationship between humans and technology and the dominant story used to explain why we entered the Anthropocene. The ultimate one will treat the alternatives stories told by post-colonial and gender studies about the same hypothesis.
Duncan Evennou, graduated in 2012 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art Dramatique du Théâtre National de Bretagne, completed the Political Arts Experimentation Program (SPEAP) at Institut des Etudes Politiques de Paris.  He is now working on creation, research and pedagogy dynamics at the crossing point of drama, sociology and visual arts.

Clémence Hallé is a doctoral student at the École Normale Supérieure in the Sciences, Arts, Creation, Research department. Her thesis is about the aesthetic history of the Anthropocene.

This residency is organized by the Cultural services of the French Embassy in the United States, Light House Company and SACre Laboratory.

Barontini’s work complements the Frederik Douglass exhibition while remaining wholly its own experience.

SCAD Museum of Art presents "The Golden March," a new public art commission and the first museum solo exhibition in the U.S. by Raphaël Barontini, an artist known for his dynamic installations that subvert visual tropes and iconographies. Barontini’s works are mostly fiber-based, and he creates images by layering screen prints and paintings, fashioning fantastical environments that evoke pageantry and ceremony. The artist explores ritualized celebration forms espoused by the African Diaspora and offers an ongoing interrogation and challenge to colonial iconographies. A recent body of work by the artist set out to bring attention to black hero figures in French history.
Barontini mines historical art references and visual systems to make new, surprising images that explore issues of representation and race. He establishes new contexts for images culled from African and European art, and in the process engages topics that critique colonialism and oppressive regimes. Tracing a personal lineage from Réunion Island to the Caribbean to Paris, Barontini is influenced by processes of creolization and hybridity and the philosophies of Caribbean thinkers, such as Édouard Glissant.

Additional funding for the exhibition is provided by Étant donnés Contemporary Art, a program of the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE) Foundation.

Jacques Sémelin, historian, political scientist and psychologist, has since 1997 served as a director of research at Sciences Po. In 2007, Sémelin was qualified as a professor of History and of Political Science by the Conseil national des universités (le CNU). Sémelin is highly esteemed for his work on mass violence and mass genocide, being a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He is the founder of the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, of which he has been president since January 2011. In addition, he serves on the scientific boards of journals including the European Review of History, the Journal of Genocide Research and 20th Century.

The Book Department of the Cultural Services works to promote French and Francophone literature and to encourage English translations of French works. We oversee three grant programs to help publishers and translators with acquisition of rights cost and translation cost.
The deadline for the next session is December 1, 2019.
(Expected date of printing: no sooner than September 2020 for this session.)

"Irma Vep" (Olivier Assayas, 1996, 97 min, France, Color, DCP) Olivier Assayas's live-wire international breakthrough stars a magnetic Maggie Cheung as a version of herself: a Hong Kong action movie star who arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade's classic 1915 crime serial "Les vampires". Blending blasts of silent cinema, martial arts flicks, and the music of Sonic Youth into a hallucinatory swirl of postmodern cool, Assayas composes a witty reflection on the eternal tension between art and commercial entertainment. "As effortless as a shrug and boasts a film buff's dream cast." - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times.

Three siblings, played by Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, and Jérémie Rénier, must decide what to do with the country estate and objects they’ve inherited from their mother. From this simple story, Assayas creates an exquisitely nuanced drama about the material of globalized modern living..

YOUNG FRENCH CINEMA is a program of UniFrance and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, which aims to bring French films with no US distribution to art house cinemas, film societies, the Alliance Française network, and American universities.
Young French Cinema offers a selection of today’s best French films and filmmakers. The program focuses specifically on rising talents from France, from high-profile independent works, to powerful documentaries and quirky discoveries. This program stands as proof that this young generation of contemporary French filmmakers is—more than ever—a genuine melting pot with a global vision and an amazing capacity to combine cultural influences. Across a wide range of subject matter, their work is innovative in both style and storytelling. Most of the films selected in this program have premiered in the US in one of the top US festivals, but do not currently have US distribution.

The MediaArtHistories Award is given bi-annually for lifetime achievements and major contributions to the histories of media, art, science and technology. Previous award recipients have included Barbara Stafford and Werner Nekes (posthumously). Anne-Marie Duguet (*1946) is an Emeritus Professor in Aesthetics and Art History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an art critic and curator. Since 1995, she has been the director and editor of the “anarchive” series which comprises monographic digital archives and multimedia projects of such contemporary artists as Antoni Muntadas, Michael Snow, Thierry Kuntzel, Jean Otth, Fujiko Nakaya, and Masaki Fujihata. The most recent anarchive edition appeared in conjunction with an international touring exhibition of the US-American video artist Peter Campus (showing at Bronx Museum of the Arts (NY), until July 21, 2019, after presentations at Jeu de Paume in Paris, in Sevilla, and Lisbon).

Core Dance, an internationally recognized, award-winning contemporary dance organization based in Houston, TX and Atlanta/Decatur, GA, brings its newest choreopoem, if…a memoir collaboratively created by its Artistic Director Sue Schroeder and a cast of international creatives to life in October and November. In celebration of its 40th Anniversary season Core Dance will perform if…a memoir in Arkansas, Texas, and Georgia.