Festival Visions d’exil CENSORSHIP
Visions d’exil, 7e edition : Censorship
The aa-e is dedicating the 7th edition of its Visions d’exil Festival to Censorship from October 18 to December 1, 2024, in Paris and Marseille.
The omnipresence of war and the rise of authoritarian regimes lead to human rights violations and vehement attacks on democracy. The ubiquity of freedom of expression, creative freedom, and artistic dissemination affects the entire world, depriving it of pluralism and harming the well-being of individuals and societies. Consequently, the number of artists who are threatened and persecuted in their countries and forced into exile continues to grow. These artists may also be victims of cultural censorship because of their nationality. Institutions also face intimidation and sanctions regarding their programming.
For centuries, art and politics have maintained a complex relationship. Seeing art as an uncontrollable means of expression and a critical instrument destined to challenge its legitimacy, politicians protect themselves by censoring or persecuting its creators. These forms can be direct or insidious and may target specific groups of people or particular aesthetics. Artists find themselves subjected to self-censorship. Displaced, they encounter economic, cultural, and linguistic limits that redefine the scope of their creation.
The 7th edition of the festival will address censorship through three themes:
Political censorship
Self-censorship
Censorship of exile
Locations: Paris, Marseille
Dates: October 20 to November 22, 2024.
This new edition will feature festive evenings, concerts, performances, immersive experiences, exhibitions, screenings, discussions, roundtables, readings, and artistic practice workshops.
The festival brings together artists from Afghanistan, Algeria, Belarus, Myanmar, China, Colombia, France, Haiti, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Latvia, Lebanon, Mauritania, Palestine, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Russia, Western Sahara, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Turkey, and Ukraine.
Festival website here