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DESCRIPTION:Sep 11\, 2026 - Jan 1\, 2027\nLike a few other long-running\, f
 orward-looking European arts festivals\, Festival d’automne sets the ter
 ms for seasons to come. In the last few years\, its emphasis has fallen no
 t on the usual conceptual and postmodern suspects\, such as Boris Charmatz
 \, Jerome Bel\, or Xavier Le Roy\, though they are all presenting work\, b
 ut on France’s former colonies and the city’s immigrant outskirts\, th
 e banlieues. This year\, the impulse to “center” the margins has reach
 ed its logical conclusion: artists have rejected the separation of art fro
 m life dominant in the West since the Enlightenment\; they are reconstruct
 ing the world in which they grew up as the art. For the first of her sever
 al Carte Blanche programs\, the Zimbabwean Nora Chipaumire reorganizes the
  Ménagerie de verre—its theater\, dance studios\, restaurant\, and conf
 erence rooms—to house Zimbabwean DJs and dance parties\, Zimbabwean meal
 s\, and much cross-cultural talk. Likewise\, Tianzhuo Chen and Siko Setyan
 to’s performance-installation Ocean Cage stages an Indonesian fishing vi
 llage’s customary “entanglement among the whale\, the fisherman and th
 e ancestor.” The measure of these works’ success\, as with all avant-g
 arde work\, is that they not placate us—that they not give up their natu
 re to seem less strange to us foreigners.
LOCATION:Various Venues\, Paris\, France
SUMMARY:Festival d'Automne 2026
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