The revue Lili, la rozell et le marimba accompanies the eponymous artistic cycle taking place at La Criée Contemporary Art Center in Rennes from 2019 to 2022. This cycle of exhibitions, events, residencies, and research exploring the connections between local productions, knowledge, and contemporary art. It aims to extend and broaden the questions raised by invited artists. The revue brings together contributions from artists, thinkers, and researchers from various backgrounds.
Through case studies, theoretical texts, and artistic interventions, it aims to ask the following questions:
-- In what forms does the richness of contributions and influences between so-called contemporary arts and traditional arts (crafts, artisanal, folkloric, popular, outsider, naive, etc.), between modernity and tradition, between local and global, manifest in contemporary creation?
-- In what ways do artists work today from so-called local contexts?
-- How do artists participate in rethinking the connections between folk knowledge and scholarly knowledge, between local and global, between native and foreign?
-- How do personal narratives serve as vehicles for History? Is one legitimate in speaking about a history that isn't one's own? From where does one speak?
-- How does one speak?