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Holeg Spies – Echos des Origines
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceWhat if listening were humanity's founding gesture? In Echos des Origines, published by Signal Zéro, composer and sound researcher Holeg Spies traces an unbroken line from the resonant caves of the Paleolithic to the bass-driven warehouses of 1990s rave culture. He proposes what he calls écophonisme — an understanding of sound as a living organism […]
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Yuki + Moresk — On Living Systems
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome projects begin as personal attempts to step outside existing systems, others as ways of rethinking them from within. This evening brings together two independent practices that question how we live, organise time, and define autonomy. L’antimanuel : La Cafardise stems from a year spent exploring life outside monetary structures. Through analogue photography and lived […]
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West is the Best — Toward the Ocean
Galerie Kann Design 30 rue des Trois Bornes, Paris, FranceBooks sometimes become maps, tracing not only places, but ways of living and creating. West is the Best follows this idea through a decade of travels along the coasts of California, Mexico, and France, where the ocean becomes both landscape and point of connection. Published by Room Number Editions, the book brings together encounters with […]
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Affichage Libre — Beneath the Walls
Walls are constantly speaking, layered with advertisements, announcements, fragments, and disappearances. With Affichage Libre, Joachim Romain transforms these urban surfaces into a field of experimentation, revealing unexpected forms hidden beneath the city’s visual noise. Working directly on posters found in public space, the artist tears, peels, and reshapes paper into temporary sculptural compositions. Photographed before […]
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NOT FAR FROM HERE — Mapping Skate Culture
In skateboarding, cities are never fixed surfaces. They are constantly rewritten through movement, repetition, and shared use. What emerges is an evolving map made of gestures, routes, and collective memory. For more than ten years, photographer and filmmaker Enrico Cerovac has followed this invisible geography across cities around the world. Shot on 35mm film between […]
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Through the Lens of Hip-Hop: Maï Lucas Signing Session
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome photographic archives do more than document a scene—they enter it while it is still being formed. All Eyes On Me by Maï Lucas traces New York between 1990 and 2010, capturing a moment when hip-hop culture was still local, embodied, and self-defined. From Harlem to the Bronx, her images follow a generation reshaping identity, […]
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When T-Shirts Become Archives
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome archives are not built at once, but slowly assembled through years of looking, collecting, and remembering. Before culture became fully digitised, memory often lived in magazines, photographs, mixtapes and personal objects — fragments that carried entire worlds within them. Journalist, editor and curator Eglée de Bure opens her personal archive in Roots Picnic Music […]
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The City in Motion: Paris Ride Out
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBeyond its monuments and boulevards, Paris is also a city of riders, gathering spots and improvised routes. TARSTREETSPORTS: Paris Ride Out captures one of those moments when movement becomes a way of inhabiting the city. Set in a hidden Paris location, the zine documents an evening where riders, DJs and spectators came together, transforming an […]
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When Letters Meet – Skript Letter Jam #4
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn a moment when graphic cultures increasingly overlap without fully meeting, Skript Letter Jam #4 explores what happens when the culture of the letter becomes a shared space rather than a separate practice. Typography, calligraphy, graffiti and letter painting are brought together not as a comparison, but as a live encounter between gestures, rhythms and […]
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Thierry Maignan – Negroïde City
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn Paris, some presences are constant yet rarely centered — visible in everyday life, but still pushed to the margins of dominant narratives. Negroïde City begins from this tension. Through a series of black-and-white photographs, Thierry Maignan traces a lived city shaped by bodies, gestures, and movements that quietly redefine its landscape. Both intimate and […]
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Off the Rails — Graffiti, Trains & the Underground City
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAfter a fifteen-year-old boy discovers a graffiti blackbook, his eyes are opened to an unseen city. As his interest in rugby league fades, he finds himself drawn to spray cans, a camera, and the abandoned buildings, rooftops and active train tunnels of Sydney. In its forgotten spaces, he encounters a community who see the city […]
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Before It Dries While It Lasts — Writing, Water & Disappearance
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBefore It Dries While It Lasts is an experiment in writing as a temporary act — stripped of its usual claim to permanence. Working with water, Edoardo Baraggioli creates wall interventions that evaporate over time, questioning mark-making, duration and disappearance within the field of graffiti. For this evening at Le Grand Jeu, Edoardo will present […]
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