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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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French Rap Tees — The Wardrobe of a Culture
Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris 19 211 avenue Jean Jaurès — 75019 Paris — Porte de Pantin, Paris, Île-de-France, FranceBefore it hangs in a frame, a scene lives on cotton. Long before French rap reached the museum, it moved through the streets on the backs of those who built it — concert tees, promo shirts, bootlegs, worn until they became documents in their own right. French Rap Tees, the book by Driss Dendoune produced […]
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TEK — Techno, Trance & Dance Music’s Hidden History
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceTEK — Une Histoire de la Techno is a traverse through the history of electronic dance music, spanning from the early experiments of the Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète in the 1950s through psytrance, jungle and the free party movement. Electronic music is everywhere now — in adverts, concert halls, supermarkets, woven into rock, […]
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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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Le Premier Métro — Graffiti, Departure & the Search Elsewhere
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceH. is a graffiti writer. For years, his name — ANY1 — has marked the walls of Paris. But Parisian life starts to wear thin, and he sets off to see whether the grass is greener elsewhere: a one-way ticket to Australia, in search of new walls and new air. Le Premier Métro is a […]
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Out of Print — Two Days of Graffiti Print Culture
Hall of the Kinderschutzbund Hinter der Magnikirche 6A, Braunschweig, GermanyGraffiti has always lived in print. Long before it entered museums, the culture circulated on paper — magazines passed hand to hand, fanzines photocopied in small runs, catalogues that sold out and never came back. To collect these publications is to hold onto a history that was never really meant to last: printed cheaply, traded […]
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50/66 — Route 66, Film & the Art You’re Not Supposed to Find
Route 66 turns one hundred this year, and most of what made it famous is gone. Motels boarded up, gas stations rusting where they stand, whole towns bypassed by the interstate and left to hold their shape without a function. It is a road that survives largely as an idea — which is exactly the […]
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Silly Little Projects Vol. II — D.I.Y. Trying
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome objects are impossible to throw away and useless to keep. A ticket stub, a broken earring, a key to a door that no longer exists. That is where Alisa Cayoo starts. The Paris-based designer builds one-of-a-kind chains out of found and sentimental objects — the name comes from cailloux, the pebbles you pick up and […]
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Métamorphe — From Blackletter to Cholo
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceGothic script was never meant to travel. It was built for Northern European scribes, carried to Spain, then loaded onto ships — and once it reached Mesoamerica it stopped behaving like a European alphabet. Blackletter absorbed whatever it landed in: colonial signage, devotional imagery, tattoo culture, the walls of Mexico City and the barrios of […]
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La Chamba — Work, Travel & the Tourist’s Gaze
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceLa Chamba is what work is called across much of Latin America: the job, the hustle, the thing that fills the day and quietly organises everything around it — streets, houses, landscapes, and the very places tourism turns into scenery. Dorian André spent seven months between Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua photographing exactly that. A graphic […]
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Trente-Cinq — Three Letters from Namur
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAn MC warms up a crowd, somewhere in Namur, some year in the nineties: three letters, a group you don't need introducing, NBS, make some noise. That tape still exists, and so does the crew. Namur Break Sensation have been at it for thirty-five years, which in b-boy terms is closer to a geological era […]
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Capuzzelle — Naming the Anonymous Dead
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceCapuzzelle are the anonymous skulls of Naples: for centuries, in the ossuaries and cemeteries of the city, the living would adopt one, give it a name and pray for its soul, in the hope that the favour might be returned. Andrea d'Avossa spent 2025 walking the Cimitero Monumentale di Poggioreale on that principle, though what […]
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