1st workshop / CENTQUATRE, Paris
From 5th to 11th January 2009: first period of training organized at CENTQUATRE

2nd workshop / PACT Zollverein, Essen
From 27th May to 1st June: second period of training organized at PACT Zollverein

3rd workshop / CalArts, Valencia
From 11th to 17th October: third period of training organized at CalArts


Paris / Essen / Los Angeles


Offered jointly by CENTQUATRE (Paris) and PACT Zollverein (Essen), the program Feldstärke International provides the opportunity to arts students from all disciplines (design, dance, cinema, circus arts, landscape art, visual and plastic arts, music, video, theatre, numeric arts), to work in closer collaboration.
The program is hosted for one week at each of the partners’ venues: at CENTQUATRE, at PACT Zollverein and finally at a third partner’s venue, which changes every year. For its first year, Feldstärke International invited the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, Los Angeles to join the program. Thus, Feldstärke International 2009 brought together 49 students: 20 from German schools, 18 from French schools and 10 from CalArts.

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The program Feldstärke International takes place in the Artention France-Nordrhein-Westfalen 2008/2009 season, with the support of Nordrhein-Westfalen's Land. It is supported by the Office Franco-Allemand pour la Jeunesse (Ofaj) and the Holiday Inn Express*** Paris-Canal de la Villette. In Los Angeles, the project was supported by the Goethe Institut-Los Angeles, as well as the Cultural Services of the French and the German Consulates in Los Angeles by means of the French-German Fund.

Monday, January 5

Layer 1


Day 1 :

Simon Rouby, Dylan Corlay, Malte Wandel, Gonzalo H. Rodriguez, Nicholas Bruder


We are group Six, Six, Sechs, Seis.


A long day of wandering around the neighborhood where 104 resides.

Snowy footprints.
A chat with a man who is losing his home.
A man that already lost his.
A lone TV, about to find friends at the bottom of a canal.
Mattress…cheese mattress.


Used Christmas tree, nice chair.




All of these has provoked a dicussion between the five of us about this neighbor and the people who live here. We asked questions about 104 and what we think they think about this place. Questions about a tourists optimisim and a locals pessimism. All together, we have no clear formulation of how we create from these questions and happenings. But what has occurred is a creation of a group of very different artists that have enjoyed taking a long walk to together.

You might eventually see a bit of dancing, music, live animation. Even some films and local or two. And then some. That it is.
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