PRESS PACK

2008.09

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CONTENTS _____________________________________________

> EDITORIAL BY BERTRAND DELANOË Mayor of Paris

> EDITORIAL BY CHRISTOPHE GIRARD Deputy mayor for Culture

> EDITORIAL BY VERONIQUE DUBARRY

Deputy mayor for Disability

> NUIT BLANCHE 2008 by Hervé Chandès and Ronald Chammah, Artistic directors

> BIOGRAPHIES OF THE ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

> PRESS RELEASE

> GARE DU NORD – GARE DE L’EST > GARE DE LYON – GARE DE BERCY > MONTPARNASSE – SAINT-GERMAIN > GARE SAINT-LAZARE – CHAMPS-ÉLYSEES > TOUR SAINT-JACQUES – MARAIS

> OTHER NUITS BLANCHES Around Paris Around France World and Europe

> PRACTICAL INFORMATION > GETTING AROUND > ARTISTS TAKING PART IN NUIT BLANCHE PARIS > THE NUIT BLANCHE TEAM

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EDITORIAL _____________________________________________

Bertrand Delanoë, Mayor of Paris

Each autumn for seven years, Nuit Blanche lights up Paris. For one sleepless night,

dreams are played out on the streets as the city reveals itself from an entirely new

perspective. Each year, as this marvellous night draws near, Parisians wonder what it

will bring. Which parts of the city will it involve? What events have been planned?

What atmosphere will they find? This year, for the 7th Nuit Blanche, artistic directors

Hervé Chandès and Ronald Chammah extend an invitation to travel as they embark

us on an exploration of images.

For the 2008 Nuit Blanche, Paris’ buildings become giant screens. Parisians and

visitors to the city become actors, spectators and projectionists as films and

animated images illuminate their nocturnal wanderings.

For one night only, video artists and film-makers transform Paris’ stations into a giant

Bollywood film set, an operatic stage, a photo studio or a projection room. Works

orchestrated by outstanding international artists suspend the hustle and bustle of

station platforms and concourses to replace it with the silence and magic of

creation.

For one night only, the sky is reflected on the Tour Saint-Jacques, the Tour

Montparnasse is transformed and, for the space of a moment, churches are home to

the unity of free people, carried by the voice of Patti Smith or the images filmed by

Javier Téllez.

For one night only, art guides us through the landmarks of Paris, places so familiar we

no longer notice them.

The passer-by is prompted to stop and see, letting the poetry and emotion of Paris

resonate through the city. The spirit of Nuit Blanche is there, captured in this moment

of sharing, freedom, daring and openness.

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EDITORIAL _____________________________________________

Christophe Girard, Deputy mayor for Culture

This 7th Nuit Blanche, under the artistic direction of Hervé Chandès and Ronald

Chammah, once again invites lovers of art and culture to explore new parts of Paris

in the hands of artists from around the world.

On Saturday October 4th 2008, Paris’ stations will become landmarks on the Nuit

Blanche map. In partnership with SNCF, France’s railway company, artists will

transform these places of meeting and movement by letting in curiosity,

astonishment and dreams. Through innovative and ambitious projects, they will fill

Parisians with the desire to rediscover their city and have them experience the

unexpected.

In addition to the city’s stations, several churches together with the Tour Saint-

Jacques, Tour Montparnasse and numerous other sites across Paris will be "visited" by

artists whose mission is to transform them for one special night.

Our wish, from the very first Nuit Blanche in 2002, is that this "sleepless night" should be

a tribute to Paris’ heritage and to the contemporary artists who give Paris its

vibrancy, and invite us to constantly renew our perception of a modern city with an

open outlook on the world. We are delighted that, thanks to Nuit Blanche, Paris can

show itself to be a vast and welcoming stage, one that looks to the future and is

open to French and international artists.

Through the Nuits Blanches Europe network of the different European capitals that

host their own Nuit Blanche, modelled on the Parisian event, Nuit Blanche embraces

new projects and new experiences.

On other continents too, numerous capital cities around the world have been

seduced by the extraordinary magic of Nuit Blanche. I wish you a good and

beautiful night of surprises and inspiration to be shared by all.

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EDITORIAL

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Véronique Dubarry, Deputy mayor for Disability

Once again this year, we wanted to make this marvellous opportunity to discover or

rediscover Paris something for everyone to enjoy.

The Nuit Blanche programme reflects this desire through cosmopolitan works that

address questions of diversity and different perceptions, and Javier Téllez’s original

and universal work, in which blind people share with us their emotions and

sensations, takes its place naturally among them.

Some of the associated projects, such as Des voix dans la nuit by the non-profit

organisation Acoeurvoix, present the work of disabled artists.

Beyond the fact that virtually all the venues for the works are accessible to the

disabled, Paris shows its continued determination to include each of its citizens in

every aspect of the city, from its most ordinary to its most exceptional manifestations.

I wish you all a night rich in emotions and experiences to share.

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EDITORIAL _____________________________________________

Nuit Blanche 2008, by Hervé Chandès

and Ronald Chammah, Artistic directors

This Nuit Blanche takes place in a deliberately small number of sites, either stations,

towers or churches.

We chose stations as places of transit where Paris and its suburbs meet. We chose

churches to bring Nuit Blanche into places of silence. We chose Tour Saint-Jacques

and Tour Montparnasse, along with the Comédie Française, to provoke ancient and

modern. These places, known to all, have been handed over to the artists as the

settings for dense and ambitious projects, so that the public can then immerse

themselves in their universe.

We have given each of these artists the means to develop spectacular projects,

without compromise. For many of them, this is the first time they have embarked on

works of this scale. We wanted the 2008 Nuit Blanche to be both thought-provoking

and capable of engaging every audience through this choice of international artists

in the multiple disciplines of film, contemporary art, music…

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BIOGRAPHIES of the artistic directors _____________________________________________

Hervé Chandès

Hervé Chandès is the Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain and

has managed all the Foundation’s activities, exhibitions in Paris and internationally,

the collection and commissions to artists since 1994. He has curated numerous

exhibitions including Raymond Depardon, Takashi Murakami, William Eggleston, Marc

Newson, David Lynch and Patti Smith.

Ronald Chammah

Ronald Chammah is a distributor and restorer of films, specialising in Italian cinema of

the 1950s and 60s and independent American cinema of the 1960s and 70s. He also

directs and produces films. Familiar with the contemporary art scene, he curated

Woman of Many Faces: Isabelle Huppert at PS1 MoMA in New York and at the

Couvent des Cordeliers in Paris. He also curated the Patti Smith exhibition, held

recently at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain.

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PRESS RELEASE _____________________________________________ Since the first edition in 2002, Nuit Blanche has enjoyed immense success among a tireless

and inquiring public. Since then, the Parisian model continues to sow the seeds for Nuits

Blanches in Europe and at the four corners of the globe, from Madrid to Gaza, from Brussels to

Miami.

Free and open to all, this 7th Nuit Blanche will be a sleepless night but certainly not a

dreamless one as the public gaze in wonder at Paris by night as they have never seen it

before. From the most everyday sites to the monuments on which the city’s reputation is built,

Paris is draped in the magic and colour of astonishing works by artists and creators from all

disciplines.

This year’s programme, under the artistic direction of Hervé Chandès and Ronald Chammah,

is built around Paris’ main railway stations which, day after day, pour their never-ending

stream of passengers into the city. Essential and emblematic, stations are bustling hubs,

places of transit for people often too busy to pay attention to the environment or the

architecture of these often listed buildings.

Five stations form the backbone of the 2008 Nuit Blanche. Artists such as American Tony

Oursler (Gare du Nord), France’s Pierrick Sorin (Gare de l’Est) and Indian Shaad Ali (Gare de

Lyon) take over their concourses, facades and platforms with their magic, inviting each of us

to look differently at our everyday urban environment. The number of sites in this year’s

circuit, which also takes in churches and monuments with noteworthy contributions from Patti

Smith in Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Gu Dexin at the Tour Saint-Jacques, is deliberately

smaller, preferring the impact of exceptional works over dispersion.

Including the abundance of associated projects (Christian Boltanski at the Musée d’art et

d’histoire du Judaïsme and la maison rouge–fondation antoine de galbert; Otto Piene at

Place de Catalogne as part of the France-Nordrhein-Westfalen season; Nuit de l’Europe in

the gardens at Parc de Bercy as part of the European Cultural Season), over seventy artistic

projects transform the capital for the space of one night.

Visual arts, installations, projections, concerts, dance, readings, live performances, poetry and

music: freedom, humour, reflections and derision are expressed through creations which,

however shortlived, engrave themselves in the memory of spectators who are dazzled and

surprised by Nuit Blanche 2008.

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NUIT BLANCHE 2008 – map

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GARE DU NORD GARE DE L’EST

GUEST ARTISTS : I. TONY OURSLER II. PIERRICK SORIN

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I. TONY OURSLER Horizon scander jeu > Gare du Nord I. TONY OURSLER (simulation). © Tony Oursler Larger-than-life teenagers sing and whisper in a film made with the help of forty pupils from Grange aux Belles secondary school and projected onto the towering main facade of the Gare du Nord. Meanwhile, an acoustic installation fills the station's forecourt with the sound of muttering children and other noises straight from the artist’s imagination. Working with Constance DeJong and Tony Conrad, Tony Oursler also uses the station announcement system to create an "industrial opera" of train whistles blowing, some recorded, some live. -- Tony Oursler trained at the California Institute of Arts and at the Rockland Community College before returning to live and work in New York, where he was born in 1957. Famous the world over, he has taken the video installation away from the screen, choosing instead to project his works directly onto objects, buildings or balloon-like spheres. His videos become hybrid creations, both funny and disturbing. Most of his installations include soundtracks and frequently portray fragments of human bodies; they show the ordinary in its most bizarre forms.

a > GARE DU NORD 18, RUE DE

DUNKERQUE 75010 PARIS

Mº GARE DU NORD RER B and D

(GARE DU NORD), E (MAGENTA)

BUS 26, 30, 31, 38, 43, 46, 48, 54, 56, 65, 302,

N01, N02, N44 SNCF ECOMOBILES STATION (See p.59)

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II. PIERRICK SORIN Untitled > Gare de l’Est

II. PIERRICK SORIN Images, created in real time, projected onto the front of Hotel Terminus Est (simulation). © Pierrick Sorin Pierrick Sorin’s three projects all take place outside the station. Taking souvenir photos as its theme, Vous êtes tous mes amis invites the public to join the artist in two photo studios. The resulting portraits, which show their subjects standing next to the smiling artist, are then projected onto a panoramic screen on the forecourt in front of the station. These are the kind of holiday snaps or family photos that just about anyone can have at home, except that, bizarrely, they all include the artist in one role or another (friend, lover, husband, colleague etc.), posing with members of the public who thus find themselves embroiled in an unforeseen situation. Pierrick Sorin also uses the front of the Terminus Est Hotel, opposite the station, as a giant screen for Artiste en bâtiment, a projection of films that he makes "live" by moving small objects around or setting little "home-made machines" in motion, breathing life into shapes, materials and colours. Both films are shown to live music by Don Nino (NLF3) and Rasim Biyikli (Man). -- Video artist Pierrick Sorin is a master at the art of self-portrayal in film and has no qualms about showing himself on screen. His work plays with different registers to depict everyday life as both absurd and burlesque. Born in Nantes, where he lives and works, Pierrick Sorin has achieved international acclaim, with works exhibited in such Meccas of the contemporary art world as the Fondation Cartier, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate Gallery in London, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo.

a > GARE DE L’EST PLACE DU 11 NOVEMBRE

1918 75010 PARIS

Mº GARE DE L’EST RER B and D (GARE DU

NORD), RER E (MAGENTA) BUS 30, 31, 32, 38, 39, 46, 47, 56, 65, N01, N02, N23, N41, N42, N43, N44, N45, N120, N121, N140, N141,

N142 SNCF ECOMOBILES STATION (See p.59)

8pm DON NINO 9.30pm MAN

11pm NICOLAS LAUREAU (DON NINO) + GUESTS:

SET NLF 3 00.30am MAN

2am DON NINO 3.30am MAN

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ASSOCIATED PROJECTS _____________________________________________

> 9e 1. ITINERAIRES-ART CONTEMPORAIN Identité 2008 Acteurs & Témoins

FRESCO

b > Mairie du 9e / 6, rue Drouot / M° Richelieu-Drouot / 7pm-2am /

www.mairie9.paris.fr

> 10e 2. JEONG-HWA CHOI

Paradise INSTALLATION

a > Point Éphémère / Centre de dynamiques artistiques /

200, quai de Valmy / M ° Louis Blanc, Jaurès /

2pm-2am / www.pointephemere.org

3. LUIS PASINA Vanité n°12 – Visible Invisible

ACTION / INSTALLATION

a > Théâtre de Verre / Impasse Bonne Nouvelle / M ° Bonne

Nouvelle, Strasbourg Saint-Denis / 7pm-7am /

www.theatredeverre.fr

4. DIMITRI PARIMEROS Le Jardin d’Eden – Adam et Eve MONUMENTAL FACADE INSTALLATION

a > Square de l’Église Saint-Laurent / M° Gare de l’Est / 8pm-4am /

5. LAURENT GODARD Sans queue ni tête

INSTALLATION, PAINTING AND VIDEO

b > 24, cour des Petites Ecuries / M ° Bonne Nouvelle, Château d’Eau /

www.flateurville.com

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6. LEA DE SAINT-JULIEN AVEC EMILE ROMNEY La Forêt des Mânes

INSTALLATION

a > Centre International d’Accueil et d’Échanges des Récollets / Cour du Cloître des Récollets /

150-154, rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin / M° Gare de l’Est / Bus 30, 31, 32, 38, 39,

46, 47, 56, 57, 65, 350 / 7pm-7am / www.foretdesmanes.com

7. AXEL ROGIER-WAESELYNCK Stations

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

a > Square on the corner of Quai de Valmy and Rue Jean Poulmarch /

M° Jacques Bonsergent, Gare de l’Est, République / www.101112.fr

8. ANNIE RATTI Îles Flottantes

VIDEO INSTALLATION

b > Chapelle du Couvent des Récollets / 148, rue du faubourg Saint-Martin /

Mº Gare de l’Est / 7pm-7am /

http://leballonrouge.over-blog.com

> 11e 9. ASSOCIATION PAGE COMMUNE La nuit blanche du roman noir

READINGS

> Librairie La Plume Vagabonde / 17, rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi /

M° République, Goncourt / 8pm-3am / www.laplumevagabonde.fr

pagecommune.canablog.com

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Nearby

> 18e La Fin du Monde

CONCERTS + E B 1.0 EXHIBITION ON SOUND AND THE DIGITAL ARTS

a > Centre Musical Fleury Goutte d’Or - Barbara / 1, rue de Fleury /

M ° Barbès Rochechouart, La Chapelle / RER Gare du Nord / Bus 30, 31, 54, 56, 65 /

7pm-7am / www.fgo-barbara.fr

> 20e AGRAFMOBILE

Mots publics : Ici je suis ailleurs SOUND INSTALLATION AND PROJECTION

a > Square des Cardeurs and Place du Mail /

M° Alexandre Dumas, Porte de Bagnolet, Porte de Montreuil / 8pm-midnight: sound and visual installation, Square des Cardeurs /

8pm-midnight: film projection, Place du Mail / www.agrafmobile.net

DENIS DARZACQ Denis Darzacq PHOTOGRAPHY

a > Pavillon Carré de Baudouin /

121, rue de Ménilmontant / M ° Gambetta / Bus 26, 96 / 6pm-1am / www.mairie20.paris.fr

PATRICE SPADONI, COLLECTIF CANAL MARCHES Visages / Paroles de femmes

VIDEO PROJECTION

a > Centre Social Elisabeth / 126 Boulevard de Belleville /

M° Belleville / Friday October 3rd 2008, 7pm-11.30pm /

www.centreelisabeth.org

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GARE DE LYON GARE DE BERCY

GUEST ARTISTS :

III. SHAAD ALI IV. ARTAVAZD PELECHIAN V. KUNZ & GLASER

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III. SHAAD ALI Shaad Ali and the Bollywood Bawaal > Gare de Lyon

III. SHAAD ALI Shaad Ali invites the public to take a back-stage tour of the world of Bollywood. Throughout the night, the public can watch an original scene being filmed in the middle of the Gare de Lyon, with singing, dancing, costumes, make-up, rhythm and rhyme, in the glare of the projectors and under the watchful eye of camera-men and passers-by alike. Music composed by Indian Pyeralal and words by the poet Gulzar, both masters from the 1950s golden age of Indian popular cinema. Indian actress Aditi Rao and French actor Louis Garrel take the starring roles. Filming begins outside on the station forecourt to move indoors at dusk, where it resumes on the concourse opposite Le Train Bleu restaurant before winding up on the platforms in the early hours of the morning. This project has the support of Le Train Bleu restaurant, the French Embassy in India and Hotel Mama Shelter. -- Shaad Ali is a young Indian Bollywood director. Two of his films, Saathiya (2002) and Bunti aur Babli (2005) were both box-office hits and critically acclaimed. Ali began learning his craft as a child on his father’s film sets, and went on to work with Mani Ratnam, one of the great names in Indian popular cinema of the past thirty years. Shaad Ali’s films are set uncompromisingly in the India of today, yet they are rooted in the golden age of Indian popular cinema of the 1950s. Freely mixing comedy, romance and fantasy, Ali’s films tell their tales at breakneck speed, interspersed with all-singing all-dancing sequences filmed with remarkable virtuosity. Shaad Ali continues to make his mark as a challenging director who is determined to see the very special genre of "Bollywood" be given the recognition it deserves.

a > GARE DE LYON PLACE LOUIS ARMAND

75012 PARIS Mº GARE DE LYON

RER A and D (GARE DE LYON) BUS 20, 24, 29, 57, 61, 63, 65, 87, 91, N 01, N 02, N22, N 31, N32, N 33, N 34, N 35, N120,

N130, N131, N132 SNCF ECOMOBILES STATION

(See p.59)

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IV. ARTAVAZD PELECHIAN Our Century > Gare de Bercy

IV. ARTAVAZD PELECHIAN, Screening of Our Century by Artavazd Pelechian (simulation). A metaphysical meditation on the conquest of space, failed blast-offs, imminent catastrophes, Icarus’ dream exploited by both Russia and America and the fate of the astronaut... Our Century, a black and white film made in 1982, is considered a major work of auteur cinema. For Nuit Blanche, it is being shown on a giant screen on the motorail loading car park, from where it can be seen from outside the station. -- Artavazd Pelechian was born in Soviet Armenia in 1938 and studied at the VGIK, Moscow’s film school. In 1967, he made At the Beginning, which he dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. With The Seasons, made in 1972, his fame spread beyond the USSR. His work, described as visual, universal poetry, has been praised by both Jean-Luc Godard and Serge Daney and was the subject of a retrospective at the Galerie du Jeu de Paume in 1992.

b > GARE DE BERCY 48 BIS, BOULEVARD

DE BERCY 64, RUE DE BERCY

75012 PARIS Mº BERCY

BUS 24, 64, 87, N 32, N35, N130

RUNNING TIME: 30 MINUTES

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V. KUNZ & GLASER Autoportrait > Gare de Bercy car park

V. KUNZ & GLASER, Autoportrait. © Kunz & Glaser There’s something strange about the Fiat X1/9 parked in the Bercy car park. In the front seats, a couple – two "talking heads" – strike up a conversation as a series of questions about life and art in general. -- Born in 1972 and 1973 respectively, Magdalena Kunz and Daniel Glaser live and work in Zurich. The videos and installation pieces by these two acclaimed video artists have been widely exhibited all over the world. Spanning sculpture, installation and cinema, their work frequently depicts scenes from urban life.

b > PARKING DE LA GARE DE BERCY

48 BIS, BOULEVARD DE BERCY

64, RUE DE BERCY 75012 PARIS

Mº BERCY BUS 24, 64, 87, N 32,

N35, N130

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ASSOCIATED PROJECTS _____________________________________________

> 5e 1. ANTONIA BOSCO AND BRUNO BIANCHI

Le Calme de la Nuit MUSIC AND POETRY

a > Collège des Bernardins /

20, rue de Poissy / M º Cardinal Lemoine, Maubert-Mutualité, Jussieu /

Bus 24, 47, 63, 67, 86, 87, 89 / 10pm-1am / www.collegedesbernardins.fr

> 12e 2. MAIRIE DU 12e

Café noir pour Nuit Blanche BREAKFAST

a > Mairie du 12e /

130, avenue Daumesnil / M º Dugommier, Montgallet / Bus 29 /

4am-7am / http://mairie12.paris.fr

3. CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, GABRIELA FRIDRIKSDOTTIR, ANGELIKA MARKUL Les Archives du Cœur

EXHIBITION / INSTALLATION / VIDEO

a > la maison rouge fondation antoine de galbert /

10, boulevard de la Bastille / Mº Quai de la Rapée, Gare de Lyon /

RER Gare de Lyon / 8.30pm-4am /

www.lamaisonrouge.org

4. COLLECTIF : FRANÇOIS VEY / WHITE SPIRIT BAND / 1 PLAN Echo

ELECTROCHORAL PERFORMANCE

a > Rue Crémieux (entrance via rue de Lyon) /

Mº Gare de Lyon / 9pm-midnight / http://ws-b.fr

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5. ANTOINE SCHMITT AND JEAN-JACQUES BIRGÉ Nabaz’mob

OPERA

b > Bercy Village / Passage Saint-Vivant, Cour Saint-Emilion /

Mº Cour Saint-Emilion / 8pm-2am (six 30-minute performances) /

http://nabazmob.free.fr www.bercyvillage.com

6. PARIS MÔMES CHILDREN’S CIRCUIT

> Parc de Bercy / Mº Bercy, Cour Saint-Emilion /

7pm-11pm / www.parismomes.fr

www.parismomes.fr/mag/mag_flip.php

7. Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes PHOTO EXHIBITION

b > Jardin Yitzhak Rabin, Bercy / Mº Bercy, Cour Saint-Emilion /

www.UE2008.fr

> 13e 8. 13 EN VUE

Voiles INSTALLATION

b > Piscine de la Butte-aux-Cailles / 5, place Paul Verlaine /

Mº Place d’Italie / 7pm-1am / www.13envue.fr

9. CHEN ZHEN La Danse de la Fontaine Émergente (1998-2008)

FOUNTAIN

a > Place Augusta Holmes / Rue Paul Klee / Mº Quai de la Gare /

7pm-7am / www.paris.fr

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10. BRUNO LATOUR

The Theater of Proof: a series of demonstrations EXHIBITION

a > Bétonsalon, centre d’art et de recherche /

9, esplanade Pierre Vidal-Nacquet / Halle aux Farines ground floor /

M° and RER C Bib. François Mitterrand / 7pm-7am /

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MONTPARNASSE SAINT-GERMAIN

GUEST ARTISTS :

VI. RYOJI IKEDA VII. PATTI SMITH WITH JESSE AND JACKSON

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VI. RYOJI IKEDA spectra [paris] > Tour Montparnasse

VI. RYOJI IKEDA, Dream Amsterdam, 2008. Ryoji Ikeda - spectra [amsterdam] Photo: alphons.net. 2008 Previously shown in Amsterdam, spectra consists of a powerful white light whose beam radically alters architectural and urban spaces. Each version is designed specifically to suit the scale and features of the site in question. Visible from Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, spectra will be combined with the acoustic installation matrix, the two merging into a single work. Ultra-high intensity projectors are arranged in squares at the foot of the north wall of the Tour Montparnasse (facing rue de Rennes). The vertical beam of light is accompanied by a horizontal layer of pure sound waves. As visitors walk around the exhibit, their movements interfere with the sound waves, thereby continually creating new pieces of music. This project has the support of Caisse des Dépôts and Ensemble Immobilier Tour Maine Montparnasse. -- 42-year-old Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda is one of the world’s greatest performers and composers of electronic music. Focusing on the perception phenomenon and the intrinsic properties of sound, Ryoji Ikeda uses the very latest technologies to manipulate the most minute elements possible. An active figure on the Japanese and international scenes since 1995, Ryoji Ikeda’s sound-and-vision performances at concerts have taken his reputation beyond the music world. He has produced work in collaboration with artists’ collective Dumb Type, choreographer William Forsythe of the Frankfurt Ballet, architect Toyo Ito and artist Hiroshi Sugimoto.

> PLACE DU 18 JUIN 1940 PLACE RAOUL DUFY

a (RUE DE L’ARRIVEE) 75014 PARIS

Mº MONTPARNASSE-BIENVENÜE BUS 28, 58, 82, 89, 91, 92,

94, 95, 96, N 01, N 02, N21, N61, N62, N63,N121, N122

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VII. PATTI SMITH WITH JESSE AND JACKSON Untitled > Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés

VII. PATTI SMITH WITH JESSE AND JACKSON, Untitled. © Renaud Monfourny

Patti Smith draws on the writings of St Francis of Assisi for a musical performance inside Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés. With her daughter Jesse on piano and her son Jackson on guitar, this exceptional and poetic work unravels in an improvisational mode as the night progresses. -- Born in Chicago, Patti Smith was a rebellious teenager with a passion for Rimbaud. In 1967, she left New Jersey for New York where she met the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Absorbing herself in performance and poetry, she seeks an inspired fusion between improvisation, politics and rock ’n roll. Her first album, Horses (1975), was internationally acclaimed, winning the Grand Prix du Disque Charles Cros in France. Her drawings were shown for the first time in 1978 at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York. In 2005 she received France’s highest cultural accolade when she was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.

b > ÉGLISE SAINT-GERMAIN DES-PRÉS

3, PLACE SAINT-GERMAIN DES-PRÉS

75006 PARIS Mº SAINT-GERMAIN-DES-

PRÉS BUS 39, 63, 86, 95

9pm-6am*

*First concert at 9pm. Second concert at

10.30pm. Capacity for the first two

concerts is limited to 600 people. Tickets available from

the Nuit Blanche welcome point, Place

de l’Hôtel de Ville, on Friday

October 3rd 5pm-10pm and on

Saturday October 4th from 4pm. Open to non-

ticket holders

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ASSOCIATED PROJECTS _____________________________________________

> 6e 1. PATRICK TOSANI

Noir EXHIBITION

a > Galerie Saint-Séverin /

3-4, rue des Prêtres Saint-Séverin / Mº Saint-Michel, Cluny-La Sorbonne /

7pm-7am / www.diocese-paris.net

2. HENRI FOUCAULT À la faveur de la nuit

LIGHT INSTALLATION

a > Monnaie de Paris / 11, quai de Conti /

M º Odéon, Mabillon, Pont-Neuf, Châtelet, Saint Michel / Bus 24, 27, 58, 63, 70, 87, 96 /

8pm-7am / www.henri-foucault.com

www.faveur-de-la-nuit.com

3. COLLECTIVE OF 28 ARTISTS Programme Tram Hospitalités 2008

PROJECTION

ANNE DEGUELLE Artists in space and Palermo

PROJECTION

b > Musée Zadkine / 100 bis, rue d’Assas /

M º Vavin, Notre-Dame-des-Champs / Bus 58, 83, 91 / 7pm-midnight /

www.zadkine.paris.fr

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> 14e 4. HERVE DOMINGUE AND ALYCIA

Hervé Domingue in concert and COQUIN D ’CAF’ CONC’ CONCERT AND SHOW

c > Théâtre 14 - Jean-Marie Serreau /

20, avenue Marc Sangnier / M º Porte de Vanves / Bus 58, 95 / Tramway Didot / 11.30pm-2am /

11.30pm: Hervé Domingue; 1am: Alycia / www.hervedomingue.com http://alycia.biz.site.voila.fr/

5. FABRIC | CH Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine

LIGHT INSTALLATION

b > Église Notre-Dame-du-Travail / 59, rue Vercingétorix /

M º Pernety, Gaîté / Bus 91 / 7pm-7am /

www.fabric.ch http://paroisse.ndtravail.free.fr

6. OTTO PIENE Plus léger que l’air

FLYING SCULPTURE

a > Place de Catalogne / Mº Gaîté, Pernéty / 7pm-7am /

www.artention.info

> 15e 8. Cover record, Sound Art: le live

EXHIBITION AND CONCERT

a > Immanence / 21, avenue du Maine /

Mº Montparnasse - Bienvenüe / Bus 91, 92, 95, 96 / 7pm-2am /

9pm: concert with Ramuntcho Matta, Goran Vejvoda and Janek Schaefer (to be confirmed) www.art-immanence.org

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9. LUIZA JACOBSEN / MARIE-JULIE BOURGEOIS Tempo

VIDEO INSTALLATION

b > Piscine Armand Massard / 65, boulevard du Montparnasse /

Mº Montparnasse-Bienvenüe / Bus 28, 58, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96 / 7pm-7am /

www.paris.fr www.tempo-project.blogspot.com

10. CONSERVATOIRE DU 15e ARRONDISSEMENT FREDERIC CHOPIN Musique dans le Noir

MUSICAL IMPROVISATIONS

a > Conservatoire du 15e arrondissement Frédéric Chopin / Auditorium /

43, rue Bargue / M° Volontaires, Pasteur / Bus 88, 95 /

9pm-midnight http://conservatoirechopin.free.fr/

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GARE SAINT-LAZARE CHAMPS-ELYSEES

GUEST ARTISTS :

VIII. SEMICONDUCTOR IX. JOHNNIE TO

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VIII. SEMICONDUCTOR Brilliant Noise > Gare Saint-Lazare

VIII. SEMICONDUCTOR, Extract from the film Brilliant Noise. © Semiconductor

Gare Saint-Lazare gives a new resonance to the three large-scale video projections in Semiconductor’s project for Nuit Blanche. Their installation introduces different physical scales into the station, playing on the limits of perception to stretch the everyday world far beyond our imagination. The time-lapse animation Brilliant Noise brings the sun into the station, confronting us with the vastness of an expanding universe. Earthmoves and The Sound of Microclimates (which shows a futuristic Paris) remind us that the fabric of our lives is never still as sound and image are used to dematerialise our environment. Semiconductor were artists-in-residence at the Centre des Récollets from January to March 2004 as part of the programme developed by the City of Paris – Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This project has the support of SGGL / INEO MS. -- Semiconductor - the internationally acclaimed duo of UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt - make moving image works which reveal our physical world in flux; cities in motion, shifting landscapes and systems in chaos. Since 1999 they have worked with digital animation to transcend the constraints of time, scale and natural forces to explore the world beyond human experience, questioning our very existence.

> GARE SAINT-LAZARE RUE SAINT-LAZARE

75008 PARIS a (ENTRANCE: RUE

D’AMSTERDAM) Mº SAINT-LAZARE

RER E (HAUSSMANN, ST-LAZARE),

RER A (AUBER) BUS 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 43, 53,

66, 80, 81, 94, 95, N01,N02, N24, N51,

N52, N53, N150, N151, N152, N153

SNCF ECOMOBILES STATION (See p.59) from 4pm. Open to non-ticket holders

from midnight. Limited places.

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IX. JOHNNIE TO Hong Kong Action > Comédie Française

IX. JOHNNIE TO, Hong Kong Action (simulation). Johnnie To plunges the public into the heart of Hong-Kong action movies, where a hail of kung-fu moves, flying leaps and gunfire form an incredible, gravity-defying choreography. In his work for Nuit Blanche, the musicians and singers of a Cantonese opera company move across a bamboo theatre stage in front of the Comédie Française, a tribute to the traditional origins of this unique film genre. An original montage by Johnnie To is projected on either side of the stage, with classic Japanese Samurai movies echoing Hollywood Westerns. This project has the support of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Hotel Mama Shelter and the SGGL / INEO MS. -- Hong-Kong film director and producer Johnnie To first came to public attention with All About Ah-long before achieving international acclaim with his 1993 film The Heroic Trio. In 2005, Election was shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The raw realism of his detective movies, the choreographed fight scenes and spectacular stunts are all tinged with black humour.

a > Comédie Française

Place Colette 75001 Paris

Mº Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre,

Pyramides Bus 21, 27, 39, 48, 67,

68, 69, 81, 95

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ASSOCIATED PROJECTS _____________________________________________

> 1er 1. FÉLICIE D’ESTIENNE D’ORVES AND FRÉDERIC NOGRAY

Monolithe SOUND AND LIGHT INSTALLATION AND CONCERT

b > Église Saint-Roch / 296, rue Saint-Honoré / Mº Tuileries, Pyramides /

Bus : 21, 27, 68, 69, 72, 73, 81, 95 / 9pm-5am /

www.feliciedestiennedorves.com www.myspace.com/fredericnogray

www.saintroch.esqualite.com

> 2e 2. LA FEMME TENTACULAIRE

Jardin d’Asphalte PHOTOGRAPHIC, VIDEO INSTALLATION AND SOUND AMBIENCE

a > Mairie du 2e / 8, rue de la Banque / Mº Bourse /

7pm-2am /

> 8e 3. VIRGINIE DI RICCI, JEAN-MARC MUSIAL Roma Amor or la Nuit Blanche de Caligula

VIDEO INSTALLATION

a > Petit Palais / Avenue Winston Churchill / Mº Champs-Élysées, Concorde /

7pm-1.15am / www.petitpalais.paris.fr

4. ASSOCIATION PARIS VICTORIA PRODUCTION AND OPTICA FESTIVAL Optica Review 2007

VIDEOS

b > Institut Cervantès / 7, rue Quentin Bauchart /

Mº George V, Iéna, Alma Marceau / Bus 32, 42, 63, 92 / 7pm-7am /

http://parisvictoriaproduction.blogspot.com www.opticafestival.com

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5. REGIS JAUFFRET Microfictions

READINGS

a > Théâtre du Rond-Point / 2 bis, avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt /

Mº Franklin D. Roosevelt, Champs-Élysées-Clémenceau / 5pm-2am /

9pm-10pm: Nuit Blanche special panel led by Laurent Goumarre 10.10pm-2am: readings. 2am- 6am: special repeats /

www.theatredurondpoint.fr www.franceculture.com

6. EMIL NOLDE Rétrospective

EXHIBITION

DANIEL DOBBELS Parfois, la colère tombe

DANCE

a > Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (entrance Clémenceau) /

3, avenue du Général Eisenhower / Mº Franklin-D.Roosevelt, Champs-Élysées-Clemenceau /

Bus 42, 73, 83, 93 / 7.30pm-1.15am

8.30pm and 10pm: Parfois, la colère tombe (performance) 9pm: Les couleurs d’Emil Nolde; documentary by W.Hauke

10.30pm: Expressionnisme allemand, documentary by Stan Neumann / free admission /

www.grandpalais.fr www.rmn.fr

7. JACQUES BREL Collection particulière

MANUSCRIPTS, RECORDS, PHOTOS AND ARTEFACTS

> Sotheby’s France / 76, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré /

Mº Champs-Élysées-Clémenceau, Miromesnil, Concorde / 6pm-midnight /

www.sothebys.com

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> 9e 8. LES COMEDIENS DE L’IVT AND JEAN-YVES AUGROS

IVT revisite le Grand Guignol EXHIBITION AND INAUGURATION

a > International Visual Théâtre / 7, cité Chaptal /

Mº Pigalle, Blanche, Saint-Georges / 7pm-3am / www.ivt.fr

9. MUSEE DE LA VIE ROMANTIQUE SPECIAL OPENING OF THE COLLECTIONS

> Musée de la Vie Romantique / Hôtel Scheffer-Renan /

16, rue Chaptal / M° Pigalle, Blanche, Saint-Georges /

Open until 10.30pm /

Nearby

> 7e

MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY Lancement des Before

PERFORMANCES

> Musée du quai Branly / 37, quai Branly

a (entrance: 222, rue de l’Université) / M° Iéna, Alma-Marceau, Bir Hakeim /

RER C Pont de l’Alma / Bus 42, 63, 72, 80, 92 / 6pm-midnight (last admissions at 11pm) /

www.quaibranly.fr

> 17e La Nuit de la Parole

CONFERENCE

a > Église réformée des Batignolles / 44, boulevard des Batignolles /

Mº Place Clichy, Rome / Bus 30, 66 / 8pm-2am /

http://eglisereformeedesbatignolles.blogspirit.com

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> BOIS DE BOULOGNE LA FETE AU BOIS WITH MORENO & MARINA, LES DEMETER AND VARIOUS

TZIGAN ARTISTS IN PARIS Nuit tzigane

FUNFAIR

b > Porte de la Muette, Bois de Boulogne / M° Rue de la Pompe / Bus 63 / RER Avenue Henri Martin /

8pm-5am / www.marcel-campion.com

www.altiz.com www.lafeteaubois.com

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TOUR SAINT-JACQUES MARAIS

GUEST ARTISTS :

X. GU DEXIN XI. JAVIER TÉLLEZ XII. JEREMY BLAKE

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X. GU DEXIN October 4th 2008 > Tour Saint-Jacques

X. GU DEXIN, Simulation for Tour Saint-Jacques. © Gu Dexin As night falls, video projections illuminate the four sides of the recently-restored Tour Saint-Jacques. Shot during daytime, these films show the top part of the tower with clouds sailing behind it, using time-lapse video to striking effect. This project has the support of the SGGL / INEO MS. -- Born in 1962 in Beijing where he lives and works, Gu Dexin is one of China’s foremost contemporary artists. His work is shown in China, Europe and the United States, including at the Venice Biennial in 2003. He is known for his provocative experimental work that explores paradox and the absurd, each time adapted to the site where it will be shown.

a > TOUR SAINT-JACQUES 39, RUE DE RIVOLI

75001 PARIS Mº HOTEL DE VILLE,

CHATELET RER A, B and D

BUS 21, 38, 47, 58, 67, 69, 70, 72, 74, 75, 76, 81, 85, 96

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XI. JAVIER TÉLLEZ Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who See > Église Saint-Eustache

XI. JAVIER TÉLLEZ, Letter On the Blind for the Use of Those Who See, 2007.

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich (co-producer)

Inspired by an Indian parable, "The Blind Men and the Elephant," and an essay by Denis Diderot, Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who See (2007) is projected on a giant screen, suspended in the northern transept of Église Saint-Eustache. In this black and white film, blind people take it in turns to touch an elephant and describe their impressions. The film, shot in a derelict swimming pool in McCarren Park, Brooklyn (chosen for its bizarre architecture), reminds us that each individual has a different perception of the world around them. Javier Téllez’s film is an opportunity to make the works in Nuit Blanche increasingly accessible. Eight specially-trained mediators accompany disabled spectators and help them engage with the work. Visitors can take an explanatory leaflet in standard print, large characters and Braille. The film’s text is supertitled in French and translated by two French Sign Language interpreters who are present throughout the night. Javier Téllez was artist-in-residence at the Centre des Récollets from July to December 2006 as part of the programme developed by the City of Paris – Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This project has the support of Voir Ensemble. -- Born in Venezuela in 1969, Javier Téllez lives in New York where he addresses situations of marginality and how people can be stigmatised because of their difference. His work questions what is normal and what is pathological. Combining documentary with fictionalised narrative, Javier Téllez’s work weaves a new fabric in which the actors are given a voice and, through this, can assert their individuality and human dignity.

a > ÉGLISE SAINT-EUSTACHE 2, IMPASSE SAINT-EUSTACHE

75001 PARIS (ENTRANCE VIA THE

SOUTHERN TRANSEPT ON PLACE RENE CASSIN)

M° LES HALLES, RER A, B and D

BUS 29, 38, 47, 67, 74, 85

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XII. JEREMY BLAKE Station to Station > Église Saint-Paul–Saint-Louis

XII. JEREMY BLAKE, Station to Station Slumber Line, Page 6, 2001 (DVD sequence with sound for projection or plasma screen). Courtesy of Kinz, Tillou + Feigen Station to Station is a 2001 work composed of five digital and sound animations which the artist conceived as a group of five distinct paintings, each slowly evolving and based on the notion of time. A distant evocation of the urban environment with its underground mass transit systems, the work is shown on five plasma screens, set out in a semi-circle in front of the choir of the Église Saint-Paul - Saint Louis in a succession of coloured and moving geometric forms. Station to Station 1: Robert Moses Terminal gives an abstracted view of a New York subway station. Station to Station 2: Fordham Gneiss depicts the movement of a train as it leaves the city. Station to Station 3: Carbon Sink Park represents a suburban station. Station to Station 4: Slumber Line depicts the movement of a train as it enters the city. Station to Station 5: Indiglo Heights shows another urban station. -- Born in Oklahoma in 1971, Jeremy Blake was an internationally-renowned artist whose brilliant career was cut short when he committed suicide at the age of 36. He developed an early interest in digital technology and was one of the first artists to experiment with pixelisation and the possibilities opened up by digital imagery to develop a resolutely pictorial work. Whether still or animated, his images combine the figurative and the abstract, seduction and provocation, mysticism and popular culture.

a > ÉGLISE SAINT-PAUL–SAINT-LOUIS

99, RUE SAINT-ANTOINE 75004 PARIS

Mº SAINT-PAUL BUS 69, 76, 96

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ASSOCIATED PROJECTS _____________________________________________

> 1er 1. COLLECTIF IN-VISIBLE

STEFANE PERRAUD Lueurs

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

b > ÉGLISE SAINT-GERMAIN L’AUXERROIS / 2, PLACE DU LOUVRE / Mº LOUVRE-RIVOLI /

9pm-3am / www.in-visible.fr

2. ASSOCIATION PARIS JAZZ CLUB, THOMAS ENHCO&CO, PATRICK SAUSSOIS QUARTET FEATURING DANIEL JOHN MARTIN,

CHRISTOPHE CRAVERO "Hommage à Stéphane Grappelli"

CONCERTS

c > BAISER SALÉ / 58, RUE DES LOMBARDS /

a > DUC DES LOMBARDS / 42, RUE DES LOMBARDS /

b > SUNSET / 60, RUE DES LOMBARDS / Mº CHATELET, LES HALLES /

9pm-1am / http://www.parisjazzclub.net

> 3e 3. CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, FRANCK KRAWCZYK AND JEAN KALMAN

Gute Nacht INSTALLATION

a > Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme / 71, rue du Temple /

Mº Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville / Bus 29, 38, 47, 75 / 9pm-midnight / www.mahj.org

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4. KSENIA PETETRUKHINA, YASHA KAZHDAN, MASHA SHA, ALINA, JEFF BLIUMIS, VIKTORIA BEGALSKAYA Contemporary Russian videos

EXHIBITION BY SIX RUSSIAN ARTISTS FROM THE GALLERY

a > Galerie Stanislas Bourgain / 48, rue Chapon / Mº Arts et Métiers /

7pm-7am / www.galeriesb.com

5. MIKI NITADORI Combat in Progress, Genèse d’un manuel de survie quotidienne

PROJECTION

a > Mairie du 3e / 2, rue Eugène Spuller /

Mº Temple, Arts et Métiers, République, Filles du Calvaire / Bus 20, 56, 65, 75 /

8pm-4am / www.mikinitadori.fr

www.mairie3.paris.fr

6. ANDERS JOHANSSON Forêt diaphane

INSTALLATION

> Centre Culturel Suédois / 11, rue Payenne /

Mº Saint-Paul, Chemin Vert / Bus 29, 69, 76, 96 /

7pm-7am / www.llll.se

www.ccs.si.se

7. ASSOCIATION « ACOEURVOIX » Des voix dans la nuit

CONCERT

a > Église arménienne de Paris / 13, rue du Perche /

Mº Saint-Sébastien Froissart / 8.30pm-3am /

www.acoeurvoix.com

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8. ASSOCIATION JEUNES TALENTS Un "Boeuf" Classique

CONCERT

b > Archives Nationales, Hôtel de Soubise / 60, rue des Francs-Bourgeois /

Mº Hôtel de Ville, Rambuteau / 7pm-2am (25-minute concerts) 9pm: Karol Beffa /

www.jeunes-talents.org www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/

9. PAMELA ROSENKRANZ Unfade

VIDEO PROJECTION

a > Bibliothèque du Centre culturel suisse de Paris / 32, rue des Francs-Bourgeois /

Mº Saint-Paul / 7pm-7am / www.ccsparis.com

10. SIGALIT LANDAU DeadSee

VIDEO

a > Passage de Retz / 9, rue Charlot /

Mº Rambuteau, Saint-Sébastien Froissart, Filles du Calvaire / 7pm-7am /

www.passagederetz.com

11. NUITS BLANCHES EUROPE: GINTS GABRANS Going Through Walls

INSTALLATION

This work is dedicated to those who in their imagination or by some other means have gone through a wall or

only intend to do so. The wall in this work is made of light, which from the aspect of physics is made of photons,

which have a dual nature - they are simultaneously both a wave and a particle. Can you imagine this? And what

kind of thinking method will you adopt: the rationally logical or the irrationally intuitive, imaginative? Good luck!

Producers: Pareizā ėīmija Ltd.

b > Musée Carnavalet / 16, rue des Francs-Bourgeois /

Mº Hôtel de Ville, Saint Paul, Chemin Vert / Bus 29, 69, 76, 96 / 7pm-7am /

www.gabrans.com www.carnavalet.paris.fr

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12. CAROLINE CARTIER / FRANCE INTER Que pasa !

SOUND JOURNEY

b > Musée Carnavalet / Cour Louis XIV / 23, rue de Sévigné /

Mº Hôtel de Ville, Saint Paul, Chemin Vert / Bus 29, 69, 76, 96 / From 7pm /

www.carnavalet.paris.fr www.franceinter.com

13. ELOISE FORNIELES Performance PERFORMANCE

b > Galerie Nuke / 11, rue Sainte Anastase /

Mº Saint-Sébastien Froissart, Filles du Calvaire,Saint-Paul / 7pm-7am /

www.nuke.fr

> 4e 14. MUSEE NATIONAL D’ART MODERNE

Open to the public

a > Centre Georges Pompidou / Piazza du Centre Pompidou /

Mº Les Halles, Châtelet, Rambuteau / 7pm-2am (last admissions at 1am – rooms closing at 1.30am) /

free admission / www.centrepompidou.fr

15. VERONIQUE AUBOUY POUR X-RESEAU Le Baiser de la Matrice, Proust Lu sur Internet

NETWORKED READINGS AND PROJECTIONS

b > Hôtel d’Albret / 31, rue des Francs-Bourgeois /

Mº Saint-Paul / 7pm-7am /

www.theatre-paris-villette.com www.veroniqueaubouy.fr/

www.lebaiserdelamatrice.fr/

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16. YVES ACHILLE AUBRY ET COLLECTIF Gare aux Anges

EXHIBITION AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

b > Église Saint-Merri / 76, rue de la Verrerie /

Mº Châtelet, Hôtel de Ville / Bus 38 / 7pm-5am / www.saintmerri.org

18. FRANÇOIS SCHUITEN AND BENOIT PEETERS Lumière sur Brüsel

EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL DRAWINGS

T.R.A.N.S.I.T.S.C.A.P.E Chambre(s) d’hôtel

PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION

a > Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles / 127-129, rue Saint-Martin /

Mº Châtelet-les-Halles, Rambuteau / François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters 7pm-midnight /

t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e 9pm-1am / www.cwb.fr

THOMAS ISRAËL Percept (Création)

PERFORMANCE

a > Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles / 46, rue Quincampoix /

Mº Châtelet-les-Halles, Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville / 9pm-1am / www.cwb.fr

19. SEUNG-HYE HONG The Sentimental Mood

VIDEO PROJECTION

a > Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris / Hôtel de Lamoignon / 24, rue Pavée /

Mº Saint-Paul / 9pm-3am /

20. EMMANUELLE RAYNAUT L’intrus-performance

MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION

a > Bibliothèque Forney / Hôtel de Sens / 1, rue du Figuier /

Mº Saint Paul, Pont Marie / Bus 96 / 7pm-2am /

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21. COLLECTIF METAZONE, THIERRY DEROCHE Cycle et recyclage: l’énergie de l’éphémère SCULPTURES, INSTALLATIONS, VIDEO AND EXHIBITION

a > Mairie du 4e 2, place Baudoyer /

Mº Hôtel de Ville, Saint Paul / Bus 69, 76, 96 / 7pm-7am /

10pm: NESS – New Electro Soul Session in concert / www.marie4.paris.fr

www.metazonetv.org

22. COMPAGNIE TEMPO CANTABILE, GHISLAINE AVAN Seuil. Le La du monde DANCE AND PROJECTION

b > Chevet de l’église Saint-Gervais / Rue des Barres /

Mº Pont Marie,Hôtel de Ville / Bus 67, 69, 76, 96 / 9.30pm-6am /

www.tempocantabile.com

23. JEAN-PIERRE FORMICA Sentinelles de sel

PROJECTION AND SCULPTURE INSTALLATION

a > Préfecture de Police / 9, boulevard du Palais /

Mº Cité / 7pm-2am / http://formica.typepad.fr

24. MAITRISE NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS – ENSEMBLE GREGORIEN Gregorian chants

MONODIES AND POLYPHONIES.

STUDENTS OF THE ORGAN CLASS AND IMPROVISATION CLASS AT THE CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL SUPERIEUR DE MUSIQUE DE PARIS

Organ concert 19th AND 20th CENTURY WORKS AND IMPROVISATIONS

"Domus Domini" visual opera PROJECTION

a > Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris /

6, parvis Notre-Dame / place Jean-Paul II / Mº Cité, Saint-Michel, Hôtel de Ville /

RER B and C / Bus 24, 47 / 8.30pm-midnight /

8.30pm: Gregorian chants 9.30pm: Organ concert

11pm: "Domus Domini" visual opera / www.notredamedeparis.fr

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25. ASSOCIATION VOISIMAGES Voisimages

OPEN-AIR CINEMA

a > Place du marché Sainte-Catherine / Mº Saint-Paul / Bus 69, 76, 96 /

7pm-2am / www.voisimages.org

26. LES CAHIERS DE COLETTE De Christine Angot à Olivier Rolin

READINGS

a > Librairie Les Cahiers de Colette / 23-25, rue Rambuteau /

Mº Rambuteau / Bus 38, 47, 69 / 9pm-5am /

www.lescahiersdecolette.com

27. DOMINIK LEJMAN VIDEO INSTALLATION

a > CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS / 18, rue de l’Hôtel de Ville / Mº Saint-Paul, Pont Marie /

7pm-7am / www.institut.pologne.net www.citedesartsparis.fr

> 11e 28 TROUPE DU TROISIEME ACTE

Les seniors font leur Nuit Blanche THEATRE

> Mairie du 11e /

12, place Léon Blum / M º Voltaire / 7pm-2am /

www.mairie11.paris.fr

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OTHER NUITS BLANCHES

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AROUND PARIS _____________________________________________

BOISSY-LE-CHÂTEL [77169] > GALLERIA CONTINUA / LE MOULIN / 6, RUE DE LA FERTÉ GAUCHER / SNCF COULOMMIERS BOISSY-LE-CHÂTEL / 7pm-midnight / www.galleriacontinua.com / http://www.galleriacontinua.com/french/le-moulin.html

Resilience (Liu Jianhua and Meschac Gaba) Photo : Aurélien Mole. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano/ Beijing/Le Moulin

VERSAILLES [78000] a > CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES / RER C and SNCF /

7pm-2am / > LA MARECHALERIE / 5, AVENUE DE SCEAUX / RER C and SNCF / 7pm-2am / www.mairie-versailles.fr / www.chateauversailles-spectacles.fr / www.versailles.archi.fr/lamarechalerie

CLICHY LA GARENNE [92110] c > Mº MAIRIE DE CLICHY / BUS 54, 74, 174 /

7pm-4am / www.ville-clichy.fr

Eric B, Nuit Blanche : le ciel de la nuit, rêve et cauchemar © Eric B.

SAINT DENIS [93200] > Mº LINE 13 / RER D, T1 / BUS 153, 170, 253 /

7pm-6am / a STATION AND TOWN CENTRE /

b MUSEE D’ART ET D’HISTOIRE / www.ville-saint-denis.fr

Marko, Video Light Painting © DR

ROMAINVILLE [93230]

a > LES SALAISONS / 25, AVENUE DU PRESIDENT WILSON / BUS 105, 129, 318 / 7pm-7am / www.brigadedesimages.com / www.salaisons.org

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LES LILAS [93260] > Mº MAIRIE DES LILAS / 6pm-2am / www.ville-leslilas.fr / www.letriton.com

GENTILLY [94250]

a > LE GÉNÉRATEUR / 16, RUE CHARLES FREROT Mº PORTE D’ITALIE / BUS 57 / RER B GENTILLY / TRAMWAY T 3 POTERNE DES PEUPLIERS / 8pm-1am / www.zanzibart.com/vladimircruells / www.legenerateur.com / www.ville-gentilly.fr

SAINT-OUEN-L’AUMÔNE [95310]

b > ABBAYE DE MAUBUISSON / RUE RICHARD DE TOUR / RER C SAINT-OUEN-L’AUMÔNE / 7pm-2am /

www.valdoise.fr / www.cergypontoise.fr/sortir/decouv/abbaye.php

LA ROCHE GUYON [95780] > CHÂTEAU DE LA ROCHE GUYON / 1, RUE DE L’AUDIENCE / 8.30pm-midnight / www.chateaudelarocheguyon.fr

Skall et vladimir Cruells, Le Skall Boulot. Photo : Thierry Demarquet

Séverine Batier, Répétition Don Juan. Photo : Emmanuel Rouglan

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AROUND FRANCE _____________________________________________

AMIENS [80000] a > OCTOBER 4th / AMIENS - 80000 /

CITY CENTRE / 8pm-6am / www.nuitblancheamiens.com / www.myspace.com/nuitblancheamiens

METZ [57000] > OCTOBER 3rd-4th / METZ – 57000 / 6pm-7am / www.mairie-metz.fr

BRISON SAINT-INNOCENT [73100]

a > OCTOBER 4th-5th / BRISON SAINT- INNOCENT – 73100 / PARC DESPINE / SATURDAY 2pm-SUNDAY 6pm / www.brison-st-innocent.fr

Affiche Amiens Nuit Blanche 2008 © Wilhem Arnoldy

Collectif 3RS, Projet place Saint-Louis.

Courtesy Ville de Metz

O’Manu, Metropol’art. Photo : O’Manu

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WORLD AND EUROPE _____________________________________________ NUITS BLANCHES AROUND THE WORLD Many capital cities around the world have taken inspiration from Nuit Blanche or have used the Paris night as a model for their own event. From Madrid to Miami, from Montreal to Bucharest, the number of cities embarking on this dusk-to-dawn adventure continues to grow. By means of example, since 2005 and coinciding with Nuit Blanche in Paris, the French Consulate General in Palestine works with local artists and cultural organisations to stage a Nuit Blanche in the gardens and gallery of the French Cultural Centre in Gaza. Since 2006, this event has included an artistic project sent by the City of Paris. Inspired by the success of the Gaza Nuit Blanche, this year the operation has spread to five cities as the different French Cultural Centres in Palestine have expressed their wish to host a Parisian project in their walls. Acting as a specialist consultant, the director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris recommended the video installations of the contemporary Parisian artist Laurent Grasso who, after studying the project, suggested installing multiple works across the region. Hence video creations will be installed in historical and modern settings in Bethlehem (Peace Center), Ramallah (Almahatta Gallery), Nablus, Gaza (French Culture Centres) and East Jerusalem (Al Hosh Gallery). Each work is chosen specifically for the site. An additional work will be shown in the Bible School in West Jerusalem. The works selected by the artist for this Retrospective dans les Territoires Palestiniens are: Polair in which a cloud of pollen invades Berlin; Projection in which a cloud of smoke rolls through the streets of Paris; Eclipse depicting a phoney eclipse, an attempt at faking a miracle; Tout est possible which shows a man strolling through the streets of Casablanca while imagining how the CIA can work with ghosts. 1619 which depicts fake Northern Lights in reference to the HAARP military project that uses Northern Lights for experimental purposes. None of these imaginary, yet sometimes plausible, phenomena are meant to propose a solution; instead they describe the difficulties of representation in an ever more complex society. Another guest artist, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, proposes Fold, October 31st, 1999, a video shot from two viewpoints (from the side and from above). The film was made with students when Marie-Ange Guilleminot was artist-in-residence at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1999 and features the first appearance of L’Oursin. An

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improvisation lasting one hour and fifty minutes, it will be screened in the gardens of the French Cultural Centre in Gaza. L’Oursin is a polymorphous sculpture-object in polyethylene, created by the artist in 1997 and intended to be worn as a cape to protect its users. Made in cooperation with the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, the first four sea urchins (Ø 4m) were covered with pearly white paint in which the fold lines of the urchin in its metamorphosis into a flower are ingrained. There are now four versions of L’oursin of various sizes. As well as a functional purpose, it has a symbolic value that is particularly strong in connection to Hiroshima. Other events: the projection of the videos Hospitalités 2 by the network TRAM, installations of local artists on the topic of the Suitcase, and the projection of pieces that ran the film Pocket contest set up in collaboration with le Forum des Images. Biography of Laurent Grasso Whether he (re)activates the more or less identifiable forms of a society "under control" or hijacks the conventions and techniques of cinema that shape the collective imagination, Laurent Grasso creates environments with a strong narrative potential; a combination of ancestral fears, scientific accounts and urban legends. He draws on light, sound, radio and electromagnetic waves, natural, paranormal and meteorological phenomena to conjure up unique sensorial experiences. They in turn become the vectors for fictions which the spectator must then complete. Through the tension he creates between the works, their environment and the sometimes dramatic projection, Laurent Grasso provokes startling mental images that blur the vision of what we commonly refer to as "reality. www.galeriechezvalentin.com/fr/artistes/laurent_grasso

Biography of Marie-Ange Guilleminot Born in Saint Germain-en-Laye, lives and works in Paris. Current projects 2008 Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Paris; C.I.R.V.A - Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre, Marseille; Private commission: Maison de poupées (19-sq m structure) Mouans-Sartoux, France; Public commissions/studies: therapeutic garden, Grasse, Direction Culturelle Régionale PACA (Provence Alpes Cote d’Azur), France; Contemporary garden, Domaine de Portabéraud, Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles, Auvergne, France. Selected solo shows / projects 2008 Rencontres Photographiques, Arles, France / 2007 Musée de Sérignan, France; DRAC Picardie, France / 2006 Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan / 2005 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Public commission, Magny-les-Hameaux, France / 2004 Galerie Masataka Hayakawa, Tokyo, Japan / 2002 Galerie Erna Hécey, Luxembourg; Art Metropole & The Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada / 2001 Atelier Calder, Saché, France / Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France / 2000 The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK / 1999 Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA; San Francisco Art Institute, USA / 1998 CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France / 1997 Galerie Chantal Crousel & Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. www.ma-g.net

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NUITS BLANCHES 2008 AROUND THE WORLD

> Montreal

March 1st www.montrealenlumiere.com

> Chicago May 2nd

> Santa Monica

July 19th

> Toronto October 4th

www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca

> Gaza, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, East Jerusalem

October 9th

> Miami November 1st

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NUITS BLANCHES IN EUROPE Eager to share their experience as organisers of a Nuit Blanche, but also with the aim of promoting enriching artistic exchanges, several European capitals have joined together to form the Nuits Blanches Europe network. The original movement, launched in 2006, comprised five capitals: Brussels, Madrid, Paris, Riga and Rome. Each of these cities welcomed an artist or company from one of the other capitals in the network. In 2007 the network welcomed Bucharest. The now six capitals (Brussels, Bucharest, Madrid, Paris, Riga and Rome) decided to stage a joint artistic project in which designers imagined a lounge area that would appear at Nuits Blanches in each of the participating cities. Valletta joined the network in 2008. This year, the cities in the network will exchange projects developed for previous Nuits Blanches. They will also launch a joint website, the work of the artist Miltos Manetas (See p.55).

DATES FOR NUITS BLANCHES EUROPE

> Riga August 30th As a member of Nuits Blanches Europe, Riga presented Heads over Riga, a project by Kevin Krivel and David Warne, previously shown in Toronto. www.eiropasbaltasnaktis.lv

> Madrid September 13th As a member of Nuits Blanches Europe, Madrid presented Massimo Silenzio, a project by Giancarlo Neri, previously shown in Rome. www.esmadrid.com/lanocheenblanco

> Bucharest September 20th As a member of Nuits Blanches Europe, Bucharest presented Urban Memory, a project by Juan Garaizabal, previously shown in Madrid. www.noapteaalba.ro

> Brussels October 4th As a member of Nuits Blanches Europe, Brussels will present Lanzadera de palabras, a project by Suso 33, previously shown in Madrid. www.nuitblanchebrussels.be

> Paris October 4th As a member of Nuits Blanches Europe, Paris will present Going Through Walls (see p.42), a project by the Latvian artist Gints Gabrans, previously shown in Riga.

> Valletta October 4th www.nottebiancamalta.com

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EUROPE _____________________________________________ MILTOS MANETAS Ching-I.com DIGITAL ART www.nuitsblancheseurope.eu

Teleport Tree 4 © Miltos Manetas

Imagine you could write a message to a tree somewhere in your city. Imagine your message was sent to another city. Imagine you received a reply… As part of the artistic exchanges between the six capital cities in the Nuits Blanches Europe network, the artist Miltos Manetas has been commissioned to design a shared, interactive digital work, which members of the public from the six cities can view online. He has called his work Ching-I.com in reference to I-Ching, the ancient Chinese book of oracles. Any European citizen can post a message in a ball that falls from the oracle-tree. The oracle-tree will then reply by passing on a message posted elsewhere in Europe.

Music: Mark Tranmer, aka Gnac. Graphic design: Joël Fox

Programming: Christopher Pappas Biography of Miltos Manetas Born in Athens in 1964, at the age of 20 Miltos Manetas became a student at the Academia di Brera in Milan. He began his career with photo and video works before turning to figurative painting. Since the mid-1990s, Miltos Manetas’ figurative oil-on-canvas paintings have made clear his fascination with the technology of our modern age: laptops, consoles, video-game characters, cables and joysticks become the icons that inhabit familiar, contemporary interiors. Attentive to new technologies, cognitive sciences and new means of communication, Miltos Manetas' art includes the writing of manifestos in celebration of cyberspace, file names, pixels, software and virtual communities. Solo shows (selection) 2008 THANKYOUANDYWARHOL.COM, a website by Miltos Manetas. Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid. 2007 INTERNET PAINTINGS, Blow de la Barra Gallery, London. 2006 DOGS AND CABLES, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York. 2006 SENTIMENTS, Galleria Pack, Milan. 2000 NEEN, Gagosian Gallery, New York. Group shows (selection) 2008 ON TIME, EAST WING COLLECTION 8, Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Kunstmaschinen Maschinenkunst (Machines-ART ART-Machines), Tinguely Museum, Basel and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. 2008 THE ALLIANCE, Hyundai Galleries, Beijing, China, Seoul. 2007 SHALLOW, I -20 Gallery, New York. 2007 ON FAIT LE MUR, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans Sartoux. Artist’s website: www.manetas.com This project has the support of the Ville de Paris–CulturesFrance convention.

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION

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Nuit Blanche Paris is a free event.

INFORMATION POINTS Ten information points across Paris will guide visitors between the different sites. > Gare du Nord Inside the station > Gare de l’Est In front of the station > Gare de Lyon Inside and in front of the station > Gare Montparnasse In front of the station, Place Raoul Dautry > Gare Saint-Lazare Inside and outside the station, at the Cour de Rome metro exit > Champs-Élysées Place Clémenceau, at the Champs-Élysées- Clémenceau metro exit > Hôtel de Ville On the corner of rue Lobau and rue de Rivoli > Église Saint-Eustache Place René Cassin

CULTURAL MEDIATORS Some fifty mediators, all specially-trained to help the public understand and engage with the works, will be present around the sites chosen for Nuit Blanche. Mediators at all the major sites will assist older members of the public and guide them towards the different events. Children can follow a special circuit, put together by Paris Mômes. For full details see p.21

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GETTING AROUND

A special transport service has been put in place for Nuit Blanche.

METRO The Metro will stay open until 2am.

LINE 14 Line 14 will run all night with trains every 4 minutes. Free outside usual operating times (after 2am).

RER TRAINS Usual timetables for lines A and B South. Lines B North, C, D and E until 2am.

NOCTILIEN Extra Noctilien night buses will run for Nuit Blanche. Buses will run until 5.30am except lines N 11 to N 16 which will not be operating, and lines N 120 and N 121 which will not stop in central Paris between 00.30am and 5.30am. The terminuses for lines N 21, N 22, N 23 and N 24 will be moved from Châtelet to the following stations: N 21 to Gare Montparnasse, N 22 to Gare de Lyon, N 23 to Gare de l’Est and N 24 to Gare Saint-Lazare.

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SNCF MAINLINE TRAINS Transilien An additional Transilien SNCF service will run for Nuit Blanche until 2am. For full details: transilien.com Ecomobile stations Cyclobulles: the bright idea that keeps you moving! Some thirty two-seater electric tricycles will be running free of charge between the different railway stations taking part in Nuit Blanche, with Ecomobile stations at: > Gare de l’Est > Gare du Nord > Gare de Lyon > Gare Saint-Lazare

BIKES Explore Nuit Blanche by vélib'. For full details of prices, rental terms and vélib' stations: www.velib.paris.fr

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MOBILITY-IMPAIRED PEOPLE

ÉGLISE SAINT-EUSTACHE In consultation with Bleu comme une orange, specially-trained mediators inside Église Saint-Eustache are available to assist disabled members of the public and help them engage with Javier Téllez's work, presented in the church. For full details of this work, see p.38 Site accessibility in consultation with Cemaforre.

PICTOGRAMS a Independent wheelchair access.

b Assisted wheelchair access.

c Site declared wheelchair-accessible by its owner and under their sole

responsibility. Not indicated = limited or no wheelchair access.

PAM 75 TRANSPORTS Paris Accompagnement Mobilité (PAM) organises transport and assistance for mobility-impaired people. PAM 75 provides transport between 6am and midnight throughout the Île-de-France area. For Nuit Blanche 2008, Pam 75 is extending its service to 2am. CONDITIONS AND RESERVATIONS AGENCE COMMERCIALE PAM 75 48, rue Gabriel-Lamé, 75012 Paris Tel: 0 810 0 810 75 or 01 53 44 12 59

Fax: 01 56 61 91 01 www.pam.paris.fr pam@keolis.com

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FOOD AND DRINK A non-exhaustive list of cafés and restaurants taking part in Nuit Blanche, in particular around the stations:

GARE DU NORD Cadran du Nord

13, rue de Dunkerque La Maison blanche

21, rue de Dunkerque Le Café du Nord

19, rue de Dunkerque Paris Nord Départ

17, rue de Dunkerque Rdv des Belges

23, rue de Dunkerque

GARE DE L’EST Café de l’Est

7, rue du 8 mai 1945 Café i

156, rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin Extérieur Quai

5, rue d’Alsace Indiana Café

129, rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin La Taverne de l’Est

72, bd de Strasbourg Les Tramways de l’Est 76, bd de Strasbourg

Motown Bar 81, bd de Strasbourg

GARE DE LYON

Le Murati 2, rue L yon

Le Terminus Lyon 19, bd D iderot

Taverne Maître Kanter 1, rue L yon

MONTPARNASSE

À Saint-Malot 2, rue de l’Odessa

Au baroudeur 4, place du 18 juin 1940

Bistro de la Tour 4, rue de l’Arrivée

Indiana Café 72, boulevard Montparnasse

L’Atlantique 41, avenue du Maine

La Consigne 71, boulevard Montparnasse

L’Enclos du Temps 31, avenue du Maine

La Marine 59, boulevard Montparnasse

La Ruche 73, boulevard Montparnasse

Maine Parnasse 33, boulevard Edgar Quinet

Montparnasse Café

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24, avenue du Maine Montparnasse Café Leffe 8, place du 18 juin 1940

Pizza Pino 57, boulevard Montparnasse

Saint-Germain Café Cassette

73, rue de Rennes Café de la Mairie

8, place Saint-Sulpice Café du Metro

13, rue du Vieux Colombier

GARE SAINT-LAZARE Café Départ

1, rue du Rocher Le Rocher Saint-Lazare

5, rue du Rocher

TOUR SAINT-JACQUES À Saint Jacques

10, rue Saint Martin Café À La Tour

6, rue Saint Martin Café Bar de la Tour Saint-Jacques

96, rue de Rivoli Café In

10, avenue Victoria Café Vig

10, rue des Halles Delyan

8, rue Saint Martin Le Sarah Bernhardt

2, place du Châtelet Marais

Au Bouquet Saint Paul 85, rue Saint Antoine

Chez Clovis 33, rue Berger

Comptoir des Archives 41, rue des Archives

Jet Lag 4, rue Montmartre

Le Bistrot d’Eustache 37, rue Berger

Le Dôme 4-6, rue de Rivoli

Le Troisième Chinon 56, rue des Archives

Quigley’s Point 5, rue du Jour

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STAY INFORMED WITH MOBILETAG Scan this MobileTag and get the full 2008 Nuit Blanche programme on your mobile.

WHAT IS IT? A Tag is a code that displays web content (text, photos, sound, etc.) on your mobile phone. HOW DOES IT WORK? You already have the application on your mobile. Launch the application and scan the Tag using your phone camera. Your phone will automatically display content. Your mobile is compatible. 1 – Send the keyword Paris to 06 61 71 49 61 (normal sms rate) to download the MobileTag application. 2 – You will receive an sms with a link. Click on the lick to download the application. 3 – Launch the application and scan the tag to display content. Your mobile isn't compatible. 1 – When you try to download the application, the server will redirect you to a Wap page. 2 – Click on the links to display MobileTag content.

INFORMATION The full programme is available at www.paris.fr and www.mobile.paris.fr Infoline 3975 RATP call centre 3246 www.ratp.fr

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ARTISTS TAKING PART IN NUIT BLANCHE PARIS _____________________________________________ 0-9 13 en vue (association) – Voiles, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy 1 Plan – Echo, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

A Acoeurvoix (association) – Des voix dans la nuit, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Agrafmobile – Mots publics : Ici je suis ailleurs, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Ali Shaad – Shaad Ali and the Bollywood Bawaal, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Alina – Vidéos contemporaines russes, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Alycia – Coquin d’caf’ conc’, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain ANTIVJ – Lumen, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Arzin – Lancement des Before, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Aubouy Véronique – Le Baiser de la Matrice, Proust Lu sur Internet, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Augros Jean-Yves – IVT revisite le Grand Guignol, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Avan Ghislaine – Seuil. Le La du monde, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Avanzinelli Nicola – Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais

B Baldini Marco – Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Bán Andrej – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Bautista Manolo – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Beffa Karol – Un « Bœuf » Classique, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Begalskaya Viktoria – Vidéos contemporaines russes, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Bianchi Bruno – Le Calme de la Nuit, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Bielskyte Monika – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Birgé Jean-Jacques – Nabaz’mob, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Biveinis Vidas – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Biyikli Rasim – Sans Titre, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Blake Jérémy – Station to Station, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Bliumis Jeff – Vidéos contemporaines russes, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Boltanski Christian – Gute Nacht, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Boltanski Christian – Les Archives du Cœur, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Bomal Nicolas – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Boogers – La Fin du Monde, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Boran Michael – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Bosco Antonia – Le Calme de la Nuit, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Bourgeois Marie-Julie – Tempo, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Brasmane Mara – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Brel Jacques – Collection particulière, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Bumbut Cosmin – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

C Calleja Gilbert – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Cartier Caroline – Que Pasa !, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Choi Jeong-Hwa – Paradise, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Colardelle Benoît – Gare aux Anges, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Collectif Fossile – Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Collectif Métazone – Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Compagnie ONSTAP – Lancement des Before, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Compagnie Tempo Cantabile – Seuil. Le La du monde, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris – Concert d’orgue, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Cravero Christophe – Soirée « Hommage à Stéphane Grappelli », Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Croitoru Alexandra – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Croizé Fabrice – Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Csontó Lajos – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

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D d’Estienne d’Orves Félicie – Monolithe, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Dainelli Daniele – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Darzacq Denis – Denis Darzacq, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est de Saint Julien Léa – La Forêt des Mânes, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Deguelle Anne – Artists in space et Palermo, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Déjean Jean-Christophe – Hervé Domingue en concert, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Deroche Thierry - Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Dexin Gu – Le 4 octobre 2008, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Di Ricci Virginie – Roma Amor ou la Nuit Blanche de Caligula, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Dilkov Dimitar – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Dimisianos Ektor – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy DJ Neasso – Lancement des Before, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Domingue Hervé – Hervé Domingue en concert, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Drzkova Katerina – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Duarte António Júlio – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

E Encho Thomas – Soirée « Hommage à Stéphane Grappelli », Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Epnere Ieva – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Erdei Krisztina – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

F Fabric | ch – Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Fenech Patrick – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Formica Jean-Pierre – Sentinelles de sel, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Fornieles Eloise – Performance, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Foucault Henri – À la faveur de la nuit, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Fransson Beata – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Fridriksdottir Gabriela – Les Archives du Cœur, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Fyssakis Pavlos – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

G GaBlé – La Fin du Monde, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Gabrans Gints – Going Through Walls, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Garcia Dom – Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Garmusch Peter – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Garrel Louis – Shaad Ali and the Bollywood Bawaal, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Gelguda Ugnius – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Glaser Daniel – Autoportrait, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Godard Laurent – Sans queue ni tête, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Gómez Germán – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Grzeszykowska Aneta – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Guemisheva Mariela – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Gulzar – Shaad Ali and the Bollywood Bawaal, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Gütschow Beate – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

H Haas Annika – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Hasler Gerd – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Hedlund Maria – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Holmgren Camilla – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Hong Seung-Hye – The Sentimental Mood, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Huber Yenny – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Hurskainen Wilma – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

I Ikeda Ryoji – spectra [paris], Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Israël Thomas – Percept (Création) - Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Itinéraires-art contemporain (association) – Identité 2008 Acteurs & Témoins, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est

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J Jacobsen Luiza – Tempo, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Jauffret Régis – Microfictions, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Jeppesen Adam – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Jeunes Talents (association) – Un « Boeuf » Classique, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Johansson Anders – Forêt diaphane, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Johansson Andreas – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

K Kalman Jean – Gute Nacht, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Kazhdan Yasha – Vidéos contemporaines russes, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Keshavarz Nelly – Le Jardin d’Eden - Adam et Eve, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Koudelka Josef – Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Krawczyk Franck – Gute Nacht, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Krecké Elisabeth et Carine – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Kunz Magdalena – Autoportrait, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

L La femme tentaculaire (association) – Jardin d’Asphalte, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Landau Sigalit – DeadSee, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Latour Bruno – The theater of proof: a series of demonstrations, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Le Club des Chats – La Fin du Monde, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Lefèvre Yves – Gare aux Anges, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Lejman Dominik – Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Les Bolcheviks Anonymes – La Fin du Monde, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Luvera Anthony – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

M Mairie du 12e – Café noir pour Nuit Blanche, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris – Ensemble grégorien – Concert de chants grégoriens, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Mangalanayagam Nina – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Markul Angelika – Les Archives du Cœur, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Marlot Rémy – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Marnat Virginie – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Martin Daniel John – Soirée « Hommage à Stéphane Grappelli », Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Martin Malte - Mots publics : Ici je suis ailleurs, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Master Peace – La Fin du Monde, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Matta Ramuntcho – Sound Art : le live, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain McGrath Dara – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Mieg Macha – Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Milach Rafal – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Mirguet Olivier – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Montiel-Soto Sabrina – Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Mooney Suzanne – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Musial Jean-Marc – Roma Amor ou la Nuit Blanche de Caligula, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Musique Paname Connexion – Lancement des Before, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées

N Nahum Alain – Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Netto Duarte Amaral – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Newark Kevin – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Nicol Fabien – Gare aux Anges, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Nimcová Lucia – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Nino Don – Untitled, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Nitadori Miki – Combat in Progress, Genèse d’un manuel de survie quotidienne, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Nogray Frédéric – Massage, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Nolde Emil – Rétrospective, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Nostri Luca – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

O Orlikowska Anna – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Oursler Tony – Horizon scander jeu, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est

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P Pace Alexandra – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Page Commune (association) – La nuit blanche du roman noir, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Papadimitropoulos Panayotis – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Parimeros Dimitri – Le Jardin d’Eden - Adam et Eve, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Paris Jazz Club (association) – Soirée « Hommage à Stéphane Grappelli », Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Paris Victoria Production (association) – Optica Review 2007, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Pasina Luis – Vanité n°12 – Visible Invisible, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Peeters Benoît – Lumière sur Brüsel, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Pelechian Artavazd – Notre siècle, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Pepe Dita – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Pérez Concha – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Perraud Stéfane – Lueurs, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Peterson Age – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Petetrukhina Ksenia – Vidéos contemporaines russes, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Piene Otto – Plus léger que l’air, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Pittas Menelaos – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Planes Bertrand – Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Prashkov Kiril – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Puklus Péter – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Pungercar Mojca – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Püve Birgit – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Pyeralal – Shaad Ali and the Bollywood Bawaal, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

R Rantala Hannele – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Rao Aditi – Shaad Ali and the Bollywood Bawaal, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Ratti Annie – Îles Flottantes, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Raynaut Emmanuelle – L’intrus-performance, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Réseau Tram – Programme Hospitalités 2008, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Rogier-Waeselynck Axel – Stations, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Romney Émile – La Forêt des Mânes, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Rosenkranz Pamela – Unfade, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Rozendaal Isabella – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

S Sadovská Dorota – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Saussois Patrick – Soirée « Hommage à Stéphane Grappelli », Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Schmitt Antoine – Nabaz’mob, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Schuiten François – Lumière sur Brüsel, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Semiconductor – Brilliant Noise, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Serafim João Paulo – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Sha Masha – Vidéos contemporaines russes, Tour Saint-Jacques – Marais Shacola Marina – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Silvouplay – La Fin du Monde, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Sirviö Sauli – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Smith Patti, Jesse et Jackson – Untitled, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Socratous Socrates – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Sorin Pierrick – Untitled, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Stakle Alnis – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Stevens Bruno – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

T t.r.a.n.s.i.t.s.c.a.p.e – Chambre(s) d’hôtel, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Tabanou Michel – Cycle et recyclage : l’énergie de l’éphémère, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Téllez Javier – Letter On The Blind For Those Who See, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Teliverek Agasko – La fin du Monde, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est To Johnnie – Hong Kong Action, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Tosani Patrick – Noir, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Troupe du Troisième Acte – Les seniors font leur Nuit Blanche, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais

U Unsen Jeanine – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

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V Vajd Aleksandra – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy van der Molen Awoiska – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy van der Woude Hanne – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Vanfleteren Stephan – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Vejvoda Goran – Sound Art : le live, Montparnasse – Saint-Germain Vey François – Echo, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Vlockova Teresa – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Vogel Corsin – La nuit blanche du roman noir, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Voisimages (association) – Voisimages, Tour Saint-Jacques - Marais Voit Robert – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

W Warnotte Valéry – Microfictions, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Wasser Laurence – La Fin du Monde, Gare du Nord – Gare de l’Est Weisgerber Véra – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Wenzel Matjaz – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy White Spirit Band – Echo, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Windelschmidt Charlie – Microfictions, Gare Saint-Lazare – Champs-Élysées Wittrup Ebbe Stub – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Woods Paolo – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

Z Zhen Chen – La Danse de la Fontaine émergente (1998-2008), Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Zielony Tobias – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy Zoltan Egyed Ufo – Nuit de l’Europe, Identités photographiques européennes, Gare de Lyon – Gare de Bercy

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THE NUIT BLANCHE TEAM _____________________________________________ Nuit Blanche is devised by the City of Paris (Mairie de Paris) and steered by the Department of Cultural Affairs in consultation with all the City of Paris operational departments.

ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Hervé Chandès and Ronald Chammah

CITY OF PARIS DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS Director: Laurence Engel Deputy director for new projects: Philippe Hansebout Assistant to the deputy director: François Dumail

EVENTS AND NEW OPERATIONS Head of department: Noëlle Audejean Deputy head of department: Emmanuel Daydé Coordinator: Vanessa Amiot Assistant to Noëlle Audejean: Marianne Mémain Interns: Chloé Béasse, Mélanie Lerat and Antoine Taillandier

COMMUNICATION Head of department: Catherine Grangeon Deputy head of department: Christel Bortoli Intern: Myrtille Nury

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION Director of information and communication: Anne-Sylvie Schneider Deputy director of information and communication: Isabelle Cohen Assistant to the deputy director: Marianne Bellair Press relations: Carmen Pellachal, Jérôme Girard, Emilie Banaszuk

MULTIMEDIA Head of department: Vincent Morel Technical team: Ambre Guinard, Sébastien Nguyen Van Tam, Marc Ouzounian, Thierry Premel Editorial team: Géraldine Delacroix, Marie-Madeleine Gérard, Richard Pennarun

IT AND SYSTEMS Director: Jean-Claude Meunier Project/Hosting: Emmanuel Souquet, Simon Taupenas

OUTSIDE CONTRACTORS EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Le Troisième Pôle / Eva Albarran & Co Managing directors: Eva Albarran, Steven Hearn Production manager: Nicolas Champion Production and coordination: Caroline Couraud, Antoine Cochain, Louise Delestre, Pauline Gautron, Marguerite Vial Mediation and communication coordination: Anne-Hélène Frostin, Sonia Musnier General administration: Yann Leroux, Adriana Suarez Intern: Manya Dupont

COMMUNICATION Nuit Blanche coordinator: Pamela Sticht

PRESS RELATIONS Claudine Colin Communication: Claudine Colin, Albane Champey, Julien Diers

EDITORIAL Véronique Bouruet-Aubertot, Sandra Petch (translation)

GRAPHIC DESIGN Atelier Trois: Cécile Boyer, Camille Gallet, Emmanuel Pevny

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PRESS CONTACTS NUIT BLANCHE 2008 _____________________________________________

CLAUDINE COLIN COMMUNICATION Albane Champey / Julien Diers 28, rue de Sévigné, 75004 Paris

T 33 (0)1 42 72 60 01 nuitblanche@claudinecolin.com

MAIRIE DE PARIS Emilie Banaszuk

T 33 (0)1 42 76 47 24 F 33 (0)1 42 76 53 25

service.presse@paris.fr