For SIGNAL, Stephan Goldrajch invests Maison des Aveugles at Porte de Hal and offers the audience to put themselves in the shoes of a blind by wearing a mask hiding their sight. The audience is accompanied by residents of the place, they will take them around, blindly, in the scented garden of the Institute. An intimate experience involving a blind trust in the person that leads us and that we will never see.

Stephan Goldrajch is a visual artist, his approach is embodied through different techniques (crochet, weaving, embroidery, ...) all based on the imperative of the link.
Trained at the Académie des Beaux-Arts and graduated from La Cambre sculpture department, Stephan Goldrajch has been exhibiting his work in several places such as the Haïfa Museum in Tel Aviv, the Musée d’Ixelles and ‘The Invisible Dog’ in New-York. His approach includes different techniques and lies on the imperative of the link. He makes masks, embroidery, installations, drawings, legends… Sometimes the objects get embodied and lead to performances, encounters.

http://goldrajch.com/

Project realised with the support of the Société Royale de Philantrophie.

SIGNAL will also reveal the result of the project "Géographie Subjective" in Saint-Gilles led by Catherine Jourdan with inhabitants of Saint-Gilles.

A "subjective" map is a map created by a group of inhabitants of a specific territory. It is then printed and made public in communciation spaces of the City. 

Catherine Jourdan, psychologist and documentary artist, has been leading this project for several years: the cartographic documentary. It's name? Subjective Geography. Almost a tautology, but let's not get into the debate as we could look for a long time for an objectively said card... It is therefore about giving its heyday to a sensitive geography, perfectly accurate or inaccurate, truancy, personal as well as collective, and make it public through a map.

This map represents a group's vision of its own territory, of the city at a given time. It is not based on actual data (such as distance, arrangement and social function of a territory ...) but rather on the impressions of inhabitants.
Snapshot of the city, the subjective map is a pretext to tell others about its neighborhoud, its territory, its paths. Speaking about the self and the other, the map tells and imagines a singular way to live a territory together.
This is about highlighting a sensitive geography, perfectly accurate or inaccurate, independent, personal and collective, and make it public through a map which will then be printed and made public in the city communication spaces.

Following workshops led in May and June 2015, the subjective map of the Commune of Saint-Gilles will be revealed at the Opening which will take place on Friday 11 September at Centre Culturel Jacques Franck.

Catherine Jourdan
After a master of philosophy at the University of Paris X Nanterre in 2002 and a short teaching time, Catherine Jourdan moved towards artistic practice. Sculpture, installation, video, performance... to invent trajectories. The last artistic project she has been leading since 2009 is called “Géographie Subjective” (Subjective Geography). Cahterine Jourdan also works as a psychologist, she shares her time between clinical listening and documentary practice.

www.geographiesubjective.org

"Géographie Subjective" is a project put in place by Cifas in collaboration with Centre Culturel Jacques Franck, PAC, CPAS of Saint-Gilles and Rencontres saint-gilloises.
With the support of Cocof.
With the help of Service de la Culture of Saint-Gilles.

For four hours, three performers trace lines with a machine for football fields, disrupting the organisation of the parc. A new map superimposed on reality, the white chalk emphasizing informal uses of the space and reinterpreting lawns, paths and fences. The parc becomes a self-sufficient island, an imaginary city, where inhabitants live for 30 min, 2 hours, 12 hours, one night or a few days.

An island with its own neighbourhoods, its main square, its croisette, hotels, bars, … This performance is based on about 20 interviews made with regular visitors, of which some extracts will be presented onsite.


Adèle Jacot is a contextual artist and urban planner. Somewhere between urban space and the social space of expression, she mainly works on participative installations and edition, such as a book of photography and thoughts on citizen engagement “Je veux des quartiers” she co-conceived.

David Zagari is a performer. Using dialog as central medium, his work is based upon collaboration. His contemporary dancer career led him to question the frames of (re)presentation and identity. His work evolves mainly in the city through different participative installations, performances....