the urban culture laboratory

Since opening, the CENTQUATRE-PARIS has been committed to the growth and development of urban cultures. The CENTQUATRE-PARIS offers all visitors the possibility to practice any living art in its open-spaces.

Visitors freely use the space to create their own stages, continuously redefining our open spaces. Since 2015, the CENTQUATRE-PARIS has hosted a laboratory dedicated to artistic creation in the multidisciplinary field of urban culture and its interactions with public spaces. This laboratory can accommodate around fifteen artists and troupes per year.

The lab is intended for independent artists, collectives, troupes and organizations, coming from all of urban culture’s artistic disciplines and all geographical horizons.

After their application is granted, the artists get access to a work space at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS for a research and creation residency for a fixed period of 50 hours and - if needed - they get technical or artistic support. The research must question the notion of public space, its origin, its practical aspects, its form or its representation.

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