above: Diller Scofidio + Renfro with Julia Wolfe, Traveling Music

evento 2009
October 9 – 18, 2009

The artistic and urban rendez-vous of Bordeaux

First edition: Collective Intimacy
Curated by Didier Fiúza Faustino

evento 2009 is a new biennial event that will take place throughout the urban public space of the city of Bordeaux (France). This year’s edition will present artistic, theoretical and performative interventions by over 50 participants, articulated by the notion of Collective Intimacy, the concept proposed by its curator, Didier Fiúza Faustino:

“Now is the hour for the expression of a collective intimacy such as only cities can really harbor. Cities belonging to everyone as well as to each individual. Cities where general and private interests are no longer at odds, so that a sensitive, common heritage may be constructed. Devices must be invented so as to allow installations, performances and events to spread throughout the city as stealth monuments: stealth for their nomadic, ephemeral and elusive character, monuments as objects of celebration. These new kinds of monuments invest spaces everywhere. They insinuate, infiltrate, and insert themselves in the city, altering the existing with the unexpected. Acting as unforeseen urban events, they modify ordinary trajectories and cause all kinds of deviations. They are a pretext for intimate interactions between inhabitants and their city.

In the same way that live arts must reclaim the center, the city must be given back to its inhabitants, in a genuine spirit of sharing. Let each individual claim their own share of city intimacy and choose to protect it or to expose it if they wish. Let us give everyone a choice to recreate the urban environment in accordance with their desire.”

Collective Intimacy
The concept of collective intimacy is an invitation to consider the city as a mental territory that draws together the sum of the lived experiences and trajectories that constitute our inner sense of the city. Prior to any strictly physical territorial reality, the city represents the emotional territory of each one — our collective intimacy.