Mathias Poisson is a walking artist.

Author of several experimental tourist guides, designer of sensitive maps and artistic tour guide. It questions the representation of current landscapes through a multidisciplinary approach. The processes he implements are generally collective, involving other artists or amateur participants. The experiences he offers bring out the sensitive dimension of a space and put visitors in a state of special attention. If all goes as planned, the surprising imagination of the place takes over and the situation turns around.

www.netable.org

Alexandre Lucas is an independent hmonp architect and co-founder of the laBO * associative laboratory.

Architect by training, gardener by passion, and plastic artist by nature. Through urban walking as much as cartography, he offers portraits of places, from the tightest zoom to the most aerial vision. From the foreshadowing of projects to the restitution of successful achievements, he willingly puts himself at the service of collectives: through discussion to deconstruct and refine; as graphic designer to make it readable or to underline; as peerless installer to welcome the public and bring the moment to light.

• làBO = there [here] + soundtrack [original soundtrack] = collective of metropolitan explorations and in situ experiments, to make here the original soundtrack of the place.

Hendrik Sturm is a walking artist. Originally from Düsseldorf, he has lived in Marseille since 1994.

After having followed, between France and Germany, a training in Fine Arts and a thesis in neurobiology, Hendrik Sturm now teaches at the School of Fine Arts in Toulon, and practices his art of walking. everywhere in France, in Marseille or Paris, often in peri-urban areas, but also in town centers or in rural areas.

“I don’t walk like the mad traveler, I don’t seek exhaustion, although it can happen. Sometimes we just don’t want to stop walking, so it’s the night that stops us. But it is also possible to take a meaningful walk that lasts only five minutes. In my case, walking is also a study method. I practice it less as a spiritual practice than as a tool of discovery, a methodology of inquiry – reading of traces.“

La Galerie de la mer, a film by Philippe Van Cutsem (2007, 61 mn). 

Based in Marseille, La Folie Kilomètre is a collective founded in 2011. It brings together artists from performing arts, visual arts and regional planning.

At the crossroads of these practices, the collective imagines expeditions, shows, walks and workshops. From sensitive cartography to sound creation, from visual installation to tableau vivant, the disciplines’ dialogue and their outlines blend into a mixed language. Monumental or tiny, his interventions play with the scales of places and levels of reading.Poetic journeys imagined for the places they pass through their walking-related interventions combine live performance and plastic installations. They place the walker at the heart of the promenade. Sensitive maps, walking accessories, word landscapes and inhabited tables constitute their vocabulary.

www.lafoliekilometre.org

Christophe Galatry has been carrying out photographic, video and multimedia work since 1991.This work is intended to be an investigation of identity in its intimate sense and plays on the relationship between appearance and disappearance, on the border between oblivion and the unconscious. With the collective PCPI (Because This Passage Infranchi) which he founded with artists who have developed polymorphic creations (photographs, video, sound, plastic, body) on the islands of Frioul in 2004 and 2005, he developed the metropolitan walks Except… (Territories) during which creatives, thinkers and curious citizens met for an exploratory journey, specifically in the territories west of the Etang de Berre and Fos-sur-Mer to Port-Saint- Louis-du-Rhône.

Their flagship project – the Tétrodon – is a project to rehabilitate a mobile and modular object used to accommodate the workers who built the ZIP.

The Tetrodon blog:
www.passage-infranchi.org/blog/

To support its restoration:
fondation-patrimoine.org/

So that heritage and hospitality come together in the present, Hôtel du Nord obeys a simple principle: we sell what we produce, we produce what we sell, for the benefit of those who live, work or dwell in these neighborhoods.

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Born in Charente in 1987, Paul-Hervé Lavessière is a geographer and urban planner.

After a few years in a design office in Brussels, he wrote La Révolution de Paris (Wildproject, 2014), a travelogue in Greater Paris, awarded the Haussmann Prize. In 2014, he co-founded the association Sentiers Métropolitains within which he participated in the creation of several Sentiers Métropolitains (Paris, Tunis, Avignon, etc.) as well as in the organization of workshops and artistic and cultural projects combining writing and designing routes.

The greater Paris path

Robin Decourcy is a French author, choreographer and visual artist, creator of Trek Danse.
Trained at Villa Arson and at the Beaux Arts in Mexico, his in situ practice has changed during his travels in Asia, Latin America and increasingly in South America. His meeting as an assistant or trainee with the super heroes of Post-Modern Dance, Fluxus, sound poetry but also theater and literature leads him to integrate improvisation and score techniques in real time. His work is regularly presented in the form of exhibitions, pieces in festivals, art centers, theaters and national choreographic centers, such as the Trek Danse for 10 years. Influenced by the techno, traditional and experimental scene, as well as the teaching of the root peoples, Robin Decourcy applies different relationship alternatives to our environment through great inclusive performances. Combining ethological and micro-political processes, his approach is the subject of conferences and publications, associated with an art called “eco-somatic”. It cooperates for this with many creators, street artists, dance, circus, composers, filmmakers as well as practitioners and researchers.

www.avaleur.net/trek-danse