CAC Brétigny

ELGER is a CAC project that lies at the crossroads of art and popular education. It consists of a series of collaborative artistic interventions with groups of children, adolescents and adults in order to rethink the transmission processes as a form, an artistic proposal in itself.

Through dance, writing, singing, costume making, etc., residents and artists have brought to life other types of collective organizations, tried other ways of doing things together. To gather research material, these workshops were followed by a series of interviews with artists, partners, educators, and participants, led by Fanny Lallart and Céline Poulin. The edition, designed by Morgane Masse, presents the results of these exchanges and experiments.

ELGER is an action-research project set up by the CAC Brétigny, and this edition represents the last stage of this research. It was distributed free of charge as part of the“ELGER” exhibition in 2023, then made available on the art center's website (in french).

Artists: Juliette Beau Denès, Morgane Brien-Hamdane, Laura Burucoa, Pauline Lecerf, Vinciane Mandrin et Zoé Philibert
Educators: Milène Denécheau, Domitille Guilé, Louise Ledour, Elena Lespes Muñoz, Mathilde Moreau et Anna Pericchi
Education assistants: Ariane Guyon, Mathilde Moreau et Jun Zhang
Curatorial et editorial direction: Fanny Lallart et Céline Poulin
Editorial coordination: Fanny Lallart
Proofreading: Guillaume Rannou
Photos credits: Louise Ledour, Anna Pericchi
Craphism: Morgane Masse
Editor: CAC Brétigny
Production: Massage Production
Publication: April 2023
French edition

The “ELGER” exhibition is co-produced with the Théâtre Brétigny. The ELGER project is part of the “Contrat Territorial d'Éducation Artistique et Culturelle” (CTEAC) of Cœur d'Essonne Agglomération with the DRAC Île-de-France and the Academy of Versailles. It is run in partnership with Massage Production, which is supported by the Essonne Department. In 2020-2021, ELGER featured initiatives carried out locally by artists with the preschool and elementary school Aprinivilla of Avrainville, the elementary school Roger Vivier of Marolles-en-Hurepoix, the elementary school André Malraux of Villiers-sur-Orge, the middle school Jean Zay of Morsang-sur-Orge, the middle school Roland Garros of Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon, and the Fleury-Mérogis detention center for women in partnership with the SPIP (Service Pénitentiaire d'Insertion et de probation de l'Essonne) and in collaboration with the MAC VAL. In 2021-2022, ELGER featured initiatives carried out locally by artists with the preschool Alphonse de Lamartine of Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, the elementary school Paul Langevin of Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon, the middle school Roland Garros of Saint-Germain-lès-Arpajon, the municipal reception center for young people of Bruyères-le-Châtel, the Fleury-Mérogis detention center for women in partnership with the SPIP (Service Pénitentiaire d'Insertion et de probation de l'Essonne) and the Federation Habitat et Humanisme—Emergency accommodation for asylum seekers (HUDA) in Bonnelles. The ELGER project was part of “l'été culturel” (the cultural summer) of Cœur d'Essonne Agglomération in 2021. As such, it benefited from the support of the DRAC Île-de-France and the Essonne Department, and was part of the “Plein Soleil / Summer of art centers” program led by d.c.a.