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A Dynamic European Project

 

EuroFabrique is an nomadic and international program launched in 2022 by ANdÉA, RMN-Grand Palais, and École des Arts Décoratifs Paris. The project regularly gathers students from European art schools to imagine new forms and creative narratives that represent the European continent. After its inaugural edition at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, followed by an edition in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, EuroFabrique is evolving into a versatile framework designed to be adopted by any network of art schools across Europe.

 

To structure and sustain this program, ANdÉA secured European funding to co-organize, with three partners – the Cerveira Art Biennial in Portugal, the Creative Industries Cluster of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, and Le Signe, National Center for Graphic Design in Chaumont – three EuroFabrique Camps. These collaborative capsules aim to formalize EuroFabrique’s transmission methods, visual identity, and curatorial content.

The Think Camp in Cluj in December 2023 focused on defining the EuroFabrique concept and exploring its formats. The Design Camp in Chaumont in February 2024 brought together 42 graphic design students, who worked on creating a graphic toolkit. The EuroFabrique Art Camp in Cerveira marks the third and final stage of this series, functioning as a curatorial lab where students will explore the concept of Europe through diverse artistic practices.

 

“From Covas We Can See Europe”: Props and Prompts for a Manifesto

 

From local to global, from the periphery to the center, the EuroFabrique Art Camp invites participants to engage with the specific context of Vila Nova de Cerveira, a small Portuguese border town rich in history. They will reflect on how this territory, with its legacy of extractive practices and environmental justice struggles, can serve as a mirror to the major contemporary challenges facing Europe – particularly in terms of environment, sustainability, social justice, and civic engagement.

Facilitated by artist-researchers Susana Gaudêncio and Sofia Gonçalves, in collaboration with the Lab2PT at the University of Minho and the Cerveira Art Biennial teams, the camp is based on a methodology centered on the concepts of reversed flux and situated knowledge. This approach emphasizes a relational and intuitive creative process, organized around field explorations, creative sessions, and encounters with  art professionals, curatorial practitioners, and political and social activists.

Thirty-three students from 11 art and design schools across seven European countries were selected following a call for applications. Guided by facilitators, they will work across various spaces within the Cerveira Art Biennial Foundation, conceived as “temporary autonomous zones.” Over the course of five days, the groups will share their progress, cross-pollinate their experiments, and collaborate to produce a collective curatorial manifesto. This manifesto will take visual, performative, and relational forms, expressing the participants’ reflections and proposals on Europe’s key challenges.

The results of this camp, with a public presentation scheduled for Friday, September 27 at 4:30 PM, will be integrated into EuroFabrique’s global identity, contributing to its evolution as an adaptable European platform. In parallel, on September 26 and 27, a two-day seminar will bring together all EuroFabrique partners to work on the project’s future perspectives. The EuroFabrique Art Camp 2024 in Cerveira thus represents a pivotal moment in building a reflective and engaged European creative community in the face of 21st-century challenges.

 

// EuroFabrique Camps are co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe program //

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