Latin Quarter trail

In a few words Good to know The Latin Quarter The Buttes Chaumont The Châtelet-Marais Outside Paris Public transport 

Musée du moyen âge (frigidarium) - 6 place Paul-Painlevé 75005 Paris. Métro Odéon, Saint-Michel, Cluny la Sorbonne, Maubert Mutualité. RER Saint-Michel Notre-Dame. Bus 21, 24, 27, 38, 47, 63, 85, 86, 87, 96…

Patrick Bernatchez
I feel cold today
Projection vidéo
He is presenting his video “I Feel Cold Today” (2006-2007) in the Frigidarium of the Musée de Cluny’s ancient Gallo-Roman thermal baths. Enigmatic images unfold to create an apocalyptic, futuristic mood straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey…

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Jardin du Luxembourg - Porte Saint-Michel, angle de la rue Gay-Lussac et du boulevard Saint-Michel 75005 Paris. Metro Odéon, Mabillon, Maubert-Mutualité, Saint-Sulpice, Rennes. RER Luxembourg, Saint-Michel Notre-Dame. Bus 21, 27, 38, 58, 63, 82, 84, 85, 86…

Michel de Broin
La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel
Installation
Canadian artist Michel de Broin, who is reputed for installations that make use of unexpected objects, analogy and metaphor, is offering a consoling substitute by hanging the world’s biggest glitter ball in the Luxembourg Gardens...

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Hugues Reip
White (night) Spirit
Installation
French fantasy artist Hugues Reip has re-organised and added to his 2005 work “White Spirit”, with allusions to Plato’s cave as well as the magic lantern in Marcel Proust’s childhood room…

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Ecole normale supérieure (couloirs et amphithéâtre Dussane) - Accès par le 45, à l’entrée sur la droite 45 rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris. Métro Place Monge, Censier Daubenton. RER Luxembourg, Port-Royal. Bus 21, 27, 84, 89

Eric Duyckaerts
Vidéastique et performanciel
Parcours vidéo / Performance
The visitor follows a video trail showing various performance lectures all the way to the Dussane lecture theatre, where the artist will offer an all-night performance…

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Margarita Gluzberg
Captive Bird Society
Performance sonore et instalation
in the courtyard of the Ecole Normale Supérieure the artist Margarita Gluzberg has built up a collection of original 78rpm records by composer Carl Reich using birdsong...

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Grande Mosquée de Paris - Jardin (patio inaccessible) - 2 bis place du Puits-de-l’Ermite 75005 Paris. Métro Gare d’Austerlitz, Censier Daubenton, Place Monge, Jussieu. RER Gare d’Austerlitz. Bus 24, 47, 57, 61, 63, 67, 89, 91…

Sarkis
Litanies
Visual, sound and olfactory installation
There is often a theatrical aspect to the occupation of space with objects, music and performance. For the Nuit Blanche, Sarkis has teamed up with writer Frédéric Boyer and theatre director Jean-Baptiste Sastre to stage his installation in the garden and courtyard of the Grande Mosquée…

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La Bûcherie - 15 rue de la Bûcherie 75005 Paris. Métro Odéon, Saint-michel, Cluny la Sorbonne, Maubert-Mutualité. RER Saint-Michel Notre-Dame. Bus 21, 24, 27, 38, 47…

Gilles Barbier
L’ivrogne
Sculpture
For the Nuit Blanche, “L’Ivrogne” (The Drunkard, 1999-2000), a highlight of the MAC/VAL collection, is on display in the former dissection room of La Bûcherie. The kneeling dummy, a clone of the artist, appears to be overwhelmed by a torrent of thoughts that unfurl in a huge whirlpool sweeping along a stream of ill-assorted objects…

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Eglise Saint-Séverin (accès rue des prêtres Saint Séverin) - 1, rue des prêtres-Saint-Séverin 75005 Paris. Métro Odéon, Saint-Michel, Cluny la Sorbonne, Maubert-Mutualité. RER Saint-Michel Notre-dame. Bus 21, 24, 27, 38, 47, 63, 85, 86, 87, 96, 470

Janet Cardiff
The Forty-Part Motet
Installation sonore
Forty loudspeakers arranged in a semi-circle within the Gothic Saint-Séverin church each transmit one voice singing Thomas Tallis’s 1573 choral work Spem in Alium…

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