COMMITMENTS

The Contemporaine de Nîmes aims to offer a new model for artistic and cultural events, through the various commitments that have driven its conception and realization: 

• Highlighting a local, regional and national art scene rather than a global one, without forsaking the opportunity to feature artists from all horizons.
• Collaborate with a smaller selection of artists, to ensure better support and more in-depth projects.
• Minimize environmental impact, by promoting eco-design, re-use of artistic productions and no transportation by air or sea for works, artists and teams.
• Present a majority of new creations, conceived in and with the local area.
• Integrate the social and educational dimension into the artistic project, rather than alongside or afterwards.
• Bring together artists from different generations and give them equivalent resources.
• Break down the barriers between artistic disciplines by inviting all fields of creation to take part in the same program.
• Promote an event that is rigorous, accessible, inclusive, generous and popular.
• Imagining a new laboratory for the connections between art, territory and society.