The National Mission for Art and Culture in the Public Space (MNACEP) carries within it a strong and unprecedented political commitment, that of promoting the place of art and culture in the public space and promoting the meeting of all audiences with creation.
Our society is experiencing profound sociological and urban changes. As our lifestyles change, as a result of new forms of mobility, work and relationships with each other, the public space is a place of encounters and exchanges that developers take to redesign urban landscapes and rural territories. It is also a framework of expression in its own right for artists and cultural institutions. Art is already very present in the territories, as evidenced by the effervescence of street arts, the richness of the plastic works created within the framework of the 1% artistic and public commission or the valorization of the heritage.
With the creation of the MNACEP, Aurélie Filippetti wishes to provide artists, cultural professionals and all those who design the spaces of our daily life (mayors and public decision makers, designers, urban planners, architects, landscapers...) with a real tool of work, exchanges and proposals, to affirm this place and this fundamental role that art has in society.
By combining interdepartmental competences of the State and local and regional authorities and creative professions, it is a question of:
- to initiate a dialogue and construction process with the field actors and professionals;
- recognize and take into account the multiplication and diversity of artistic and cultural interventions outside the walls;
- develop and sustain these initiatives;
- to favour decompartmentalization and multidisciplinary approaches.
This platform of reflection, grappling with the realities of the field, will be embodied in a laboratory of ideas charged with facilitating and strengthening the presence of arts and artists at the heart of the public space but also to imagine new forms of interventions. The work of the MNACEP will focus on the identification and promotion of existing actions, the proposal of new modalities of meetings and crossings between the artistic and cultural sectors, professionals and institutions, but also the recommendation of tools, operating methods and regulations, more adapted to the demands of the field.
To carry out this Mission, Aurélie Filippetti entrusted his Presidency to Jean Blaise, Director of Travel in Nantes, who is behind major operations such as Les Allumées and Estuaire. He will be accompanied by Karine Gloanec-Maurin, President of the Culture Commission of the Association des Régions de France and Vice-President of the Centre Region and Jean-Paul Bret, Mayor of Villeurbanne: two representatives of both rural and urban territorial realities.
The association HorsLesMurs, Centre national de ressources des arts de la rue et des arts du cirque, will coordinate the meetings bringing together all the actors concerned (State, local authorities and professionals in the sector). The Mission will produce an annual report submitted by its President to the Minister of Culture and Communication.
On the occasion of the launch of MNACEP, Atlasmuseum, thedigital atlas of works of art in public space, is put online. It is run by the association A-Pack, under the direction of Virginie Pringuet, in partnership with the multimedia agency Fiat Lux, Rennes 1 and Rennes 2 Universities and IRISA. It is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Communication. A mobile version will be available in September 2014.