Paris Live Art Tour 10
curated by CaiQing
jointly supported by Rue Française plateforme creative pour le’art (10-14 Oct)
and extending into public space interventions across Paris, Fontainebleau, and Art Basel at the Grand Palais.
10-25 October, 2025
I am urged by a curiosity to compare and contrast the social pathways between public spaces and landmarks, and internal spaces in buildings across Australian and international sociocultural landscapes; to open up the potential and increase my capacity for mapping performance trajectories with a more intimate geo-social relationship. The hope is to chance upon accidental performance ideas and situational intersections, which disrupt prescriptive spatial and compositional boundaries. The practice underscoring the Paris project is rooted in an awareness of how much physical reality and personal narratives dynamically interweave. Traversing these spaces, we carry within us past experiences—fragments of memory and preconceptions merge with the present moment. This melding can perhaps challenge each engagement into a dialogic performance between the self, materiality in human culture, the space and place.
The Paris Live Art Tour 10 provides a platform for exploring the transformational potential of devising dynamic and social participatory performance-installations within urban sites, which plays between the thresholds of public, outdoor and private indoor domains. This investigative framework allows me to explore how the history and memory of a body and a place converge, and how we may attempt to embrace what we experience of a place, beyond what we merely perceive to be relevant.
