Présentation

                 LEPETITFESTIVAL has been initiated as an alternative to institutional places for artist’s work and exchange. Conceived and curated as a festival of experimentation by choreographer, dancer and mulimedia artist Joao Costa Espinho, it aims to propose alternative space and time for artists to meet, share, be together, out of any production implications. This way of sharing space and time seeks to offer conditions for the artists to propose any situations in relation to what they need in that particular moment: a kind of interactive Carte Blanche to each artist invited or that joins the group.

                  LEPETITFESTIVAL alternates moments of discussion around a table ; performative practices ; art installation as well as video and dance among other mediums. It installs a way of networking in real time, sharing processing and methods ; ideas and concepts in interaction with the momental conditions and presence of people, as a both intimate and open moment for discovery of other artist’s work. This makes LEPETITFESTIVAL a rare occasion of sharing experience, open to the risk of the human and artistic condition of each moment and contextual contingency. Under curatorship of Joao Costa Espinho , the first editions of LEPETITFESTIVAL, organized in the Salabranca Lab house-studio in Paris, have been focusing on the work of Women Artists from Portugal and all around the world. Each edition proposes a specific format, in relation to the local context and the local artists which will be part of the festival. LEPETITFESTIVAL does not benefit from any financial support; its existence is due to the involvement of its curator; its success due each time thanks to the rare combination of artists together and its shared context. LEPETITFESTIVAL now ambitions to disseminate with editions in other cities and contexts. The latest one is organized in the Maison du Portugal, in Paris, from the 02nd to the 04th of november 2018.