Announcing the fifth edition of the Do Disturb Festival

Thanks to its success over the past few years, Do Disturb, the festival of performance art at Palais de Tokyo, returns for its fifth edition, which will take place on the April 12, 13 and 14, 2019.

The previous editions brought together over 200 French and international projects, some of which were shown for the first time in Paris.

Conceived as a moment of exploration through the unmarked territories of contemporary creation, Do Disturb reveals new and unexpected performative practices, at the crossroads between disciplines. The festival is also a platform for exchanges with a national and international network of artists and places of creation. For the first time, a series of Talks will be organised, involving participants at the festival with other specially invited professionals. As a space for experimentation, this edition will thus offer a panorama of more theoretical questions.

Every year since the creation of Do Disturb, invitations are put out to other art centres, festivals, artist-run spaces or schools in Europe and worldwide. After Tate Modern or Moma PS1 in 2015, Actoral or Dias da Dança in 2017, the Hayward Gallery or A4 Arts Foundation in 2018, this year, Palais de Tokyo has chosen to welcome independent and multidisciplinary spaces, which form laboratories of research and creation. Palais de Tokyo’s programme will thus be associated with propositions coming from Centrale Fies, a centre of residences and production for the performance arts in a power plant in Dro, Italy; Triangle France, an non-profit devoted to numerous contemporary artistic scenes, via exhibitions and residencies, in Marseille; BAR Project, a curatorial platform based in Barcelona,  devoted to the promotion of artistic exchanges through residencies and international collaborations; Gasworks London, a non-profit contemporary art body whose vocation is to allow emergent artists to put on their first exhibitions thanks to a programme of international residencies, the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles as an example of a successful multidisciplinary and innovative programming in Paris; The Watermill Center, an interdisciplinary laboratory founded by artist and stage director Robert Wilson and the CND (National Centre of Dance), a centre of art for dance which centralizes resources to support professional dance but also engage in projects for the general public. Boiler Room will also be invited both by day and night to offer a video, musical and performative programme, via its new platform 4:3 devoted to alternative cultures.

Curator of the festival: Vittoria Matarrese

With:
Jimmy Beauquesne / Mehdi Besnainou / Melanie Bonajo / Claude Cattelain / Mercedes Dassy / Matty Davis & Ben Gould / Dewey Dell / Ophélie Demurger / Lacey Dorn / Hoël Duret / Caz Egelie / Arthur Eskenazi / Ingri Fiksdal / Gery Georgieva / Miles Greenberg / Kristin Helgebostad / I FIGLI DI MARLA / Jacopo Jenna / Nile Koetting / La Horde / Reza Mirabi / Catarina Miranda / Delphine Roche / Sara Sadik / Victoria Sin & Shy one / Yoan Sorin / Harley Swedler / Koichiro Tamura

Boiler Room’s projections:
Bixa Travesty (aka Tranny Fag), 2018 / SHAKEDOWN, Leilah Weinraub (Hood By Air), 2018 / NSFW, 2019, five short films of Brooke Candy, Sarah Nicole Francois and others
Commissioned by 4:3, 2019

Full programme and tickets at www.palaisdetokyo.com

Do Disturb:
Friday, April 12: 6pm–12am
Saturday, April 13: 4pm–12am + at the YOYO club from 11pm to 6am
Sunday, April 14: 2pm–6pm

During the festival, the entrance ticket to Do Disturb also provides entrance to the current exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo:
Theaster Gates / Julien Creuzet / Angelica Mesiti / Louis-Cyprien Rials avec Ramon Film Productions / Antwan Horfee / Julio Le Parc / Julius Von Bismarck / Franck Scurti / La voix libérée - Poésie sonore 

Upcoming at Palais de Tokyo:
June 21-September 9, 2019
Prince.sse.s Des Villes