THE CARTES DU CORPS/BODY MAPS PROJECT

The project is now in its 9th year of activity, between France and South Africa.

Begun in 2008 for the exhibition “Mapping Cultural Echoes” of the Voyage Ensemble, a Journey Together group (Scalabrini Centre for refugees, Cape Town, www.scalabrini.org.za) at the "Harare International Festival of the Arts" in Zimbabwe, the Body Maps project gave rise to a series of workshops and exhibitions in 2009 and 2010 of works created by users of the Scalabrini Center who had been victims of xenophobic attacks.

The works were exhibited in Graulhet as part of “Femmes de Mars” in 2008 and served as the point of departure for the Cartes du Corps project, centered on issues of identity - a project developed since 2009 in the French town of Graulhet with the support of the town and the region.

Noteworthy among the exhibitions of the works between 2009 and 2016 : “Tangible, Invisible”, at Cape Town Library, “Femmes de Mars” 2010 and 2013 and “Traversées Africaines 2014” in Graulhet, Tarn “Unite Africa” at the Centre d’art les Mazades in Toulouse and at the Scalabrini Center in Cape Town, AMKA / AWAKE ! 2013 - 2016 at the Scalabrini Center in Cape Town,  Artistes en Bien-être, Forum de Graulhet, March 2016 , Colis Suspects "ça collectif en liberté !" ACAC Graulhet - Tarn, June 2016.

In 2013, Association 1,2,3 Les Timides received funding through the Local Cultural Contract program of the city of Graulhet for the production of a manual (“Manuel Pratique des Cartes du Corps”), a tool for research and sharing aimed at participants and the general public as well as providing guidance for practitioners.

The Body Map project “Wealth Inside, Body Mapping” was selected for participation in the Kampala Biennale in August 2014.

Clients of the Scalabrini Center are offered  regular series of  art-therapy workshops since 2013 as part of the AMKA/EVEIL programme.

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