All previous editions
Gingins(Switzerland)Thursday 21st June 2018
Medicine-Wheel We invite you to understand the energy of the magic circle by learning how to construct your own Medicine-Wheel in nature. The Medicine-Wheel teaches us about change. We need to get to know ourselves and how we function on the inside, to let...
read moreSaint-Genès-de-Lombaud(France)Saturday 16th September 2017
Resistance The individual and collective resistance of spirits must branch out to support plant and cultural diversity in all places, in the face of a deadly monoculture’s onslaught. José Le Piez Artworks • Autochtones • Sculptures by Mier (France) •...
read moreChamblay(France)Saturday 1st July 2017
All aboard! This sixth edition of Back to the Trees owes as much to constancy as to novelty. Constancy – first of all – in everything represented by the sixth embodiment of this curious enterprise conceived by Lionel Viard as part of the Besançon...
read moreGingins(Switzerland)Saturday 24th June 2017
Medicine-Wheel We invite you to understand the energy of the magic circle by learning how to construct your own Medicine-Wheel in nature. The Medicine-Wheel teaches us about change. We need to get to know ourselves and how we function on the inside, to let...
read moreLa Vieille Loye(France)Saturday 25th June 2016
"Admitting that the roots of art plunge into a magical loam may lead to paths opening towards the distinction of flowers, their enchantments, their spells." Maurice Genevoix, in Images for a Garden without Walls "There can be only two possible...
read moreLa Vieille Loye(France)Saturday 27th June 2015
From the moss to the treetops A return to the forest, to the trees ... What can this "return" mean for artists and an audience, besides the opportunity to savour a few puffs of chlorophyll? Or as the nostalgic expression of the time when Paul Valéry...
read moreBesançon(France)Saturday 24th September 2011
“Back to the trees!” It is with this injunction that – in Roy Lewis’s novel How I ate my father – Uncle Vania exhorts the members of his prehistoric family to spurn technological process, which he considers dangerous for humanity. More recently, it was...
read more