PLATEAUX

PLATEAUX — Festival nomade et transdisciplinaire. A temporary landscape of tensions, desires, and reconfigurations PLATEAUX is a nomadic and transdisciplinary festival unfolding over ten uninterrupted hours. It brings together performances, installations, readings, concerts, and screenings in spaces that are themselves in transformation. Each edition is a living composition, where the temporal intensity and spatial instability of the event create a terrain of friction, resonance, and drift. The festival doesn't settle — it moves, it unsettles, and it opens. Rooted in the port city of Marseille, PLATEAUX draws from the complex dynamics of port infrastructures — places of passage and rupture, where the visible and the invisible, the logistical and the poetic, coexist and clash. The port is not only a site of circulation; it is a matrix of histories and futures, a space of control and memory, of extraction and reinvention. In this layered geography, the festival acts as an ephemeral interface, tracing lines of flight between bodies, narratives, technologies, and territories. PLATEAUX takes place in unconventional, non-dedicated venues — warehouses, in-between zones, urban voids, and architectural interstices. These are not neutral backdrops, but active sites that shape the experience and meaning of the works. Each location is approached as a dramaturgical partner: it is sacralized, disturbed, reframed. The scenography emerges in dialogue with the place, creating zones of intensity and latency, of emergence and withdrawal. This edition continues to center practices from the South — artists whose work engages with forms of displacement, survival, memory, speculation, and resistance. Through them, PLATEAUX questions dominant narratives and opens spaces for other ways of sensing, remembering, and becoming. The festival is both a container and a rupture: it holds multiplicity without neutralizing it, and confronts aesthetic experimentation with political urgency. As a living laboratory, PLATEAUX explores the porous boundaries between the body, the machine, and the environment. It is a space where archives are not preserved but reactivated, where fiction and documentary, choreography and sound, analog and digital, all coexist and contaminate each other. Time itself becomes elastic: durational works, fleeting encounters, and immersive experiences intersect, inviting the audience to compose their own path — guided not by a program, but by drift, encounter, and desire. PLATEAUX is not simply an event to attend, but a space to inhabit — briefly, intensely, collectively. It invites us to reimagine how we move through the world, how we relate to spaces and to each other, and how we might build narratives that resist capture. Here, the festival becomes a political and poetic gesture: one that listens, opens, and unsettles.