TAKE OFF - monumental installation

In situ installation TAKE OFF programming In / Chalon dans le Rue 2024 / Photo: Michel Wiart

TAKE OFF

Since 2023

- TAKE OFF #0 / January 13, 2023 / Culot 13, Marseille > "Cartouche"

- TAKE OFF #1/ February 3 to 5, 2023 / Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris

- TAKE OFF #2 / May 13, 2023 / Auberge des Femmes / Marseille

- TAKE OFF #3 / June 8, 2023 / Spectacular summer, Saint Martin les Eaux

- TAKE OFF #4 / July 7, 2023 / GERM / La Base, Marseille,

- TAKE OFF #5 / July 19-22, 2023 / Chalon dans la rue Festival

- TAKE OFF #6 / August 20, 2023 / Sri Lanka

- TAKE OFF #7 / September 1, 2023 / ON AIR - rooftop terrace of La Friche de la Belle de Mai - Programming Kubilai Khan Investigations.

- TAKE OFF #8 / September 16 and 17, 2023 / Constellations Festival, Toulon

- ITAKE OFF #9 / October 8, 2023 / Arto / Natural History Museum / the Quai des Savoirs / the Reynerie and Alban Minville neighborhood cultural centers, Toulouse

- TAKE OFF #10 / November 10, 2023 Le Maillon - National Stage, Strasbourg

- TAKE OFF#11 / November 16, 2023 / Artscape / Cape Town / South Africa / ERASMUS PLUS K2 cooperation project led by Samba Résille, France - Belgium - Sweden - South Africa.

- TAKE OFF #12 / March 10, 2024 / 11:30 am / Chalon-sur-Saône / programmed as part of the Chalon dans la rue festival

- TAKE OFF #13 / March 11-15, 2024 / Chalon-sur-Saône / programmed as part of the Chalon dans la rue festival

- TAKE OFF #14 / April 3 to 6, 2024 / LAB GAMERZ / AIX /

- TAKE OFF #15 / April 8-12, 2024 / Chalon-sur-Saône / programmed as part of the Chalon dans la rue festival

- TAKE OFF #16 / April 15-19, 2024 / Transfestival Passage / Metz

- TAKE OFF #17 / May 13-17, 2024 / Transfestival Passage / Metz

- TAKE OFF #18 / May 27-31, 2024 / Chalon-sur-Saône / programmed as part of the Chalon dans la rue festival

- TAKE OFF #19 / July 10-13, 2024 / programmed as part of the Chalon dans la rue festival

- TAKE OFF #20 / August 8-11, 2024 / Nyon / Far /

- TAKE OFF #21 / May 20-25, 2025 / Onze Bouge Festival / Paris

- TAKE OFF #22 / June 7-14, 2025 / Aygalades Festival / Marseille

- TAKE OFF #23 / August 4-6, 2025 / Castrum Festival / Switzerland

- TAKE OFF #24 / March / April / May 2026 / Les Vans - Ardèche

-TAKE OFF #25 / May 2026 / Public Objects / Massy

-TAKE OFF #26 / September to June / Marseille / “cultural action and French language”

- TAKE OFF #27 / February 2027 / Brétigny Theatre

- TAKE OFF #28 / September 2027 / China Tour / Artbirds / option

Touring in progress: enciedupolymorphe@gmail.com / gestion.lepolymorphe@gmail.com

FR 2025 FILE

TAKE OFF is an artistic installation in public space.

It is also a collection of extraordinary stories gathered in situ.

Immense birds, fabulous and formidable crows, unfold across public space.

These female birds tell us stories, both real and fictional, of openings and ruptures, of joyful and victorious struggles, of survival, territories and space.

They celebrate and bring to life our own stories of taking flight, as well as those of our sisters, mothers and grandmothers.

Stories gathered in situ, transformed and woven into the installation itself.

Here, these immense crows become messengers of the invisible: fluorescent anti-monuments, charged with stories of taking flight.

Through these monumental collages, visual artist Maëva Longvert explores territory and public space. The approach behind TAKE OFF draws inspiration from Habiter en oiseau (Inhabiting as a Bird), a book in which philosopher Vinciane Despret reveals how the ways these species live can inspire us to imagine other ways of being in the world.

If we are willing to listen, birds speak to us of collective strategies, embodied and sensitive intelligence, protection, traps outwitted, joy, play and escape through the sky.

For TAKE OFF, Stève Romani-Soccoro contributes to and deepens the reflection on the inclusion of marginalised people, notably through the collection and storytelling of narratives of resistance. Their perspective and experience help shape the project and inform its political and social dimensions.

Maëva Longvert develops the project alongside Samira Boukhnous, who collaborates on its writing, and Audrey Gary, Marianne Masson and Quelen Lamouroux, who contribute to its choreographic composition.

This collective process brings together storytelling, writing, performance and installation to create a monumental artistic experience.

Co-produced by
DRAC PACA / Creation Grant
LES SUBS
Latitude50
Erasmus+
Samba Résille

Supported by
Cifas
Le Pôle Nord
CNAREP Abattoir / Chalon dans la rue