Micr’home by Myrtille Drouet is a reflection and experiment of how to live
in the interstices of urban spaces. It is part of the first editions of
“Le Voyage á Nantes”,a summer arts event in the city of Nantes that offers
an agenda for two months full of events, exhibitions, installations, and
other arts/tourism related events from July till September and transforms
the city into a “arts hall”.
The agenda is transformed into a map with the location of each installation/event.
The connection is the “green line” that you can follow on its sidewalks and
takes you to visit the different installations, from past years’ to current
summer commissions. It is an interesting proposal reflecting of the meaning
of arts exhibitions and the dialogue between the actual installations, its locations
(in this case the different neighborhoods of Nantes), past pieces with new ones,
and the visitor-tourist-pedestrian-city inhabitant. For two months the locals
must co-live with their city converted into a huge exhibition space and the
effects of that transformation. It can also be a refreshing way to live your city
and encourage curiosity to discover and experience your city in new ways.
It can be experienced as both, a sort of arts and urban geography experiment.
Works preparation are on progress in previous months and they are unveiled
at the opening in the first days of July