Axis 1 seminar. The Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad: sport and art take centre stage.

In collaboration with the Observatoire des publics et pratiques de la culture (Observatory of cultural audiences and practices) and the cross-disciplinary 'Urban Studies' unit.

Friday 24th May 2024, 9.30am-12pm, PAF Room MMSH (5 rue du Chateau de l'Horloge, 13090 Aix-en-Provence)

The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the issues and effects of the Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad, whose programme aims to create links between art and sport. The initial results of the survey carried out in Ile-de-France and Marseilles shed light on the way in which the various players are taking hold of this event, associating it with a variety of objectives ranging from broadening audiences to media visibility. By looking in particular at the way in which the Cultural Olympiad engages the 'participation' of local residents, we will show that the art-sport encounter analysed here is an opportunity to question the way in which their respective audiences are conceived, and even worked on.

Marine CordierProfessor at Paris Nanterre, Institutions and Historical Dynamics of the Economy and Society Laboratory, IDHE.S (UMR 8533).
Magali SizornProfessor at the University of Rouen, UR Centre d'Etudes des Transformations des Activités Physiques et Sportives (EA 3832).

Programme

9.30 a.m. to 10 a.m.. Introduction to the latest work by members of Axis 1 and the cross-disciplinary Urban Studies Axis.

10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.. Sylvia Girel, Maria Elena Buslacchi. Presentation of the Publics project and the Observatory's survey on the Cultural Olympiads.

10.30am-11.30am. Marine Cordier, Magali Sizorn (videoconference). The Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad: sport and art take centre stage

11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.. Discussion - moderated by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou from the "Urban Studies" cross-disciplinary group.