Ars Nomadis is a non-profit collective of artists based in Rennes (Brittany, France) which specializes in musical and sound creation in public spaces. Since 2016, Ars Nomadis has been creating site-specific installations, concerts and soundwalks, systematically involving local residents in the creative process.
Its artistic projects are imagined as « meeting processes » connecting artists, inhabitants and actors of civil society. Each project is a site specific experimentation involving local partners. These artistic creations are long-term project, spanning over several years. With participative and site-specific works, Ars Nomadis questions the uses of public space and tries to go beyond the frontiers, by provoking encounters betwenn different cultures.
Ars Nomadis also develop international artistic cooperation projects, like in Morocco where the collective has collaborated with a street theatre company since 2009, the Théâtre Nomade of Mohammed El Hassouni. In Rabat and Casablanca they created several artistic exchanges with European partners, and also created a mobile library in partnership with the Moroccan Ministry of Culture. The project « Casa-Rennes » (2019-2021) resulted in a theatre creation (2021).
Ars Nomadis has also a research activity in partnership with universities. Its main theme of research is art, public space and smart city. Antoine Beaufort participated in different seminars and international symposium, and had been involved in the implementation of a new graduate school, “Creative Approaches of Public Space”, with the French University of Rennes 2 in partnership with the Ecole européenne d’art de Bretagne – EESAB – European academy of art in Brittany and the Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Bretagne – ENSAB – Brittany national college of architecture and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique – CNRS – National centre for scientific research.
Ars Nomadis is a NGO, founded in 2008 in Vannes (France)