THE EXPERIMENTAL CONTEMPORARY ART STATION
– ITINERANT ARTISTIC INCUBATOR –

Co-founded in 2021 and directed by artists and curators Caroline Bravo and Sandrine Follère, the Station Expérimentale d'art contemporain (Experimental Contemporary Art Station) is an itinerant incubator (Paris & regions). Conceived as a living laboratory, it explores the border zones between art, critical thinking, and societal engagement.

Like a free satellite, the Station Expérimentale d'art contemporain settles in diverse locations — art centers, wastelands, institutions, alternative spaces — to activate hybrid artistic forms: manifesto-exhibitions, performative evenings, experimental workshops, cycles of collective reflection. It serves as the incubator for the Hey Mummy! Project, exhibition-event cycles, a flagship initiative on transgenerational transmissions, feminist struggles, collective memory, and invisible resistances.

Committed to major civilizational issues, the Experimental Contemporary Art Station builds bridges between the humanities, contemporary creation, and cultural activism, with the aim of breaking down disciplinary boundaries and perspectives. As a true station of societal observation, it strives to question the challenges of our time: ecological collapse, cultural mutations, traumatic memories, emerging futures, and the reconfiguration of human relationships.

It is a space of research in motion, a point of creative boiling, an artistic response to the urgency of the world.

La Station Expérimentale d'art contemporain est portée depuis 2022 par l'association OOps! A.C.C., organisme œuvrant pour le soutien à l'art contemporain et la culture.

Elle compte parmi ses partenaires le L.A.P. (Laboratoire des Arts de la Performance), Culture Soudée, The Window (Laboratoire d’expérimentation artistique en milieu urbain), la maison d'édition Anamosa et la revue Sensibilités. Histoire, critique & sciences sociales qu'elle publie.

/// HYBRID FORMAT /// 2024 INSENSIBILITES (INSENSITIVITIES)

Le Générateur hosted the evening event "Insensibilités", curated by Caroline Bravo and Sandrine Follère, in partnership with the journal Sensibilités. Histoire, critique & sciences sociales.
This event combined artistic performances and discussions around the journal’s 11ᵗʰ issue, titled "Insensibilités".

Performances:

"Moi Je, ou l’espèce fabulatrice" (I Myself, or the Fabulating Species) by Nour Awada
"La porte" (The door) by Caroline Bravo
"Novem" by Sandrine Follère
"L’image manquante" (The Missing Image) by Julie Genelin
"Expirer" (To Exhale), a collective performance directed by Caroline Bravo and Sandrine Follère

Historian Anouche Kunth, a member of the journal’s editorial board, presented this new issue along with her book Au bord de l’effacement. Sur les pas d’exilés arméniens dans l’entre-deux-guerres (On the Verge of Erasure: Tracing Armenian Exiles in the Interwar Period). (La Découverte Editions ).

The evening explored themes such as anesthesia, indifference, and erasure, in connection with contemporary societal issues.

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/// HEY MUMMY PROJECT ///
EXHIBITION-EVENT CYCLES

HEY MUMMY PROJECT is an artistic and societal project founded by Caroline Bravo and Sandrine Follère, questioning transgenerational transmission. Through contemporary art exhibitions, performances, interventions, roundtables, and literary evenings, the project explores intimate and collective memories, inherited silences, patriarchal constraints, and feminine resistances. Conceived as an evolving manifesto, HEY MUMMY PROJECT weaves connections between art, the humanities, and feminist commitment, resonating deeply with current societal issues.

OPUS:
OPUS 1 – 2021 – i.e. XX CHROMOSOMES
OPUS 2 – 2022 – 15 artists on female transgenerational transmission
OPUS 3 – 2024 – QUID ABOUT SEXISM IN SPORTS?
OPUS 4 – 2025 – Hey Mummy and the Patriarchy: the necessary societal awakening!

HEY MUMMY! Project brings together a broad network of partners from the worlds of contemporary art, publishing, human sciences, and feminist activism. It is supported by institutions and cultural venues such as 59 Rivoli, City of Paris, The Window, Be-Jazzy, and Be-Cosmo. The project also collaborates with committed collectives and initiatives such as L.A.P. (Laboratoire des Arts de la Performance), PassionariArt, [Re]production, Art Prise, Les Cyclées, and Cercle Chromatique.

On the publishing side, it benefits from the support of publishers and journals such as Éditions Anamosa (Sensibilités journal), Grasset, Payot, Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre, and the feminist media outlet Causette.

Together, these partners allow the HEY MUMMY! Project to deliver a rich, transversal program deeply rooted in contemporary artistic and societal issues.

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/// ARTISTIC EXPERIMENTATION WORKSHOPS ///

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ELASTICITY

Contraction / release • tension / relaxation • awareness & resilience • overadaptation • mental load • contortion • brain plasticity • still flexibility • mobility / immobility • distance & relation to the other • elasticity of time

"From time to time he stops chewing his gum, slightly parts his lips and blows a bubble.
The green bubble swells, stretches, then bursts with a sharp snap.
That’s what we call bubble gum."
— Le Clézio, Les Géants (1973)

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TO BRANCH OFF

"A sudden illumination sometimes seems to alter a destiny.
But illumination is nothing more than the Spirit’s sudden vision of a path slowly prepared."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [1900–1944], Flight to Arras (Pilote de guerre, 1942)

"Never ask your way from someone who knows it.
You might miss the chance to get lost."
— Rabbi Nachman of Breslov [1772–1810]

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