Events

Figure émergente de la scène indépendante new-yorkaise, Dagmar Zuniga compose une musique intime et énigmatique, où harmonies vocales, souffle analogique et textures lo-fi se mêlent dans des chansons qui semblent surgir d'un autre temps. Enregistré sur un magnétophone quatre pistes au fil de plusieurs années, son premier album in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music a suscité un engouement immédiat, porté par sa capacité à faire coexister fragilité, mysticisme et puissance.
 
Le compositeur et saxophoniste japonais Yasuaki Shimizu, acteur majeur de la musique expérimentale depuis les années 1970, poursuit depuis plusieurs décennies une œuvre d'une liberté rare. Entre jazz, musique électronique, minimalisme et musique classique, il a collaboré avec des artistes aussi divers que Ryuichi Sakamoto, Helen Merrill ou Towa Tei, tout en développant une écriture profondément personnelle. Ses réinterprétations des Suites pour violoncelle de Bach au saxophone ténor, enregistrées dans des lieux à forte résonance acoustique, traduisent une attention particulière portée à l'espace et à l'écoute comme expérience physique. Dans ce tout nouveau live, Yasuaki est accompagné de sa soeur Mieko Shimizu.

Les Others are launching the 22nd volume of their magazine, as well as the first edition of their short film festival. An evening of screenings offering the chance to discover unique films that offer a fresh perspective on living things and landscapes.
This 22nd volume of Les Others is an invitation to poetic engagement. It creates a dialogue between major activist struggles and more subtle gestures, from the destruction of a dam to the observation of clouds. From the political to the personal, from the collective to the individual, this issue explores what links our struggles to the way we inhabit the world.
Since its inception, Les Others has sought to capture the unique emotion evoked by the great outdoors, not as a stage for performance, but as a source of culture and creativity. With this first edition of the Les Others Film Festival, the magazine extends this approach through a selection of documentaries and poetic fiction films that offer unique ways of understanding our relationship with nature.
At 9.00pm, three short films are screened:


Haulout (2022), Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev
On a remote stretch of the Siberian Arctic coastline, a man waits in a windswept hut for the annual gathering of walruses. But warming seas and rising temperatures are disrupting this natural phenomenon, revealing the impact of climate change on their habitat.

La Traversée Sagittaire (2026), Raphaëlle Damilano
During a mountaineering expedition in the Himalayas with her father and uncle, Raphaëlle Damilano sets out to climb a peak over 6,000 metres high. Following the death of her grandfather during the trip, she revisits the footage of this journey to explore her relationship with family, identity and what drives us to climb mountains.

Hivernage, Pierre-Antoine Amilhat
Invited by wildlife photographer Jérémie Villet, a young filmmaker travels to Japan to join him on an impromptu road trip through the snow-covered landscapes of the island of Hokkaido. He films Jérémie as he pursues his photographic quest, amidst silent hides, unexpected encounters and aimless journeys. As the journey unfolds, he discovers an elusive character, driven by an irrepressible need for movement and observation, and gradually allows himself to be swept up in his winter wanderings, without really knowing where they will lead them.

To mark the occasion, Lafayette Anticipations is hosting the live recording of an episode featuring Vincent Baranger and Anthony Lebossé, partner designers and co-founders of Studio 5•5.
As pioneers of circular design, they have spent more than twenty years exploring new ways of designing objects and spaces, prioritising the transformation of existing elements and the reuse of materials.
RE!, the podcast covering all things ‘re’ in design: from building refurbishment to material recycling, including repair and reuse. Across its first season of six episodes, the series gives a voice to architects and designers as they share their experiences and help listeners understand the new practices within the design professions.

Through their diverse approaches, the panellists share their experiences and reflections on transforming existing structures, the potential of materials, and new ways of designing and building in the face of environmental challenges.

When she decided to reactivate her father’s YouTube channel, two years after his death, Iman Ahmed had no idea that she would be bringing a lost world back to life. Before her eyes, dozens of videos filmed in the 1990s in Djibouti, the country of her childhood, unfolded. Concerts and music videos in which she discovers, in disbelief, the existence of Dinkara, a legendary Djiboutian pop band whose superstar is called Abdallah. The music is electronic, the ambition immense…

With My Family Archive, Iman Ahmed continues the exploration begun in her novel and examines what these family archives bring to light. In this original production for Lafayette Anticipations, the narrative transforms before our eyes into a tale told through subtle clicks, blending readings and projections. Through this immersion in family and digital memory, a country emerges – Djibouti – along with a vibrant music scene: that of 1990s pop.

The DJ and producer Songo accompanies the performance. A Franco-Djiboutian artist, she fuses house, baile funk and percussion in compositions that are both spellbinding and contemplative. Conceived as an echo of the novel Abdallah Superstar, this immersive production creates a dialogue between literature, archive footage and music, inviting the audience to listen anew to the traces of a vanished world.

In Yu Nishimura’s paintings, human and animal figures appear as if suspended, in the forest or in the city. These beings, captured outside any overt action, invite us to observe what unfolds in stillness, silence or anticipation. Drawing on these images, the discussion explores what affects us without always revealing itself: memories, the traces of an encounter, and bonds that endure in absence.

How can we learn to perceive what we do not notice is there? By bringing together philosophy, art history and everyday experiences, the philosopher Vinciane Despret and the art historian Estelle Zhong Mengual invite us to reconsider what it means to be present, to act and to leave a trace.

Talk in french.

Que font les sciences humaines à l'architecture aujourd'hui ? Comment transforment-elles ses méthodes, ses outils et ses processus, mais aussi les sujets dont s'emparent les architectes ?
 
Cette rencontre explore les circulations entre architecture et sciences humaines à travers trois registres d'emprunts aux études de genre, à l'histoire environnementale et à la pensée de Bruno Latour.
 
Enseignantes et chercheuses, Margaux Darrieus et Léa Mosconi explorent respectivement les discours qui façonnent les pratiques architecturales contemporaines et la place du vivant dans l'architecture. Architecte et éditeur, Galaad Van Daele s'intéresse aux frontières entre nature et culture, tandis que l'historienne de l'architecture Stéphanie Dadour étudie les rapports de pouvoir dans les pratiques de conception et d'aménagement de l'espace. Ensemble, il·elles croisent leurs perspectives sur les dialogues entre disciplines et leurs effets sur la pensée architecturale.
 
Margaux Darrieus et Léa Mosconi ont récemment dirigé Les controverses Bruno Latour, enquête dans les mondes de l'architecture, publié aux Éditions 205 en 2026. 

A leading figure in New York’s literary and activist scene since the 1980s, Sarah Schulman has been exploring the links between writing, collective memory and solidarity for over thirty years.

Over the course of an evening, she reflects on these two dimensions of her work – the novel and the essay – during a discussion with the author and curator Salomé Burstein, offering an insight into how fiction and political thought feed off one another.