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Clichycago is a new initiative that aims to weave a strong link between urban peripheries from the South Side of Chicago and the Parisian suburb of Clichy-Montfermeil. Born of a desire to bring these two spaces together and to support the encounter between the people who shape them, Clichycago is a platform for exchange and experimentation. It constitutes a unique space-time, a third place where the voices and ideas of those who live, work and think in working-class neighborhoods and on the outskirts of the city mingle.

To inaugurate this sharing of energies and ideas, and to initiate a fruitful and multifaceted dialogue, an original program of seven consecutive hours, equal to the time difference between Chicago and Clichy-sous-Bois/Montfermeil, will be broadcast online on June 26, on the website of the Ateliers Médicis as well as at the Hyde Park Art Center and the Ateliers Médicis, in Clichy-Montfermeil.

Alexandria Eregbu is a multimedia artist, writer, and educator whose practice draws from material histories, lived experiences, and her own imagination to deepen her connectivity to the natural world.

The Ateliers Médicis offers carte blanche to a number of artists, exploring and experimenting, with their diverse points of view, different perspectives, all taking place inside the universe of the internet. A series of new commissions are shared here on our screens, and they are or were available for viewing for several days.

In 2011, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication purchased the Utrillo tower situated between the towns of Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil. The aim of the town halls of these two locations, as it is the case for the Ministry, is to set up a world-renowned artists’ residence at the heart of such districts labeled as ‘‘priority zones’’ in a highly stigmatized area, particularly following the social conflicts of 2005. The State and its territorial partners have committed to designing, building and utilizing new wide-scale cultural facilities, to open in 2024.

Our website is now available in English!

English speakers can now access a few pages of our website and discover the main activities that the Ateliers Médicis develop locally, in Clichy-sous-Bois/Montfermeil, as well as nationally and internationally.

MMIRI: Origin Stories is a cautionary tale about what happens when we fail to recall our beginnings and allow for our creative faculties to be co-opted. The film introduces us to the central conflict of young artist Nnenna and her quest to relearn and regenerate a new perspective of her African-American heritage. Nnenna is a first-generation Nigerian-American woman who has recently come to terms with the emotional discomfort she's endured from a lack of knowledge of her African history.

Zakkiyyah Najeebah Dumas O’neal is a Chicago based visual artist, educator, and independent curator. She makes work to further understand how the specificity of her own lived experiences are connected to historical and contemporary movements that involve embodied knowledge production. She explores this through social portraiture, video assemblage, collage, drawing, and found images. She seeks to reinforce a different kind of gaze (and gazing) which she processes through empathy, desire, love, queer identity, family, intimacy, illegibility, and poetics.

who all elsewhere is a thread of loose thoughts, audio files, and featured visual art practices organized by Zakkiyyah Najeebah Dumas-O’Neal for Ateliers Médicis’ online exhibition space,