ART FOR CHANGE

Art won't change the world. But it changes people,
and people change the world.

We believe in the power of art and artists to speak to our hearts and imaginations, to paint the unthinkable, to put into music what is speechless. These poets, prophets, researchers, activists unfold the horizon of what is possible.
That’s why, at ChangeNOW, more and more space is given each year to art and cutlure professionals, and to a variety of practices: visual artists, photographers, dancers, musicians…
Thanks to the cultural and financial partners of the ChangeNOW Communities association, we invite them to exhibit, perform and intervene on stage as ambassadors of a sensitive relationship with human and non-human living beings.

An art exhibition

A conference program

A film festival

Take part in the Art for Change Program

MEETINGS

With artists of all practices and cultures, professionals from around the world

RESOURCES

Examples of eco-designed works with minimal environmental impact and immense evocative powers

DISCOVERIES

New ways of looking at the world, and surprising questions raised by artists

SENSATIONS

Interacting with the works and experiencing them in the flesh, to leave ChangeNOW a little different

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The art exhibition is sustainable and circular
in a number of ways

Eco-design

The artworks, the exhibition design and the signage use sustainable or recycled materials.

Eco-production

A cradle-to-cradle (C2C) waste management policy is in place. We also reduce the shipping and transportation footprint throughout the exhibition's life cycle.

Partners Network

Various institutions help us build this circular exhibition, from material sourcing to post-exhibition management (works are sold, re-exhibited or recycled).

Education

The themes addressed in the exhibition are the subject of an open conversation with all our stakeholders, including suppliers, sponsors, partners and the public, through guided tours, learning expeditions (LEX) and workshops.

Past installations include

Voiles Lumière

Inspired by circumnavigation and designed using the recycled main sail from skipper Romain Pilliard (Use It Again!), Voiles Lumière is a sensory invitation to embark on a voyage towards less linear, more circular models.

ChangeNOW brought together artists and designers Myriam Le Pihive and Alice Bleton to create a four-handed, monumental and immersive space. They explored the sensory relationship with space through the language of colour, the interplay of volumes, tensions and balances, to evoke energies and the subtle relationships between objects and beings, humans and nature.

Esohpromatém by Rachel Marks

Created by Rachel Marks for ChangeNOW 2020 at the Grand Palais, ESOHPROMATÉM, the French word for Metamorphosis spelled backwards, is an installation created entirely from books and paper that elicit diversity and change within nature and humanity. The public was invited to reflect on their place within nature by entering the trunk of the tree. Here they wrote a promise to nature that was then folded into a cocoon. Each cocoon was placed in the tree with other promises in hopes that as a community we can metamorphose and become a reality.

The Tree of Light by ONYO

The Tree of Light is an immersive experience created by ONYO, a 3D-sound collective ritual to reconnect with other species. The audience took part in a sensory work that awakens the senses as much as it awakens consciousness. Without a screen, spectators were surprised by the power of sound and the power of their imagination. By combining art, ecology and well-being, the authors wish to show that ecology is above all an opportunity to rethink ourselves as a society and live in a peaceful world.

Météolithes by Caroline Desnoëttes

Presented in the Circular Economy zone at ChangeNOW 2022, Météolithes is a monumental work by artist Caroline Desnoëttes in anthropocite (a stone made of waste, invented by Néolithe). The artist met the startup Néolithe at ChangeNOW 2020 and they partnered to create the artwork, funded by a patron: Trio-Greenwishes. The work is a mirror and visual interlace between the natural circular economy and the imperfect human one.

The Wall of Change par Tim Zdey, 2022

Created live over 3 days during ChangeNOW 2022, The Wall of Change was transformed from a blank canvas to a live giant wall painting as people committed to more sustainable behaviors. More than 670 participants committed to reducing their impact on the planet around four themes: ocean, food, fashion, and energy.

It has since been reused 4 times, making it an emblem of circular scenography at ChangeNOW.