"L’Art Rue is an open-air experimental laboratory designed to question our societies in the present day, by bringing together citizens, artists, politicians and researchers or academics."
Sofiane, co-founder of l’Art Rue
“The Medina context was chosen [for the Slash Transition project because] it's an environment in transformation: gentrification, social mixing too. It's undergoing a transformation between tradition and modernity. It's up to you to imagine in terms of sound experimentation how rich it is for an artist to explore these avenues.”
Hedi, cultural consultant and teacher
“What's interesting is to question the meeting space, and Larie presented all these elements through their approach to thinking about music and sound [...]. What interested us about they was their multivision, based on sociology and anthropology. They are deeply rooted in this way of producing a different kind of music and sound composition approach. The idea is not to make music, but to ask : what is music today?”
Sofiane, co-founder of l’Art Rue
“What can we bring to the city together ? How can this artist, as an extension of our thinking, [...] challenge our way of doing things ?”
“Larie asked me to write a poem in Tunisian Arabic about the medina. At first, I only saw the negative. Sometimes weird smells. After a while, I began to see the beautiful things, the smell of spices and cats in the medina. There was an old man feeding the cats, cutting up pieces of salami for them to play with. And then, snatches of conversations too. I like to listen a little to what people say. Sometimes it gets on my nerves. For example, two ladies were talking about the wedding of a third. It was very interesting because it was a typically Tunisian conversation. And then, the Medina is very beautiful, visually. The architecture, the mosque, the Zaytuna. And that's where it's happening. In fact, that's where I couldn't help thinking about the historical aspect, because it's so old. You feel like you're walking where they walked hundreds of years ago. And then you also think of the drama, because in Tunisia's history, there's colonization, the bloodier aspect, the battles, the constant search for freedom. I couldn't separate the sensory from the historical.”Shem’s, poet and musician