Villa Arson will host the second edition of its Summer School from Wednesday 15 to Saturday 18 July 2026.
Towards an Ecology of Attention by Barbara Noiret
For this Summer School, Barbara Noiret proposes an artistic and ecological immersion within the grounds of Villa Arson, conceived by Michel Marot as an integrated landscape architecture. Its terraces, patios and Mediterranean gardens unfold in constant dialogue with light, climate and artistic practices.
The programme invites participants to cultivate an attentiveness to living systems and shared experience, at the intersection of ecological concerns. The terraced gardens, with their Aleppo pines, olive trees, cypresses and succulents, become a site for sensitive and artistic experimentation. These spaces are transformed into a laboratory of forms and narratives in motion, bringing together breathing practices, voice, performance, reading, drawing, printmaking, watercolour and video creation.
The Summer School offers an immersion in nature that resonates with major contemporary issues: the memory of places, ecology, technologies, slow temporalities, their benefits and their excesses, and the transformation of living systems. The garden becomes both a fertile ground for the imagination, a subject in itself, and a means of expression. Participants’ projects will be informed by philosophical, artistic and scientific references, and a research journal will accompany the programme.
barbara Noiret
Barbara Noiret is an artist, filmmaker and scenographer.
Her artistic practice explores the connections between ecological crisis and systems of domination, bringing attention to the voices of marginalized and vulnerable communities, whether defined by generation, race, economic precarity or psychological vulnerability.
Through creative residencies, site-specific commissions and collaborative projects developed within local contexts, she pursues an interdisciplinary approach in which cinema, video, photography, music, opera singing, theatre, dance, performance, and the social and natural sciences are all integral to the creative process.
For the past ten years, Barbara Noiret has also designed stage productions and scenography for theatre and event-based projects. Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches at Université Côte d’Azur and Paris VIII Vincennes–Saint-Denis University, and previously taught at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in the fields of visual arts, cinema, performing arts and cultural mediation.
More informations : www.barbara-noiret.com
Pratical informations
Detailed programme and online registration available from 15 June.
Free of charge, open to participants aged 14 and over (subject to availability).
No prior experience or specific requirements are necessary to take part. People in vulnerable situations are warmly welcome, and we will ensure that appropriate arrangements are made to provide a supportive and accessible environment.