Entre inscription et subversion, les lieux culturels intermédiaires. Des expériences au creux des villes.

摘要

This thesis interrogates the realities of the cultural intermediate places. These, also called art's new territories, cultural wastelands or alternative spaces, appear hardly apprehensible. The investigation unfolded within fifteen places in France reveals the diversity in terms of statutes, buildings size or ways of operating. However, the assumption is that beyond singularities, a common space emerges, actualizing itself in a geographical level. This common space highlights symbolic elements. The starting point of the question boils down to one word: place, specified by the notion of experience. Indeed, by questioning the experiential dimension, we can capture the different significant lines that cross the places. These are formed through a double dynamic defined by the tension between inclusion and subversion. The place's experience links the involved individuals in a collective approach which is both chaotic and formalized. The collective layout and the experience conditions are the framework of the development of arts to do, tactics, of a DIY practice defining the place as an institution in motion. Between pragmatism and experimentation, the cultural intermediate place shows a kind of otherness in the territory. The original desire of place is actually a desire of city and culture. By the links with the inhabitants, the territory includes the place. This one becomes a cultural resource. Yet, in the same movement, the territory is subverted, the ways of doing and thinking about culture are challenged and disorder is brought into city. Thus, these places appear as interstices that open political issues, from individual level (emancipation) to territorial level (local democracy).