Fazette Bordage (France)

After studying musicology and psychology, and hosting a musical magazine on FRANCE3 television, in 1984 Fazette Bordage was instrumental in refurbishing “Confort Moderne” at Poitiers (F), an ancient warehouse rehabilitated as a venue for cultural activities for young people. In 1986 Confort Moderne became a member of the TransEuropeHalles European cultural network of art places re-using industrial sites, which she coordinated from 1994 till 2000.

Mains d’Œuvres, a place for citizen and artistic intervention, reinvigorating a 4000m2 factory at Saint-Ouen (nearly Paris, F), is a new space that she and her team have been working on and which opened end of January 2001. Since 2001, she is also responsible for the coordination of a resource platform, called Artfactories meant for independent multidisciplinary art spaces , that are born from citizen and artistic projects.

Web references :

Mains d’Œuvres : www.mainsdoeuvres.org

Artfactories : www.artfactories.net

Book reference :

“ Factories of imagination ” at éditions de l’imprimeur