The 2009 edition of the @rt Outsiders Festival —celebrating this year its tenth anniversary—focuses on extreme environments. These are environments that were, until recently, uninhabited by human beings and that contemporary science and technology turn into "inhabitable" places (Antarctica, underwater world, outer space, deserts); but also those that are becoming "uninhabitable" due to the impacts of our way of life (pollution, technological accidents, economical pressures).

(Un)Inhabitable? – Art of Extreme Environments presents works that explore the meaning of living in extreme environments, in the imaginary realm as well as in the physical one, in the political, social and environmental fields as well as in the poetic ones.

Artists
Howard Boland & Laura Cinti, Anne Brodie, Bureau d’Études et Ewen Chardronnet, Peter Cusack, Stephen Eastaugh, Shiro Matsui, Connie Mendoza, Forrest Myers, Hu Jie Ming, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Bradley Pitts, Andrea Polli, Catherine Rannou, Ana Rewakowicz, Yang Yi
Curators : Jean-Luc Soret et Annick Bureaud

Venue
Maison européenne de la photographie
5-7 rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris
M° Saint-Paul ou Pont-Marie

Dates
9 September to 11 October
www.art-outsiders.com