The Partner-Finding Tool
Youth meeting between footballers, designers, militants, politicians in order to think new ways of debate. It took place as part as 'Field of negociation'.
Euro 2016 will be hosted by France; the tournament promises parties, victories and drama. This european rejoicing will also bring its stock of sponsors, relentless media circus, corruption and social inequalities set to the somewhat grim background of a Europe in crisis.
The paradoxes and excesses of market football would be enough to definitively make the sport’s citizens turn away if the terraces were not teeming with social and political struggles, allowing for the invention of new ways to organise, resist and represent oneself collectively. Although fragile, these political spaces constitute a precious resource for rethinking the ways politics is practiced today.
Field of negotiations is a project at the frontier between art, sport and politics. It uses Euro 2016 as a platform to open up a debate on the place of collectives in our society and day to day ways of performing politics. The notion of negotiation plays a central role in the project as it acts as a means to look closely at the interactions between different actors in the world of football and how different groups within football evolve.
Field of negotiations proposes to participate in the general euphoria of Euro 2016 all the while keeping it’s wits about it. The story of sports clubs in working class areas of the region of Ile-de-France will be treated in a documentary project involving researchers specialised in social sciences drawing on municipal archives and the testimony of local inhabitants. It will form the basis of a theatre piece, workshops, debates, games in public spaces and parties.