Rencontres Recherche et Création - History(s) in motion

Since 2014, the ANR and the Festival d'Avignon have been organizing the Rencontres Recherche et Création. By bringing together authors, actors, directors and choreographers programmed at the Festival d'Avignon and researchers from different disciplines, these Rencontres help to resonate the thinking behind works and the most recent research. It's a new space for sharing knowledge with the public.

The arts, fiction and the performing arts constantly nourish our experience of the world and our thinking, while the scientific approach, through analysis, observation and experimentation, constantly pushes back the frontiers of knowledge. Advances in research are constantly providing new insights, demonstrating the extent to which culture is an essential driving force behind human evolution and the formation of societies. More than ever, both culture and research must engage their strengths in describing the world, in reflection and invention.

The ten previous editions have shown just how rich the dialogue between artists and researchers in the humanities, social sciences and cognitive neuroscience is in terms of new scientific perspectives. The confrontation between different currents of research and the concerns of cultural players enables us to explore the transformations of creation and its social function, and to reflect differently on the world's present.