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COTA Art for Society is a Paris based association initiating artistic and linguistic projects as a means social exchange.

COTA's activities : personalised language training and artistic creation, Erasmus+ partneships, e-learning tools.

28/09/2026

Aujourd’hui, dans l’atelier, nous avons travaillé sur des notions abstraites liées aux valeurs démocratiques et civiques.

Ces grands mots, souvent solennels, peuvent nous sembler éloignés de notre quotidien ou même nous faire peur. Nous avons essayé de leur donner un sens concret, à travers des images, des symboles et de petites histoires personnelles.

Une manière de nous approprier ensemble des idées comme la liberté, l’égalité, la solidarité ou la paix.

23/09/2026

Le deuxième atelier à la Maison des langues de cette année : quand nos activités banales et quotidiennes deviennent images, rythmes, un peu de poésie, et permettent une familiarisation avec la représentation visuelle et l’analyse de données.

Les courbes représentent nos journées et, verticalement, notre niveau d’énergie. Elles permettent de comparer nos habitudes, d’entamer des conversations à propos des différences et des similitudes, d’analyser des données à partir d’un graphique et de penser à la manière de changer ce que nous voulons changer.

16/09/2026

Cette semaine, à la Maison des langues et des cultures, nous avons lancé nos ateliers pour apprendre la langue à travers la création artistique et artisanale.

Pour faire connaissance, les participant·es ont créé une carte collective autour de leurs langues, de leurs pays et villes d’origine, ainsi que de leurs lieux préférés dans la ville.

Nous avons également choisi les grands thèmes que nous explorerons cette année : héritages culturels, identités linguistiques, participation, environnement et bien d’autres encore.

14/09/2026

Lors de la soirée des lauréat·es d’Agir en Seine-Saint-Denis, COTA a animé un petit atelier pour présenter son projet : une série d’ateliers d’alphabétisation à travers les arts visuels, menée en partenariat avec le Samusocial de Paris.

Nous travaillerons avec des femmes et des enfants hébergés dans des hôtels sociaux au Blanc-Mesnil.

Nous avons hâte de partager avec vous les nouvelles ressources pédagogiques que nous allons créer au cours des prochains mois !

01/09/2026

🟡”Printmaking is an art of revelation: at the moment of printing, both the technique and the work itself are revealed. Powerful images can be created with very limited means. It opens up a whole field of possibilities.”

Claire Poisson is a visual artist, printmaker and teacher. Trained in the craft of printmaking at École Estienne, she has developed a practice combining prints and installations. She pays particular attention to the qualities of materials, to the artisanal and experimental nature of printmaking, and to the exchanges that emerge through hands-on workshops. Her residencies and collaborations, both in France and abroad, often grow out of direct relationships with other artists and craftspeople.

Her installation work is based on collecting fragments and everyday objects — found in the city or in nature — which she assembles with minimal intervention. Without claiming an explicitly activist approach, her attention to objects, resources and what becomes of them reflects an ethical and ecological perspective.

Alongside her artistic practice, she leads numerous printmaking workshops for a wide range of participants, notably for the City of Nanterre and in museums. She introduces accessible techniques that allow everyone, regardless of age or previous experience, to discover the world of printed images and their own creative potential.

https://www.instagram.com/claire.poisson_

www.clairepoisson.com

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COTA Art for Society
Il Salone dei Rifiutati
Comparative Research Network

This post is part of the EU COM E research, exploring how art can foster community engagement, sustainability, and social inclusion across Europe.

28/08/2026

🟡”My artistic practice consists in stirring up the social space in order to reawaken the political, by inventing a space within institutions that creates a poetic and critical distance from the representations imposed on their ‘inhabitants’, allowing another visual and textual narrative to emerge.”

Arnaud Théval is a visual artist whose work has, for more than thirty years, examined the representations, stereotypes and forms of confinement produced by society and institutions. He conducts long-term research in schools, hospitals, prisons and other public spaces. Through investigation, listening and a sustained presence developed alongside the people who live or work there, he seeks to bring to light the narratives and experiences that institutional structures often leave in the shadows.

Rather than taking the form of conventional art-making workshops, his practice creates spaces for research and dialogue. Photographs, texts, drawings, books, seminars and debates become the forms of a situated practice developed about, within and alongside each institution. His works shift perspectives, question hierarchies and enable people who are often reduced to a role or status to tell their stories differently.

https://www.instagram.com/arnaud_theval_/

https://www.arnaudtheval.com

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Partners:

COTA Art for Society
Il Salone dei Rifiutati
Comparative Research Network

This post is part of the EU COM E research, exploring how art can foster community engagement, sustainability, and social inclusion across Europe.

27/08/2026

🟡“Art making is often a solitary experience, but I think there are many practices that are focused on creative collaboration. I think this is a very future forward aspect of upcoming culture production.”

Rodney La Tourelle is a project-based artist frequently working with Louise Witthöft as Witthöft & LaTourelle
Their interdisciplinary practice engages infrastructure as an expressive tool, exploring the psycho-spatial conditions of communal experience. Their work often re-creates standard building elements in transformational materials, currently focusing on circular and sustainable processes such as geopolymer cement and recycled aggregates. By emphasizing the poetics of material history, their practice examines both the cultural and environmental impacts of sustainable forms of construction.

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This post is part of the EU COM E research, exploring how art can foster community engagement, sustainability, and social inclusion across Europe.

23/08/2026

🟡”Every object carries both an intimate story and an ecological one. By sharing them, we can question the ways we produce, consume and live, without making future generations bear the cost of the transition.”

Ali Zareghanatnowi is an Iranian filmmaker, author and producer, living in exile in France since 2019. Trained and active in cinema since his teenage years, he has directed numerous documentary, animated and fiction films, alongside work as a teacher and workshop facilitator. In France, he continues his work across film, writing, exhibitions and artistic transmission, particularly through video-editing workshops and collective projects developed with schools, festivals and arts organisations.

His current project, What We Carry, is a participatory documentary installation devoted to everyday objects that people keep throughout their lives and journeys. Starting from objects brought by people in exile, Ali aims to collect stories, images and sound recordings that reveal both their personal and material trajectories: their manufacture, the resources involved, circulation, use and eventual fate. Informed by his own experience of exile, the project brings together memory, migration, consumption and ecology, creating a space in which individual stories become a shared reflection on the ways we live.

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/alizareghanatnowi/

IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9186876/

Linktree — films, publications et autres liens professionnels
https://linktr.ee/cinemaali

YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/user/cinemaali

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Partners:
COTA Art for Societyy
Il Salone dei Rifiutati
Comparative Research Network

This post is part of the EU COM E research, exploring how art can foster community engagement, sustainability, and social inclusion across Europe.

20/08/2026

🟡”Drawing makes it possible to address very harsh realities without imposing the violence of photographs or words. But when I draw, I also work with light, shadow, silhouettes and depth.”

Najah Albukai is a Syrian artist, draughtsman, painter and printmaker, trained at the Fine Arts School in Damascus and later in France. A political refugee since 2015, he has developed a body of work informed by his experience of imprisonment in Syrian regime prisons. Through drawing, printmaking, ink and watercolour, he gives form to the traces of prison violence and war, without reducing his work to testimony: his research also explores light, colour, animals and the expressive possibilities of the image itself. Artist-in-residence at the Casa de Velázquez in 2021–2022, he continues a work of memory in which artistic rigour remains central.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najah_Albukai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC6ZgQKTdPo

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Partners:
COTA Art for Society
Il Salone dei Rifiutati
Comparative Research Network

This post is part of the EU COM E research, exploring how art can foster community engagement, sustainability, and social inclusion across Europe.

19/08/2026

🟡”Bringing beauty into the street already creates an encounter and a form of social connection. The impact of an artwork is not always measurable: it may lie in a changed way of looking, or simply in making a place feel more alive.”

Joachim Romain is a photographer, visual artist and urban artist. From his studio at 6b in Saint-Denis, he collects discarded posters, printed fragments and overlooked materials from the city, which he layers, tears and transforms into collages, sculptural forms and installations. His work questions the accumulation of images, consumer society and the afterlife of materials, while bringing these forms back into public space. Through site-specific projects, including Coastal Commons in Malta (with Déchets d’Arts), he also explores reuse and encounters with local actors, without separating these experiences from his commitment to artistic creation.

http://www.instagram.com/joachimromain

http://www.joachimromain.com

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Partners:

COTA Art for Society

Il Salone dei Rifiutati

Comparative Research Network

This post is part of the EU COM E research, exploring how art can foster community engagement, sustainability, and social inclusion across Europe.

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13 Rue Parmentier
Maisons-Alfort
94700

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