THE NEXT GENERATION by Suska Bastian, Emma Cambier, Louise Chatelain, Marion Genty, Jaguar, Luléa Joachim-Tran, Maïlys Moanda, Hyppolyne NxNN & Lio Rof Sanchez a Chateau de Servières, Marseille

Dates: January 29 to March 28, 2026

Curated by: Geoffrey Chautard & Martine Robin

Location: Chateau de Servières, Marseille, France

Pictures: Louïse Lett

This 16th edition of Parallèle feels like a threshold—a threshold of firsts, of a still-young collective barely celebrating its first anniversary, and of What the World Needs Now, a format finding a second skin after its premiere at the Maison des Métallos (Paris) in the fall of 2025. This title, borrowed from the singer Dionne Warwick, speaks as much of desire as of urgency and accompanies us like a discreet bass line, invoking our roots, our alliances, our responsibilities.
Everywhere, neoliberal fascisms are gaining ground and organizing to weaken dissenting voices and bodies. Faced with this, what can artistic creation do? What can a performance festival do? Probably nothing spectacular. But perhaps, simply, it can echo this reality and contribute to the construction of a shared polyphonic narrative. Thus, the program, conceived collaboratively by three artists and in consultation with the Parallèle team, attempts to sidestep a monolithic legacy, venturing instead into its gray areas, its unspoken debts, its silenced memories, and its deliberate forgetting. This fragile and collective proposition is not an end in itself, but rather an endeavor: through their gestures, their voices, and their presence, the invited artists share their tools with us—it is up to us to seize them.

Unable to detach ourselves from the world, we engage with it in a different way: by looking askance, by naming what weighs us down, and by finally leaving behind what is dying to invent together what we still lack.