Fabrique 1/Bordeaux 2002 -Plates-formes d’expérimentation-
(Factory 1/Bordeaux 2002 –Experimentation platforms)
Laboratory set up by Catherine Contour with the TNT at Bordeaux (managed by Eric Chevance)
4 7-day sessions between January and June 2002 bringing together:
15 artists: Joxelu Berasategy, Isabelle Claus, Bruno Colet, Julie Darribère, Kim-Lien Desault, Rachel Garcia, Anne Gieysse, Simon Girault, Isabelle Kraiser, Laurence Medori, Lucille Méziat, Marie-Charlotte Moreau, Agnès Racle, Stéphanie Régnier, and Petra Sabisch,
4 special guests: Jennifer Lacey, Frédéric Lormeau, Frédéric Nogray, Jean-Paul Thibeau (artists)
1 guide: Alexia Philippon (from the TNT team)
1 witness: Carole Bodin

This temporary and nomadic laboratory is designed as an assembly structuring experimentation and creation time in 3 places in town: the Ateliers de la Manutention, an empty shop in the town centre, and the TNT on the outskirts.
Fabrique 1 (Factory 1)
- welcomes artists who use the body as a privileged medium in their creation
- is designed as a place of learning, confrontation and meetings
- is based on the notions of practices and improvisation
- questions the form and functioning of an “artistic experimentation laboratory”
- is structured around the notion of in-situ, particularly through the performing act in the public space.