JC Lanquetin is a scenographer and an artist based in France. He teaches at the Strasbourg Decorative School of Art. He has run many scenographic projects around the world including in France, Cameroon, DRC, and Syria. He has worked for theatre (Philip BoulayŠ), contemporary dance (Faustin Linyekula, Opiyo OkachŠ), and performances (Eleonore Hellio & Joachim MontessuisŠ).

He has developed the Urban Scenography Process, with Francois Duconseille. His current artistic projects (below) are influenced by the mikilist of DRC Congo and the questions about the possibility of travelling. The mikilists, especially in Kinshasa, are people who travel, who have seen the world (particularly Europe), seen landscapes.

When they return, they have to prove they were there. They relate and show pictures and create dreams for people who haven't or can't travel.

1. aMikilist in Kliptown
An installation-performance at the Battery Center in Kliptown (Soweto). This involves a visual dialog with Sipho Tshabalala & Mbuso Kgarebe about mokili (the world in Lingala). This represents a game with questions such as Where are you from?, where are you living ?, and answers communicated through space using short films.

2. aMikilist in Johannesburg
JC Lanquetin invited Androa Mindre Kolo, performer-artist from Kinshasa DRC to spend time in Johannesburg in order to prepare an installation in Kinshasa in 2006 during the Urban Scenography residency*, and through this will confirm and relate what he has experienced as a mikilist in Johannesburg. * Urban Scenography offers in-situ residencies, co-realised by ScUr&°K, a French association of artists, and local groups of artists (Kapsiki Circle2002 in Douala Cameroon, Gudran 2004 El Max Alexandrie, Eza Possible 2006 Kinshasa). Artists from Africa, the Arab world, and Europe work and live for 3 weeks interacting and exhibiting in an urban space.

3. aMikilist in Johannesburg
This project traverses the city of Johannesburg in a project for an installation-performance in a building near the Bag Factory with a view of the city. The objective of this project is to persuade the audience / spectators / witnesses to cross walls, doors, corridors, streets, closures, borders installations, transit zones, and mediums. Through this they will question, choose, hesitate, return...

ŒCe n'est plus dans l'instance de l'emission mais dans celle de la reception [...] que se loge le politique.[...] Dans la grande machine auto régulée, agir c'est voir et voir c'est choisir et choisir c'est juger. Que nous soyons devenus des decideurs ne nous dispence pas de decider sur quoi faire porter notre regard.'
-Dan Graham.