How do younger generations imagine visiting exhibition sites and museums? What sorts of artistic interactions might this involve in relation to the works? How are they moved by the sculpture of an ancient Indian deity, uprooted from her place of origin and exhibited in Paris? Since 2012, an international network has developed involving hundreds of students, artists and researchers spanning France, India, Europe and Latin America, who have created all sorts of in situ artistic performances (dance, theatre, music, poetry), in order to convey their ideal museum experience. They are shaking up certain codes between visitors to create forms of togetherness, involving sensitive, transcultural and ecological approaches for the transmission of intangible heritage. The videos of these performances are available on the project website www.creons-au-musee.com.

Katia Légeret is a researcher and Professor of Philosophy and Performing Arts at University Paris 8. Director and choreographer, she is a Bharata-natyam artist under the name Manochhaya, and a specialist in Indian classical and contemporary forms of dance theatre. She is the author, in particular, of Dance Theatre of India, Crossing New Aesthetics and Cultures (Niyogi Books, 2018), and has edited collective works including Rodin and the Dance of Shiva (Niyogi Books, 2016) and Créons au Musée, (Geuthner, 2019), relating to international research projects involving partnerships in Paris with RMN-Grand Palais, the National Museum of Asian Arts-Guimet and the National Library of France (BnF).