RE-MEMBERING THE CIV
Centre d'Identification de Vincennes
1958-1962
Re-membering the CIV (Centre d’Identification de Vincennes) is a research project led by Beth Weinstein that aims to make this detention and internment camp’s location, its architecture and the events that occurred there knowable to a broad public. The research explores how AR technologies can create a dynamic experience of a virtual CIV, as well as previously silenced voices, in the site where this internment camp once stood. This project also speculates on how site-specific events, in the neighborhoods where those interned once lived and in the site of the CIV, can expand engagement with the phantom CIV into embodied, collective, performative, and spatial acts of re-membering.
Events
REMEMBERING THE CIV : Thursday 23 October 2025, 5-7pm
You are invited to participate in a journey the site of the former CIV. The excursion will depart from the Metro Château de Vincennes, and walk through the Bois de Vincennes to the location on the route de la Pyramide. Please RSVP through the contact page to communicate your intention to participate.
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Once gathered in situ, we will read the Thursday 27 October 1961 report written by Jean Viatte, a representative of the Ministry of the Interior.
While we are on site, you are encouraged to enter the virtual CIV which you can access through the QR code on this website (and which will also be made available to you once on site).
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Feel free to test the QR code on your own, record your entering into the CIV through the app and sharing your recording. Alternately you can share your thoughts in a voice message or text. Very interested in your feedback! And look forward to sharing this experience with you.
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REMEMBERING THE CIV IN THE CITY : NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2025
Anticipated dates: November 6 and 18, December 2 and 16.
Watch this space for further details.
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