how do you want to stretch time within your practice?
art residency located in the north of paris in the old town of crépy-en-valois
our manifest
msj experiences new ways of exploring the world through craft and technology. msj collectively explores to gain a deeper understanding of the space beyond. msj serves as a refuge where we are invited to experiment within its realm. msj extends invitations to writers, explorers, thinkers, crafters, and technologists, in the urgency to create together.
stay in
movement
situated exploration
overviewing
the world
beyond the end
art survives
embrace uncertainty
stay alive
nomad home
re-adopt
call for residency
2026-2027 season
upcoming events
No upcoming events
curiosity of the foreign
about the art residency
La Maison Saint-Joseph is a space for transdisciplinary and artistic research, a refuge for creation that welcomes artists from diverse cultures. At its core, msj is a place dedicated to creation and dialogue. A meeting point between traditions and technological advances, msj carries both fulfilled and relinquished dreams, watching over collective and personal revolt. It is a situated (sedentary) exploration. As an art residency, it supports present transformations and the questions they raise. Above all, this residency is a home.
crossing the limits
about writing residency
What is a writing residency according to us? A peaceful and pleasant place where everyone can contemplate, write, and recharge among fellow writers to advance a writing project, a documentary, a short film, a series, or a feature-length film. A place for cinema and audiovisual work, where writing crosses its own limits: where forms pass into one another, and the written word is performed, given voice, and set in motion.
craft technology
and history
about the workshops
What is a workshop according to us? It is a closed, silent space that fosters experimentation. It is a place where everyone can acquire knowledge, manipulate materials and tools, and trace the origins of the craft. A workshop is also a place for exchange, learning, listening, discovery, and play. Moreover, it is a place where cultural, disciplinary, and human encounters are woven together, threads that outlast one’s time there.
