A few months before the climate conference COP 21 (November 30-December 11), it is a white night “poetic” and “politics”, marked by the environmental emergency, as fans are invited to contemporary art in Paris Saturday night.
For the first time, the City of Paris has decided this year to place the cultural event under the sign of a theme, that of climate change. “A few weeks before hosting the COP21, we wanted with (Mayor) Anne Hidalgo artistic proposals that argue with the environmental theme. The art and contemporary creation also used to this, to call on the spirits,” said the Deputy for Culture Bruno Julliard (PS).
The event will as every year since 2002 for walkers to travel around the capital by discovering installations, sculptures, performances, most visible in space public. Twenty-three proposals punctuate the route of the “in” and one of the 105 “off”.
As in 2014, the City of Paris and the artistic director of the José Manuel Gonçalves event chose to take visitors in territories become the capital. A first route leads the Parc Monceau (8th) at the Porte de Clignancourt (18th), via disused railway lines of the Little Belt; a second of the Gare du Nord in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) via the new footbridge over the device in front of the shopping center Millennium.
One night was Southern
Migrating species, rising sea levels, melting ice: the selected artists played thoroughly map the climate by offering immersive and dramatic works willingly
Emblematic of the chosen theme. installation “Home Base”, by Argentine Leandro Erlich, the mayor of Paris will inaugurate the North Station in the early evening. Set in a Parisian building collapsing as a result of global warming, this work of 6,90 m tall funded through the participatory budget 2014 the City will remain perennially on the forecourt of the station.
ephemeral Deliberately contrary, the installation “Ice Monument”, Chinese Zhenchen Liu, will see 270 colored blocks of ice one meter high liquefying throughout the night to form a huge abstract painting on the steps of City Hall.
Parc Monceau in the French Erik Samakh imagined a sound installation that immerses the visitor in the atmosphere of a southern summer night. Chants toad toad, the cricket, the owl, the nightjar gradually cover the traffic noise. “The climate has changed, animals in the south of France migrate and change the soundscape”, he has described to the press.
An event to € 1.6 million
Further north, in a park Clichy-Batignolles Martin-Luther-King invaded by fog and intense blue light installation “technological-poetic” Dutchman Daan Roosegaarde gives the visitor the feeling of walking under the sea level. – symbol of a possible rising waters in the Netherlands
The atmosphere is just as dreamy on the Little Belt, exceptionally open to the public on this stretch – walkers are invited to bring sneakers, and to flee the claustrophobic tunnel some 500 meters
After trembled with fear before the performance imagined by Stéphane Ricordel -. a man tirelessly jumps into the void and bounces on a cloud located ten meters above the ground – visitors can admire the great “abstract wall paintings” of Michel Blazy, both mineral and organic
Rain word rue de l. Aqueduct, Ballet wooden slats in a disused barracks fire, light fog in a sports center: the artistic proposals will lead visitors to Aubervilliers, where artists Felicie d’Estienne d’Orves and Julie Rousse offer them a show sound and light … whose stars are the stars.
This Nighter know as annual variations in the Paris suburbs, in the province and around the world. The budget allocates mayor of Paris totaled € 1.2 million, plus 400,000 euros took on participatory budget.
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