A white and green instead Night in Paris at the approach of the COP 21 – FranceTV info

For the first time, the City of Paris had decided this year to place the cultural event under the sign of a theme, that of climate change. “A few weeks before hosting the COP 21, we wanted with Anne Hidalgo artistic proposals that argue with the environmental theme. The art and contemporary creation also used to this, to challenge minds,” commented the course of a press tour Friday for Culture Assistant Bruno Julliard (PS).
The event allowed the walkers, as every year since 2002, to travel around the capital by discovering installations, sculptures, performance, most visible in the public space. Twenty-three proposals have marked the path of the “in” and 105 that of “off”.

Artists who play background climate map

As in 2014, the City of Paris and the artistic director José Manuel Gonçalves event chose to take visitors in territories become the capital. First journey led them to the Parc Monceau (eighth) at the Porte de Clignancourt (XVIII), 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.
Migrating species, rising water, melting ice: the selected artists played thoroughly map the climate, offering willingly immersive and dramatic works. Emblematic of the chosen theme: the installation “Home Base”, by Argentine Leandro Erlich, the mayor of Paris will open at North Station in the early evening. Set in a Parisian building collapsing as a result of global warming, this work of 6,90 meters tall funded through the participatory budget 2014 the City will remain perennially on the forecourt of the station.
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The “Home Base” Leandro Erlich

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Voluntarily rather ephemeral, installation “Ice Monument”, Chinese Zhenchen Liu, gave 270 see colored blocks of ice a meter high liquefying throughout night to form a huge abstract painting on the steps of City Hall.

“Ice monument” by Zhenchen Liu

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The variations in the Paris suburbs

For the Parc Monceau, Erik Samakh the French had imagined a sound installation that plunged visitors into the atmosphere of a southern summer night. Chants toad toad, the cricket, the owl, the nightjar were then able to recover gradually the traffic noise. “The climate has changed, animals in the south of France migrate and change the soundscape,” said he described.

Further north, in a park Clichy-Batignolles Martin Luther King invaded by fog and an intense blue light installation “technological-poetic” Dutchman Daan Roosegaarde gave the visitor the feeling of walking under the sea level -symbole a possible rising waters in the Netherlands.

“Waterlicht” Daan Roosegaarde

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The atmosphere was equally dreamlike on the Little Belt, exceptionally open to the public on this stretch. After trembled with fear before the performance imagined by Stéphane Rocordel (a man tirelessly jumps into the void and bounces off a cloud located ten meters above the ground), visitors could admire the great “abstract wall paintings “Michel Blazy, both mineral and organic.

” Cloud “Stephane Rocordel

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As every year 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.