This city is indefatigable in her marathon reputation
for creative institutions and unique art centers. Now, it is the turn of a location celebrating
the brave new world of digital and electronic cultures which raises our
technical fascination for gadgets to the honorable position of tools for
imaginative and creative use.
La Gaîté Lyrique, a theatre whose present form dates back to 1863 and witnessed the
popularity of the operette and the world of the Belle Époque, fell into a sad
and crumbling state after multiple vicissitudes during the XX century. The
paladin of new cultural institutions, the city mayor, Bertrand Delanoë has come
to the rescue of La Gaîté Lyrique and helped to transform this dying frog into
a digital prince.
After eight years of redevelopment the building
reopened in March 2011, offering a showcase of temporary exhibitions, music
concerts, interactive experiences and a digital library. The space redesigned
by the French architect Manuelle Gautrand
shares with the “104”, the other pet project of Delanoë, a firm belief in the
fluid nature of public spaces. Gautrand
herself thinks that the space is best
defined as a “magnificent toolbox”. As technologies blend and its uses expand,
the stage is set for the new generations to play, invent and create within the
modular nature of this novel environment.
The present interactive exhibition “2062 aller-retour
vers le futur” embodies this philosophy through cutting edge proposals: a hypnosis session in a soundproof
box, video art and a robot displaying the operations of the financial markets
are some of the exhibits that move us fast to a future that is almost now.
http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/
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