14/6/2002
Faites de la Lumiere
Urban Space, Paris
Fireflies. Faites de la Lumiere invite you to participate to the next luminosities of the saturday 15th june 2002 either in lighting, or in organising your own light party or by passing the words. The Faites de la Lumiere event wants to change daily life thanks to shadow and to light. Public outdoor become an audiovisual broadcast space, live, and open to any sharing.
Join the light project 2002 by transforming outoors by lightning and broadcasting space the 15th june
FIREFLIES_
FAITES DE LA LUMIèRE invite you to participate to the next luminosities of the
saturday 15th june 2002 either in lighting, or in organising your own light
party or by passing the words. Remember that FAITES DE LA LUMIèRE is a French
play-on-words meaning both Do your own Light and Light Party.
The FAITES DE LA LUMIèRE event wants to change daily life thanks to shadow and
to light. Public outdoor become an audiovisual broadcast space, live, and open
to any sharing. This event is based on an active co-operation between
inhabitants and local associations.
FAITES DE LA LUMIèRE happen simultaneously in several towns and villages:
Marseille, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Quincerot, Paris, Montargis, Bourges,
Toulouse, Genève, Bruxelles, Montréal etc etc.
A simple idea :
- interrupt temporaly public lighting
- using facades, shop window, windows, hanging sheets or any surface possible or
unimaginable to transform it in screen or show space
- work with a commom material adaptable to any project: the light, to use as raw
material or broadcast possibility
- broadcast directly in open air several kind of works realised by professionals
or amateurs in order to cause sharing and discoveries
All of the movie projections, videos, slides, chinese shadow, street theater and
other luminosities create a unique and out of the ordinary festival.
The temporaly restoration of the facades bring inhabitants to meet different
univers that they would never discover. With the passer-by spectators, they
stroll around surprises. This festival change daily space used by the daily
life.
Performers are in direct contact with the audience. They can meet people who
want to know more details about their works. Performers often create pieces
especially for the event.
At first, people at the intiative of this festival organised an access public
home-TV in the southern of Paris. (http://www.teleplaisance.org). FAITES DE LA
LUMIèRE continue this idea of opening public space in order to create a sharing
system.
As the event has spreaded, we created the Federation FAITES DE LA LUMIèRE.
Federation members are local organisators of FAITES DE LA LUMIèRE. They are
- groups of inhabitants who want to wake up their environment,
- groups of performers with the desire to spread their work beyond classical
gallery, festivals,
- associations created especially for the event,
- experimental happy clubber ...
Each one imagine and organise their own FAITES DE LA LUMIèRE, with its desire,
capacities and means. Each FAITES DE LA LUMIèRE is autonomous and unique.
Further more, everyone take care of the website's part which talk about their
festival.
Everywhere it's happening, the success is never denied because FAITES DE LA
LUMIèRE is adaptable and can be changed with local energy.
If an association desires to organize a light event outside the official date,
we describe it as a FIESTALUX. If the event doesnt last all the evening, it
becomes a LUXACTIF. Within this organization, every member of the Federation is
autonomous and develops is own perspective.
If you like this project, or make you up and down, or for any other questions...
contact us by email
Fédération des FAITES DE LA LUMIÈRE
29, rue de Plaisance
75014 Paris