Le Nouveau festival — 5 ème édition : l’oubli, le souvenir, la réminiscence — Centre Georges Pompidou — Event — Slash Paris

Around fifty projects reflect on forgetting, reminiscence and the palimpsest. Taking up the labyrinthine space designed by Pierre Huyghe for the previous exhibition in the Galerie Sud, major projects as well as original works will mix with performances, conferences and installations.

Based on a selection of more than forty dance films by choreographers of different generations — among which is a choice of films relating to contemporary creation and notably to performance — this new edition wishes to explore the subjects of transmission, interpretation and relationship to history.

At the heart of the Swiss alps, at the Furka col situated at an altitude of 2436m, the Furkablick hotel played host to an extraordinary yet little known artistic project. Between 1983 and 1999, 63 international artists were invited to create works in this gripping environment.

This exhibit neither submits to the retrospective as genre or convention, nor does it present in an exhibition space works which were originally destined for a theatre space. The work is conceived as a choreography of actions and words performed by artists thoughought the exhibition.

Charles de Meaux has conceived an original and exclusive project, taking inspiration from the very architecture of the Centre Pompidou. He will install a reconstituted pipe which will form his own vision of a runaway train, as the image of a stationary voyage.

“What gets forgotten in images? How and why is it forgotten? If, as psychology says, the capacity to forget is the sign of a healthy mind, is it therefore reassuring to think that cinema is also capable of forgetting? A response with six films and six associated arguments.” Program by Jacques Aumont.

The fifth edition of the Nouveau Festival continues the investigation into forgetting and reminiscence by inviting artists and researchers to give talks, researchers that Jean-Pierre Criqui imagines are “dazzled by oblivion”.