World Premiere – La chambre des mémoires à-venir
in the forbidden basements of Paris La Défense
From September 16 to October 01, 2023, Paris hosts the world premiere of La Chambre des mémoires à-venir.
Two partners, Mondes Nouveaux and Paris La Défense, have joined forces to offer the public a unique experience: the discovery of a complex world where you are invited to get lost or find yourself, for a period of 30 minutes, in the forbidden basements of Paris La Défense.
La chambre des mémoires à-venir is designed by architect François Roche, who has brought together a multidisciplinary, international team with New-Territories: philosopher Emanuele Coccia (France) & artist Mika Tamori (Japan/Thailand), artist-director Chris Delaporte (France), sound designer Damien Sorrentino (France) and actress Laura Benson (UK/France). Signaling the return of New-Territories_S/her to Europe, France and Paris, La Chambre des mémoires à-venir is the ultimate opportunity to plunge beneath the Paris La Défense slab into these forbidden places, programmed to be re-structured.
“It seems plausible to us to conjugate a narrative in the past future tense, in the literal sense, to look at a tomorrow, a tomorrow right in front of us (the one that frightens us and that we never stop caressing) where the species (ours and all those on this planet) will have mutated, at once human and technoid, vegetable and cerebral, chrysalis and Darwinian chimera. Post-parietal creatures give themselves the right to speculate on the hypothesis of a new branch of evolution. Then a journey to the surface, into the psyche of a “blue pill” ” New-Territories_S/he
La Chambre des mémoires à-venir is immersive & performative - philosophical and technological, scientific and psychological, cinematographic and theatrical - living, visual and architectural.
La Chambre des mémoires à-venir is experienced, lived, played, felt, constructed and deconstructed. It is this metamorphosis that is proposed in Paris, in the intermediate/interstitial spaces beneath the Paris La Défense slab.
For the duration of the event, these forbidden basements will open up to the public for the first and last time, becoming a den where you can overhear the snippets of a conversation, a dispute, a polyphonic and cavernous controversy put into words & staged between a philosopher & an architect who entrust to paraeidolic and cosmic entities what is being whispered about the future of the world in a temporal elsewhere. An archaeological retro-future that watches us struggle through the here-and-now.
"Here, tomorrow, already there''
“Thwarting the relationship with an individual or collective past [—] Remove the illusion of necessity that binds us to a past as a biological species. To be able to (re)experience a site as a childhood bedroom still pregnant with futures that have not (yet) declined into the present. To be able to shatter the evidence with which we regard our Homo sapiens nature as a necessary trait. [—] an experience that frees the life of any species from history and invites it to an exercise in imagination in which everything has yet to happen.” Emanuele Coccia
Some Bubbles of a Native Immigrant by François Roche - New-Territories_S/her
published in Multitudes - summer 2023
"... the continuation of 10 years of Rimbaldian adventure, robotic, subversive, human, "where it smells like shit",... in the depths of jouissive pollution... "to put an end to the with the judgment of the gods, be they divine and/or institutional"...fugitive in the slums of Bangkok's China Town as a refuge... but Covid obliges... the Baudelairian devil who would have us believe that he doesn't exist... blah, blah, blah... this wasn't in the Chinois district, Paris XIII, HBM housing from the Front Populaire, not so bad... to dream of the filthy residual basements of the Futurama (world fair NYc 1939) of modernity at La Défense, and to witness the fight of retro-futuristic australopithecines... rather than homo sapiens, my contemporaries... so back to the motherland as a native immigrant... nomad... temporal statelessness, for a writing style... disillusioned, disenchanted... with a bitter aesthetic libidinal... charming distress, the eroticism of Sabina Spielrein's little death. Spielrein, but also of Boccacio's Decameron... a mirror of the bankruptcy of our ecosophy too late, and far too sterilized, hygienized... privatized, but also a mirror of our own dementia. of our own dementia, a film with three characters: the cynic, the idiot and the moralist... Three-headed Diogenes in Lacanian introspection... in his barrique dog cave... dog... For this film, which seems to be a Valladolid controversy 2.0... in reversed... 3 Jesuit avatars from the future discuss and judge our degree of humanity... from tragedy to farce... but it's also like a fold of the soul... a topological fold of our inner cinema... we're talking to ourselves... these little "men, women, green beasts" are us... the expression of our sad passions, the unavowable desire to take the risk of being human... a multiplicity of inner voices like psychodramas, critical schizophrenias... echoing... of our procrastination... an aesthetic of skepticism... It's time to meet to meet Trans Humans... mutants, who are not Transhumanists,... but also to question evolutionary theories and their distinction between species, in "retro-future-speculative archaeology" / The aesthetic object here is a subject... which is not outside, outside... but in itself... to give language to our own ambiguities... to reveal our lack of discernment... these cosmic avatars, trans... it's "both of us"... in dissonance... schizoanalytic demultiplications and Guattari's chaosmosis... fiction as the unveiling of inside-outside knots, their unfolding and contingency... ecology of being... heroes and thanatos... ecology of limbo and the migrations of beings, beasts, plants, genders and sexualities... Eco-technological monism... Infinity, proximity, thought, genitalia, love... the same substance..."
Information: https://new-territories.com/PASTFUTURECHAMBER/
Ticketing: (10 euros) https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-la-chambre-des-memoires-a-venir-glitchs-654742862527
Presskit: https://www.jigsaw.family/data/upload/jigsaw-new-territories-lachambredesmemoiresa%CC%80-venir-2023-dossierpresse.pdf
Access: https://new-territories.com/PASTFUTURECHAMBER/maps-access/
Title
The Chamber of Past FutureType
ExhibitionWebsite
Organizers
From
September 16, 2023 03:13 PMUntil
October 01, 2023 03:13 PMVenue
Paris La DefenseAddress
86 Espl. du Général de Gaulle, 92400 Courbevoie, Paris, France