SECONDE NATURE
DIGITAL MUTATIONS
Electronic music, digital arts and other cultural curiosities… |
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"La Métamorphose" is the guiding thread of the third edition of Seconde Nature, that presents concerts, installations, performances, video art, cinema and encounters… We have met the two creators of the festival, Pierre Emmanuel Reviron, director (ex director of Terre Active) and Raphaël Sage, administrator (who used to be the director of BioMix), to ask them about the evolution of this festival and the opening in 2009 of the Scène Numérique in Aix-en-Provence.
Can you explain the alliance between the Territoires Électroniques of Biomix and Arborescence of Terre Active?
Pierre Emmanuel Reviron: The festival Seconde Nature was created by this alliance for reasons of mutualization and artistic coherence of projects. We had a common wish that came true when the city of Aix-en-Provence offered to invest the Vasarely Fundation back in 2007. The name Seconde Nature also symbolizes links between art and technologies and the problems that we have met for more than 10 years on the environment, the sustainable development and the protection of the environment responsibility.
Raphaël Sage: Electronic music also allows the audience to discover digital arts. The budget of the festival is difficult: the fees of the main artists in music have gone up a lot these past few years and they are very high now. Which is completely irrational and makes very difficult the relation between artistic demands and programme budget. We can’t compare to Anglo-Saxons, to Germans or to Quebeckers. We need to invent the French model.
Who are your partners?
P.E. Reviron: The DiCREAM [help to multimedias projects by the Centre National de Cinématographie] supports us. We also participated to the creation of the association ARPAN (local association of digital arts and cultures teachers in the PACA region of France). We want to question the financing of digital arts and problems linked to the process going from creation to broadcasting of the works. We are also developing European projects, notably with our partner Transcultures in Belgium and with Brazil as third country. We also parcitipate in the Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (www.bjcem.org). Our goal is to contribute to the emergence of a real network of places and to animate it with all our partners. We also collaborate to the Mimi festival in July 09 in Marseille and to the Festival d’Art Lyrique of Aix-en-Provence in June-July 09. Mediation is part of our work.
Raphaël Sage: Since April 2009, we have co-produced, with DFragment Seconde Nature in Lebanon, in collaboration with the Beirut Art Center and the Tunefork Studios, and with the support of Marseille Provence 2013 and Culturesfrance. We invited in Beirut the duet of performers Tarek Atoui and Nicolas Cante, who had already participated to Seconde Nature last year.
In January you opened a permanent place, the Scène Numérique. What do you intend to do?
The opening of the Scène Numérique in Aix-en-Provence (200 m2 of gallery of the Espace Sextius) corresponds to our will to accompany creation with residence times, to have a permanent place dedicated to multidisciplinary artistic broadcasting, and to be a convivial center of resources open to the public on an everyday basis. We offer tools and skills to artists, and we organize workshops, master classes and professional training. After the Métamorphoses cycle from the 4th June to the 25th July we offer a Global Techno cycle from 1st October to 5th November with a residence + exhibition of Jean-Yves Leloup & Pierre Emmanuel Rastoin, and then a cycle about Le Rêve (the dream), from 19th November to 24th December, with a residence + exhibition/performance of lu&nl.
What is the programme of the 2009 edition of the festival?
There will notably be Fujiya & Miyagi, Moderat, Danton Eeprom, Ivan Smagghe, Andrew Weatherall, Hydrocarbure from the Théâtre du Centaure, Sho(u)t version 02 of Vincent Elka, The Chap, Tim Exile, Metronomy, The Emperor Machine, Mathew Jonson, Chloé… As well as screenings, exhibitions, unusual walks at the Scène Numérique, at the Fondation Vasarely and in the public space…
Interview by Anne-Cécile Worms
Seconde Nature, 5-7 June 09, Cité du livre at Aix-en-Provence + Domaine départemental de Roque Haute, Pays d’Aix.
La Scène Numérique, Espace Sextius, 27 bis rue du 11 novembre, 13100 Aix-en-Provence.
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