After the rainbow bubble bath at the Center Pompidou in 2022, an Amazonian jungle on the Seine will be invited to the next edition of Nuit blanche on Saturday June 3.
A Seine camouflaged in the Amazon thanks to a “ imaginary jungle “: the first Nuit blanche on sunny days, Saturday June 3 in Paris, its metropolis, Rouen and Le Havre, will give pride of place to the river, with the 2024 Olympic Games as a backdrop. Yetis ” pop “, dancing Chinese lions, brightly colored retro animal costumes, a unicorn that disappears under the ashes… Collapsed by the vision” of an ecological disaster in Paraguay, where she saw the primary forest and its animals replaced by “ hundreds of km of arid soil linked to the soybean and maize trade », the artistic director Kitty Hartl wanted to create a « imaginary jungle with very bright colors “, she explained Thursday at a press conference.
The Austrian artistic programmer, already at the helm of Sleepless night in 2022, was inspired by the film Fitzcarraldoreleased in 1982, for ” recreate this poetic image of the Amazon on the Seine “. At the eastern tip of theSt. Louis Island, we will witness a second sunset, while lyrical tunes will resound from the voices of singers posted on the quays of the Seine, or from gramophones placed on gondolas in the Saint-Martin canal. In Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), the river will serve as a projection support to reconstitute the Big Dipper; in Alfortville (Val-de-Marne), it will serve as the theater for a live performance inspired by The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
A nod to the 2024 Olympics
Like the two previous editions, this 22e version of Nuit blanche, with 200 events, will be resolutely geared towards 2024 Olympics, whose opening ceremony will also take place on the Seine. Giant and crazy ping-pong tournament on the Quai d’Austerlitz, burlesque Mexican wrestling at the Châtelet, works presented in stadiums or gymnasiums, there will be many nods to the planetary sporting event.
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Moved from the first weekend of October to that of June after an electronic vote wanted by the mayor Anne Hidalgothe famous night of contemporary art launched by its predecessor Bertrand Delanoe in 2002, adopted since by many cities around the world, will now “ live under the midnight sun “, figured the cultural istant Carine Rolland. When it gets dark at 10 p.m., everything changes, the light is not the same “, she added.
The envelope of the town hall for this edition is established at 1.4 million euros, financed at ” 80-90% ” by the City, the rest coming from the organizing committee of the Olympic Games ” and sponsorship “, specified the deputy. The budget of the Metropolis, of which 24 municipalities are participating in the operation this year, stands at 1.1 million euros.