The North Pole is one of the world’s areas of acceleration. Observing and analysing it is surveying a future territory, it’s like looking at the place where the Earth’s fate is unfolding in present time.
Mankind urgently needs to understand the changes that are taking place in these areas of acceleration if we want to be able to anticipate, preserve, guide developments, adapt and avoid the undesirable. However, at present there hasn’t been any attempt to analyse or precisely map the North Pole in a forward-looking perspective. This conference aims, among other goals, to fill that gap.
What you will be told tonight during this conference will be the truth. The naked, crude, violent truth. It’s upsetting and particularly terrifying.
And so inevitable that it’s even more desperate.
But it can also be the harbinger of brighter days ahead. And of a new world to be inhabited and invented.
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Duration: 1 h
Conception: Frédéric Ferrer
Notices and credits
Production: Vertical Détour
Coproduction: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Partnership: Etablissement Public de Santé de Ville-Evrard.
Partnership on the former project: Domaine d’O, domaine départemental d’art et de culture (Hérault, Montpellier) ; Ferme de Bel Ebat - Théâtre de Guyancourt ; CNES - La Chartreuse ; Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (aide à la production) ; Conseil Général de la Seine-Saint-Denis, Adami ; l’Observatoire de l’Espace, le laboratoire Arts-Sciences du CNES
With the support of: l’Etablissement Public de Santé de Ville-Evrard.
La compagnie Vertical Détour est conventionnée par la Région et la DRAC Île-de-France – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Elle est en résidence au Centre de Réadaptation de Coubert – établissement de l’UGECAM Île-de-France et soutenue par la DRAC et l’ARS Île-de-France dans le cadre du programme Culture et Santé.