Chimera Festival, France
CHIMERIA : INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS VISIONARIES
23 October to 1 November 2010 – SEDAN
17 nations represented / 63 International artists
Chimera flyer (Painting by HR Giger)
The visionary cosmos and plurality of worlds, “Science & Fiction”
For its eighth edition, the International Arts Festival Chimeria visionaries decided to focus its theme and its gaze to the infinite depths of the cosmos. Source of questioning, fantasy and poetry, the universe continues to inspire humanity. We have chosen the year 2010 of interest to us through the cosmos and the interrelationship between science and fertile imagination. The latest research in theoretical physics and astrophysics seem to actually reach the mythologies of old. Claude Levi-Strauss, who died recently had clearly demonstrated the appearance of the famous mythical big-bang physics, notably by comparing the fiat lux of Genesis. Galileo 2010 is the year we wanted to pay tribute to this eminent thinker that some have identified it as the founding father of empirical science. But Galileo was not a clever thinker, he was also a poet, imagining behind the first telescope of the plurality of worlds. Are there any other life elsewhere in the universe? Are there other intelligent creatures on other planets? Are there other levels of reality? Is the universe finite or infinite?
All these issues are becoming central to societal debate. Scientists seek to unravel the mystery of the origin of our universe. The material seems to vanish in the equations still more abstract quantum physicists. The material becomes information, language. Again science meets myth, the beginning was the Word! In the early twentieth century quantum physics has inspired abstract art and cubism. The relationship between artists and scientists has always been very dense and intense. Influencing each other in turn. The authors of science fiction, and the filmmakers have also provided guidance for areas of science. How can we not think here in 2001 by Stanley Kubrick. The sci-fi films like the recent James Cameron’s Avatar has captivated the attention of millions of viewers.
Today the cinema is the best representative of the fusion between science and fantasy. The image and representation have become the ontological structure of our contemporary reality. Because the word is said! it’s all about performances. The Universe of physicists, as well as the myths of old are representations of reality. Designing the world is creating it! Thus scientists and artists express their art to make worlds.
Programme 2010 Festival CHIMERIA
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Mary LETERRIER
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