Uriel Barthélémi: The Eyes of the Great Mantle of Night

Days and opening hours of the installation:
Open from 3pm to 7pm on :
Saturday July 25th
From Tuesday July 28th to Saturday August 1st
From Tuesday august 4th to Friday august 7th
From Tuesday August 25th to Saturday August 29th
From Tuesday, September 1st to Friday, September 4th

"Process Dat Sound!" is a series of events that will run over several weeks, as part of L’été culturel initiated by the DRAC Île-de-France, from July 24th to September 4th, 2020, in the heart of the 13th arrondissement of Paris!
Hosted by Bétonsalon — Centre d’art et de recherche & Théâtre 13, this project brings into dialogue an experimental battle between renowned Parisian hip hop dancers, musicians from the avant-garde scene, and The Eyes of the Great Mantle of Night, an immersive musical and visual installation that takes us into the canopies of the forests of Europe and Amazonia.

The Eyes of the Great Mantle of Night is a musical and video installation imagined by drummer and musician Uriel Barthélémi. The display takes the spectator to the heart of the forest. In a majestic slowness, the images of canopies from Europe and Amazonia unfold but are regularly modified by the spectators’ sticks: a drum set placed at their disposal allows them to influence the visual narration via an interactive system.
Intense, spirited and meditative performances by the musician highlight this suspended dive into the canopy, inviting the spectator to travel and reflect on our relationship to the forest in our contemporary rhythms of life.

Free entrance, reservations and registrations : contact@passageprod.com / 06 74 45 38 64

Distribution:
Conception programming interpretation: Uriel Barthélémi
Programming: Yragael Gervais
Set design: Sarah Grandjean

Production: François Nouel / Production Passage
With the support of Drac Ile de France, Dicréam, Cnv, CD94, Le Générateur, Césaré-cncm, La biennale Némo, La Maison Laurentine, HH Hotel.

Uriel Barthélémi is a drummer, composer, electro-acoustician.
After studying at the conservatoire, he began a work of electro-acoustic composition which leads him to create since 2002 in many fields of the performing arts: dance, puppets, theater but also visual arts. Intimately mixing acoustic drums and electronic research, flexible writing and improvisation, he has received commissions from the FIAC, the Maerzmusik festival, the National Theatre of China, the Sharjah Art Foundation, Césaré-cncm.

The project Process Dat Sound! is part of the program L’été culturel in Île-de-France, with the support of the Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France - Ministère de la Culture, Césaré-cncm, in partnership with Théâtre 13, Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche, Passage Production and Uni’son.