La Ville en Bocal

A visual and audio performance for a shop window and its passers-by

Do I hear everything I see? Do I see everything I hear?

In La Ville en Bocal (The City in a Jar), Les Harmoniques du Néon invite spectators to take their places inside the large glass gallery of the Casino Luxembourg – the Aquarium – to see and listen to the performance’s main protagonist: reality.

Strange and singular, reality is a ‘landscape-character’ that offers us, in subtle, delightful details to observe, a poetry of everyday life. The musicians of the United Instruments of Lucilin ensemble are invited to play with it, making the most of the sounds and situations the street provides. They slip into it with their own musicality and their bodies as instrumentalists. 

This unique encounter between the musicality of public space and instrumental music, between the inside and the outside, but also between the expected and the unpredictable, creates the conditions for a transformation of our perceptions, enabling us to hear and see differently

Visual: Marion Jdanoff. All rights reserved

Video: trailer for Vitrine., a performance by Anne-Julie Rollet and Anne-Laure Pigache. Production: par Les Harmoniques du Néon