World Premiere – La chambre des mémoires à-venir
in the forbidden basements of Paris La Défense
From September 16 to October 01, 2023, Paris hosts the world premiere of La Chambre des mémoires à-venir.
Two partners, Mondes Nouveaux and Paris La Défense, have joined forces to offer the public a unique experience: the discovery of a complex world where you are invited to get lost or find yourself, for a period of 30 minutes, in the forbidden basements of Paris La Défense.
La chambre des mémoires à-venir is designed by architect François Roche, who has brought together a multidisciplinary, international team with New-Territories: philosopher Emanuele Coccia (France) & artist Mika Tamori (Japan/Thailand), artist-director Chris Delaporte (France), sound designer Damien Sorrentino (France) and actress Laura Benson (UK/France). Signaling the return of New-Territories_S/her to Europe, France and Paris, La Chambre des mémoires à-venir is the ultimate opportunity to plunge beneath the Paris La Défense slab into these forbidden places, programmed to be re-structured.
“It seems plausible to us to conjugate a narrative in the past future tense, in the literal sense, to look at a tomorrow, a tomorrow right in front of us (the one that frightens us and that we never stop caressing) where the species (ours and all those on this planet) will have mutated, at once human and technoid, vegetable and cerebral, chrysalis and Darwinian chimera. Post-parietal creatures give themselves the right to speculate on the hypothesis of a new branch of evolution. Then a journey to the surface, into the psyche of a “blue pill” ” New-Territories_S/he
La Chambre des mémoires à-venir is immersive & performative - philosophical and technological, scientific and psychological, cinematographic and theatrical - living, visual and architectural.
La Chambre des mémoires à-venir is experienced, lived, played, felt, constructed and deconstructed. It is this metamorphosis that is proposed in Paris, in the intermediate/interstitial spaces beneath the Paris La Défense slab.
For the duration of the event, these forbidden basements will open up to the public for the first and last time, becoming a den where you can overhear the snippets of a conversation, a dispute, a polyphonic and cavernous controversy put into words & staged between a philosopher & an architect who entrust to paraeidolic and cosmic entities what is being whispered about the future of the world in a temporal elsewhere. An archaeological retro-future that watches us struggle through the here-and-now.
"Here, tomorrow, already there''
