Festival Arbres et Lumières - Geneva november 28th 2008 - january 4th 2009
Cocoon
Coming from elsewhere or nowhere, a swarm of luminous
cocoons have settled, for a single winter, in the branches of the trees
of the Jardin Anglais. Who are these creatures, which seem to have been
generated by Nature unchained, born of a prehistoric era or a transgenic
future?
Barely perceptible chimes, sounds jolted by the winds, make themselves
heard. Sharp-eared visitors may gradually perceive the scattered notes
of a lullaby, echoes of a music box coming from above.
These sounds are emitted by the cocoons, as if to emphasize their numbness
by diffusing a subliminal message inviting to hibernation and reverie.
35 luminous cocoons fixed on 7 trees. Sound installation: each cocoons shelters a case which contains a motor-activated music box
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