| UN
FAUTEUIL APARTENANT AU THEATRE DE BEYROUTH, AIN EL MRAISSÉ BEYROUTH,
A ÉTÉ COUPÉ EN DEUX DANS LA VITRINE DU THÉATRE
DURANT LE FESTIVAL SHAMS [7 - 27 MARS 2001]. IL EST INSTALLÉ DANS
LA MAGNANERIE DE FRAYKEH [FESTIVAL FRAYKEH, 21 JUIN - 1 JUILLET 2001] EN
PRÉSENCE DE SES SPECTATEURS, QUI DEVIENNENT LES NOUVEAUX ACTEURS. |
1
ACTE / 2 PIECES
LE
LIVRE - lire les feuillets |
| A
SEAT BELONGING TO THE THEATRE DE BEYROUTH, AIN EL MRAISSÉ BEIRUT,
WAS CUT IN TWO PIECES IN THE THEATRE'S VITRINE DURING THE SHAMS FESTIVAL
[MARCH 7 - 27, 2001]. IT IS INSTALLED IN THE FRAYKEH SILK FACTORY [FRAYKEH
FESTIVAL, JUNE 21 – JULY 1] WITH ITS SPECTATORS, ALSO BECOMING THE NEW
ACTORS. |
1
ACTE / 2 PIECES
THE
BOOK - read the leaflets |
| Jean
Baudrillard - Disneyworld Company |
| "(...)
But the Disney enterprise goes beyond the imaginary. Disney, the precursor,
the grand initiator of the imaginary as virtual reality, is now in the
process of capturing all the real world to integrate it into its synthetic
universe, in the form of a vast "reality show" where reality itself becomes
a spectacle [vient se donner en spectacle], where the real becomes a theme
park. The transfusion of the real is like a blood transfusion, except that
here it is a transfusion of real blood into the exsanguine universe of
virtuality. After the prostitution of the imaginary, here is now the hallucination
of the real in its ideal and simplified version. |
| (...)
But we are no longer in a society of spectacle, which itself has become
a spectacular concept. It is no longer the contagion of spectacle that
alters reality, but rather the contagion of virtuality that erases the
spectacle. Disneyland still belonged to the order of the spectacle and
of folklore, with its effects of entertainment [distraction] and distanciation
[distance]. Disney World and its tentacular extension is a generalized
metastasis, a cloning of the world and of our mental universe, not in the
imaginary but in a viral and virtual mode. We are no longer alienated and
passive spectators but interactive extras [figurants interactifs]; we are
the meek lyophilized members of this huge "reality show." It is no longer
a spectacular logic of alienation but a spectral logic of disincarnation;
no longer a fantastic logic of diversion, but a corpuscular logic of transfusion
and transubstantiation of all our cells; an enterprise of radical deterrence
of the world from the inside and no longer from outside, similar to the
quasi-nostalgic universe of capitalistic reality today. Being an extra
[figurant] in virtual reality is no longer being an actor or a spectator.
It is to be out of the scene [hors-scene], to be obscene. (...) " |
| This
is a translation of Jean Baudrillard's "Disneyworld Company", published
on March 4, 1996 in the Parisian newspaper, Liberation. translated
by Francois Debrix. click
here to read the complete text. |
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