Les Chaos Ambiants

Hailing from Belgium, Spain, France, Ireland, Japan and the UK, 14 musicians and 2 visual artists will be showcasing their creations from Friday to Sunday evening.

A festival dedicated to discovering the region's heritage, current musical practices and visual arts. A festival showcasing local producers committed to short circuits and those working to preserve and protect the environment. A festival immersed in the Morvan Natural Park, respecting and promoting its natural and cultural heritage.

This event favours a restricted format to ensure optimum comfort in terms of listening and space; a unique stage to promote emerging and established artists; a natural setting conducive to the discovery of musical works and artistic installations; an ecologically responsible approach to limit its environmental impact.

The project has a number of aims: to promote the European and international artistic scene, to stimulate and strengthen the cultural and creative network across the département and the region; to help promote and enhance the natural and cultural heritage of Burgundy-Franche-Comté; to encourage short circuits and thus the local economy.

MUSIC

Fascinated by electronic musical adventures, they go off the beaten track and recount their introspective journey with humility and sincerity. Led by Alfonso Pomeda, artistic director of Mostra BCN, a festival in Barcelona that showcases artists on the fringes of mainstream electronic culture, the line-up will include Absis (ES), Alcachofa (FR), Avsluta (UK), Faery (UK), Fran Campos (ES), Lynne (JP), Merovee (FR), Metshka Pampo (FR), Myles Dillon (IE), Nems-B (FR), Orsu (FR), Owl (BE), Toé (FR) and Sybil (UK).


VISUAL ARTS / WORKSHOP

"In 2000, the first pizzly was born. A contraction of grizzly and polar bear, these two species of bear do not inhabit the same areas. It was global warming that drove the polar bear out of the Arctic and into the forests, into the arms of the brown bear. The first pizzly is considered to be the first hybrid being of the Anthropocene, the geological era marked by human activity*".

Extract from the book: Etre heureux avec moins, Corinne Morel Darleux, published by ALT, March 2023, page 6

What if other animals did the same? What if we imagined a world where, fighting for survival, other hybrid animals like the pizzly appeared? The Pauza association is offering a linocut and sound design workshop based on endangered animal species in Burgundy-Franche-Comté, looking at the adaptability and transformation of species. Playful, dynamic and open to all, the aim of this project is to question our relationship with living things and to project us towards a resilient future.

Audrey Pereira, a visual artist, and Alexis Nemtchenko, a sound artist under the alias Merovee, will be carrying out research using information gathered from the DREAL and the OFB to compile fact sheets on each animal, and make drawings and field recordings. In this way, local residents will be able to learn more about endangered animal species while at the same time familiarising themselves with the tools of contemporary printmaking by immersing themselves in a sound work created especially for the workshop. Carried out in partnership with the Sommant town council, this project is designed to travel around the region, and may be hosted in a number of local communities.

VISUAL ARTS / INSTALLATION

Adrien Lamm imagines a simple, dreamlike hut, a refuge where the intimate and the distant communicate.

Constructed of light wood, it houses at its heart a disc covered in fluorescent paint which, under UV light, lights up and diffuses an enigmatic aura. Its windows, both veils and revelations, play with scale and perception. Subtle work on the lighting creates a suspended atmosphere between heaven and earth, where light seems to float in space. Inside, the outside is reflected: nature, cosmos and architecture merge, bringing the infinitely distant into the intimate space of the home. The unknown converses with the familiar, blurring the boundaries between inside and outside, the intimate and the universal. This house, housing the apparition of a full moon, humbly takes its place in the midst of modern architecture, and makes a mockery of the spectacular. Through its design and its poetic message, it invites us to reflect on the need for imagination, a discreet but powerful resistance to the alignment of worldviews. The setting of the square, on the Ile Saint-Louis, encourages meditation.

Adrien Lamm is a multi-disciplinary artist who has explored a range of media, from video to craft techniques, and now devotes his time to sculpture, drawing and installations. His work plays on contrasts: raw and delicate, grotesque and poetic. He has exhibited in Paris and performed in art centres such as La Traverse and La Ferme du Buisson.

This installation was presented in 2025 at the Nuit Blanche in Paris, in the Square Barye on the Ile Saint Louis.

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