We will start our next creation called
THE BIG BANGThe show imagines the story of the universe, from the Big Bang to Man... and beyond?
We will combine the infinitely great and the infinitely small, life and matter, madness and reason.
A large scale visual and musical poem.
The show is expected to start between late 2010 and mid 2011.The director’s viewpoint
Jumping into the subject, I was surprised by the fascination that it could bring. Although a bit daunting for the «uninformed» I am provoked not to boredom but rather a desire to know the result, like in a good novel. I was also struck by scientists’ need for images to make theories or discoveries identifiable and accessible. We also spoke about “strange quark”, “charmed quark”, and “beauty quark”, so called colourful constellations and nebulae ... Names that make you want to know more ...
I was also very surprised at the number of poetic and philosophical citations in popular scientific works, where Hawking put forwards the idea of time when talking about quantum physics, that he also wants to explain the complexity in a children’s book, and that Luminet also establish a strong link between poetry and astrophysics ...
Through all this, there is a real willingness by scientists to be understood by as many people as possible, to not remain locked in their in their cliques. Suddenly it seemed interesting to me that as artists we do the opposite, that poetry leads us to the rational: crossing paths, we say roughly, from the scientific to the poetic for some, the poetic to the scientific for others.
Gaston Bachelard’s reflection confirms the common ground between artists and scientists: the imagination. Although it doesn’t have the same purpose for the two professions (one distorts reality to create a poetic vision, the other distorts the appearance that seems to be reality to discover a more “real” or more “accurate” reality), one can imagine that these two goals satisfy the same quest: to know and understand the world.Marc Bureau
