La Machine: Machines de ville
Language: English
Published by Actes Sud, 2021
- Softcover
- New

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- Title
- La Machine: Machines de ville
- Publisher
- Actes Sud
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 2330136439
- ISBN 13
- 9782330136437
- Item weight
- 950 grams
Inside the world of La Machine’s fantastical street theater, from mechanical bestiaries to urban spectacles
Since 1999, French production company La Machine has been creating live events and installations with astounding, gigantic mechanical animals and performing machinery. Through four exemplary projects in Nantes, La Roche-sur-Yon, Toulouse and Calais, La Machine: Machines de ville demonstrates how the elegant dynamics of this mechanical bestiary relate to space and to human performers.
This fully illustrated book charts the daily lives of the company, its members, artists, technicians and artisans, and how they undertake such visionary projects of mechanical urban architecture in order to create fantastically scaled dragons, minotaurs, frogs, crocodiles, spiders, mammoths and many other creatures.
In intricately detailed and labeled drawings and full-color photographs of the machines at every stage of their life, from construction to performance, the stories of these machines―and the people who build them―are collected here.
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About the Author
François Delarozière, diplômé de l’École des beaux-arts de Marseille, est le directeur artistique de l’association "La Machine". Depuis toujours, il explore la machinerie des manèges et l’objet en mouvement. Inventeur et constructeur de décors et de créations pour le théâtre de rue, il conçoit et dirige la fabrication, depuis plus de quinze ans, de grandes machines de spectacle dont certaines de la compagnie Royal de Luxe. Parmi les plus emblématiques des pièces maîtresses de ces scénographies urbaines : le Géant, le Rhinocéros, le Petit Géant, les Girafes, la Petite Géante et le Grand Eléphant… Il est également le concepteur de la rue du Cargo Melquiades-Ville de Nantes (1992) ; le manège de Catimini (1994) ; le Beau Manège à Toulouse (1996) ; le Manège d’Andréa (1999) ; le décor du Passager pour le Channel, scène nationale de Calais (2000) ; la scénographie de l’exposition “Lisbonne/ Lisboa” pour le parc de La Villette à Paris (2002) ; le Géant des sept mers, créature hybride de 15 tonnes (élément central de la scénographie du spectacle du Forum 2004 à Barcelone) ; le Manège de Carré Sénart (2008) ; l’Araignée, créée pour Liverpool, capitale européenne en 2008. En 2004, il a créé avec le compositeur Mino Malan le spectacle La Symphonie mécanique. Il a participé à la réhabilitation du Channel (les anciens abattoirs à Calais) comme scénographe associé à l’équipe de l’architecte Patrick Bouchain (cf. Le Channel, collection “L’Impensé”, Actes Sud, 2008). Depuis plusieurs années, François Delarozière enseigne au département Scénographie de l’école d’architecture de Nantes. Son dernier livre Chimères et autres animaux fantastiques paraît en 2024.
Philippe Dossal est journaliste indépendant, successivement correspondant de Libération, de La Tribune et du Pointà Nantes. Il est l'auteur, entre autres, de Jean Blaise, réenchanteur de ville (Ateliers Henri Dougier, 2015).
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