L'EXPÉRIENCE JAPONAISE 2011

For its third edition, L’Expérience Japonaise (LEX) has come to Paris! The festival will be taking place at la Gaîté lyrique on the 28th and 29th May 2011, bringing contemporary Japanese creativity in music, digital arts and performance to a French and European audience.

The LEX programme reflects the latest tendencies on the Japanese arts scene. Select, rebellious and unique, it draws on Tokyo club and street culture, regional universities and centres of contemporary creativity specialised in arts media.  

LEX takes us beyond the usual colourful Japanese stereotypes or static beauty of traditional art to reveal a multiple, complex, constantly evolving cultural universe.

(Photo Craftwife: Eric Bossick)

SATURDAY MAY 28, 2011

CONCERTS

•    8:30PM / Grande salle / 16 € / 13 €*

Tokyo Panorama Mambo Boys

Tokyo / electro-mambo. Veteran outsiders of the electro scene, the Tokyo Panorama Mambo Boys produce an explosive mix of mambo and good humour! Paradise Yamamoto, Gonzalez Suzuki and Comoesta Yaegashi (from the Readymade label), three incorrigible, hyperactive musketeers...

de!nial

Tokyo / electro-punk. de!nial (pronounced ‘daniel’) are dressed in tights, hoodies and cuddly toy masks. While their music is rooted in the violence of hard-core, their aesthetic is closer to new-wave and the Plastics, the cheap fluorescence of the eighties.

Craftwife

Ogaki / performance techno-pop. A portmanteau word born from the fusion of ‘Kraftwerk’ and ‘Housewife’, Craftwife is a colletive of housewives hooked on technology. Takeko Akamatsu uses her iPhone to control a computer on which the audio synthesis programming language SuperCollider is running.

Doravideo

Yamaguchi / performance batterie/vidéo. Yoshimitsu Ichiraku remixes videos live with the help of sensors installed on his drum kit. Each time his drum stick comes down, he starts up, stops, accelerates and flips sequences which are mixed in a visual and sonic deluge bordering on indecency.

PROJECTION

•    7PM / Auditorium / 5 € / 3 €*

Un voyage à Tokyo

By Paul Ouazan. Preview of Die Nacht / La Nuit (The Night – ARTE) on Tokyo. An urban and poetic portrait of the city, serene, six months before the disaster. Immersed in the daily life of its inhabitants, punctuated by musical deambulations (Shugo Tokumaru, Phnonpenh Model…)

CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP

•    3PM / Auditorium / 5 € / 3 €* (upon registration: publics@gaite-lyrique.net)

Chanson populaire japonaise : Enka

With Réna Kano. Come off the beaten track to discover a side of Japanese popular culture unknown to French and European audiences: the enka song tradition. The workshop will be split into two parts: a lecture in the auditorium and a small karaoke salon to better apprehend this magical repertoire.

SUNDAY MAY 29, MAI 2011

CONCERTS

•    5PM / Grande salle / 12 € / 10 €*

The 5.6.7.8’s

Tokyo, rock'n'roll. A female trio of garage rock founded in 1986 by the Fujiyama sisters, the 5,6,7,8’s made a brief appearance in the film Kill Bill Vol.1. Their music is heavily influenced by American rock’n’roll from the 50s, 60s, 70, and 80s, giving the group its name.

Tomari

Osaka/Tokyo, chanson rétro. When Kyû Sasayama (voice) and Atsuhiko Takemura (guitar) are on stage, it’s as if they had turned on an old crystal set complete with crackling speakers. What if the avant-garde now meant launching yourself seventy years back into the past?

PROJECTION

•    3PM / Auditorium / 5 € / 3 €*

77Boadrum

Film by Jun Kawaguchi. On July 7th 2007, the Boredoms, the legendary noise collective from Osaka, executed a performance with 77 drummers in a park in New York. The drums form a sonic spiral in response to a deafening wall of guitar sound.

WORKSHOP

•    12 MIDDAY / Foyer historique / 10 € / 8 €* (sur inscription : publics@gaite-lyrique.net)

Gyoza making

With Paradise Yamamoto. Leaving sushi to one side for a moment, let’s take a look at another Japanese culinary delicacy, gyozas. A subtle mix of chopped meat and vegetables delicately wrapped in a small pasta parcel and grilled or steam cooked.

SATURDAY MAY 28 AND SUNDAY MAY 29, 2011

•    From 2PM / Resource, gaming centre and 2nd floor / free entry

Japanese Motion Graphic Creators 2011

Works selected by Tokyo design agency, 4d2a. With showings in the Eclaireuses at the Gaîté lyrique, twenty or so animated films showing the creative diversity and new directions explored this year by Japanese video artists.

Alternippon Village

Record stands, books, clothes… throughout the year Paris plays host to quality Japanese cultural output. Check out the stands from Bimbo Tower, Hors-Circuits, JAAPAN Mochi Mochi, IMHO, God Save The Lolita and so on.

Resources and Gaming centre

A selection of works, magazines and mangas will be available at the Gaîté Lyrique resource centre, and a video gaming area is being designed in correlation with the LEX line-up.

2-DAY PASS

Entry to all concerts in the Grand salle, not including workshops and projections = 23 € / 19 €*

* Fare for la Gaîté lyrique members.

LA GAÎTÉ LYRIQUE

3 BIS RUE PAPIN, 75003 PARIS

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