The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Gary Hill
VIDEAST
United States
Biography
A videast from California, Gary Hill is not so much a man of images as a man of ideas and words, as his work has shown since the early 70s. Inspired by the writings of Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Lévinas, Hill’s work fits within the school of conceptual art, exploring issues of identity, otherness, language, the body, and immersion in a foreign environment. He therefore heartily welcomed the offer to create a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Lyon Opera. Which is good because what is Fidelio about if not an alienated, unnatural, displaced, confined identity? After Varèse 360°, presented in 2009 at the Holland Festival, the South Bank Theater, and the Festival d’Automne in Paris, Fidelio will be Hill’s second encounter with the world of music.
