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.
Limit states: testing the body
Bertrand Hell. All rights reserved, Stevens Laureys ©ULg Michel Houet and Jean-Louis Étienne ©7C
Place de la Comédie
Lyon 1er
With : Bertrand Hell, Steven Laureys et Jean-Louis Étienne.
Presented by : Jean-Marie Durand / Les Inrocks
Trance, mystical experience, altered consciousness, coma, or physical performances pushed to the extreme: there are many experiences that stretch the limits of what the body can do, shaking up usual patterns along with ways to think categories such as art, illness, or madness. Artists, doctors, anthropologists, and explorers discover new territories and venture out into still uncharted territories of thought and perception. What are the new realities, and the new relation to the world, that emerge from these experiences which defy norms?
5 € / Free for high school and university students, job-seekers, and those who have the Opéra pass "Jeune et Solidarité".
Information and reservations at Opéra
> by phone : 04 69 85 54 54 ou au guichet (mar-sa 12h-19h)
> online : www.opera-lyon.com
