“The painter Marcel Duchamp used to say:
'The work is made by the one who looks at it.'
As soon as there is no one looking at it, there is no more work.
The public is part of creation, ”
said Jean-Michel Ribes, director of the Rond-Point theater in Paris, on Sunday, April 4, on the France Info 23h set.
While in the United States or in Barcelona, cultural places are gradually reopening their doors, the health situation has persisted in France since last October, the date of the second confinement.
A sad fate reserved for a world of culture sacrificed in which there is however "
not a single cluster, nor the slightest contamination"
, underlined Jean-Michel Ribes.
Like his colleagues, he denounces the deafening silence of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, who has not once mentioned the case of theaters, cinemas and theaters, during his speech on Wednesday March 31.
“
What is not said does not exist, so one comes to wonder if the culture exists,
he explained then.
We are part of the nation all the same.
It's more than contempt, it's indifference.
"
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For several weeks, demonstrators have engaged in a radical movement by occupying dozens of cultural places in order to restore the situation of intermittents, and demand a reopening and financial aid.
In Paris, occupants have, for example, taken over the Théâtre de l'Odéon since March 4, while others have put their mattresses and sleeping bags in the corridors of the Paloma concert hall, in Nîmes there. at two weeks.
To these observations, the director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point confided: “
It inspires me awkwardness
.
The people who are there are asking for a little bit of recognition for the intermittent workers. "
And to conclude: “
Because when we are told that we are given money, what does that mean?
It's like telling a writer you are paid for paper, typewriter, eraser, etc., but you don't edit your book because you are giving the virus.
It is not possible.
"
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