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Visitors of all countries play The Celestial Hopscotch while The Volta
Show! <a href="http://www.voltashow.com/"
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The Celestial Hopscotch will be streamed on Internet the 16th June
there <a href="http://aether9.org/"
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with Dock18 (*).<br>
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Direct link <a
href="http://1904.cc/aether/2010/news/nomadic-streaming-at-art-basel/"
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The Celestial Hopscotch grid will be drawn on the outskirts of Volta
Show in parallel of the International Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland.
Another was drawn in Paris on May 19 in rue de l'Exposition (Exposition
Street). The last Celestial Hopscotch grid will be drawn before the
Marathon of Shanghai is run just before the closing of the 2010 World's
Fair, as part of the <<Global Poetic System>> project.<br>
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Franck Ancel is having an event which will commence a few hours after
the official opening of the Shanghai World's Fair. He proposes to each
of you to experience a virtual pavilion. This is one year before China
launches its uninhabited module "Triangong-1" into space. When
translated literally, its name means "Celestial Palace", where the
Taikonauts will conduct experiments in zero gravity.<br>
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Franck Ancel had already brought up this near future in his artistic
project <<1957/2007: from Sputnik Satellite to Explorer
Art>>. That cosmic dimension is today a major factor in the
planetary imagination. In, during a conference he gave in Silicon
Valley, he even imagined "A Scenography towards a Planetary Network for
Shanghai 2010", also concerned with satellites. (1)<br>
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Without any satellites, the current conception of the Universal
Exposition has transformed the narrow streets of Shanghai, where the
universal game of hopscotch (2) had been played by the city's youth for
centuries. Now, Ancel will create a Celestial Hopscotch in the
zerography of planetary consciousness.<br>
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At the Universal Exposition of Paris in 1900, Loïe Fuller danced under
the flag of its electricity pavilion. Ancel offers the chance for
everyone to design their own virtual Pavilion, to "dance" on the ground
of world cities, a hopscotch grid already present on five continents
where the land becomes zero and the sky infinite.<br>
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Franck Ancel previously put continental universality into play in 2005
during his trip from Shanghai to Europe when he created the world
premiere, broadcasting a real time video from the air lasting 64
minutes live over the internet via satellite, at more than 900
kilometers per hour and at an altitude of nearly 30,000 feet.<br>
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64 words per minute were broadcast in this video in this manifesto in
order to construct a personal cosmological lexicon. For this new event,
they will make up the eight squares of the Celestial Hopscotch grid,
which each can fill in from his own imagination. It is this type of
numerological alchemy that will orient our event <<from Zero to
Infinity>> under the dome of the Temple de Pentemont in Paris on
June 26, using as its basis an original, as yet unseen, manuscript by
Mallarmé.<br>
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Come with us in Basel on the Facebook event
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href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100175690028339">http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100175690028339</a><br>
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Franck Ancel<br>
E <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:ancelfranck@gmail.com">ancelfranck@gmail.com</a><br>
M +33 676 470 610<br>
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Franck Ancel is Zerographer. Craftsman of his life for nearly forty
years, of which half has been spent on projects that can be definied in
20 connections: 1989-2009 / invisible-visible /
architecture-environment / Kiesler-Polieri / neo-avant-garde /
space-time / technology-science / language-form / network-data /
history-memory / freedoom-love / screen-stage / sounds-colours /
lighthouse-satellite / desert-island / community-being / body-mouvement
/ past-future / skin-soul / spirituality-poetic.<br>
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(1) <a
href="http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/ia6_2_interactivecity_ancel_shanghai.pdf"
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(2) Chinese texts mention it as early as 2357 B.C.<br>
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(*) <a href="http://www.dock18.ch/"
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