After Un jour c’était la nuit (2006), Installation de feu and Chez cocotte (2009), and Article 13 (2012), our madcap friends from Carabosse are back at the festival with an original creation. The installation takes the form of a spectacular, vigorous melting pot of a travel journal at the foot of the Hôtel de Rennes Métropole, where the company will install its week-long residency as a collective creative lab. These travellers are back from pounding the pavement and exploring the path untrodden to share their world travels using fire, metal, paint, poetry and video in various spaces, with multiple modes of expression from guest artists.

Drawing on its many travels, Carabosse has been working on this multi-disciplinary and evolving creation for the past two years, around the concept of a performance “travel journal” that mixes perspectives and modes of artistic expression. As Time Goes By finds common ground between the company’s aesthetic and other artists (for example, singer and poet Denis Péan from the Lo’jo group, painter Patrick Singh, video artist Jérôme Aubrun, and object theatre creator Sylvie Monier), and consists of a number of “pages”. Some are lived in, others are fixed, while others move around. Some work independently and do not need operators. They all form part of a narrative that evolves with each performance in a fiery audio and visual aesthetic.

This vibrant, collective melting pot of a creative lab will be based in Place de la Communauté, near Hôtel de Rennes Métropole, and will spend a week in this urban context working on its art forms and performances. With a world painter, picture-tamers, a poet of the black and white keys, a tall double-bass player, fire sculptors, goldsmiths of sounds and acrobats of precious scrap metal, Carabosse works with fire, metal, music, painting, poetry and images to provide a lavish backdrop for encounters and stories that express all the beauty and complexity of the world.