It’s 2012 here, and maybe you think the world is going to end, or maybe you think this is the year that you will hit the jackpot. At Trendland, we are betting our chips on a carefully designed utopian society in which we raise our citizens to continuously create. Luckily, earlier this year French directing collective Pleix were in a reflective mood as well and decided to time travel to the year 2062, a place which was vividly imagined in nine separate installations at Gaîté Lyrique in Paris earlier this year. All those neon electronics are really getting off the geek in us. Here are the results for you to judge.
“It’s about our times, it’s about combustion that often lead to loneliness, about our ability to make our own world more and more complicated and paradoxal, we can’t help becoming stranger to ourselves.”
