Fous de Bassin

Human beeing, fire and water

Rivers, lakes, seas and ports are, along with forests, our reservoirs of the imaginary. Untrodden stages, stretches of water rest unbuilt-on breaths of the urban, fragments of horizon which transport the contemporary citizen as jungle fringes do a town. The mythologies born out of this element, from surf to engulfment,also shape our future, between ideals of sliding, fear of shortages and research of the unfathomed. It is upon this already teeming surface that we have created Water Fools. After "Narcissus Reflects", where we invite the spectator on the water's banks to lean over and "reflect upon himself", we have crossed the mirror and drawn from the water as from a reservoir of contemporary phantasmagoria.

Be it with autonomous lighting, fireworks or the musical writing of Phil Spectrum, Water Fools carries away the spirit, when a simple citizen's hum-drum between cars and lamp posts topples over into the nonsensical, and the ordinary evaporates to give voice to a different world.
Actor-chimeras, fire jousts, musical flights or incandescent machinery will then, carried on by masterly touches of light, colour and explosion, trace the ephemeral dramatic and utopian condition of mankind.

The man , the water and the fire

"Fous de bassin" takes place by night on the water, in ports, lakes or rivers.

The show lasts half an hour and is intended for about ten thousand spectators standing on the banks.

(Pictures: Emmanuel Brun, Michel Charles, Klaus Tummer, Dominique Noël, Françoise Léger, ilotopie)