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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
La Machine: Machines de Ville

La Machine: Machines de Ville

Mangin, David
Delaroziere, François

Paperback

Performance ArtSculpture & Installation

Publisher Price: $34.00

ISBN10: 2330136439
ISBN13: 9782330136437
Publisher: Actes Sud Ed
Published: Mar 9 2021
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 10.20 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Inside the world of La Machine's fantastical street theater, from mechanical bestiaries to urban spectacles

Since 1999, French production company La Machine has been creating live events and installations with astounding, gigantic mechanical animals and performing machinery. Through four exemplary projects in Nantes, La Roche-sur-Yon, Toulouse and Calais, La Machine: Machines de ville demonstrates how the elegant dynamics of this mechanical bestiary relate to space and to human performers.

This fully illustrated book charts the daily lives of the company, its members, artists, technicians and artisans, and how they undertake such visionary projects of mechanical urban architecture in order to create fantastically scaled dragons, minotaurs, frogs, crocodiles, spiders, mammoths and many other creatures.

In intricately detailed and labeled drawings and full-color photographs of the machines at every stage of their life, from construction to performance, the stories of these machines--and the people who build them--are collected here.

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