Le Sacre du Printemps arabe

Recorded at the CND 1st March 2017

The first work in a climatic, political, historic and resurgent tetralogy called The Cardinal Rites of Chaos, Le Sacre du Printemps arabe is the first season in an epic project centred on the wheel of history. After the Arab Spring of winter 2011, which they evoked in a preceding work, Le Prix Kadhafi, today they are making the leap to their Sacre du printemps arabe, which will be premiered in May 2017, just before the election of a new French president. A political spring, between the Arab spring and the French spring, after the name of an obscure far right movement that emerged in 2013 in response to the law permitting same-sex marriage. ‘It will be spring. The earth will be covered with grass. The earth will be covered with flowers. Great joy will reign over the earth. The elected leader will arrive at the Élysée and, alone, walk along the red carpet leading to the front steps, at the foot of which the outgoing president will be waiting. They will shake hands and go into the palace, where they will have a private conversation. Certain state secrets will be shared, including the code to launch the nuclear strike force. The new president will accompany the former president to the steps. The outgoing president will descend the steps alone to the car in which he will leave the presidential palace. A twenty-one-canon salute will be fired. Men will dance and examine the future according to the rites.’