The disused Parisian railway depot Chapelle Charbon has begun its transformation into an urban park. The site’s immensity, its silence, wild nature, and industrial landscape will soon be filled with the new sounds of public life. Theatrum Mundi, Cie MDPA – Alexandra Lacroix, and the composer Marta Gentilucci are developing Voi[e,x,s]: a project that will use this exceptional space as a stage and as an instrument, collaborating with its future inhabitants to make audible their voices, their names, to perform the site’s past and its new possibilities. Voi[e,x,s] Chapelle Charbon #2 is the second experiment with these ideas using the Parc des 12 saisons, a temporary social space created by Collectif Chapelle Charbon during the development. For this experiment, 300 names of local residents resounded in the architecture of the park, amongst the voices of children, performers and the urban surroundings. This film documents workshops run during 2019 which led to a performance on Nuit Blanche 5 October 2019.
