Les Ailleurs is a festival co-organized by Fisheye and Gaîté Lyrique. This new event is dedicated to immersive experiences with artists, authors and thinkers who are exploring these new mediums.
With immersive media, the choice of destination matters much more than an infinite scroll on social networks. And this is how the programmers of Elsewhere scoured the map with their senses, coming back with a selection of initiatory, exotic trips, possible drifts in the land of a new understanding. The poetics of Rimbaud’s “long, immense and reasoned derangement of all the senses” scrapes together with the visions expressed by new travel technologies in the era of the controlled carbon footprint: virtual reality, augmented, mixed, sound spatialization, interactive screens, interactive virtual worlds …
The festival logo shows a skewed Apoc. The bilingual website is largely typeset in Apoc, too. It’s used for headings, the menu and text, and is discreetly accompanied by Roobert for the technical information or the tags.