Eternal Tour: Le Road Opera
2011? Go to Las Vegas! What is Eternal Tour?
Let’s read and interpret the world as a sum of movements, implicating body and mind, furthermore in a so-called contemporaneity that seems to allow every possible artistic form and ideological content to exist. But does contemporaneity mean the same for everyone everywhere?
Eternal Tour is an association, which organizes a nomadic festival held every year in a different city: Rome 2008; Neuchâtel 2009; Jerusalem and Ramallah 2010; and Las Vegas 2011. Born in Geneva in 2007, Eternal Tour brings together academics and artists who address issues such as cosmopolitism, tourism, migration, exile, but also creoleness, feminism, taxonomy, practice-based knowledge and empirical thought.
During each festival, including its preparation, the Eternal Tour team interacts with local partners: encounters, exchanges, reflections, research and creations characterize this trans-disciplinary think-tank. Is our world really globalized? What does cosmopolitanism represent in today’s world? Can we still imagine a Weltbürgerschaft, a world citizenship? What are the boundaries or limits – social or physical, material or imaginary – which fragment our spaces and networks? are amongst the issues addressed by Eternal Tourists who position themselves as curious visitors.