Indice Ultraviolet: Out at Zion Corner, Bar King, Yoga Fabrik, La Maison du Dormir and Brasserie Le Cardinal

Artists: Aladin Borioli, Pamina de Coulon, Early Labyrinth & la chorale du chaos éthique, eggs and tiaras, Alex Ghandour, Hammer Band, la folle Avoine, Ernestyna Orlowska, Manuel Perrin, Francisco Sierra, Rebecca Solari, Robert Torche, Jan van Oordt, Claude Wave, Pina Wood

Exhibition title: Indice Ultraviolet: Out

Presented by: CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel

Venues: Zion Corner, Bar King, Yoga Fabrik, La Maison du Dormir, Brasserie Le Cardinal, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Date: May 5 – 7, 2023

Photography: Thalles Piaget and Sebastian Verdon / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel

Indice Ultraviolet: Out is a contemporary art festival proposed by CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel. Over three days, May 5-6-7 2023, performances, concerts, walks and readings are scheduled in downtown Neuchâtel, in the public space or in collaboration with the several neighbouring establishments.

This is the third part of a bi-annual cycle of events whose title Indice Ultraviolet refers to the scale for measuring the intensity of the radiation of a part of the electromagnetic energy emitted by the sun. It serves here as a symbolic measurement tool of the state of our ecosystem: the various social, economic, ecological and political crises we are currently going through. Without pretending to cover them exhaustively, the intention is to evoke their existence and their consequences as well as the questions that surround them. This year, accompanied by the subtitle Out, it refers to, among other things, the Seyon river which, in the past, split the city of Neuchâtel and sometimes burst its banks, causing disasters and illnesses, to the cyanobacteria that appeared on the shores of the lake during the particularly hot summer of 2020, restricting the pleasures of human and canine bathing, or to the energy saving measures of the winter of 2022-2023, which recommend the extinction of public lighting between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. Taking place outside the wall, this third part is even more in tune with the local community than the previous ones, seeking contact with the neighbourhood and inviting itself into the streets of downtown.

With its way of mixing lightness and seriousness, we can imagine Indice Ultraviolet: Out as a parade against the disarray, as a magic shield against the dull anguish that can sometimes overwhelm us, and even – why not – as a vegan capsule with antidepressant effects.

Access to the entire festival is free.

Welcome point of the festival Indice ultraviolet: out, artists’ editions, with works by Francisco Sierra and a sound diffusion by Jan van Oordt, Zion Corner