L' UX, for Urban eXperiment, is a Paris based
clandestine organisation whose
goal is to use, improve and restore the hidden and abandoned sides of
urban
inheritage.
This organisation is divided into numerous independent teams: the well
known ones beiing The Mouse House (an all-female team), La Mexicaine De
Perforation and The Untergunther.
In 2003, La Mexicaine De Perforation introduced the projection room of
La Cinmathque Franaise and done the Session Comoda film festival.
In 2004, fed up by the bad odors let by the day time spectators, La
Mexicaine De Perforation built Les Arnes de Chaillot, a 400 meter
square all equiped cinema, located right under the previous projection
room, and done the Urbex Movies film festival.
In 2005, the Untergunther infiltrated the Panthon of Paris and, in
2006, with the help of the professional clockmaker Jean-Baptiste Viot, started
to restore the abandoned monumental 1850 Wagner clock before its
irreversible state of defacement.
Never caught, upon completion they announced their work at a meeting
with the director of the Panthon who called the police.
Charges were brought against four members but, at trial, after twenty
minutes deliberation, the judge ruled in favor of the Untergunther.
The members of L'UX are largely secret, but its spokesman is
Lazar Kunstmann who just published La culture en clandestins. L'UX
relating 25 years of clandestine cultural actions.
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Mexicaine De Perforation
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The Untergunther
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Istanbul
Design Biennial
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Seminar
at The Long Now foundation
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L'UX
at the New Museum, New York
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