“Visual Stimuli”, “His Spatialized”, “Natural Fragrances”: The next meeting of the candidate of France unsuitable for the presidential election reserves his share of technological innovations, before the return of the holograms on April 5th.
Le Monde
Jean-Luc Mélenchon tries a new experiment, in the line of his meetings in holograms of the 2017 campaign. Sunday 16 January, in the afternoon, the candidate for the presidential election for France unsuitable (LFI ) Hold a “immersive and olfactory” meeting in Nantes. “It’s going to be a positive political event,” promised Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Three thousand people are expected for the first meeting of 2022 of the candidate. Because, as the Constitution, LFI authorizes, so does not invest in its meetings – the other types of indoor gatherings should not exceed 2,000 people – and FFP2 masks will be distributed for free.
Immersive experience
In the Exponant Room will be installed a structure with the four walls with a width of 50 meters, and the ceiling will be composed of screens, allowing the diffusion of 360 degree images. A device inspired by an immersive exposure to the National Museum of Natural History of Paris and the Lights Workshop, which projects in music on immense screens from the animations of paintings of illustrious painters.
Odors will be broadcast to complete the immersion. “This makes it possible to create universes in order to give the most abstract concepts”, since the themes of the meeting will be culture, digital, space and the sea, lets the member Bastien Lachaud, one of his craftsmen .
The “Visual Stimuli”, the “spatialized sound” and “natural perfumes” announced “are not gadgets, assures Bastien lachaud. It is in our DNA to experiment to renew the form of political life” then that abstention reaches worrying proportions. And adding that technology can connect people, who will “live together what an individual lives alone with an augmented reality helmet”.
Meetings at the heart of the “unsuitable” strategy
Other meetings are already planned. The 2017 holograms will come back on April 5 for simultaneous meetings in several cities of France. The “insou” will also affect the streets of Paris on March 20th.
associated with very organized digital communication and door-to-door in the popular neighborhoods, the meeting is, indeed, the privileged means of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign, which will follow three in two weeks. that several other candidates, like the ecologist Yannick Jadot, abandon him.
It is also an attempt to stand out within a divided left and barely in the polls. The left has, in fact, since Saturday, a sixth main candidacy in the person of Christiane Taubira, whose eloquence and notoriety could compete with Mr. Mélenchon.
Gathering allows “to restore militant joy, hope, not to lock in a depressing, morose atmosphere,” said Aurélie found, president of the campaign parliament, says “of the Union popular “. “We must fight the idea that the left would be dead because it’s not just a candidate, we refuse resignation, things are absolutely not played,” she continues.