Inside an immersive display inspired by Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon, the reference points move and the tables are turning. Part carceral architecture, attraction park and mini festival, Jour de fête presents a space where the limits between observation, participation and direction are blurred.

Constructed as an architecture of surveillance, the panopticon allows the person in the centre to watch all those incarcerated without being seen. An emblematic image of self-controlling, here it questions contemporary mechanisms of surveilling, power and freedom. In this display, the audience remains unstable, fragile: who is looking at who? Who watches? Who performs? Who surveils?