György Ligeti

A mixture of solos, duos and trios, collage, mobile, and sound sculpture, Chroma scatters instrumental ensembles, turntables and dozens of music boxes across the space. Listeners are invited to wander around these living and mechanical islands, each a source of limitless perspectives, whilst the Grand Palais in turn shapes the work and makes it unique.

Five works, historical or recent, for entering into sound and seemingly immobile and continuous textures—and for experiencing, in an intimate way, rich vibrations and fissions beneath the monochrome surface. Inside the Saint-Eustache church, organ, ensemble and electronics give life to intricate meshes, dissolutions and secret movements.

What should we do with the bodies of the dead? In Antigone, this question enabled Sophocles to illustrate the limits of political power in the face of the sacred. In his latest work, Alexander Zeldin sheds light upon the atomisation of pain and suffering that characterises the times we live in.

A mother and son. Throughout her life, she has done a host of different jobs in order to support the family. He has dedicated his life to theatre. Together, the stage becomes a tool for unfurling their different existences, caught up at the intersection of capitalism inherited violence.

In 2025, the Festival d’Automne launched an Evening School to create an alternative, non-academic space for knowledge-sharing, designed to bring audiences together around a thought-provoking programme where artistic practice is combined with the audience’s experience. Following an inaugural edition conceived with Felwine Sarr, the 2026 Evening School has been conferred to Forensic Architecture. Under the direction of Eyal Weizman, this research agency, composed of investigators from different disciplines, with its base at Goldsmiths, University of London, develops methods of enquiry into state-perpetrated acts of violence, at the crossroads between art, law and journalism.