Photo Credits: Reed Young / Fabrica Project Infos | Contact | Promo Video WINNERS a multimedia music action by Fabrica and Brisbane Fastival 2006. At Centre Pompidou in Paris on 18 October 2006. WINNERS is a multimedia music project created by Fabrica Musica and Brisbane Festival. The project explores - through music and performance - the culture of victory - the common political and social tendency to categorize people, nations, cultures and human issues as winners and losers. This theme is expressed through the intimate, personal recounts from the victims of five locations who witnessed catastrophic events of conflict, attack and senseless violence (New York, USA; Sharpeville, Johannesburg, South Africa; Dresden, Germany; Ayutthaya, Thailand; Wallatina, South Australia), as well as through the contributions of people who are suffering from an illness with a fatal prognosis. Those interviews were realized through the collaboration with the Palliative Care Centre at Turin’s S. Giovanni Battista Hospital, the Beth Israel Medical Centre in New York and the Palliative Care Unit Centre Hospitalo- Universitaire of the Red Cross in Lyon. Andrea Molino and Lyndon Terracini are the artistic directors of the project that had its European Premiere at Centre Pompidou in Paris within the exhibition Fabrica: les yeux ouverts from October 6th to Novembre 6th 2006. Andrea Molino, composer and conductor of the work, is head of Fabrica Musica. Lyndon Terracini, who directed the show, is artistic director of Brisbane Festival, which presented the World Premiere of WINNERS as part of its 2006 program. WINNERS is a global project. Different languages and disciplines complement one another to build a new form of communication. Music, video, theatre, arts, design and new communication technologies amalgamate to become an integral part of the project. Fabrica’s young artists, from the different fields of art and communication, have been involved in the creative process. The celebrated Australian percussion group TaikOz performed for their first time in Paris, together with the Dresdner Sinfoniker. The development and use of avant-garde communication technologies form a particularly important part of the WINNERS project. The performance integrates audio/video links with musicians, singers, performers and video excerpts out of interviews, in which the theme of “winners and losers” is particularly prevalent. Centre Pompidou Grande Salle at 8.30 pm general rehearsal open to all at 4.00 pm