Lou Lasvenes

BA Thesis (2019)

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'The Scripted Choreography of Togetherness' is a theoretical travel through the uncanny sphere of partying, my first and impossible love, and a dive into the transformation of music festivals into a designed experience.

Starting from Tomorrowland, the second largest electronic dance music festival, this thesis explores international marketing strategies employed in transformational festivals, and the ambivalence of these commercialised spiritual festivals.

It also touches topics such as the physical organisation of these temporary nations as heterotopias (a space where everything is different and “members have few or no intelligible connections with one another”), as well as considering the after-festival moment.

Indeed, the “moment after" is carefully thought-out, with objects to support the utopia of a community without territory, and to keep these mass-entertainment industry and fantasised ideas of the future alive, until next year.

"I grew up in a family in which I was never allowed to go out. No partying during middle school or high school, not even sleepovers. The first time I went out, I think I was 19. That night seemed really weird to me. I also remember being on my computer, looking at videos of raves and festivals with fascination, but also with a distance. Almost like how a scientist stares at a phenomenon to try to grasp the core of it; what is happening. I didn’t really get the concept of massive gatherings with other human beings, neither of the act of dancing. I wondered if it was a social comedy, and if, secretly, everyone felt it had all been choreographed. This non-experience always stayed in the back of my mind."

— Extract from the introduction

“- Japanese people, Lebanese people, Jewish people, everybody living together. It is like we could live in a world that could be better and united.
- It’s not just a festival.
- It’s a global connection.
- It’s not just the music, it’s like feeling like you belong to something much bigger."

— Extract from a 2013 amateur warm-up from Tomorrowland festival

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