While Cercle’s in-person shows over the years have required fans to get on an airplane and travel to historical and remote destinations such as the Sisteron Citadel in France, Barbolla wanted Cercle Odyssey to be more accessible to fans. “We wanted to bring nature to the city,” he says.
It was also a goal for Barbolla to make the massive production as sustainable as possible, so he used projected screens instead of lead screens. That way his team only has to travel with the custom-made canvas they use for the projections, which “is very small” and can be folded up. For everything else, the Cercle team rents the sound, light and camera equipment and hires local crews to work in each city, making the project more economical and ecological.
For now, the Cercle Odyssey tour, which kicked off in Mexico City last month, will wrap in Paris on June 1, but Barbolla says he wants to expand it and bring it to more cities in the near future. It’s also a dream of his to give the art installation he created to other creators and artists, so they can add their interpretation to it as well.
“The possibilities are infinite,” he says. “We [maybe] explored 1% of what we could do in this room.”
This story originally appeared on LA Times
