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Les UX 24 Sep 2013 20:05 #1

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I'd never heard of this organisation until about an hour ago.

Les UX

The UX (for Urban eXperiment) is an underground organization that improves hidden corners of Paris. Their works have included restoring the Pantheon clock, building a cinema, complete with bar and restaurant, underneath the Trocadéro, restoring medieval crypts, and staging plays and readings in monuments after dark. The group's membership is largely secret, but its spokespeople include Lazar Kunstmann


History

Beginning in September 1981, the founders of the group stole plans of the many underground passage ways and tunnels for which Paris is famous. Using these information venues as a base, the group of anonymous artists and citizens have restored much of the underground infrastructure, including the restoration of the Pantheon clock which chimed for the first time in many years after their repair. The shadowy group of unknowns is also responsible for over a dozen other projects, including those which the French government has not chosen to do or lacks funds for.


Organization

The organization is divided into teams: an all-female team (the Mouse House) specializing in infiltration, a team running an internal messaging system and coded radio network, a team providing a database, a team organizing underground shows, a team doing photography, a team (Untergunther) doing restoration.

Untergunther's membership includes architects and historians. In October 2007, they received attention for a project, assisted by professional clockmaker Jean-Baptiste Viot, to clandestinely restore the famous clock in the Panthéon. Never caught, upon completion they announced their work at a meeting with the administrator of the Panthéon, who called the police.

La Mexicaine De Perforation (The Mexican Consolidated Drilling Authority) is another subdivision of the UX which provides clandestine artistic events.

In September 2004, French police discovered an underground movie theatre run by La Mexicaine De Perforation. The makeshift theatre contained a movie screen, a well stocked bar, and a kitchen. Telephones and electricity were brought in from an unknown location. Movie titles ranging from 1950s classics to modern thrillers were also discovered. When the police returned for a formal investigation, all the equipment had disappeared—all that was left was a note on the floor reading, "Ne cherchez pas" ("Do not search").
Official reaction

The Parisian authorities oppose the group's actions, starting a police unit to track them through the sewers and catacombs of Paris, and attempting to apprehend and charge them.

Charges were brought against the four Untergunther restorers of the Pantheon clock, but at trial, after twenty minutes deliberation, the judge ruled in their favor. One of the government's prosecutors referred to the charges as "stupid."


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX


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