Author: Vincent Carry (Arty Farty director: Nuits sonores festival, Le Sucre)Photo credit: Gaetan Clement Throughout Europe, and for quite a long time now, the actors of the night-time cultural sector have accepted with fatalism, sometimes with resignation, that their work is to be considered solely through the prism of security, hygiene, and public health. This is a historical error and an immense injustice, even if the cultural appreciation of the night by the political authorities is not the same throughout the continent.Error and injustice because yes, for more than thirty years, the beautiful and free space of the night and the electronic scene which inhabits it, are indeed the crucible of an extraordinary cultural effervescence, with its artists in all their infinite diversity, its media, its festivals, its production and mediation chain… and of course, its clubs, temples of the diffusion of this culture to an immense public.An injustice that must now be urgently corrected, at a time when the sector is on its knees and when many companies and structures are about to disappear in the silence and darkness of the curfew, it is the responsibility of politicians, local and national elected officials, to recall what these hundreds of
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