Dance Me Deep
Christine Armanger and Justine Emard
Dance Me Deep – prototype is a research project on manifestations of the unconscious, a plunge into the dreamlike depths, a dialogue between dance and 3D technologies. The content of the piece is based on a collection of nocturnal materials (dreams, nightmares, movements) from a somniloque performer. As a 3D-printing robotic arm retranscribes her dreams and nightmares into objects, she seeks to rediscover and write down the traces of the night through dance. As printed objects accumulate in space, the performer’s body finds itself inscribed in the manufactured poetization of her mental cartography.
Mushroom Riot
Elizabeth Saint-Jalmes and Cyril Leclerc
Mushroom Riot questions our relationship to care. Through plastic, sound, scientific and poetic materials, the project questions the therapeutic power of the hallucinogenic mushroom – psilocybe cubensis. Today, a number of scientists-neurologists, psychiatrists and researchers are studying the effectiveness of the hallucinogenic mushroom’s active ingredient, psilocybin, as an antidepressant, anxiolytic and anti-addictive. Combined with ancestral remedies, it offers a powerful alternative to official medicine and the pharmaceutical industry. Mushroom Riot offers a poetic, reflective and contemplative dive into the field of psychedelic medicine. This “mushroom politics” also unveils its ramifications on the website mushroomriot.org, a platform for exchange and information.
FIXIN
Sylvain Darrifourcq
The transhumanist movement hopes to increase our intellectual and physical capabilities. But what happens when an artist applies techno-scientific advances to a musician’s body? FIXIN is a performance featuring the body of a musician “augmented” by a multitude of motors and digital tools. Sylvain Darrifourcq wishes to question the mechanization of the human gesture and the humanization of the machine.
PROTOCELL
Antoine Bertin & NSDOS
Protocell is an invitation to meditate on the separation we humans are accustomed to establishing between the living and the non-living, the intelligent and the unintelligent, the determinate and the indeterminate.
The creation is made up of simple elements: a voice guiding listeners through wireless headphones, soundscapes in immersive binaural sound, a musical composition performed live.
The performance, however, reserves a major surprise for participants: the voice inviting them to move through the space is not the same for everyone. Each receives different instructions, leading the crowd to discover and reconfigure itself under the influence of a secret algorithm.
A cross between sound walking, immersive theater and clubbing, Protocell alternately makes the crowd take the form of a firefly ballet, a synchronized swim, or a set of constellations.
Developed at the Palais de Tokyo as part of the La Manutention residency program.
Concept, Choreography and Lighting: NSDOS and Antoine Bertin
Text and Binaural Recordings: Antoine Bertin
Music: NSDOS
Application to dance
Xavier Boissarie
Application à danser is a nomadic device to get everyone to compose their dance from everyday gestures and movements, to divert, accentuate, transform and compose an individual or collective choreographed sequence. The project is part of a dynamic that began in the 1960s with pioneers such as George Brecht and Anna Halprin, and is currently being carried forward by numerous choreographers such as Mylène Benoit, Jérôme Bel, Noé Soulier, Myriam Gourfink.… The aim is to bring dance into new spaces, contexts and environments: in schools, colleges and high schools, in museums, in the workplace…
.All weekend
RADIOBAL
Red wire, echo chamber, permanent radio lounge, retroactive and parparticipatory loop: Beaux-Arts radio sets up shop at the Générateur and produces a live chronicle of the weekend’s artistic and scientific adventures, with contributors and viewers alike. Accidents, dross, aspserries and surprises: connectyou on RadioBal and experience the thickness of the event amplified by the radio waves.