A true floating territory for research, Vivus explores the porosity between bodies, ecosystems, forms of knowledge and technologies.
Context
Vivus a pris forme comme unité de création itinérante à bord d’une péniche sur les rivières d’Europe, dans le cadre de la direction artistique de résidence que nous avons assurée pour Fluctuations, un festival fluide reliant Lille, Bruxelles et Utrecht par voie d’eau en été 2024.
The members of the creation unit brought diverse research fields on board, including biology, cyborg imaginaries, academic research, poetry, music, philosophy, dance, composition and video.
Intentions
- Que peut une pensée et une création traversées par l’eau, la lenteur, l’interdépendance ?
- Do we co-create differently when inhabiting the same living context - moving, uprooted, celebratory?
- How can our situated intelligences engage in dialogue with non-human forms and with artificial intelligences, in a way that is fully embodied?
- Can we imagine embodiment and bodiness beyond our own lived experience? Where are the edges of these imaginaries?
Format
- A floating lab for transdisciplinary research-creation
- Artistic direction of an immersive and shared research process
- Activation in connection with public festivals and urban contexts
Means activated
Interstitial play, biological data collection, writing, sensory devices, performances, recordings, collective reflection and documentation of contextual interstices
This kind of unit can adapt to other ecosystems - museums, rural territories, universities and schools, public space, hybrid spaces – by creating formats for interstitial co-creation: alive, unruly, embodied. A way to bring forth new imaginaries in powerful ways.
