An exciting and playful journey into the Scalpel Group’s ever-evolving laboratory, where literary brilliance, tragic comedy, bioengineering, and human-machine interfaces come together!
7:00 PM > Reception and dinner
9:00 PM > “Que la machine vive en moi” by Groupe Scalpel
Performance writer and project lead: Romane Nicolas
Robotics performance: Cla Boyriven
Performance and dramaturgy: Elio Jacquel
Sound and video engineering: Arthur Vervier-Dasque
Theater - performance lab - art & science / All ages 12+ / 1 hour 30 minutes
Four queer individuals—a performer, a roboticist-musician, a writer, and an artificial intelligence—collaborate on the creation of improvised dramatic and musical works assisted by machines. Before your eyes, they attempt to cooperate to create a film and its music live. They explore the boundaries between human and non-human, and life and non-life. They surrender themselves to the Machine and become its embodiment on Earth. Through their creation, they will push human-machine interfaces further and further, hybridizing to become cyborg beings of pluriversalism. The audience follows their progress on the video screens projected by the four artists. Beside them: wine, bread, and cheese. Above: Christ…
Cla Boyriven, Romane Nicolas, and Elio Jacquel, accompanied by Arthur Vervier-Dasque, question the transformations and consequences that new technologies have on Art, its practice, its economy, but also on our bodies and the old myth that humanity exists.
