Artist Talk (free): Thursday, September 29th, 6>8pm, Drake Hotel-Underground
Nuit Blanche: from Saturday, October 1st 7pm to Sunday, October 2nd, 7am
Lights Contacts
Lights Contacts is an interactive sensory installation staging viewers. They are transformed into sonorous instruments. In a poetic way, Lights Contacts invites the spectator to question the perception of the other.
A shiny ball is placed on a woodstructure. A first person puts one’s hand on the ball. In contact with this object, the person’s body becomes sensitive and reactive to other living bodies. The installation lives when a skin’s meeting happens. Each contact generates variables sounds and lights. The various sonorous vibrations change with the proximity and intensity of contacts. At the same time, as the sound, a shelter of light shines of varied tints, above viewers’ head.
The energetic clouds of the bodies become tangible sounds. Lights Contacts creates a sensory expérience with the spectators’ bodies and overturns degrees of proximity that we use in our relationships with known or unknown being.
Each culture codifies relationships according to the sex, age or parental link. Lights Contacts reveals how these links are fragile thanks to a lighted and melodic langage.
Scenocosme
Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt are two contemporary artists who work together as a duo with the name Scenocosme. They Live at Lyon and St Etienne in France.
They use interactive art, music and architecture in order to invent evolutionary artwork capable of further interactivity. They distil numeric technology to bring out some flavors of dreams and poetry.
Through multiple forms of expression, they invite the spectator to occupy the centre of musical or choreographic collective performances. Their installations offers moments of meeting and exchange and immerses the spectators in favourable spaces via daydream-like experiences stimulated by significant experiments with the body.
Anaïs met den Ancxt (born in Lyon 1981) graduated from the University of Lyon in Anthropology, from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Lyon (DNSEP design d’espace), and from the Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design of St Etienne (Post diplôme design and research).
Grégory Lasserre (born in Annecy 1976) studied Computer Science and Electronics and graduated as a Master in Multimedia. Since 2002, he has been creating interactive artworks as a digital artist. He participated to the creation of media shows with several theatre companies.
Scenocosme duo is one of the major media French artists according to the book media arts : tendancy, artist, place and festivals under the direction of Cécile Worms (2008, Edition M21). Scenocosme benefits a international recognition. Their installation are well-known by several north-american exhibition spaces.