An immersive arts/sciences 360° show under a dome on the Universe for and by children.
#DRIFT offers a crew to board an astronaut's ship. Like a guide, she accompanies new astronauts on a journey to the exoplanetary system of the star Trappist1E, left behind by our solar system and its blue planet, while crossing paths with various astrophysical phenomena.
#DRIFT is an immersive multimedia work for an actress, which suspends us in space-time in the middle of the void.
#DRIFT is twofold, both an arts-sciences work that invites the viewer to contemplation, while drawing through dramatic action the future of space exploration, and a certain future of humanity, in a poetic writing of science fiction.
#DRIFT is the result of a collaborative writing process where a science fiction author, performing arts and digital artists, a community of children and well-known astrophysicists meet.
Beyond the simple desire to explain the universe, Norbert Merjagnan proposes to intertwine in a collaborative writing the imaginations of a group of children from 6 to 10 years old, with those of the scientists of the major research laboratories in astrophysics . The children's imagination, always surprisingly strong, and their seemingly simple questions will give structure to the show.
Thus, it is not a question of popularizing science, but of mixing in a common poetics a vocabulary and crossed concepts mixing the vocabulary of hard sciences with the science-fictional neologisms which bathe our imaginations.
An immersive multimedia device (sound, lights and 3D images correlated and broadcast at 360°) will support an encounter: that of the objectified representations of scientists, modeling algorithms with the liberated representations of children, without ranking them.
Beyond objective truths - we know that in science, truth is only hypothesis - we seek to open doors to our imaginations, doors to infinity. Each child (like each adult) carries a singular imagination, during the process of creation, it will be a question with each one of going to explore these constructions.
