Last minute is a symbolic experience, around the concept of a minute, stretched out. The minute just before crossing the threshold, the one before death or before birth. Over the course of 30-minutes, in a space bathed in images and music, this installation allows audiences to engage collectively in a pivotal experience of a before and of an after. It places them amongst the elements, where matter resides, to live this metamorphosis from the vantage point of a particle. Being droplet, burning blaze, flying smoke, shivering ash, vibrating earth, slipping air, trickling rain, rising wave.
Last minute
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The audience in movement is immersed in images and spatialised music, in a large room where particles are projected onto the floor . A tall and transparent screen rises at the heart of the space, a vertical prolongation of the image.
The images and the musicare subtly intertwined into a narrated visual symphony lasting approximately 30 minutes, allowing the music to be seen and the images to be heard. The projection, in black and white, draws on elemental imagery (fire, water, wind), and its progression borrows from physical phenomena (flows, spirals, waves, dispersion). Images are created by blending the motion of computer-generated particles with edited real-world videos.
A static score (identical at each performance) is combined with a dynamic score (unique to each performance) which involves the audience: the images are altered by the presence and movements of the public by means of a network of infrared cameras and fine signal analysis, offering many ways for audience and score to interact. Simple gestures, a stance, a step, or sophisticated movements will all coexist without hierarchy. Much like a moment of collective dancing, one we hope to draw forth.
This artwork can accommodate danced performances, for performers to inhabit the space and embody a relationship to the image that is singular, inspiring, infectious.
NB : Last minute can be presented alike in performing arts venues and exhibition spaces (museums, galleries, etc.). A dedicated technical rider is available upon request.
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