...what if water was the medium of memory?
What if we could extract fluids from our bodies—blood, sweat, saliva, tears—the memories they carry? Inject them, even drink them, to experience the sensations of others and relive them as if they were our own?
Through the adaptation of a short story by Alain Damasio, Clair Obscur offers an immersive transmedia creation combining theatrical performance and VR experience, the spectator becoming in turn actor, witness, guinea pig or juror...
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A memory storage facility explodes, and thousands of samples contained in snowflakes are released into the environment. To reconstruct the circumstances of the accident (or attack?), a volunteer is injected with memory samples stored in water molecules.
On stage, an actor will find himself immersed in the memories, sometimes incomplete or even contradictory, of various witnesses considered potentially suspect.
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This four-part immersive show offers spectators a journey through a happening, a theatrical performance, a VR experience, and a forum.
The group of 50 spectators engages in a series of experiences:
The audience is asked to actively participate in a memory reconstruction exercise in a forensic setting.
Our "civil party" spectators will be invited to attend an "expert hearing" where an actor will play the role of a guinea pig in an investigation through memory injection.
Then, immersed in a visual reconstruction space, they will be able to ingest memories to experience another part of the story through images.
The story takes place in winter, in the mountains. The Vercors region, snow, and water are important aesthetic elements.
