Luciférine is a sound and light performance featuring bioluminescent bacteria in a tentacular glass sculpture-instrument. Plunged into darkness, this work offers an immersive experience in which living light and sound are generated by the interaction between bacteriological fluid and sound sensors. This installation works like a playground for these marine micro-organisms, offering a contemplative journey and a multi-sensory connection with these life forms that are close to those at the origin of life on Earth.
Luciférine
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Luciférine is a sculptural sound performance for bioluminescent bacteria. Its name refers to the molecule at the heart of the chemical reaction of bioluminescence, the light emitted by living organisms. In the darkness, a group of humans follow the deployment of these bacteria in liquid form inside a glass sculpture-instrument. As it travels, the living light draws the shape of a chimerical entity and composes a multilayered music by contacting sound sensors. The installation is a real playground for bacteria, providing the oxygen needed for bioluminescence by shaking and moving the glowing liquid. Luciférine offers a multi-sensory connection with these microscopic marine organisms which are close to those at the origin of life on Earth.
The work offers an contemplative motionless journey made possible by immersion in sound and light. It's also an exceptional journey: few people have ever witnessed the phenomena of bioluminescence. This artistic approach is now taking on a real contemporary dimension, with bioluminescence being studied for a range of applications, notably in the microbiological medical field, water treatment and plant-based urban lighting.
Luciférine also comes in an installation format, in which the sculpture-instrument goes into standby mode. Waiting for its bacteria, the installation is then revealed in full daylight, unlike the darkness of the performance mode. Clear water flows through it in place of the bacteriological fluid, and its sounds are reduced to the mechanical clicking of the device. When the installation is occasionally activated (performance mode), the bioluminescent bacteria travel through the sculpture-instrument, revealing all its sound and light potential.
Luciférine is an opportunity to depict a desirable world that seems possible, in which humans and non-humans are co-creators.
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