Plant Opera is an interdisciplinary, science-art project that believes in transflorism (analogy to transhumanism). We want to give plants the opportunity to express themselves by providing them with a voice, the ability to write and even to create images. To do this we developed a system of sensors allowing us to translate the real-time data expression from plants into sounds, texts and visuals.
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Plant Opera
produced by Plant Team
2019
Plant Opera
produced by Plant Team
2019
Digital art
Generative art
Installation
Stage performance
Visual arts
Science and technology
Environment
Music and live performance
Digital art
Generative art
Installation
Stage performance
Visual arts
Science and technology
Environment
Music and live performance
Other
Update : 23/01/2023
Plant Opera during the Festival CoOperation Archstoyania, Russia 26.07.2019 Second step - Opera with[for] plants (photographie - Arno Zhao)
Plant Opera - Installation (photo - Arno Zhao)
Installation view during Archstoyanie Festival (photo - Archstoyanie)
View of the singing performance (photo - Arno Zhao)
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Plant opera exists in two forms - installation and opera (both indoor and open-air). In the opera human performers (singer, dancer and two performers) lead a fragile dialogue with the plant performers, establishing communication through speech, song and body language.
The installation is a performance by the plants alone, that continues throughout the night and day...
This hybrid work is inspired by current scientific research on the themes of bioethics, plant consciousness, neurobiology. like every opera, it is about life, love and death.
The aspect particularly interesting in the Opera for the plants that involves performers (singers, dancers, ac-tors) is its fragile communication element and visibility of interpretation delicacy, that rediscovers not only the problematic of human/nature relationships but also human to human behaviour. How can I understand nature if don’t understand other human being, no matter if he speaks my language or not? It is about the them, it is about our relationships, but mainly it about who we are here.We are more communicating/transferring information and avoiding the dialogue, listening or drifting on the level of sensations and empathy. The nature language.
Each module is working on the base of one computer, custom created PCB, using wifi and 5 types of sensors.
Some sensors will rather identify the vital environmental elements of the plant, such as the brightness via photosensitive sensor placed on a leaf or magnitude, the temperature of the plant with an infrared sensor, and the humidity sensor around the roots.
Text system uses environmental signals, like humidity, luminosity, temperature to identify the mood of the plant. To each mood of plant there is corresponding pre written feed that is characterizing this state, using scientific terms or poetic assumptions. This feed is by the "decisions" of the electric signal peaks of the plant generates real-time texts
Experience
Audience
Categories
Suitable for all audiences
We use only genuine real-time signals from the living organisms.
The system is harmless to them.
The system is harmless to them.
Prices
Pricing
Fixed price
Prices
From 4000€
Languages
Original language
French, German, English, Russian
Dubbing
Subtitles
French, German, English, Russian
Team
Interpreter
yes
Public outreach
no
Technician
yes
Material
Equipment
Other
Internet connection
Not required to broadcast the artwork
A workshop may accompagny this artwork.
Programming
Festival CoOperation Archstoyania Nicolas Lenivet (Russian Federation), 2019
Longevity Festival Strasbourg (France), 2019
WWW @ Kalt Kalt, Strasbourg (France), 2019
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Direction
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Artist
Plant Team
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Artist
Gabriel Jeanjean
K T
Artist
Kapitolina Tcvetkova-Plotnikova
J M
Composition and sound design
Jean-David Merhi
A Z
Direction
Arno Zhao
Production-distribution
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Production
Plant Team
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