Mirages & miracles

produced by Adrien M & Claire B
2017

Mirages & miracles is a series of installations that attempts to create a sort of digital animism using augmented reality, virtual reality, holographic illusions and video-projections. It offers a unique ensemble of improbable scenarios that takes root in both the mirage and the miracle, and plays with the boundaries between true and false, the animate and the inanimate, the authentic and the deceptive, the magical, the wondrous, and the indescriptible. 

"Mirages & miracles, the sum of the impossible that is nonetheless real, and the unreal that is nonetheless possible." 

In-situ experience
VR headset, Tablet, Video projector
Suitable for all audiences
Without dialogue
Update : 17/08/2023
Mirages & miracles (Adrien M & Claire B)
Mirages & miracles (Adrien M & Claire B)
Mirages & miracles - Silence of stones (Adrien M & Claire B)
Mirages & miracles - Illusions (Romain Etienne)
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Stones are simple, heavy and motionless. Stones are the archetype of what is real and concrete. But listen to their silence, and you can hear them speak. If you take a close look, they grow transparent and their inertia pulses. They speak of the forces that consumed them, of the distances they have travelled, of the genies they shelter, of the hairs they grow.

The series The Silence of stones is an homage to the life nestled in things seemingly lifeless, motionless, inorganic. The figure of the stone, real or drawn, is the hallmark. The image –intangible, moving, nimble – embodies this imaginary and reveals these objects of poetic reaction. Tablet computers become windows to this hidden reality.

Virtual reality headsets are technological devices that, in some way, can be considered as ghost-making machines. Someone watches you dance, speaks to you, appears and disappears, moves and then stands still. Someone is here, a shadow, a draft of air. Or an intangible dust spirit.

What makes something alive?

This corpus of artwork allows us to experience a set of unprecedented scenarios which blurs the boundary between animate and inanimate, real illusion and fake miracle. They constitute a series of short performances for one spectator aiming to explore the contours of what constitutes life, through the mischief of poetry, the strength of computing and the magic of fiction.

The silence of stones

A series of experiments in augmented reality where the spectator can observe drawings and stones through an iPad

Illusions

Three small optical theatres, where the spectator can observe an object coming together finely and coincidently with a reflected image.

Ghost machines

Experiences with virtual-reality headsets

Mysteries

Immersive experience in a projected image environment

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In-situ experience
Experience
Terms
Multi-users
Interactivity
Interactive
Capacity
Up to 40 people
Audience
Categories
Suitable for all audiences
Prices
Pricing
Fixed price
Languages
Original language
Without dialogue
Dubbing
Subtitles
Team
Interpreter
no
Public outreach
yes
Technician
yes
Material
Equipment
VR headset (Oculus Rift) ; Tablet (iOS) ; Video projector
Minimum space required
A partir de 250 m 2
Internet connection
Required to broadcast the artwork
Awards
Programming
Centre Ars Electronica Linz (Austria), 2021
Centre Phi Montréal (Canada), 2020
Les Champs Libres Rennes (France), 2020
Le Chabada avec le Festival Premiers Plans et le Département Maine-et-Loire Collégiale Saint-Martin, Angers (France), 2019
Seconde Nature Zinc avec la Ville d'Aix-en-Provence et la BIAC Cité du livre - Aix-en-Provence (France), 2019
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Direction
C B
Artistic direction
Claire Bardainne
A M
Artistic direction
Adrien Mondot
O M
Composition and sound design
Olivier Mellano
S
Other
Soutien - Fonds [SCAN], Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (FR)
Production-distribution
Production
Adrien M & Claire B
Broadcasting
Adrien M & Claire B
2
Production
2 pôles cirque en Normandie / La Brèche à Cherbourg et Cirque-Théâtre d'Elbeuf (FR)
S
Production
Scène nationale d'Albi (FR)
L
Production
Les Subsistances, Lyon (FR)
L
Production
Lux, scène nationale de Valence (FR)
E
Production
Espace Jean Legendre, Théâtre de Compiègne (FR)
A
Production
Arenberg Creative Mine – Communauté d’Agglomération de La Porte du Hainaut (FR)
 
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