Players: Philippe Codognet, Sir Alice

Visiting the Mori Tower in Tokyo (summer 2005) with Philippe Codognet, the evidence of red lights blinking at night came to my mind as the stubborn will of the City to say something to any open intelligence. I was facing this absurd but recursive artist’s mission : try to make the world understandable, even if it is definitely obscure to you.
If you fail : make the failure visible enough to make the evidence of the this aporia talking out loud.

That was the resulting project:
Cities are emitting obscure messages that cannot easily been deciphered: sounds, lights, smells…
Through thousands of red lights blinking in the night, Tokyo city is whispering.
This obsessing blinking should be translatable. The apparent synchronicity cannot be only a randomised process. The absence of synchronicity can also be interpreted as an obscure language.
Is the city trying to say something?
Are invisible entities communicating in front of us and we don’t even know what, why and how?
Would it be a kind of hidden speech that would remain secret because it is so obvious?
Whatever the interpretation we try to put on these signs, one cannot stay without trying to understand what’s going on around us.
In this obsessive compulsion of interpretation, people can spend hours watching without understanding and this impossibility to understand is balanced by the fascination for this almost hypnotic phenomenon.

Players : Anne Dreyfus, Delphine Fabbri-Lawson

Still Moving, sculpture dynamique géante de la série de la Mécanique des émotions, sera présentée devant l’entrée principale du Grand Palais à Paris avant d’être exposée au Générateur.
Nous évoquons la difficulté à communiquer sur les pièces complexes -dans leur logique plus que dans leur fréquentation. Comment soutenir les médiateurs culturels en leur proposant des formules simples pour communiquer sur un objet de 3,5m de diamètre qui peut évoquer, dans sa forme finale, une soucoupe volante molle, et dont le propos est lié aux émotions de la planète? D’autant pus quand la chose produit une musique faite d’infrasons vibrant entre 5Hz et 20Hz que l’on ne peut entendre que par le contact direct avec le corps.

Une proposition de sous-titre qu’il paraît difficile d’utiliser sans modifier sensiblement la perception de l’objet :

OVNI : OBJET VIBRANT NON INTRUSIF
De la série des Emotional Drippings

Un projet qui trouve plus facilement sa place dans le Dump que dans la communication grand public.

Evolution of Listen I’m here

Two laser beams meet in a cloud of steam, at the very centre of the space when two people calling the same pre-determined phone number are connected together.

When anybody, from the physical space, cuts the line of the beam, the communication is interrupted.

Evolution of Art Beat

Another way to materialise the synchronisation of participants’ metabolism is to activate a magnetic field and make it visible like Sabrina Raaf’s ferrofluid sculptures.

So many interactive works are using signals coming from inside as a meaningful/meaningless source of image and sound effects. Let’s try another collective experience!

People are seated in circle around a big subwoofer speaker a finger plugged inside a heart beat detector. The combined rhythms of the 7 participants should, when synchronised, make the light ball float in the middle of the space by the pressure of air propelled by the speaker. Amazing how we can drive our inside body more or less consciously.

At the very centre of the white box, a dot of light, floating.
The intersection of 2 laser beams.

A continuous sound made of thousands of voices coming from real time or pre-recorded phone conversions. Something close to white noise but different enough to make the audience feel the origin of the sound.
When visitors cut one of the beams, the sound stops.

Everything happens as if the contact of the two beams would make the whole communication process possible.