EVE 2050: THE IMMERSIVE AND INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
How, in the near future, can the boundaries of the body and its identity be redefined? Eve 2050 invites audiences to engage in an artistic, aesthetic and ethical reflection on the future of human beings and the body in an age of digital technology, biomedical advances and AI. The work has 3 components, which establish different relationships with the audience: a web-series; an interactive multimedia installation; a stage production. Eve 2050: the installation features alternative scenarios to the web series on interactive panels and sculptures from the work "Family Portrait" on loan from artist Marilene Oliver. The panels generate digital environments that show five facets of Eve, inviting visitors to discover her world. Projected onto the transparent panels are images of Eve blended with images of the spectators and performers present. These images are filmed, processed and projected in real time, making visitors part of Eve’s story as they play with their own reflections in the virtual mirrors. The interactive devices take visitors into a parallel world. As they explore the space, they trigger sounds with the performers, creating surprises along the spectator's journey. Visitors create their own narration depending on the perspective they choose, the paths they adopt, and the surfaces they interact with. Each experience is unique. When the dancers are in the installation, the primal body and body of the future are brought together in a dance where living and virtual become complicit to the point of being indistinguishable.
CREDITS
Artistic Director and Choreographer: Isabelle Van Grimde
Assistant to the Choreographer: Sophie Breton
Performers: Sophie Breton, Félix Cossette, Chi Long, Justin de Luna, Marine Rixhon, Gabrielle Roy
Interactive visual design and editing (Installation): Jérôme Delapierre
Video production: DAVAI
Music and sound design: Thom Gossage
Interactive sound design: Frédéric Filteau
Scenography: Jérôme Delapierre, Isabelle Van Grimde
Interactive panel engineering: Rémi Vigneron
Sculptures « Family Portrait » on loan from the artist Marilene Oliver
Light table from Dissections of Anick La Bissonnière created for The Body in Question(s) of Isabelle Van Grimde
Costume design: Pascale Bassani, Isabelle Van Grimde
Costume research: Jérôme Delapierre, Manon Desrues
Costumes accessories: Marilene Oliver
Production and Technical Manager: Emilie Voyer
Assistant to the Production and Technical Manager: Audrée Juteau
Creation and production: Van Grimde Corps Secrets
Coproductions: Agora de la danse, NAC National Creation Fund, Brian Webb Dance cie., Danse Danse, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Canada Council for the Arts – New Chapter, Conseil des arts de Montréal, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Residencies: Agora de la danse, Espace Corps Secrets