PU_P3TS

Le Clair Obscur intends to explore problems linked to the question of the relationship between Man and Machine, specifically how Man, his thinking, his social organization, his modes of action and interaction are modified by his relationships to the computer and to the internet. These modifications are experienced on several levels, from the worldly to the social, and also include more intimate levels, biological and neuronal.

PU_P3TS, or PUPPETS, is a performance which presents an augmented nervous system, in a work which touches on muscle, machine, on an organic, intrinsic, digital whole …
The aesthetic framework for the performance has been laid out, requiring impulses, nerve, and the need to constantly push back our limits. These communication interfaces explore in depth the limits of our bodies and the ambiguous relationships which the contemporary individual has with his digital environment: are we exponential or enslaved bodies?

Conception/ Space/ Coordination/ Lighting: Frédéric DESLIAS
Conception/ Audiovisual creation: Fabrice PLANQUETTE
Video Creation: NOHISTA
Performers: Lucia MENDOZA & Julien BÉZY
Choreography: Lucia MENDOZA & Julien BÉZY & “Yum” KEIKO TAKAYAMA
Exterior eye: Christine CARADEC
Software/ Hardware development: Olivier GUILLERMINET // Fabrice PLANQUETTE // Armand AHMADI
Light management: Simon DESPLEBIN

Production: Le Clair Obscur with the support of Drac Basse-Normandie
Coproductions: Relais Culturel Régional 2angles, Gare au Théâtre de Vitry-sur-Seine, la Ménagerie
de verre.
Other Support: Le Cargö – SMAC de Caen, L’école supérieure d’arts et médias de Caen – Cherbourg, Les Ateliers Intermédiaires CCN de Caen/ Basse Normandie, la Comédie de Caen – Centre Dramatique National de Normandie, le Centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains – scène conventionnée pour les écritures numériques, et le Centre national de la danse dans le cadre de la mise à disposition de studio.