Artists Statement

Immersive installation, Théâtre-Sénart, Lieusaint, May 2-20
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Adrien M & Claire B are ISEA2023 selected artists

Dancing, exploring, daring, in a mixture of new sensations. To live as if it were our first or last minute. This is what Adrien M & Claire B propose in their latest creation. This installation-experience-immersive gives us the possibility to live together for 30 minutes the stretching of a minute… On Olivier Mellano’s music and Adrien M & Claire B’s digital images, we plunge into an abstract but totally hypnotising universe made of pixels reacting to our movements, of waves brushing against our feet, of stroboscopic flashes blurring our perceptions. Everyone is free to tell themselves a story, to interact with the moving floor, to dance alone or with their neighbour. In more than ten years of existence, the company – you have seen Acqua alta – which navigates between live performance and visual arts, mixes poetry and technology, pencil strokes and algorithms like no other. It’s your turn to play!

Weaving poetry from the digital, here is the credo of Adrien M & Claire B. The duo indeed creates real aesthetic and sensory experiences where humans and computer programs evolve in a symbiotic way. From their work is born a real algorithmic magic, infused with gentleness and benevolence.
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The company Adrien M & Claire B (FR) places its work in the field of digital arts since 2004. Its creations are performances and exhibitions, that associate reality and virtuality. Its specificity is the custom-made development of its computing tools. Among the artistic and technological stakes, the attention is focused on the human being and its body, by using contemporary tools in the service of a timeless poetry, developing and using a visual language based on game and pleasure as mediums of the imagination. Today, the company counts around 30 collaborators. Its headquarter and production offices are based in Lyon (Rhône, France). Villa Aphéa, its research and creation venue, is located in Crest (Drôme, France). Part of the venue’s equipment was acquired with help from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region. The company is subsidised and accredited in France by the DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region. It is also supported by the City of Lyon. https://www.am-cb.net

• Claire Bardainne (FR) is a visual artist with a background in graphic design and scenography. Her research focuses on the pictorial and graphic imaginary, graphic signs, especially in their space-constructive capacity. She joins forces with Adrien Mondot in 2011 to materialize a common artistic project: Adrien M & Claire B. https://www.am-cb.net
• Adrien Mondot (FR) is a multidisciplinary artist, computer scientist and juggler. He is interested in movement, and works at the intersection of juggling art and computer innovation. Founder of the Compagnie Adrien M in 2004, he partners with Claire Bardainne in 2011 to re-structure the Company as “Adrien M & Claire B”. https://www.am-cb.net