Artists Statement

Performance, La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville, May 17

Immersive performance with audio-reactive electronics, video and 3D
Annabelle Playe, Marc Siffert & Hugo Arcier, are ISEA2023 selected artists

Passages, crossings and metamorphoses weave the odyssey of InLAND | come back in broad day. These universes are explored live as a 3D video game in which we wander. This exploration is carried out on site or remotely with Discord gamer tool.

InLAND is a hybrid project between electronic lutherie, digital art and video game “let’s play”. The performance draws as much from the tools of creating games as from its abundant visual culture, creating a porosity between the two worlds. InLAND opens the doors to a meta universe, where artists explore the notions of passages, crossings and metamorphoses…
Annabelle Playe will be the guest of Laurent Vilarem for his program ‘Journal de la création’ (France Musique) on Sunday May 14 .

Annabelle Playe: concept, composition, live electronics, voices
Marc Siffert: composition, live electronics
Hugo Arcier: video of audio-generated sythetic 3D imagery
Estelle Bordaçarre: body work
Halory Georger: visual design
Dorota Kleszcz: costumes
Perrine Cado: lighting
Samuel Herbreteau: direction
Production : AnA Compagnie
Coproduction : Scènes Croisées de Lozère, Biennale NEMO, Ville de Mende

• Annabelle Playe is a multidisciplinary artist. She enjoys exploring voice, sound, video and writing. She studied classical singing and composition with Sergio Ortega in Paris, France. She is a soprano and she interprets contemporary music. Today her music is oscillating between electroacoustic, drone, and noise. She focuses on the physicality of sound and on timbre, with an emphasis on musical structure. https://annabelleplaye.com
• Marc Siffert After starting out as a rock bassist, he discovered the double bass at the age of 19 and won a Gold Medal at the Conservatoire National de Région de Montpellier 7 years later… then Conservatoire Supérieur de Genève, prize from the Charles Cros Academy… Endowed with this classical formation, he played with the Skokie Valley Orchestra of Chicago, among others, the Orchester National de France or even the Capitole but he will very quickly be attracted by contemporary creations and will mobilize his know-how for opera, theatre, dance, animated cinema… His musical approach tends towards a total exploitation of the resources of the double bass, in a game where the body and the material unite in the search for a sound. Refusing any label, any partitioning, he is also a creator of sound spatialization devices in real time and works on spectral explosion. Iconoclastic and subversive but always honest, he goes beyond the notion of style to favor that of intention… http://electricpopart.com/marc-siffert
• Hugo Arcier is a French digital artist (actually he is an artist in a digital world) who uses 3D computer graphics in various ways: video installations, prints and sculptures. Devoted first to visual effects for feature films, he has worked on numerous projects with directors such as Roman Polanski, Alain Resnais or Jean-Pierre Jeunet. This profession has allowed him to gain a deep understanding of digital tools – in particular 3D graphic images – which is essential for the birth of his projects. Since 2004 he develops plastic and reflective artworks that meticulously dissect the specificities of 3D computer graphics and virtual worlds, being part of a new form of art. His artistic works have been featured in numerous festivals (Elektra, Videoformes, Némo, etc.), in collective exhibitions in galeries and art venues (Le 104, New Museum, Palais de Tokyo, New Media Art Center of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, galerie Magda Danysz, galerie Plateforme, etc.) and contemporary art fairs (Variation, Slick). http://hugoarcier.com/en

With financial support from the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Occitanie, la DGCA-SACEM, l’ADAMI, du FCM, la SPEDIDAM, du Conseil Général de Lozère