Étant Données

Étant Données is a short play adapted on stage with the help of Matthias Tempete a chinese pole artist. It features The play tells the story of two orphan brothers born in a extremely digital world in search of the machine that gave birth to them. As they embark on their journey, they decide to follow by boat the trace of the internet cable which lays at the bottom of the ocean. The story is marked by its surreal view of the dystopian genre and its absurd situations that come from making impossible analogies between physical and digital situations.

Synopsis

When one is birthed amongst machines,

you can hear the echo years later.

Etant données is a century of imaginary illnesses.

A play blending acrobatics and digital arts.

A fleeting encounter to the offshore.

In search of the noise that gave us birth.

Excerpt

Credits

The play was written during the residency program COLLISIONS organized by Fablab L'Établi in Soustons, France.
An encounter between digital arts, performing arts and fine arts, where these disciplines collide to produce hybrid and original works.

The project was a duo collaboration alongside Matthias Tempete, circus and chinese pole artist.