By inviting the audience to live a collective experience, the performance Live Dream explore the mysteries of brain and the states of modified consciousness.
The Live Dream performance explores the mysteries of the brain and states of altered consciousness. In this collective experiment, the neuronal activity of several participants is captured in real time using electrodes. Just like during a scientific procedure, the two artists use these electrical signals to create an audio-visual artwork, which is enriched, like a documentary, through dream narration.
Sometimes tangible, sometimes imperceptible, the interpreted data create different atmospheres generated by the two artists. This brain-machine device seeks to resonate with the physicality of the participants. As they wander, these checkerboards experience the intensity as well as the contemplative dimension of this hypnotic and dreamlike experience.Justine Emard, artist, explores the new relationships between our existences and technology. By combining different image technologies, she situates her work in a flow combining robotics, neuroscience, organic life and artificial intelligence. In 2022, she is in residency at the Observatoire de l'Espace, cultural laboratory of the CNES and guest artist-professor at the Fresnoy, national studio of contemporary arts.
Sound artist, Jean-Emmanuel Rosnet articulates his practice around experimental composition and sound documentary production. His research focuses on questions of strata and assembly, atmospheres, sound archives and collages (field recording, sampling, internet sounds or tape-looping).
