LIMBUS (2023)
Creation for 2 performers, lights, video, electronics
Created and performed by Pierre Jodlowski and HYPER DUO
Two works by Henri Michaux, L’infini Turbulent and Connaissance par les gouffres, are at the origin of this project.
Michaux’s experiments with psychotropic substances raise profound questions about our perception of reality and our ability to be satisfied with it.
When Michaux slips into hallucinated worlds, he gives us a sum of alternatives from his experiments that cannot leave us indifferent.
For if we are supposedly free in our civilisation, supposedly free to perceive the world, is it not the opposite that is happening?
All housed at the same address in an ultra-digitized life, driven by social networks, we are gradually replacing the experience of reality with a constant profusion of images. In reality, the system in which we live imposes more and more restrictions, monitors, analyses and processes our every move. In this joyful and generalised consumption of our own images, what is left of the real?
The hallucination, as Michaux delivers it to us, seems in the end to be much more stimulating than this state of dependence imposed on us by the networks.
Duration: 1h
Minimum age: 12 years old
Dates
- 20 August 2023 - Les Jardins Musicaux, Cernier, Switzerland – world premiere
- 24 Septembre 2023 - Musica, Strasbourg, France
- 6 Decembre 2023 - IGNM, Bern, Switzerland
- 13 & 14 Novembre 2023 - Forum ByPass, Ring - scène périphérique de Toulouse, France
- 10 January 2024 - Gare du Nord, Basel, Switzerland
- 26 March 2024 - Lux Scène nationale, B!ME (Grame CNCM), Valence, France
- 18 April 2024 - Centre culturel les Terreaux, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 20 May 2025 - Frequenz_ Festival, Pumpe, Kiel, Allemagne
- 17 September 2025 - Klangspuren Festival, Theater Praesent, Austria
