Work
Je t'aime effondrement
Maker La TraverScène · Julien Daillère · Work date 2020 · Medium telephone + other · Role hybrid
Description
A stage show in which an audience member dials the performer's number live, routed to a speaker, reaching a simulated travel-information voice server set in 2050 that answers city names with "Je suis désolé, cette ville n'existe plus" and offers timetables for pedibus and horse-drawn cart. Created 11 September 2020 at La Goguette, Clermont-Ferrand.
Source. https://inria.hal.science/hal-04153520
In French. Hybrid: a co-present theater audience, with one real telephone call as the mechanism.
Anatomy
Thirteen criteria after Lauren R. Beck. Each carries a source grade: M maker-confirmed, P published, F first-hand, I inferred by the compiler, ? not yet established. Definitions are on the anatomy page.
- Participants listen through headphonesnoI
A speakerphone in a room.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
A seated theater audience.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The call is the mechanism of the show.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
Placeless in its fiction, though staged at a venue.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
No real place's history.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
No urban dependence.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
Presented as a stage show by a theater company.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
A staged production with a company and a premiere date.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
Not addressed.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participatesometimesI
One audience member dials and speaks; the rest listen.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesM
The maker performs the voice server live.
- Involves game playnoI
No objective or resolution state.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
Not addressed.
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