2025 Award-winning Project of the call for projects Research in theater and associated arts from the DGCA - General Directorate of Artistic Creation.
The performing arts have historically been attached to the centrality of the human figure. Very little considered in the history of theater, the objects on stage and their performativity remain a blind spot in critical reflections on the anthropocentrism of this artistic discipline. We believe that the arts of puppetry and the field of technological tinkering constitute fertile areas of reflection on the place, role, and transformative power of objects and materials on performances and imaginations.
We wish to question certain processes and conventions of puppet theater, object theater, and, more generally, animated forms, in light of what the makeshift technological assemblies invented by Thomas Sillard, sound artist, allow us to create in terms of agency, real or imagined, of objects on stage. By listening to the behavior of these objects, we will question the traditionally maintained relationships between humans and other presences (robotic agents, sound sculptures, technological devices, etc.) in the performance space.