Luciférine
Thomas Laigle
Audiovisual performance
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
GMEM module Friche la Belle de Mai
7 nov. 2024
Screenings: 6.30pm & 9pm
Running time: 30 minutes
Free, booking required
“Luciférine” (Luciferin, from the Latin Lucifer meaning light bearer) is a sound and light performance showcasing bioluminescent bacteria in a tentacular glass sculpture. By giving an assembly of people the chance to see and hear microscopic marine organisms, close relatives of those at the origin of life on Earth
Luciférine offers spectators a collective sensory and aesthetic experience, a primal pleasure. Luciférine offers a chance to discover this bewitching phenomenon of the deep sea at a time when terrestrial bioluminescence is becoming increasingly scarce with the massive decline in insect populations. The artwork offers the experience of a motionless journey, one made possible through immersion in sound and light, and one that is also exceptional as very few people – particularly nowadays and in our European latitudes – have ever witnessed phenomena of bioluminescence. The Luciférine experience provides an opportunity to experience a “pleasure event” and to visualise a desirable world that seems almost within reach, where human and non-human beings are co-creators, and where bio-based energies take centre stage.
Artists
Thomas Laigle
Thomas Laigle is a sound and visual artist. His research lies at the crossroads of sound, visual and digital arts. In the context of current technological advances, where virtuality and immateriality are intensifying, he proposes sensory experiences in a low-tech approach through a variety of media (performance, installations, sound composition). In his artistic practice, light and sound are interconnected to the point of forming a single medium.
His concert-performances are presented in France and Europe (Festival d’Avignon, Stéréolux, Maintenant festival, Interstices festival, Ménagerie de Verre, Montévidéo-Marseille, Liège Electronique BE, Experimance DE, Spektrum-Berlin DE, Art Quarter Budapest HU…). Since 2020, he has been creating installations combining technology and living beings. Recently, in Berlin, he co-organized Soft Incident, a series of performances focusing on body and sound practices.
Credits & mentions
Design, composition, performance: Thomas Laigle
Writing collaboration: Lyllie Rouvière, Tsirihaka Harrivel
Construction and collaboration on technical production: Lou Force
Glassblower: Éric Pedditzi
Scientific support: Laurie Casalot, Gwenola Simon (MIO / IRD / amU), Corinne Vallette (MIO), Marcel Koken
Production: Lueurs Soniques
Production manager: Louise Simon
Thanks to: Jérémie Brugidou, Frédéric Mancini, Clément Rouil, Mickaël Tamimy, Ulysse Bouët, Thierry Botti
Created in coproduction with CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS. In coproduction with GMEM, Station Mir, Stereolux, SOMA.
With support from the Centre national des arts plastiques.
Winning project of the Enowe-Artagon 2023 artistic production fund.
Project co-produced with Stereolux, Module GMEM – Centre national de création musicale (Marseille). Station Mir.
With the support of KuLe.
