{"id":29101,"date":"2024-07-01T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/oeuvre\/girlfriend-experience\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T15:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T14:11:58","slug":"girlfriend-experience","status":"publish","type":"oeuvre","link":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/oeuvre\/girlfriend-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Girlfriend Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Girlfriend Experience<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Girlfriend Experience<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Ugo Arsac<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CHRONIQUES CR\u00c9ATION 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immersive \/ interactive video installation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They ask me to kiss, to be in my arms, tightly, because they have this urge to feel loved, to feel touched.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girlfriend Experience<\/em> is an immersive video installation about emotional distress in our hyper-connected society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the age of social networking and instant communication, where we might think that friendships and love relationships are more accessible than ever, many people suffer from a profound sense of loneliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ugo Arsac focuses on the Girlfriend Experience (GFE), in which sex workers offer more than just sex, but also tenderness and intimacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A multi-screen installation made up of smartphones becomes the medium for a film shot using volumetric capture. By dialing a number on their own phone, visitors have access to the voices of the documentary: the testimonies of sex workers and their clients, recounting their quest for affection and authenticity. The smartphone, the new intermediary in our social relations, becomes the point of entry between the public and the work, shaking up our position as spectators and questioning our own emotional fragilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Artists<\/h4>\n\n\n
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Ugo Arsac<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Ugo Arsac is a French artist and documentarian. He studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the \u00c9cole des Arts D\u00e9coratifs de Paris, where he displayed his videographic approach by producing his first films: Neuf Cordes (Nine Strings), filmed between Italy and Ukraine, a mix of performance and spoken poetry; and Jouons \u00e0 la Guerre (Let\u2019s Play War), filmed in the ranks of a re-enactment society in Taiwan, a documentary imbued with derision towards the global and local conflicts the island has faced. He later won the La Scam Emerging Artist Prize before joining the Le Fresnoy National Studio of the Contemporary Arts. There, he produced En Contrebas (Underneath), a documentary portrayal of and a Dantean journey through the entrails of Paris, and In Urbe, an interactive installation allowing the audience to conduct their own subterranean journey.<\/p>\n

He has completed several residencies, at Centquatre, Arden\u00f4me and the Fruiti\u00e8re Num\u00e9rique, and has featured in numerous exhibitions (100% l\u2019Expo, Orpheo, Panorama22, Mulhouse021, Tout s\u2019\u00e9claire, the Institut Fran\u00e7ais in Ukraine\u2019s Digital November). He is conducting new XR projects thanks to support from CHRONIQUES and C2L3play, an Interreg programme promoting artistic innovation. He also works with the Galerie Robert Dantec, where his drawings and serigraphs have been shown at exhibitions such as Points of View and DDessin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Credits & mentions<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Concept and writing – Ugo Arsac
Director – Ugo Arsac
Co-writer – Gala Hern\u00e1ndez L\u00f3pez
Creative technologist – Antoine Vanel
Sound designer and composer – Antoine Boucherikha
Sound engineer – Antoine Boucherikha
Shader Dev – L\u00e9on Denise
Editor – Guillaume Guerry
Scientific and historical consultant – Samantha Pratali (Facult\u00e9 Libre de Droit de l’Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Lille)
TDS Intermediary – Walter Guido
Set design – Nicolas Guichard
Production | Dark Euphoria
Mathieu Rozi\u00e8res – Founder and producer
Marie Point – Director and producer
William Board – Production manager
C\u00e9line Delatte – Communications Officer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Production: Dark Euphoria
In coproduction with Chroniques, Biennale des Imaginaires Num\u00e9riques as part of the CHRONIQUES CR\u00c9ATIONS platform, supported by DRAC Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d’Azur, R\u00e9gion Sud Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d’Azur and Ville de Marseille.
Developed with the support of the Centre national du cin\u00e9ma et de l’image anim\u00e9e (CNC), PICTANOVO as part of the Fonds Nouveaux M\u00e9dias with the support of the R\u00e9gion Hauts-de-France, and in partnership with the CNC, La R\u00e9gion Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d’Azur, in partnership with the CNC, the DRAC Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes and the R\u00e9gion Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27246,"menu_order":0,"template":"","edition":[116],"type_oeuvre":[28,25],"class_list":["post-29101","oeuvre","type-oeuvre","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oeuvre\/29101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oeuvre"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oeuvre"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/edition?post=29101"},{"taxonomy":"type_oeuvre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_oeuvre?post=29101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}