{"id":32479,"date":"2026-06-03T08:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/?post_type=oeuvre&p=32479"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:15:23","slug":"thundergolf","status":"publish","type":"oeuvre","link":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/oeuvre\/thundergolf\/","title":{"rendered":"ThunderGolf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ka\u00efs Dhifi TN<\/sup><\/strong><\/strong>ThunderGolf<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Sculptural and immersive installation<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Opening in Marseille<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday 24 October from 2 pm to 10 pmSunday 25 October from 2 pm to 6 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friche La Belle de Mai<\/strong>Place des HorizonsMarseille<\/strong>Free entry; bookings can be made on the day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visites<\/summary>\n

Guided tours of the exhibition \u201cSensitive Cartography and Reconstructed Memories<\/a>\u201d, followed by a tour of the ThunderGolf<\/em> installation in the company of the artist on Saturday 24 October from 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm in French Sign Language, then from 3.30 pm to 5.00 pm for the general public<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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ThunderGolf is an immersive installation set in the fictional universe of Metalia. Blending sculpture, virtual reality, and sound, it activates a real-time, audience-driven post-apocalyptic odyssey. At the heart of the installation, a Volkswagen Golf Mk2 modified for hostile terrain becomes an interactive mobile vehicle. Serving as a functional sculpture, narrative architecture, and performance space, it combines mechanical elements with immersive technologies, functioning as a threshold between practical use and fiction, physical reality and speculative projection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a future marked by fluid borders, climate change, and techno-cultural hybridization, the experience unfolds across three simultaneous and interdependent modes of perception. Every action taken by the driver (navigation, radio, lights, signals) alters the environment perceived by the passenger in real time. From the outside, the viewer picks up on the narrative fragments being broadcast. This synchronization of the three points of view\u2014without any imposed hierarchy\u2014forms the dramatic core of the work. The soundtrack takes the form of pirate radio stations from Metalia, broadcast via a built-in sound system, extending the narrative space beyond the vehicle and anchoring the installation in an autonomous soundscape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By transforming an iconic everyday object into a performative installation, ThunderGolf brings together popular automotive culture, speculative fiction, and immersive systems to offer a poetic counter-mythology of mobility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cast<\/summary>\n

Artistic design: Ka\u00efs DhifiCo-design and XR production: S\u00e9lim Harbi (Saraab XR)XR engineering: Mohamed Ali EzzeddineArtistic assistant: Cindy GaschereauSound engineering: Terence MeunierMusic curation: Skander BesbesArtistic outreach: Kenza Zouari<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A CHRONIQUES CR\u00c9ATIONS Platform project. Coproduction : CHRONIQUES CR\u00c9ATIONS – P\u00f4le r\u00e9gional de la cr\u00e9ation en environnement num\u00e9rique – R\u00e9gion PACA, pour la Biennale des Imaginaires Num\u00e9riques, dans le cadre de la plateforme CHRONIQUES CR\u00c9ATIONS.Production : Guild of MetaliaAvec le soutien de Lieux publics \u2013 Centre National des Arts de la Rue et de l\u2019Espace Public, Institut Fran\u00e7ais de Tunisie, Culture Moves Europe – Programme financ\u00e9 par l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne <\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Listen to Les Chroniques de Metalia* \u2013 Ka\u00efs Dhifi and Kenza Zouari<\/h5>\n\n

In this series of discussions, Kenza Zouari, an independent curator, together with the artist Ka\u00efs Dhifi, explore the artistic world of Metalia, from which the work originates.<\/p>\n\n

These discussions took place during a residency at Studio Euphonia; their broadcast has been made possible thanks to the support of Radio Grenouille.<\/p>\n\n

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Ka\u00efs Dhifi<\/h2>\n
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Straddling the line between myth and fiction, Ka\u00efs Dhifi develops a sculptural and immersive practice rooted in the remnants of an imagined, forgotten, or yet-to-come territory. Her work combines sculpture, installation, and narrative devices to explore the transformation of perceptions within speculative environments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Influenced by archaeology, vernacular techniques, and magical realism, he creates structures and artifacts that function as fragments of an ever-expanding narrative. These are part of Metalia, a fictional, cartographic universe where the narrative unfolds through objects, spaces, and interactions.<\/span><\/p>\n

By transforming material into an interface, his works explore experiences situated at the intersection of Mediterranean traditions and a techno-global imagination, offering a speculative mythology of contemporary worlds in flux.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33798,"menu_order":0,"template":"","edition":[140],"type_oeuvre":[28,25,136,117],"class_list":["post-32479","oeuvre","type-oeuvre","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oeuvre\/32479","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\/33798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/edition?post=32479"},{"taxonomy":"type_oeuvre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chroniques-biennale.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_oeuvre?post=32479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}