Instruments poétiques
Art installation
Modern man must not neglect his sensitive, intuitive, and sensory inner world. He must navigate it with care in order to better perceive, understand, and accept himself, ultimately freeing himself from imposed ideological instrumentalization—or from the one he inflicts on himself.
POETIC INSTRUMENTS is a poetico-realistic installation with performers interacting with the audience in video projection.
The installation encourages reflection on the place of freedom, inviting the viewer to feel, experience, and inhabit a sensitive state within modern society.
It invites each person to find their own inner rhythm while remaining a spectator of the environmental oppression of which they are daily victims. Between raw reality and the imaginary, Poetic Instruments allows the viewer to experience—and then write—their own sensitive story through encounters with ephemeral characters, personifications of sensibility, states of being too often repressed.
A perpetual socio-philosophical questioning.
Every individual is instrumentalized despite themselves, living within an environment, a framework, an era imposed upon them. Time is no longer taken to feel; worse still, the absence of the other—of others—the depth of silence, absence itself, and tactile or spiritual gentleness are no longer perceived.
So why not turn this desensitized individual into a poetic instrument? Let them strive to feel again, to rediscover, to explore the presence of a wounded inner world of sensibility.
Creation and artistic direction : Marielle Gonier
Performers : Chun Ting LIN and Tom MIGNE
Performed in Salle de Charenton in Paris in 2017