Inconditionnelles is a 75-minute sound installation presented in a loop.
Seven intimate women's stories are presented in a variety of sound forms, ranging from poetry and storytelling to fiction and documentary. Inconditionnelles plunges us into the words of women who have lived through prison. Their voices resonate, affirming their desire to be heard.
The work is presented as a circle of sympathetic listening, inviting us to open our ears and our hearts. An ambient video projected on the ceiling (a 360° device that can be seen from anywhere in the room) supports the words. A web platform (designed by KNGFU) accompanies the live broadcast, offering sound fragments of the women's words.
Inconditionnelles is a work that stands out for the depth of the stories it tells, and for the collective's artistic approach, which involves the people concerned at the heart of the creative process alongside professional artists. It is also exceptional in terms of its form, which is installation-based, immersive, ephemeral and nomadic.
AN ATYPICAL SCENOGRAPHIC DEVICE
In the installation, the public is invited to sits or lies around a central copper cylinder, a monolithic object as warm as a campfire and as solemn as the base of a sculpture. There, the words of seven women, central to the entire work, radiate out in all directions.
The sound diffused from the cylinder by three powerful loudspeakers is supported on the periphery of the space by two deep bass cabinets and four other speakers, in four directions. In this special "3-4-2" system, sound immersion is total, with words and musical composition waltzing around the audience's ears in all directions.
The spatialization of the sound is underlined by a video, a luminous dramaturgy diffused on a round screen suspended from the ceiling. These colored atmospheres, visible at 360 degrees, blend with the title and author labels of the piece being listened to, and the English subtitles.
The spectators listen together, and see each other listening to these marginalized words, in a hushed, intimate atmosphere.
