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Lilth.Aeon
Aoi Nakamura & Esteban Lecocq
Lilith.Aeon est une danse animée interactive entre la réalité augmentée (XR), la Danse et l'Intelligence Artificielle (AI). Basé sur l'expérience personnelle du deuil et l'histoire réelle de la plus jeune personne à être cryogéniquement congelée, l'installation immersive et interactive Lilith.Aeon interroge l'avenir de l'humanité à l'ère du Transhumanisme et de l'Intelligence artificielle.
Réparti sur les murs d’un cube LED monumental, l'installation nous invite à suivre les cycles de vie de Lilith, un être virtuel, une réincarnation numérique et poétique, une âme attrapée dans un limbe, suspendu entre la mort et un réveil futur. L'installation encourage le public à se déplacer autour de l'œuvre en action, qui prend vie grâce à la rencontre et à l'interaction entre les mouvements des spectateurs et les réponses chorégraphiques de l'IA. Il s'agit d'une danse où l'humain et la machine se répondent mutuellement, dans un ballet performatif toujours renouvelé.
À travers cette expérience sensible et une narration évolutive générée en temps réel, LILITH.AEON explore la nouvelle relation que nous entretenons avec la technologie, en particulier face à la perspective de transcender la mortalité biologique. Lorsque nos êtres faits de chair et de sang peuvent être réduits, augmentés ou même remplacés par des données numériques, que devient notre humanité et notre finitude ?
Lilith, la première d'une nouvelle génération de super-humains, est destinée à traverser un voyage de réincarnation s'étendant sur sept états évolutifs. D’un cocon glacé à une entité semblable à une araignée, Lilith se métamorphose à travers diverses formes avant d’incarner finalement une apparence humaine dans le royaume utopique d’Eden 3.0. Cependant, lorsque Lilith atteint ce qui semble être une destination finale, les frontières s’estompent entre l’aboutissement et le commencement, laissant le public s’interroger : est-ce la fin d’un voyage ou simplement l’aube d’un nouveau cycle de vie ?
CREDITS
Concept, Direction, Choreography, Dance: Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Lecoq
Technical Artist and Production Manager: Andrew Voller
Lead Technical and Character Artist: Bruce Evans
Unreal Engine Developer: Daniel Orchard
Unreal Engine Artist: Candice Wu
Unreal Engine and Character Artist: Timothy Devlin
Character Designer (Avatar): Death Spray Customs
Mocap Animator: Sky Ainsbury
AI Developer: Daniel Bisig
Concept Technical Artist (R&D): James Halliwell
Unreal Engine Artist (R&D): Sinew Zhang
Unreal Engine Artist (R&D): Rodrigo de Deus
Dance (R&D): Tara Jade Samaya
Technical Advisor: Ian Williams
Costume Designer: Lara Jensen
Music: Abul Mogard
Performance: Lilith.Aeon
Production: AΦE
Partners:
Powered by: Scan Computers and NVIDIA
Co-produced by: La Filature, Scène nationale de Mulhouse and Studio & Ateliers, E-nov Campus
Supported by: Arts Council England, Innovate UK, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries –
University of Kent, Creative Technology, Centre for Dance Research - Coventry University, A+E Lab
and Visual Elements
R&D (2017-2023) supported by Sadler’s Wells, Creative XR powered by Digital Catapult and Arts
Council England, EPSON, Supatex, Reinbeckhallen, Holotronica, Scalable Display, TECE, Blackcam
System, Jasmin Vardimon Company, Rambert, Epic Games, Kent County Council, residency
program “La Fabrique Chaillot” – Chaillot – Théâtre National de la Danse, South East Dance,
Dance4, Ashford Borough Council, Interact Lab, The Game of Life, Theatre Delicatessen, Stafford
Perkins and RebusFarm.
© Adrenaline and Endorphin Productions Ltd
BIOGRAPHY
AΦE, founded in 2016 and led by artistic co-directors Esteban Lecoq (FR) and Aoi Nakamura (JP),
creates installations and performances between dance and immersive realities. These sensitive
experiences, borrowed from science fictional references, question our contemporary relationship
with new technologies. Somewhere between misappropriation, reappropriation and forwardlooking
vision, these interactive works place the audience at the centre of the creative and
narrative process, offering a new space for exploration between bodies, spaces and
technologies. As trailblazers in this area, they were the UK's first dance company to tour VR and
AR productions internationally. Their works have successfully toured 15 countries, and over 60
venues and engaged with over 21,000 live audiences and participants worldwide. They have
partnered with high end technology companies & research institutions incl. Scan Computers,
NVIDIA, Epson, Framestore and Happy Finish, who they are inviting into the dance world to push
their boundaries. They have garnered the support of some of the most prestigious venues and
organisations around the world including Sadler’s Wells Theatre London, Sydney Festival, Théâtre
de Chaillot in Paris, Innovate UK, French Institute & Arts Council England. Individually, Aoi and
Esteban danced at major dance companies since 2006 in the UK and Europe including Jasmin
Vardimon Company and Punchdrunk. They began their choreographic practice in 2008 and started
their collaboration in 2013. They also started curatorial practice in 2017 with the Devonshire
Collective, Eastbourne then Outdoor Digital Art Installation Programme, ALT*ASH in Ashford’s
High Street in 2021.
AΦE became associate artists of iCCi/University of Kent and launched A+E Lab, AΦE’s new home
and charitable arm, a new digital and cultural hub located in Historic Dockyard Chatham in 2022.
A+E Lab revolves around three key strands of activity: the creation and touring of innovative work
through AΦE ’s productions, the delivery of community & artist engagement programmes related
to technology and culture, and the presentation and curation of high quality work including artistic
residencies.
A+E Lab’s mission is to democratise access to culture and digital tools and skills and provide
networking opportunities and access to space and equipment to creative practitioners in the fields
of Culture and Technology. They aim to grow Medway as a vibrant cultural hub with national and
international networks connecting to local projects. A+E Lab activity has engaged over 51000 live
audiences and participants locally.
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