Between the lines

interactive installation/performance

Between The Lines is an interactive installation &performance created by Maflohé Passedouet with the INREV laboratory of University Paris 8 with the collaboration of Cedric Plessiet programmer, developer, researcher and Ghaya Khemiri (3D avatar).

Imagine that, you, the spectator are taken to a dark alcove,and before you appears the mobile and silent face of a gypsy fortune teller. Her visage is layered, a virtual double, an avatar in 3D of the author of the installation. The lines on your hand are examined closely by a small camera above your right hand, manipulated by the performer. Once your lines have been read, the virtual double comes to life and announces her prediction via a genuine Romany gypsy tarot.

From ancestral and generational traditions, Maflohé Passedouet gives us divinatory second reading of hand lines combined with real-time, interactive technology. A hand placed in the center of the installation expresses man’s implicit presence. The touch, a grip, construction, direction. The hand and the brain as one. The technical performance’s foundation in programming allows the recognition of language and the reading of real-time sound. The gypsy can caress as well as kill, becoming a representative privileged by nascent thought.

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DISTRIBUTION :
Artistic direction/author/scenographer/performance : Maflohé Passedouet
Interactive device/programmation : Cédric Plessiet
Avatar creation: Ghaya Khemiri

Production Mobilis-Immobilis
Co-Production Laboratoire INREV-Paris 8

Diffusion
2012 :
Crypt St Pancras galery – London - United Kingdom
City of Women Festival – Lubjiana - Slovenia

2013 :
51 rue de Rivoli Galery – Paris -France

2015 :
Zoom, Cultural center -Bourg en Bresse- France
Ars electronica Festival -Linz - Austria

2017:
St Priest Castel - Art & Science laboratory