A few more days before Maxime Arnould’s Hello World will meet its audience during the premiere series at la Balsamine in Brussels. A long and inspiring journey of collaboration, reflection and trial and error with Maxime have lead up to this point.
Curious to discover what we’ve been cooking together? Get your tickets here and join us for one of the performances between March 14th and 18th!
“What does your safe place look like? *”
Hello world is an autonomous technological installation in which Maxime and a drone live together. Welcome to a programmed world that responds to our emotions.
With this creation, Maxime Arnould confronts his fear of drones and their double identity, both weapons of war and toys, and asks “How can technology become a medium of projection and creation of new ecosystems? In a crisis situation such as the one we are experiencing, it seems important to take a new look at the surveillance tools that make up the contemporary landscape (at home or outside), but also by reflecting about tools that are accessible to everyone to fight.
*A safe place can be a comfortable shelter, a place to protect oneself or a secure space. In an activist context, it is intended for people who are oppressed and discriminated against because of their gender, their origins, their sexual orientation, their political or religious ideologies. In a group or for oneself, it allows each person to feel free to rest, to express oneself without judgement, nor to have their experience denied, in order to find tools or perspectives for struggle.
Director & performer : Maxime Arnould
Dramaturg : Sara Vanderieck
Light design : Sibylle Cabello
Sound design : Noam Rzewski
Scenography : Louise Siffert
Interns : Pierre Simon & Jellissa Nawasadio
Production : Anaïs Bastin, Pierre-Laurent Boudet, Rocio Leza for Entropie Production
Coproduction : La Balsamine (Bruxelles, Be)
Support : Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service général de la création artistique – Direction du Théâtre; Ministère de la culture Française dans le cadre du programme CHIMERES au Lieu Unique – Nantes
Support for the writing process : Association Beaumarchais-SACD.
Residencies : Ateliers Mommen (Bruxelles, Be), CAMPO/Victoria (Gand, Be), La Bellone (Bruxelles, Be), La cômerie – Montévideo / CWB (Marseille, Fr), La Fabrique de Théâtre (Framerie – Be), La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris, Fr), Le Delta (Namur, Be), Libitum Adlib’ production (Vaugine, Fr), Le Générateur (Gentilly, Fr) and workspacebrussels (Be)
Tender gratitude for their outside eyes and sharing of tools : Audrey Apers, Michele De Luca and Léa Tarral
