By weaving together imaginary worlds based on biomimicry, N-h9 is an immersive poetry experience featuring virtual landscapes exploring symbiotic relationships between humans and non-humans. The aim of this work, originally conceived for virtual reality and adapted for installation in TOPO's showcase, is to give the public a sensory experience of mutation by illustrating a living world where beings of all kinds come together in constant interrelationship.
The atmosphere, lunar and misty, is studded with fireflies. These fireflies are extremely mobile, on the edge of visibility, evanescent, almost beyond the image. A multitude of multiform beings take shape, creating a kind of moving space with an unpredictable future. These elemental beings are interchangeable, infinitely adaptable and modifiable.
A work created with the support of the Région Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée and Taipei Artist Village.
Sandrine Deumier
Sandrine Deumier is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the fields of performance, poetry and video art, whose work explores post-futurist themes through the development of aesthetic forms linked to the digital imagination.
With her dual training in philosophy and the arts, she has built up a protean body of poetic work centred on the question of technological change and the performative place of poetry conceived through new technologies. Using the material of the word as an image and the image as a vector for the word, she develops work at the junction of the video medium and sound poetry, seeing them as sensitive devices for expressing a form of unconscious material of the self. The process of writing and the moving matter of the image function in an ebb and flow of underlying meanings that refer back to the vacillation of reality and its transfers of reality via unconscious thought structures. His work consists mainly of poetic texts, video-poems, multimedia installations and audiovisual poetic performances in collaboration with composers.
