SUBLIME DAILY LIFE

Presentation

The digital immersive opera project SUBLIME DAILY LIFE (SDL) emerged in the wake of the pandemic, exploring the intersection of art and everyday domestic life.

Collaborating with interdisciplinary partners in the fields of smart buildings, sculpture, dance, and music across cultures, SDL explores the dichotomy between the mundane & the extraordinary.

At its core is MAISON GUERMONT (MG), a high-tech “home-sculpture" created by French engineer-sculptor Milène Guermont. Nestled in the heart of Parisian Romanticism, between the Parisian residences of Wagner and Cocteau, this sustainable/habitable/innovative total artwork serves as a hub for stimulating experimental work, hosting emerging music and robotic dance artists from the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Belgium) & Brown University (USA).

The use of home technology & digital tools in the creation of an opera is unprecedented!

To support the visiting artists, a videographer & sound engineer will inventory interactions with MG’s artworks & their technologies in a digital catalogue raisonné.

SDL will explore domestic routines, movements and sounds in MG (shower, cupboards, sparkling water, "whispering clouds" emitted by Polysensual Concrete wall-sculpture) to create dance and musical compositions.

SDL is a unique collaboration between sculptor Milène Guermont, various tech specialists from the MG (e.g. in digital, building automation, heated glass prototypes, air purification, light, sparkling water, tactile/sonic Polysensual Concrete), and emerging music/dance artists, with the support of established artists dancer Marie Agnes Gillot & composer Saint Preux.

The ultimate goal of SUBLIME DAILY LIFE is to get casual passersby as well as opera lovers to explore their own domestic lives, become “dancers/musicians”, interact with Polysensual Concrete sculptures that emit sound/light according to their magnetic fields… and discover the “sublime”.

Artistic Team

The Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Belgium) and Brown University (USA) provide emergings artist in classical music and robotic dances and will gather a pedagocic team led by Anne-Lise Parotte (Artistic Director of Queen Eliesabeth Music Chapel since 8 years) and by Sydney Better (Deputy Dean of the College for Curriculum and Co-Curriculum, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies of Brown University, a choreographer specilaed in robotic dance). French sculptor Milène Guermont and light designer Jean-Jacques Ezrati will be the major stakeholders from the team of total artwork MAISON GUERMONT.

Partners