Juliette Séjourné. Juried Artist
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Artist Statement
“Our things” is an artistic response, based on scientific research and documentation, to the current context of modernisation and perpetuation of nuclear arsenals, as well as the possible resumption of testing. The goal of this research-creation project is to reveal to a wide audience, in an accessible and sensitive way, an updated history of the military nuclearisation of the world, towards today’s awareness, since ignorance of the nuclear bomb history grows in the general public as the memory of Hiroshima fades.
In an immersive environment, the participant can listen, through spatialised data sonification, to the chronology and different characteristics of nuclear explosions, as well as their lasting effects.
In addition to a Styly presentation as part of ISEA 2024 online creative works, “Our Things” will be presented at an artist talk on June 24 during the virtual academic conference program.
This project was initially formalised during a residency at the research unit Nuclear Knowledges (CERI Sciences Po Paris).
Styly link: Our Things
About the artists
Juliette Séjourné is an artist and performer intersecting theater, music and art installation. She performs in a variety of venues and contexts, from opera houses on international tour (Shanghai, Tianjin and Harbin opera houses) and concert halls (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Théâtre de la Colline, Institut du Monde Arabe…) to interventions in basilicas, cinemas, greenhouses, gardens, schools, universities, social welfare centers, hospitals (Consultations Poétiques du Théâtre de la Ville) and even scientific symposia.
Graduated from the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris, Juliette also conducted research in History of music at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan. To explore new grounds, she has also trained on research-creation practices and technologies, notably at Ircam (Paris) and during a year of research and creation at ENS Paris-Saclay.
Throughout her diverse creations, she investigates the “inner voice” and its different forms of expression. This question merges with a broader reflection on “attention”: how are we attentive or distracted? And how do we get closer to ourselves, through an object, an art-work or a meta-work?
Recently she created the interactive installation “Tuskumo-café” (2023), which she presented at the Drôles d’objets conference in May 2023 and at Recto-VRso during Laval Virtual in March 2024. In spring 2023, she joins the research unit Nuclear Knowledges (CERI – Sciences Po) for a residency and formalises a research-creation project, called “Our Things”.
Credits: Juliette Séjourné in collaboration with Frédéric Bevilacqua (STMS Lab Paris) and Benoît Pelopidas (Nuclear Knowledges, CERI Sciences Po Paris)