Among all the summer festivals where we worked in scenography and video mapping, Dharma Techno has taken a prominent place.   The objective is to bring together meditative practices and electronic music. A beginning of collaboration that we wish to pursue for a conscious artistic future.

https://www.dharmatechno.org/

We are once again evolving our show by incorporating the dancer and Circatienne Camille Budu . When heaven and earth join this magical circle of Voodoo deities.

For the duo Wax in dub including bassist Phil Bussonet (Magma) and drummer Franck Vaillant, we create the universe (scenography and light) of two video clips during the recording, at the Besco studio, of their first album.

To see soon on the networks.

New collaboration with singer-songwriter Blick Bassy for his electro album ‘Mádibá. We will install a holographic screen in front of the musicians and with the help of neon led we will integrate the artists in the computer graphics that we produce.

Our interactive installation is being created in the fluofreak workshop in Valencia. We cover the metal structure with 40 polygons of Plexi-Miroir, then install 130 meters of led tape on all the edges of the architecture and install 20 arcade buttons to make the work interactive. A complex and precise shape to achieve, a beautiful chalenge.

These first releases will be for the Pléiades festival of ST Étienne, La fête de Lumières de Lyon and Lumières st Gervais Mont Blanc.

Artistic accompaniment over several years of the Congolese festival that enhances and protects the Congo River and all the hydrological potential of the Congo Basin.

For the night of the museums, the museum of natural history of the city of Lyon asked us three interventions on emblematic pieces of the museum. In record time we made three mapping on an enlargement of a drawing by Corto Maltese, on the gable mask of Papua New Guinea and the skeleton of a whale all arranged in the corridors of this institution.

The DMX entrusts us with the scenography of the group supported by Youssou N’dour composed of singer Defa and raper Mamy Victory = Defmaamaadef.

We are preparing the show Musique et bande dessiner, “Le fils de l’Ursari” by Xavier-Laurent Petit set to music by Stéphane Millet and Sébastien Tron with Vocal26 in production.

Rather than mount the comic on a simple screen we decided to work on two planes by putting the musicians in the middle in order to immerse them in the image thus creating a concept of comic concert augmented.

With this musical training, we created the scenography that we bring to the road. We deal more broadly with general technical control.

On each date, we are brought to give master classes, internships and workshops of Stage Design.

As part of this event, we present 5 works that create a unique artistic journey. Spectators will have the opportunity to become creators. They will be able to see, draw, light, dance and play to transform their environment.  «Lumière sur Bayssan» is the result of 3 months of work and four weeks of residency to give the public a unique and sensational experience.

Mapping & Installation light

Our show resumed its journey at the end of the lockdown with three performances at the Décines-Charpieu Slide and an outdoor performance at the Saleccia Park in Ile-Rousse, Corsica. With each presentation of Digital Vaudou this show becomes stronger and more mature. Normal you will tell me that it takes time when it comes to bring together two worlds that of the digital, scientific and virtual and that of Vôdù, philosophical and cultural.

To know everything about the project.

Start of the MMO project.

MMO stands out for the unprecedented combination of acoustic and visual techniques, at the forefront of innovation, especially in terms of listening. Mapping, projections on scenographic objects, are delicately mixed with a sophisticated binaural audio 3D.

We were chosen by the Hérault department to inaugurate the new buildings of the Bayssan Scene. a real challenge given the importance of the buildings. Six months will not be too much to invest this magical place.

The Municipality that took charge of the restoration with cultural skills occupies the entire atrium of the auditorium. Déborah Hirigoyen, Artistic Director, Céline Déridet, actress and Nicolas Ticot, multidisciplinary artist, have set up a series of mini theatrical and video offbeat performances illuminating the public on certain features of the guest artists.

And we continue the scenographic installation on the 2500m² of the atrium for a finalization between January and March 2020.

Come and watch …
The Commune
The auditorium of Lyon

For the official opening of this theater located in the heart of the Monchat district of Lyon, Nicolas Ticot will arrange the stage of a multitude of protean supports, arranged or suspended and immerse sound images, Mappé, in order to create a global dynamic allowing the spectator to take the time to stay and appropriate the space before it is opened to the programming of live shows.

Barbara Room – Espace Elsa Triolet _ 53 rue Charles Richard, 69003 Lyon

Vincent Harisdo, the choreographer and dancer of the show now shares the stage with Jéssica Yactine, Sénégalo-Libano-Russe dancer. For this integration, the Barbara Room welcomed us in residence from November 12 to 15. We left from November 18 to December 2 for several dates in Nouackshot in Mauritania, Dakar in Senegal and Lagos in Nigeria.

This year we participated in the Science Festival Drôme Ardèche as part of the National festival of scientific culture.  Our interactive exhibition open to all is composed of flow generation, virtual realities, digital image creation and framed by a mediation through which we explain our different technological and artistic approaches.

Our Exhibitions/Workshops are broadcast.

At the invitation of the Perform festival, dedicated to the art of contemporary performance, we created in collaboration with Caroline Corbal a projected mapping on the facade of the main building.

It is about a performance or two people this refond of their mask for under a pouring rain this to strip.  This work questions the theme of gender and our simple belonging to nature.

We will intervene during two thematic evenings. May 17 at the museum of Aquitaine where Haiti will be in the spotlight and May 25 at the associative complex of Mérignac where theme of the woman will be evoked.
We will invest the spaces by immersing the public through multiple projections of archival images and contemporary creations.

May 17 from 4 pm to 7 pm at the Museum of Aquitaine, Bordeaux.
May 25 of …… at the associative complex of Mérignac.

For the second edition, Liquid Sky, our concept that combines cooking, music and video at 360°. At each performance we invite a Chef and a Musician for a unique experience.

A place and a soul, agitated by a programming to live between exhibitions, video art, music-loving happenings, epicureanism and conferences.

Co-production Xlr project/ Cross Culture Gallery/ Art Step.

With MEMOIRE, Nicolas Ticot and the Irish musician Ian McDonnell alias Eomac invents a technological imagination that prophesies the possible future of humanity. This project was realized for the first time for the Planetarium of St Etienne in 2016. It has since been transformed to marry unusual architectures.

This year it is at the invitation of “Zone Libre” and the festival “Arts Sonores” in Bastia that we answer present surrounded by Gilles Malatray de Desartsonnants and Cécile Regnault, Architect and professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieur d’Architecture de Lyon, researcher at LAURE, UMR CNRS.

On the occasion of a meeting between XLR Project and Ateliers Dalmas & associés, Xlr Project exhibited different projects in this modern property in the 9th arrondissement of Lyon. An exhibition of the 99angles project in collaboration with Eyesnap made it possible, thanks to the scan of a photo, to activate a video broadcast.
Upstairs, we realized an immersive room around the project “Ice Painting Dream”. The opportunity to discover or rediscover the works that have marked the history of XLR Project since its creation.
Outside, Nicolas Ticot performs an Audio Video performance in the pool invested by Georges Rousse in 2017. Magic of anamorphosis and subliminal image.

Presentation of the premiere of DIGITAL VAUDOU, on February 1 and 2, 2018 at the Théâtre de l’Hexagone (Réseau Art Science – Meylan) during the Experimenta show (Grenoble), the creation was presented in front of a packed room at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon on February 17, 2018.

DIGITAL VAUDOU will open the Electrochoc Festival in Bourgoin Jallieu on March 10, 2018.

Finally, the show will be visible on May 31 at the Belle Electrique for the 10 years of the digital creation school ARIES (ecolearies.fr)

As part of his action in Africa (Benin – Togo, and soon in other countries of the continent) Nicolas Ticot returns from a week of training in digital creation techniques in Togo on the occasion of November Digital, an event hosted by the Goethe Institut and the Institut Français in Africa.

This training was held from 20 to 24 November 2017, followed by a period of partnership canvassing in Benin as part of the broadcast of the show DIGITAL VAUDOU, from 25 to 29 November 2017.

In December, Xlr is engaged in a series of interventions in high schools and colleges of Isère with a series of training and workshops around the relationship to the image using architectural projection techniques (mapping).

An educational cultural mediation action supported by the Théâtre de l’Hexagone and the Transversal des Réseau Art Science (TRAS).

With DIGITAL VAUDOU, Nicolas Ticot signs the meeting of virtual reality and 360 video techniques with the «virtual» and magical world of West African Voodoo. It is a multidisciplinary contemporary show (virtual reality, 360 video, dance, music and scenographic innovations) that invites the spectator to discover the forms of traditional expressions of this culture, as they are practiced in Togo and Benin. By digitizing its myths, its musicality, its masks and costumes, its choreographies, the FA (divination technique or geomancy Vaudou), its spirits and its temples, DIGITAL VAUDOU brings Vaudou culture into the contemporary world, in a proposal that is both ritual and globalizing.

By mixing human science and technology, XLR Project becomes the mediator of a cultural and human exchange between different communities. Multidisciplinary XLR Project is an ecosystem and a natural vector of collaboration between different cultures communities (scientific, artistic, etc.) or civilizations, which celebrates the human relationship and the development of new languages, new writings related to the humanities. It is also a privileged space of expression in which ancient myths (and practices) interact, and those, emerging, resulting from the use of digital technologies and the magic they imply. «Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic» Arthur C. Clarke.
At the creation of this website in February 2017

In collaboration with the Salle de spectacle le Toboggan de Décines-Charpieu (Rhône-Alpes) we succeeded in creating 4 small interactive shows during the lockdown with students from large kindergarten, CE1, CM2 and 6th. A great experience for students and new workshops for XLR. Dance and digital workshops, the mix of these two disciplines allows to interest and bring together all children. Our desire to create a final result that values them creates a passion and a desire to do unprecedented.