Fortune Nation unfolds a ritual in which hybrid bodies, draped in gathered materials, transform and fade away in a continuous movement. Between ceremonial anthropology and futuristic reverie, the work explores the zones of indeterminacy between the living and the synthetic to imagine and forge new anchors in a changing world.
The collaboration between Simon Laroche and Liliane Moussa stems from a fruitful dialogue between two complementary worlds: that of critical technologies and that of movement. Together, they seek out the conditioning that shapes our gestures, perceptions, and relationships.
Simon’s work unfolds at the intersection of performance and installation. Far from glorifying technology, he exposes its power dynamics and constraining effects, exploring how algorithmic systems shape (and sometimes impoverish) our relationship to the world. His work acts as a critical lens, a way of making visible the socio-technical structures that influence our behaviors, perceptions, and ways of being.
For her part, Liliane grounds her choreographic research in a keen awareness and observation of the body. Drawing on her somatic practices and her experience in physical therapy, she studies and dissects the mechanics of movement, exertion, recovery, and areas of vulnerability. Her approach, both intuitive and analytical, seeks either to deprogram or amplify the automatisms of movement in order to transform the experience of the sensitive and social body.
The proposed work functions as a post-technological ritual: a sensory and critical experience that observes the excesses of progress while imagining other ways of inhabiting the world.