Mette Ingvartsen

The Artificial Nature Project

Archive 2012
Centre Pompidou
novembernov 28 - december – dec 28
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The Artificial Nature Project
Concept and choreography, Mette Ingvartsen
Lighting Design, Minna Tiikkainen
Light Manager, Susana Alsonso
Sound Design, Peter Lenaerts
Technical Director, Philippe Baste
Assistant Choreography/production, Élise Simonet
With Franziska Aigner, Sidney Leoni, Martin Lervik, Maud Le Pladec, Guillem Mont De Palol, Manon Santkin, Christine De Smedt
Production Management, Kerstin Schroth
Production Mette Ingvartsen / Great Investment 
Coproduction PACT Zollverein (Essen) ;Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes) ; Kaaitheater (Bruxelles) ; BUDA (Kortrijk) ; apap / szene (Salzbourg) ; Musé́e de la Danse/Centre Choré́graphique National de Rennes et de Bretagne ; Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à̀ Paris 
Coréalisation Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à̀ Paris 
Funded by Kunstrådet (Denmark), Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin) and the Flemish Autorities
this project was funded by the support of the European Commission.
With the help of Mokum
Premiered Novembre 2, 2012 at PACT Zollverein (Essen)

In Mette Ingvartsen’s work, the animate and the inanimate, the organic and the mechanical often come to merge. In this new piece, spectators observe processes of transformation and circulation, as if looking through a giant microscope. The result is an allegory of man’s place in its environment, the illusion of control and the entropy of the living.

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