2023 SEOUL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL

A car leaves the road and dives into a strange and wild dimension, buried as if out of time. Little by little, the topography of the place, where real and unreal seem to merge, is revealed.

Between electronic opera and an audiovisual experience, Flesh is a musical and visual art form as well as a dance/movement performance, a moving painting whose meaning is revealed in the experience and the emotion it creates.

Drawing both from the world of the English writer J.G. Ballard (author of "Crash" and "Concrete Island" in particular) and from the personal experience of a road accident, "Flesh" explores the exact moment that follows the shock, the short instant where time seems to stop or expand. The moment where the mind detaches itself from the body, to reveal a panoramic view of a surrealist scene. Vehicle carcasses take the form of moving objects, motorway viaducts become gigantic Golems, car engines appear to levitate over a sea of ice. And on this flow of images and sensations, the spectator experiences what a driver experiences as he crosses an unknown dimension.. a truly hallucinogenic journey. The backbone of Flesh is music. Through its narrative power and metaphysical dimensions, music forms its foundations. It consists of a broad scale of live tones from electronic beats to vocals and the old-fashioned sound of the harpsichord. in addition to the rough, electronic and mechanical sounds wrapped around minimalist rhythms, Vigroux also uses silence as sound material.