THE ISLAND Franck Vigroux & Kurt d’Haeseleer

Live audiovisual concert 2021 Kurt d’Haeseleer (video) Franck Vigroux (music) Production Cie D’Autres Cordes Co-production Werktank With the support of Espace des Anges (Mende, FR) Stuk (Leuven, BE) Flemish Authorities Thanks to Folie Numérique (Paris) ’The Island’ is a sensorial, associative and electrifying experience, inspired by a number of stories of islands and valleys destined to be submerged by the construction of a hydroelectric dam, causing deep human and geographic upheaval. The immersions of Naussac in Lozère (a village engulfed in 1980), the novel “farewell, little island“ by Valentin Raspoutine, or the 3 Gorges dam in China ( which is so big it influenced the speed of rotation of Planet Earth) spring to mind. ’The Island’ questions the replacement of one world by another and our blind belief in progress. A phantasmagorical universe unfolds through incisive electronic music and reality-bending video images, resulting in a “men