THE SUTHERLAND TEST


is an immersive performance at the crossroads of theater and digital arts. Organized in a public space, it brings together 16 participants responding to the invitation of a startup specializing in transcendence technologies. The participants are there to test their brand new revolutionary immersion device: the BUD (Black Up Display), a polysensory optical occultation prosthesis. Thanks to these diverted Virtual Reality (VR) headsets, they will discover the true intentions of the group that supervises them, gradually realizing that they are now at the heart of a process aimed at convincing them that human vision is doomed.

With The Sutherland Test, the artist extends his reflections on the concepts of “Altered Reality” and “disnovation”, and takes a critical look at the techno-solutionist ideology infused in our society. While big tech promises to extricate us from the physical world to access an augmented world, this performance advocates just the opposite. It provokes a slowing down of the body, a sensory release to better reinvest the real once the experience is over.


ARTISTIC DIRECTION
ADELIN SCHWEITZER

WRITE & PLAY
FRED SECHET & ADELIN SCHWEITZER

DRAMATURGY
MARION VINCENT

SOFTWARE DEVELOPEMENT
GAËTAN PARSEIHIAN

SOUND DESIGN
GAËTAN PARSEIHIAN

CO-PRODUCTION
OSOSPHÈRE
DELETERE

PARTNERS & SUPPORTS
RÉGION GRAND EST
VILLE DE MARSEILLE
RÉGION SUD
DARK EUPHORIA