A PROMANCE
Flora Bouteille & Lily Matras
What began six months ago in Kigali as a casual conversation between two wedding guests wrapped in a traditional Umushanana quickly escalated into an entirely new cycle of work.
And this is how we:
- teach an experimental seminar for Master’s students in Public Affairs, Culture track at @sciencespo Paris: “Simulation: Thinking New Forms of Cultural Production.”
- initiated a related research project on simulation practices, forms of pre-enactment, and their artistic relevance, among others in conversation with the Sciences Po médialab
- unfolded an extensive collaboration for the development and production of @angels_front ’s new body of work, DIE & RETRY, set in a context of cognitive warfare
- are leading a broader reflection on our take on performance art—what it is, what it does, and how it operates—and on ways of affirming it through exchange, initiatives, and community building
See you soon🪡
“Reverse Propaganda Program”, a workshop created to learn how to reverse engineer propaganda and influence mechanisms by producing them.
Students of Ensad Paris chose to create the **ThankyouKara** group; a brainrot company designed to exhaust and destroy your critical abilities, finally destroying themselves.
The full livestream of their show was part of the CAN festival, during Novembre Numérique, in Morocco.
Inquiries or other about Reverse propagandas methods: [email protected]@victorvillafagne@lan.ensad@ensadparis
DIE & RETRY is a new long-run simulation by @angels_front
It displays the quotidian of a test-family immersed in a near-future cognitive war scenario blurring the line between the real and the virtual, truth and fiction, as it unfolds in real time and real space.
DIE & RETRY was kicked off at @dak in Khouribga, during which psychosomatic researcher and family mother Mara N. invited visitors to try her groundbreaking memory-rewriting procedure during public consultations.
Four students of 1337 excellency coding school in Khouribga, which was built on the abandoned remains of former phosphate mines, took part in the world-premiere experiment and succeeded in reversing past memories and associated strong emotions under the eyes of an incredulous audience.
@victorvillafagne@serraaurore@__plaisirdoffrir@kahinasutra@mouadmeziaty@1337_futureisloading@mediatheque_khouribga@mylahsen
DIE & RETRY Episode 1: How Not to Miss an Appointment with History
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We’re headed to Morocco 🇲🇦 for Novembre Numérique by @institutfrancaismaroc .
We’ll be performing at @dak_festival on Saturday 29 November, 5pm, at the « Espace Atelier » of @mediatheque_khouribga
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This marks the beginning of the journey of our test family—Family N.
The kick-off is a university conference led by Mara N. (the mother), who can’t wait to unveil her new method for turning reality into exactly what you want it to be.
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Mara N.: @auroreserra
Angels’ Front creative direction: Flora Bouteille & Victor Villafagne
Executive production: @plaisirdoffrir
Production and communication manager: @kahinasutra
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Many thanks to Lahsen El Bouhali from @1337_futurisloading school in Khouribga, for inviting us 🙏💙
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Image Source (slide 1): Cluster – 1337 School Khouribga 📸
We’re thrilled to announce that DIE & RETRY enters a new chapter at Fiminco Foundation for a 10-month residency. ✨
Throughout the year, the project will unfold through a series of performances, immersive experiments, and participatory actions, culminating in a one-month live simulation and performance at Les Magasins Généraux, Pantin in October 2026.
Blending gaming, narrative immersion, and live interactive cinema, the work expands our exploration of how disinformation, psychological operations, and algorithmic influence fracture collective understanding and how play, reconstruction, and simulation can allow us to reclaim agency.
→ Follow the process as the simulation takes shape over the coming months. 👀
Teaser 3D development Louis Ravard
💫First step of DIE & RETRY took place during a residency at @providenza_ where we developed a video game–like interface that lets participants engage with their own doppelganger, a double created through deepfake and voice synthesis. Deepfake developed in collaboration with Olivier Bienz @lan.ensad 🕹️
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Many thanks to @_antoineviviani and @fabiendanesi
for your trust, openness and curiosity ✨
Also to all the new friends made during the stay
@julienmeynet@dobaussan@mathildehlz@mateovega@andrius_arutinian
🎭 CASTING CALL // DIE & RETRY
Cie Angels’ Front
Angels’ Front is casting for DIE & RETRY, the company’s new creation. The project involves live improvisation with audiences and livestream.
👤 Profile:
Actor/performer (dance skills are a plus) Male-identifying
Aged 30–50
Languages: English and French; additional languages appreciated.
📅 Availability: June 2026 and October 2026.
Paid project.
Auditions: December 17 and 18 2025 (all day)
📍 Location: Romainville, Fiminco
TO APPLY: Please send your email to [email protected]
DEADLINE : December 1, 2025
Source / Image credit: Mirddincom (2020) - Licence CC BY-SA 4.0
✨ We’re thrilled to share our new creation, DIE & RETRY—a long-form project unfolding over the 2025/26 season through successive collaborations and appearances.
🎭 DIE & RETRY explores performance as a practice of ground simulation: a space to test, fail, and try again, and to look at our ways of thinking and feeling. It examines how human attention, emotion, and intimacy behave under algorithmic influence, and how we might reconfigure them.
🌌 Initiated by Flora Bouteille & Victor Villafagne, DIE & RETRY brings together a constellation of collaborators who will be revealed as the project expands.
🏛️ The project is already supported by:
@fondationfiminco@providenza_
DRAC IDF / @iledefrance@maggeneraux@lecubegarges@lelieuunique
🎧 Background sound: /thermalnoise-rc/interlude?in=thermalnoise-rc/sets/the-dark-ages
📣Présentation des artistes La Fabrique des Arts 📣
🧠 Flora Bouteille, artiste, metteuse en scène et chercheuse, est la fondatrice d’Angels’ Front, une compagnie à la croisée du design d’expérience, de la psychologie sociale et de la spéculation. À La Fabrique des Arts, elle poursuit le projet DIE & RETRY, une simulation immersive questionnant l’influence des technologies sur nos perceptions et nos comportements.
🧵 Asma Ben Aïssa est une artiste visuelle tunisienne dont la pratique tisse des liens entre architecture, textile et mémoire intime. Elle s’inspire des gestes artisanaux féminins et des objets domestiques traditionnels pour créer des œuvres sensibles faites de fils, de transparences et de structures pliées.
💃 Béryl Coulombié vit et travaille à Paris. Son travail mêle danse, performance, sculpture et costume, dans une approche transdisciplinaire. Elle conçoit la scène et le lieu d’exposition comme des espaces poétiques. Sa performance Fontaine (2023) est la première à entrer dans les collections nationales des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
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📣 Presentation of the artists at La Fabrique des Arts 📣
🧠 Flora Bouteille, artist, director, and researcher, is the founder of Angels’ Front, a company at the crossroads of experience design, social psychology, and speculative approaches. At La Fabrique des Arts, she continues the project DIE & RETRY, an immersive simulation questioning the influence of technologies on our perceptions and behaviors.
🧵 Asma Ben Aïssa is a Tunisian visual artist whose practice weaves connections between architecture, textiles, and intimate memory. She draws inspiration from traditional female craftsmanship and domestic objects to create delicate works made of threads, transparencies, and folded structures.
💃 Béryl Coulombié lives and works in Paris. Her work blends dance, performance, sculpture, and costume in a transdisciplinary approach. She conceives the stage and exhibition space as poetic realms. Her performance Fontaine (2023) is the first to enter the national collections of the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
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