16.5👁️🗨️《反沉浸試驗》講座🎭 "The Sutherland Test" Artist Talk
科技如何重新定義劇場表演的邊界？這次為《反沉浸測試》港法跨媒體劇場合作的黃呈欣與Adelin Schweitzer將分享這次跨文化合作中的火花與挑戰和討論如何將科技融入劇場表演，探討內容本地化以及混合劇場的實踐。
講座以英語進行，輔以有限度廣東話翻譯。
How does technology redefine theatre performance? Join Birdy Wong and Adelin Schweitzer for an insightful dialogue on working together to adapt "The Sutherland Test" for the Hong Kong audience. What are the challenges and triumphs of this collaboration between French and Hong Kong creative teams? How is cutting-edge tech seamlessly integrated into the performance context to reshape the audience's experience? In this talk, we will explore the practice of localisation and hybrid theatre.
Talk in English with limited Cantonese translation support.
📍 《反沉浸試驗》講座🎭✨ "The Sutherland Test" Artist Talk
日期 Date：16.5.2026 (Sat), 17:00-18:00
地點 Venue：牛棚劇場 (土瓜灣馬頭角道63號牛棚藝術村7號單位)
Cattle Depot Theatre (Unit 7, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan)
講者 Speakers：黃呈欣 Birdy Wong, Adelin Schweitzer
主持 Moderator : 梁安琦 Angel Leung
Presented by｜French May Arts Festival
Produced by｜VESM
Co-produced by｜Artocrite Theater
Supported by｜Institut Français – Paris
Supported by｜Hong Kong Arts Development Council
(The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.)
Image courtesy of the artist. #TheSutherlandTest #ArtistTalk #HybridTheatre #BirdyWong #AdelinSchweitzer #CattleDepot #HKArts #TheatreTech #反沉浸測試 #混合劇場
Three days in Reims. Three days to unplug the eyes.
We just performed The Sutherland Test on April 28, 29 and 30 at the Comédie - CDN de Reims, as part of INTERCAL.
Six public shows. Six for schools. And each time, that strange moment when sixteen people agree to let themselves be blinded together to rediscover a world they thought they knew. At a time when we're being sold glasses to "augment reality," we propose the opposite. A protocol of sensory disobedience.
Obsolete VR headsets repurposed as instruments of attention. A step sideways to reinvent the collective through a shared experience of doubt, loss, and fiction.
Thanks to Chloé Dabert and the entire Comédie team for the trust. Thanks to the Reims audience for playing along with an intensity that floored us.
This adventure exists thanks to:
🜲 Les laboratoires deletere (production)
🜲 L'OSOSPHÈRE
🜲 Le Couvent Levat, where the piece was born in October 2024
🜲 ECHOS ELECTRIK, run by Afif Riahi — co-curator of INTERCAL, building bridges between digital arts, live performance and territories, from Reims to Tataouine.
The team, without whom none of this exists:
Fred Sechet, Marion Vincent, Gaëtan Parseihian, Robert Kieffer, Pauline Wable.
Next stop → Hong Kong. May 22–25, 2026.
The Sutherland Test at the French May Arts Festival 法國五月藝術節, Cattle Depot Artist Village.
In Cantonese. Coproduced with Hong Kong company Artocrite Theater. A first-time transmission. A local cast taking hold of the protocol and reinventing it.
Can't wait.
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#TheSutherlandTest #ImmersivePerformance #DigitalArts #ImmersiveTheatre #VR #SensoryDisobedience #ContemporaryArt #PerformanceArt #Intercal #VESM #FrenchMay2026 #HongKong #CattleDepot #LaboratoiresDeletere #EchosElectrik
New newsletter online.
Between immersive theatre, vision technologies and Silicon Valley narratives, I’m trying to understand how technologies shape our perceptions… and sometimes our blindness.
In this issue:
- The Sutherland Test in Reims, then Hong Kong
- reflections on the militarisation of immersive technologies
- ongoing research around DISNOV_XR_2000
Link in bio ❤️
#immersiveart #XR #SutherlandTest #deletere #artandtechnology #performingarts
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"What is unfolding today in digital art goes far beyond a question of economic models. It is about the place we give to creation, to the diversity of voices, to the ability to experiment without being immediately required to perform. When art becomes a strategic tool, a communication medium, or an instrument of influence, something shifts. Subtly, yet profoundly."
Nouvelle séance du séminaire «Fabriques numériques : Arts, Technologies & Do It Yourself », ce vendredi, 28 novembre de 14h00 à 17h00 à Marseille :
Entre illusion et désobéissance : le test Sutherland comme fabrique critique de l’immersion avec Adelin Schweitzer (artiste, les laboratoires deletere) et Pauline Wable (artiste, ex. M2 Arts, création numérique).
À rebours du discours techno-solutionniste qui domine dans le champ des technologies immersives, le test Sutherland propose un contre-rituel : une expérience de ralentissement, d’aveuglement volontaire et de désorientation sensorielle. Détournant les codes du théâtre, du design interactif et des interfaces XR, ce projet s’inscrit dans une tradition critique du Do It Yourself, mêlant artisanat technologique, recherche artistique et subversion douce des normes de production. Cette discussion reviendra sur la genèse du projet, ses choix technologiques non standards, son développement à travers des contextes variés (festivals, squats, friches, institutions…), et sur la posture artistique qu’il défend face à l’industrialisation du champ immersif.
Séminaire organisé par Jean-Paul Fourmentraux et Quentin Destieu.
📍Amphi MASSIANI, Aix-Marseille Université – Campus Saint-Charles, 3 Pl. Victor Hugo, 13003 Marseille
Accès au campus par inscription : Lien en bio
1 tonne de feraille et 250kg de tout venant plus loin, les laboratoires deletere ont un nouveau container tout bien rangé. Merci @tomaminst@gaetan_parseihian@ad_schweitz 🫶🕸️❤️
Threshold Protocol is a prototype of a screenless immersive installation, a sensorial exploration that shifts the image beyond the frame to inhabit the body and the surrounding space. First presented at @campidarte , the work questions our relationship with interfaces and the subtle boundary between the physical and the digital.
Conceived as a rite of passage, the piece invites participants to cross a threshold where light, sound, and material become stimuli transforming into tangible presence. Within this sensitive environment, the audience is immersed in a world that is felt rather than observed.
Deprived of familiar visual anchors, the visitor must engage the body: listening, touching, moving to sense the space and construct a personal narrative. Technology recedes, giving way to direct perception, turning the body itself into the living interface.
Threshold Protocol proposes another way of inhabiting the digital: a palpable territory where the immaterial takes form, and where each human presence reshapes the experience. An invitation to rethink immersion beyond the screen at the precise point where perception begins.
La Station d'écoute suspendue présente Vox Nidi au Parc Départemental de Pichauris dans le cadre des Balades Natures les 18 et 19 octobre 25.
Plus d'infos : https://hop-lesite.fr/evenements/balades-nature-rentree-2025-pichauris
Sur le site, c'est complet mais il y aura d'autres sessions sur place.
Pour venir, il faut viser le parking Les Micocouliers au domaine de Pichauris.
Si vous avez de la place dans votre voiture n'hésitez pas à proposer en commentaire !
Un projet proposé par @deletere_lab et porté par @braneproject et @ideehauthop
Merci au service Département 13 d'avoir rendu cela possible.
The XR dreams of being a space for artistic and sensory experiences, but it is already shifting towards other uses: military simulation, drone piloting, strategic data gathering. My editorial in HACNUMedia, “Immersive dreams or autonomous drones?”, reveals this worrying shift, where artists are becoming content producers for the defense industry. A call to invent other forms of resistance. 👉 Go to my bio to read the article and my NEW newsletter!
