Works
Lashing Skies
An audio-immersive journey surrounding the events of September 11, 2001
Experience
Mixed Arts
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From
Release year: 2022
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What we did
Co-production
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Partners
Transthéâtre
Headspace Studios
An experience by Brigitte Poupart
Lashing Skies explores the relationship between individual and collective memory through five stories unfolding on the margins of the events of September 11, 2001. This immersive experience guides you through a large dark room covered in ash and debris. The journey invites you to ask yourself the following questions: What happened? Where do we begin? Where were you that day, that morning?
About the experience
Although the September 11, 2001 attacks remain deeply embedded in our collective memory, they are not the only tragedy in our recent human history. We think of the Paris attacks at the Bataclan, the explosion at the Port of Beirut, and of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of these events is still very much felt today.
Throughout our lives, we experience defining moments when tragedy strikes and leaves a lasting mark. The same questions inevitably arise: Where were you that day, that morning? These stories—etched in time, space, and the body—affect us in different ways. Our collective awareness cannot be denied. Rather than avoiding it, we seek to explore it.
“Without memory there is no imagination, and without imagination nothing can restore memory. Therefore, one cannot go without the other. Thanks to the imagination that springs from memory, we can imagine the future. You can relieve yourself from the loneliness of your own story through the art of never being alone telling the same story.”
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Partners
The company is dedicated to contemporary creation that explores the contradictions and drift of the West, through works that take a hard-hitting look at today’s world and place the spectator in touch with collective phenomena. Transthéâtre is a Montreal-based creative company with the desire to create theater that is born of political, social or philosophical reflection. The notion of métissage is also at the heart of Transthéâtre’s preoccupations. Transthéâtre has produced several immersive theatrical creations. All these creations break the fourth wall, while using live music, multimedia and new technologies at the heart of formal scenographic and narrative research.