2024 / Concert-installation

Luciférine is a sound and light performance showcasing bioluminescent bacteria in a tentacular glass sculpture. It offers spectators a collective sensory and aesthetic experience, a primal pleasure : giving an assembly of people the chance to see and hear microscopic marine organisms, close relatives of those at the origin of life on Earth.

Luciférine offers a chance to discover this bewitching phenomenon of the deep sea at a time when terrestrial bioluminescence is becoming increasingly scarce with the massive decline in insect populations.

concept, composition, performance :
Thomas Laigle

artistic collaboration :
Lyllie Rouvière, Tsirihaka Harrivel

construction and collaboration on technical implementation :
Lou Force

glassblower :
Éric Pedditzi

scientific support :
Laurie Casalot, Gwenola Simon (MIO / IRD / amU), Corinne Vallette (MIO), Marcel Koken (Labocea), microalgae epigenomics team (US2B)

production :
Lueurs Soniques

production manager :
Louise Simon

Thanks to :
Jérémie Brugidou, Frédéric Mancini, Clément Rouil, Mickaël Tamimy, Ulysse Bouët, Thierry Botti, Anna Faber, Olivia McGregor

Created in coproduction with CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS

In coproduction with Station Mir, GMEM, Stereolux, SOMA.
With support from CNAP, Centre national des arts plastiques.
Laureate project of the Enowe-Artagon 2023 artistic production fund.

picture credits : Sébastien Normand