How to speak Alien ?
performance
/ 2025
Duration : 50 minutes
Misunderstandings is an artistic lecture exploring pet stones, predictive technologies from the Middle Ages, and learning to speak an alien language... It explores radical otherness through bots and robots. The aim? To learn to think like an Alienus in order to open up our imaginations to the future.
Mathematical omens, probabilistic threats, algorithmic oracles, cyclical or apocalyptic visions.
The future is the unknowable—different from the unknown—yet these notions often overlap. Across all cultures and eras, techniques have been developed to turn the unknowable into the unknown, and others to make the unknowable “approximately knowable.”
Artificial intelligence challenges our reference points and frameworks of understanding. It becomes a distorted mirror of our own cognitive and cultural limits, a fertile ground for the emergence of new modes of interaction with the unknown. Do predictive tools influence our vision of the future? How have oracular technologies shaped our perception of time throughout history?
Could opening ourselves to other forms of cognition allow us to access other possible futures? How do we speak “Alien”?
Mathematical omens, probabilistic threats, algorithmic oracles, cyclical or apocalyptic visions.
The future is the unknowable—different from the unknown—yet these notions often overlap. Across all cultures and eras, techniques have been developed to turn the unknowable into the unknown, and others to make the unknowable “approximately knowable.”
Artificial intelligence challenges our reference points and frameworks of understanding. It becomes a distorted mirror of our own cognitive and cultural limits, a fertile ground for the emergence of new modes of interaction with the unknown. Do predictive tools influence our vision of the future? How have oracular technologies shaped our perception of time throughout history?
Could opening ourselves to other forms of cognition allow us to access other possible futures? How do we speak “Alien”?
Documents
Distribution
Text and interpretation - Rocio Berenguer
3D modelling and animation - Sarah Boutiere
3D modelling and animation - Sarah Boutiere
Tour
| 2 | Jul 2026 | Paris, France grand amphithéâtre de l’université Paris-Cité |
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| 30 to 31 | May 2026 | Paris, France Cité des Sciences, Paris |
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| 5 to 8 | Mar 2026 | Belfort, France Le GRRRANIT, Theatre Nationale, Belfort |
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| 11 to 15 | Feb 2026 | Delft, Rotterdam, Netherlands Highlight delft 2026 |
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| 13 to 14 | Nov 2025 | Quito, Equador Mediamorfosis Festival, UDLA QUITO |
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| 18 | Sep 2025 | Nantes, France Festival Scopitone, Stereolux |
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| 12 | Sep 2025 | Paris, France Matrice, Paris |
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| 18 | Apr 2025 | La Rochelle CONFERENCE _ MISUNDERSTANDINGS _ Festival Zéro1, Scène Nationale La Cursive |
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| 17 to 28 | Feb 2025 | Paris RESIDENCE CREATION / INSTALL + CONFERENCE, College des Bernardins, Paris, France |
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| 24 to 25 | Oct 2024 | Paris Sortie de résidence / Le Centquatre, Paris |
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| 24 | Sep 2024 | Paris De 14h a 18h - Ouverture Sortie de résidence - College des Bernardins, Paris, France |
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| 26 to 1 | Aug 2024 | Paris Laboretoire / Useful Fictions / Ecole Polytechnique et Centre Walllonie Bruxelles, Paris |
Coproducers & Partners
Co-productions and residency hosts: STEREOLUX (Nantes), Matrice (Paris), Université de la Rochelle ( La Rochelle), La Chartreuse (Avignon)
SCIENTIFIC PARTNERS
Laboratories and Research Residencies: USEFUL FICTIONS (Paris-Saclay), Collège des Bernardins (Paris), Université de la rochelle, TU Delft (Netherlands).
SCIENTIFIC PARTNERS
Laboratories and Research Residencies: USEFUL FICTIONS (Paris-Saclay), Collège des Bernardins (Paris), Université de la rochelle, TU Delft (Netherlands).
