Equipped with a smartphone and headphones, the public follows a geolocalized route; they are invited to move around in every sense of the word. It is a question of shifting the points of attention, of shifting the real, of summoning other times, other thoughts, other fictions. To try to make emerge an alternative reality.

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 "Through my urban explorations, I wish to share a sensitive experience of the cities I cross. By sensitive, I mean that the city is not mainly apprehended in terms of space, layout, architecture but rather in terms of experience of the senses and of the intimate.

I like to take people on less marked paths, to focus attention on certain details, to divert the messages. I invent, I reinvent, I translate reality. I raise crosswords, hidden evils. I fill in gaps, I quote authors' thoughts that are put in relation with personal thoughts. I relate striking encounters with certain inhabitants, I launch into verbal flights of fancy, which are punctuated by musical flights of fancy.

Walking becomes a space of narration but also an act of resistance; to speed, to efficiency. It is a way of pausing and allowing oneself to be carried by the solicitations on the road, to pay them deep attention. And, in the end, to provoke a reflection on what surrounds us on a daily basis."

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Isabelle Jonniaux

Concept, writing and voice Isabelle Jonniaux Contributing writer Simon Thomas Sound director Loïc Le Foll

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Les Échappées Urbaines are the result of a research process at L'L | chercher autrementen arts vivants (Brussels).

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Creation IN VIVO 5.12 Co-production for Échappée Urbaine #3: Arte-Fac and UCLouvain; for Échappée Urbaine #4: Océan Nord, in progress Application and Interactivity Neareo.com (My App Zone srl) Photo credits Christophe Jonniaux and Isabelle Jonniaux Édition L'L éditions, 2024 (www. lleditions.be) Box design and layout Colin Junius Designer (logo creation) Xavier Daive With the support of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Service Général de la Création Artistique - Direction du Théâtre Distribution BLOOM Project

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This sound creation resonates with the J'AIME BEAUCOUP ICI project - a stage performance based on urban explorations.