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ÉCHAPPÉES URBAINES 
/ Audio walk · In situ

The ÉCHAPPÉES URBAINES are audio-guided walks, conceived in situ, in direct link with the environment and the geography of the place of reception.

In these urban wanderings, Isabelle Jonniaux opens a dialogue with the elements encountered in the street. Buildings, tags, signs, encounters: so many elements from which she weaves sensitive, poetic, absurd or funny stories
 

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Design, writing and voice Isabelle Jonniaux Sound director Loïc Le Foll Writing collaboration Simon Thomas Outer ears Olivier Hespel and Anne Thuot

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Creation IN VIVO 5.12. Production Théâtre Varia Photo credit Isabel Jonniaux

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The geolocated route was developed by Neareo

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

Descriptif Echappé Urbaine
Agenda ECHAPPEE URBAINE
PROCHAINES DATES

21→31/05/2024

Résidence

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03→14/06/2024

Résidence

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19→30/08/2024

Résidence

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07→28/09/2024

UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe (Be)

04→22/11/2024

Résidence

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06→10/01/2025

Résidence

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10→28/03/2025

Résidence

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04→27/04/2025

Festival Espèce d'Espaces - Théâtre Océan Nord, Bruxelles (Be)

PAST DATES

13→24/06/2023

Festival Métamorphose, Théâtre Varia, Bruxelles (Be)

10→12/03/2023

Festival Métamorphose, Théâtre Varia, Bruxelles (Be)

22→24/09/2022

Festival Métamorphose, Théâtre Varia, Bruxelles (Be)

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