Industrial robotics in its evolution has liberated both industrial and creative processes. A few years ago a theater director proposed the interaction of a machine and a human. It was one of the most amazing performances seen on stage.
Our artist is. Aurélien Bory, born in 1972, is a director. He directed the 111 company founded in 2000 and located in Toulouse. I encourage a unique and hybrid “physical theater”, a cross between different converging fields in the performing arts: theater, circus, dance, visual arts, music. His shows toured the whole world.
Aurélien Bory tested the interaction between man and machine. A work where two men (THE artists Olivier Alenda and Olivier Boyer) and a high precision industrial robotic arm KUKA defied gravity with a touch of comedy.
The work called Sans Objet of the French circus, where a 6-axis Kuka robot, demonstrated his skills in an industrial process of handling heavy parts in the automotive industry of the year 1970, was the one of the protagonists in this work that was developed, with amazing acrobatic movements that he imitated from the human, expressive and game characters where he showed some kind of dance. Pretty skilled and powerful enough to lift people effortlessly and turn their bodies in the air.
When testing human limitations, Sans Objet confronts the human body with technology in the form of a robotic arm looming in the center of the stage. Here, the man and the robot are partners. What matters is your approach and contact. They are trapped inside an artistic space
Tristan Baudoin, the light and sound technician responsible for operating KUKA and programming the Windows 95 software that runs it. He says: “It is an elaborate, skillful, powerful and fast robot”
Bory says: “With” Sans objet “I wanted to take an industrial robot to the stage that had the strength to move all the elements of the decoration, as well as the actors. As such, the machine becomes the protagonist in its own right.”directed by Aurélien Bory in an artistic collaboration of Pierre Rigal, presents the operation and programming of the robot by Tristan Baudoin, composition by Joan Cambon, lighting design by Arno Veyrat, sound design by Stéphane Ley and costume design by Sylvie Marcucci A spectacular art that mixes circus, dance and visual theater.