Serendipity (2013)  is a connected object. It takes the form of a performance for a spokesperson “interpreter”, who would support the involuntary discourse arising from the intuitive proposals of the Google search engine. The content of the discourse is thus partly updated over time, and even with Google’s geo-localized sensitivity. The semi-random algorithm, and the fictional or real element of chance it induces, are used here as a means of warming up the mind to the improbable, and as an ideal slip-of-the-tongue generator, for an expressiveness somewhere between sociological and poetic.

Created at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, (Paris) then performed at the Ménagerie de Verre, (Paris) at the Théâtre de l’Usine, (Geneva) at the Festival Parcours tout court (Rennes) at the Festival 360, (St Brieuc) at L’Usine C (Montréal) at the Biennale Némo, (Paris) at thr French Institute of Berlin, at the Scène nationale de Châteauroux, at the CDC le Pacifique (Grenoble), at the scène nationale de Chambéry, Somme Toute (Clermont-Ferrand) CDN-Théâtre de Lorient, Pernod Ricard Foundation, in the program Partitions/Performances.

Duration : 50 minutes

Conceived and performed by: Pau Simon

Collaboration: Elise Simonet and Maud CC le Flohic.

Stage management: Johann Maheut, Maud CC le Flohic

Thanks: Sandra Iché