Luc Courchesne
«The Visitor: Living by Numbers: An interactive panorama»

»The Visitor – Living by Numbers« is inspired by Pier-Paolo Passolini's »Theorema« [1969] and by a dream Courchesne's daughter had when she was 10 years old. In the installation visitors find themselves somewhere in the Japanese countryside, as you watch a projected narrative around you:
1. Enter the dome and adjust the height until it feels comfortable
2. When the action stops, speak any number between one and twelve to indicate the direction you want to go or to show interest in people and what they have to say.
Exploring the territory, happening upon and entering a shelter, meeting and dealing with the inhabitants and gaining status within the group will define a visitor's experience. In the process of interaction, a visitor builds a position in the group that either will have him invited to take more place among the group, or gradually ignored and abandoned.