La machine pour s'entrainer à manquer d'espace
Sci-fi Stage Performance from the forthcoming creation of  "Rétrospective incomplète d'une disparition définitive".

Production: Le bruit des nuages – in co-production with KOMM'N'ACT – with the support of Vidéophonic, association AADN (69) and the city of Mouans-Sartoux (06)

Among other perils, mankind will have to face its own irretrievable and seemingly uncontrollable increase.

For from being able (as quickly as it increases) to send excess people to Mars or Saturn, some societies plan to reduce the space allocated to each individual.

Besides, in so called "developed" countries, this phenomenon has partially and insidiously started in cities: the lack of accommodation together with financial and real estate pressure triggered off a significant reduction of accommodation surface per inhabitant, immediately backed up legally by all sorts of revisions (downwards) of minimum habitability standards, which was going up until then.

For the inhabitants of the world where the size of accommodations was inversely proportional to that of fridges which can be found in them, the message sent is clear: we may as well get used to... be use less space. And as much as there are simulators for astronauts to learn how to deal with weightlessness, it's high time we implemented a few instruments for people to anticipate their forthcoming living conditions.

Therefore here is the machine that helps you get used to running out of space.

In this mechanical and still experimental process but which will certainly be foundation for training and achievement of tomorrow's individuals, the vital space is a datum in movement, which keeps going down.

Individuals must develop strategies (in three dimensions) to find their own place and survive. There appears a new concept with a new name: MSS, Minimum Survival Space, which represents the line below which the health and integrity of a given individual are endangered. It also becomes, with a care to distribute rightly (and save) reserves global vital space reserves, the quantification of sufficient space for the comfort of said individual.

At the same time as the physical pressure he undergoes, the individual is helped by a more psychological "pressure": a few benevolent voices advise him so as to encourage him to be reduced, shrink and get smaller with a view to getting the best results possible. Let's specify, in conclusion, that this research system will only require in the beginning voluntary actors, who thanks to this experience, will be better suited for tomorrow's world, and will undoubtedly be immensely grateful to this new machine.

Olivier Thomas


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