An unusual artist, Franck Vigroux explores the moment immediately after the collision of a car accident, the moment when time seems to stand still and dilate, the moment when the spirit se…
INTERNATIONAL MEETING IN PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
From November 7 to December 4, 2021, the fifth edition of the IMPACT Forum
The IMPACT Forum aims to encourage exchanges between the arts, sciences and technologies sectors. Over the years, the IMPACT Forum has consistently surprised us, by immersing us in the unimaginable possibilities that the future holds.
This fifth edition is bolstered by support from the Rayonnement Wallonie grant, an initiative from the Walloon government managed by ST’ART SA. It will take place in Liège and Hasselt, with shows and performances from France, Ireland, Spain, Mexico, the Netherlands and, of course, Belgium.
IMPACT
2021
This is the story of a magician who realises that machines do his job better than him, that algorithms are faster than his brain and that software is more accurate than his intuitio…
This show without actors narrates the story of the Parisian apartment that writer Samuel Beckett lived in with his partner, Suzanne, during the Second World War.
Forêt is een innerlijke, droomachtige reis, een zintuiglijke en poëtische opera.
_jeanne_dark_ is the Instagram handle of Jeanne, a sixteen-year-old from a strict Catholic family who is bullied at school and obsessed with her virginity.
Guillame Marmin’s installation is a matrix of 120 LED projectors, which were specifically designed to emit straight beams that sculpt the space and draw moving architectures.
The Barcelona-based company Agrupación Señor Serrano manipulates live videos, models, miniatures and drones around a reproduction of Mount Everest.
Choreographer and director Blanci Li invites you to an incredible show, 35 minutes of which take place in virtual reality.
2020
IMPACT 2020 becomes 100% DIGITAL!
APPLICATION IOS & ANDROID – GRATUIT
LIVE PARTICIPATORY SHOW
IMPACT 2020 becomes 100% DIGITAL!
SPECTACLE FILMÉ – GRATUIT
2019
In this dreamlike interlude, the elements become play partners in a being searching for the infinity and truth.
Dancers Florencia Demestri and Samuel Lefeuvre act on the realisation that the omnipresence of technology has hijacked our perception of reality.
From the global avant-garde of the audio-visual scene, the Japanese artist Hiroaki Umeda combines choreographic writing, computer code, sound and visual composition in a kind of global language.
This Belgian piece tells us of the initiation journey of two children discovering parallel and invisible worlds.
In a Belgian first, Rhizomatiks Research, a group of Japanese artists and engineers, including world-renowned designer Daito Manabe, in collaboration with ELEVENPLAY dancers led by choreographer MI…
Combining theater and science, Cerebrum reveals the strange phenomena created by our brain.
In autumn 2019, the 3 winning projects are revealed to the public in Lyon, London and Liège as part of the IMPACT festival.
Wind Avatar is part of a vast trilogy on which the American researcher (MIT & School of the Art Institute de Chicago) based in Brussels, Ahmed Haseeb, works.
Troisième édition
2018
On a stage designed as a golf green, this microcosm – a poetic reflection of current population movements – is manipulated by three performers using humour and commitment.
A meeting with your avatar!
Based on the Myth of Sisyphus, using the music of Philip Glass and watched by ten spectators: mixed reality is waiting for you!
Connected by a network of ropes to a human-sized puppet, Iranian Ali Moini holds a troubling dialogue with said puppet where it is a question of w…
A prodigy of new magic, Étienne Saglio is an enchanter of souls.
This Homeric show examines the place of the artist in our neoliberal society and questions the connections between men and machines.
Imagine that the technology of tip saves you from suffering, aging and to die !
Responding to the SOS of his colleague Mitra Kadivar in late 2012, the psychoanalyst Jacques-Alain Miller tries, by exchanging letters, to get her released from a psychiatric hospital in Teheran wh…
The Hong Kong artist, Chi-Yung Wong specialises in the design of immersive lighting installations.
Het Italiaanse fuse* is actief op het kruispunt van digitale kunst en design.
2017
On the occasion of its bicentenary, the University of Liège intends to evoke its past, to highlight its values and to sketch its challenges for tomorrow th…
A breathtaking performance for the closing of the IMPACT 2017 Forum
The explorations of Eric Arnal Burtschy, implanted in the living and visual arts, deal as much with a questioning of the human as with the more abstract per…
C.a.p.e KIT (computer assisted personal environment) is a unique kind of performance, developed in close collaboration with scientists.
With the team of enchanters led by Michèle Anne De Mey and Jaco Van Dormael, the death, here treated, does not resemble anything known. Artificial Intelligence Vs Human Intelligence: Around an internet of emotions | Immersive realities – the world at 360° degrees Here is an experiential work halfway between object theater, optical installation and existential tale. An innovative evening of productions between the arts and sciences, experience and expression, the known and the unknown. Workshop led by Black Adopo (Sébastien Kouadio), Marco Porcher, & Laurent Malys The French artist Michel Paysant, known for his research articulated between art and science, created a device called the Portrait Factory. Wende has become one of the most versatile and talented artists on the Dutch stage in recent years. His musical interpretations extend to the fields of pop,… … This exhibition will bring together interactive … Sander Veenhof is an independent developer of formats based on the interactions between the virtual and physical domain. Landskin Christoph De Boeck creates a work of visual installations in which sound resides as an articulation of energy. In der japanischen Sprache beschreibt das Wort Hakanaï das Vergängliche, Fragile, Unbeständige; das, was zwischen Traum und Realität existiert. Das Wort setzt sich aus den Schriftzeich…
The6 November 2017
Salle de l’Œil vert Conference in French / Free admission As technology and digital culture invest all sectors of society and as art uses them more and more, the Théâtre de Liège and its nine partners from Euregio Meuse-Rhin are launching IMPACT. In homage to Robertson (1763-1837), a Liège master of phantasmagoria, this creation plunges us into the center of pure imagination, the one … Robert Lepage deepened, through the invention of theatrical forms, his relationship between the intimate and the world. Frédéric Penelle is an engraver and Yannick Jacquet is a videographer. One wishing to erase the engraving from its frame and its “beautiful papers… Who has never dreamed of living in Minority Report mode?
Robertson : Siècle des Lumières, théâtre des ombres, spectacle des savoirs