"What does your safe place* look like?"

Hello world is an autonomous technological installation in which Maxime Arnould and a drone coexist. Welcome to a programmed world that responds to our emotions. Through this piece, Maxime Arnould confronts his fear of drones and their double identity of weapons of war and playthings, wondering "How can technology become a medium of projection and creation of new ecosystems?" In a crisis situation such as now, it seems important to review the surveillance tools that make up the contemporary landscape (at home or outside of it), as well as the available tools to fight back.

* A safe place can be a comfortable shelter, a place of protection or a reassuring space. In an activist context, it is designed for people who are oppressed and discriminated against, whether due to their gender, their origins, their sexual orientation, their political or religious ideologies. Within a group or alone, it allows each person to take the time to rest, to express themselves freely without being judged or having their experience denied, in a common quest for activist tools and perspectives.

Director and performer: Maxime Arnould
Playwright : Sara Vanderieck
Lighting and stage management collaboration: Sibylle Cabello
Sound collaboration : Noam Rzewski
Scenographic collaboration : Louise Siffert

Production : Anaïs Bastin, Stéphanie Bouteille, Pierre-Laurent Boudet, Rocio Leza pour Entropie Production
Coproduction : La Balsamine (Bruxelles, Be), Service des Arts Vivants – Direction du Théâtre de Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Soutien : Ministère de la culture Française dans le cadre du programme CHIMERES au Lieu Unique – Nantes, Aide à l’écriture de Association Beaumarchais-SACD, Wallonie Bruxelles International, Wallonie Bruxelles Théâtre/Danse
Résidences : Ateliers Mommen (Bruxelles, Be), CAMPO/Victoria (Gand, Be), La Bellone (Bruxelles, Be), La cômerie – Montévideo / CWB (Marseille, Fr), La Fabrique de Théâtre (Framerie – Be), La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris, Fr), Le Delta (Namur, Be), Libitum Adlib’ production (Vaugine, Fr) et workspacebrussels (Be)
Tendres remerciements pour leur regards scéniques et partage d’outils : Audrey Apers, Michele De Luca et Léa Tarral

Creation 2023