Marine Theunissen is an artist working at the crossroads of theater, dance, performance and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. She is also involved in research and creation in the academic context, and is interested in movement and AI technologies as stage partners. She creates visual installations and tries to find distribution channels for laboratory works. She exhibits her solo creative processes and co-creations with various partners internationally, including at Ars Electronica in the Taking Care exhibition with Hexagram (Linz, 2018) and at the NOVA festival (Bucharest, 2021) and at UQAM’s Agora du Coeur des Sciences (Montreal, Hexagram 2023). After co-creating several performance works, experimental video games and interactive installations with Raphaël Dely, they decided to found the Collectif LABORARE in 2022 to pursue their joint creation. Together, they presented Effet d’Entraînement at Tangente (Montreal, 2023) and are currently working on their next dance and technology project, Rising Tides (creation in 2024).
As a choreographer, Marine Theunissen specifically explores various improvisational strategies, creating singular methodologies rooted in a desire to rethink adaptation and the relationships between humans and non-humans. With Effet d’Entraînement, she explores a system of choreographic rules inspired by the collective movements of large groups of social animals (murmuring birds, schools of fish, swarms of bees, etc.). In 2024, with the Rising Tides project, she will create a series of choreographic motifs inspired by the adaptation strategies of cities threatened by rising seas and oceans in the context of the climate crisis. To achieve this, the LABORARE collective will carry out a series of artistic residencies in Italy (Venice), Norway (Trondheim, Svalbard), Belgium (West Flanders), Holland (The Hague) and the UK (Norfolk) over a 5-month period.