The Fire At The Lubrizol Factory In Rouen
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On 26 September 2019 in the city of Rouen, a factory containing chemical products suffered a large explosion, causing a thick plume of black smoke to be released over the whole city and its surroundings.
The same day saw the death of Jacques Chirac. This information becomes the media priority, and all the news channels, the press and the radio concentrate their activity around this event. The explosion of the factory then takes second place, leaving the inhabitants of the city of Rouen deprived of any information on the impact of this explosion on their health and daily life habits. Through this news, we have targeted a communication and information problem that allows us to apply several theories within a total work of art. We have chosen to focus our project mainly on the fact that it is the media and the state that decide what information is transmitted and how. |
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To do this, through our exhibition, the spectators are placed at the heart of an "overflow" of information so that they can understand what the inhabitants of Rouen felt when they had access to different information and then nothing more. The spectator is placed in a tent in which he is invaded by abundant information on two different subjects. He has to read press articles about the death of Jacques Chirac and at the same time the spectator has headphones in which testimonies from Rouen residents are broadcast after the explosion. The aim is to make him understand the feeling of loss when the information is contradictory and moves from one subject to another very quickly without even finishing to inform on a subject already mentioned.
The spectator is surprised to be plunged into a contradictory universe that visually tells him about a current event: the death of Jacques Chirac, but audibly sends him information about the factory fire.
The spectator's different senses are exploited in order to represent several facets of the information and how they are perceived by the public.
It is a total work, inspired by the Bahaus movement. To complete it, we decided to imagine a circuit with a logical sense that the spectator will have to follow.
Once out of the tent, the spectator has access to a table where boxes with information about the factory fire in Rouen have been laid out to inform the inhabitants of the situation. However, this information was contradictory to the actions and measures taken by the government. As a result, the inhabitants of Rouen are completely incomprehended and no longer know what to believe or think. These cards highlight, on the one hand, the information relayed by the press and, on the other hand, the acts, contradictory to the information, carried out by the government. The aim is to continue to plunge the spectator into a misunderstanding formed by the problems of communication and information.
To continue, we have produced a testimony in the form of an interview with a resident of Rouen in order to convey her feelings to the spectator. This interview aims to show the impact of misinformation and communication problems on the population.
At the end of our exhibition, a survey was carried out to find out whether the viewer of the work understood the message we wanted to convey. Visitors unanimously answered yes. This result shows that the message of our exhibition was correctly received by the receivers. Through the stages of this immersive exhibition, the concentration of information on the death of Jacques Chirac and the parallel between the government's words and deeds, visitors were able to grasp the informational issues related to this event.
The spectator is surprised to be plunged into a contradictory universe that visually tells him about a current event: the death of Jacques Chirac, but audibly sends him information about the factory fire.
The spectator's different senses are exploited in order to represent several facets of the information and how they are perceived by the public.
It is a total work, inspired by the Bahaus movement. To complete it, we decided to imagine a circuit with a logical sense that the spectator will have to follow.
Once out of the tent, the spectator has access to a table where boxes with information about the factory fire in Rouen have been laid out to inform the inhabitants of the situation. However, this information was contradictory to the actions and measures taken by the government. As a result, the inhabitants of Rouen are completely incomprehended and no longer know what to believe or think. These cards highlight, on the one hand, the information relayed by the press and, on the other hand, the acts, contradictory to the information, carried out by the government. The aim is to continue to plunge the spectator into a misunderstanding formed by the problems of communication and information.
To continue, we have produced a testimony in the form of an interview with a resident of Rouen in order to convey her feelings to the spectator. This interview aims to show the impact of misinformation and communication problems on the population.
At the end of our exhibition, a survey was carried out to find out whether the viewer of the work understood the message we wanted to convey. Visitors unanimously answered yes. This result shows that the message of our exhibition was correctly received by the receivers. Through the stages of this immersive exhibition, the concentration of information on the death of Jacques Chirac and the parallel between the government's words and deeds, visitors were able to grasp the informational issues related to this event.
