L’Alien
2019
Role play
6 months
With the pupils Armand, Bonie, Cassandra, Esclarmonde, Hugo, Inès, Jade, Noham, Lorna, Louca, Mathéo, Miguel, Pablo, Reda, Rose, Samir and Théo from Fraissé-des-Corbières Primary School, Fraissé-des-Corbières, France
With the actors Gérald Brunet, Élisa Glise, Lucile Graillon, Simon Guillaume, Nathalie Mourrut, Arnaud Saphore and in their own role Céline Cerda and Corine Pons
As part of the Création en cours residency programme run by the Ateliers Médicis, Primary School, Fraissé-des-Corbières, France
The role play L’Alien is an integral part of L’Alien project.
From January to June 2019, I led a role-playing game in a primary school class in the Aude region, France, as part of a residency with the Création en cours programme run by Les Ateliers Médicis.
During these six months, the pupils conducted an investigation into the disappearance of a ufologist in Ireland, met an alien and took up the cause of defending his rights as an asylum seeker. A science fiction adventure made credible by the elements brought in each week in class. Photomontages of flying saucers, plans of a secret laboratory, fake emails, actors and staged scenes punctuated this role-playing game and allowed the children to believe in this encounter with an extraordinary stranger.
Throughout the residency, the children’s discussions and impressions were recorded on camera to feed Le blog de la classe de Fraïssé, which recounted the adventure online.
In 2020, this role-playing game won the special jury prize at the 3rd edition of Création en cours, programme run by Les Ateliers Médicis.
l’Indépendant, 2019, article au sujet de la résidence, détail
Ma femme ufologue a disparu, 2019, video, video capture of a man’s call for help whose ufologist wife has disappeared, introductory to the role-playing game, published on YouTube, online
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, investigative element, portrait of Sabine Antoine, the missing ufologist, photo Nathalie Mourrut
L’Alien, 2024,role play, detail, investigative elements
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, investigative element, exchange between students and the manager of a hotel in Ireland
L’Alien, 2024, role play, detail, investigative element, Sabine Antoine’s office
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, photomontage of the alien spacecraft that crashed on Skellig Michael Island in Ireland
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, pupils participating in role play in class
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, interpretation of the alien’s notebook by the pupils
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, interpretation of the alien’s notebook by the pupils
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, pupils participating in role play in class
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, pupils participating in role play in class
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, pupils participating in role play in class
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, pupils participating in role play in class
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, posters made by pupils and displayed around the village
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, posters made by pupils and displayed around the village
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, photograph with the Mayor of the village of Fraissé-des-Corbières, the pupils and the alien
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, pupils learn to communicate with the alien
L’Alien, 2019, role play, detail, pupils posing with the alien