Cosmophony
France
About
Soil storytelling through performing arts, music, and fieldwork.
Cosmophony is a six-month performing arts initiative led by Compagnie Point D’Ecoute in France. Created by visual artist Géraldine Doat and musician Marie-Caroline Conin, it gathers interviews with geologists, soil scientists, ethnologists, architects, and farmers, then transforms voices, sounds, images, and soil observations into a stage performance. Through live music, sound design, live-camera visual art, microscopy, and sensory storytelling, the project makes soil feel alive and meaningful. Its impact is to shift audiences from seeing soil as dirt to valuing it as a living ecosystem.
Project overview
Low public awareness and emotional connection to soil; fragmented knowledge between scientific, agricultural, legal, cultural, and architectural perspectives.
Completed: interview protocol, 14 interviews, transcription, two residencies, Entrudanças presentation, project blog. Upcoming: additional interviews, June/July residencies, impact protocol, communication strategy, full-length performances.
Makes the invisible visible through expert interviews, live microscopy of clay, amplified earth sounds, and testimonies, turning knowledge into sensory performance.
Compagnie Point D'Ecoute
Low public awareness and emotional connection to soil; fragmented knowledge between scientific, agricultural, legal, cultural, and architectural perspectives.
Makes the invisible visible through expert interviews, live microscopy of clay, amplified earth sounds, and testimonies, turning knowledge into sensory performance.
Completed: interview protocol, 14 interviews, transcription, two residencies, Entrudanças presentation, project blog. Upcoming: additional interviews, June/July residencies, impact protocol, communication strategy, full-length performances.
Compagnie Point D'Ecoute
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