Project leader : Marguerite Humeau

Contact : marguerite.humeau@hesge.ch

Team : Marguerite Humeau, Ka Fai Choy, Charles Chalas

Research Field : Apports théoriques en art en design (Art & Design Studies)

Duration (début-fin) : 2014-2015

Partners : TAR magazine, Arts Council England

Funding : HES-SO

Outcomes : columns published on the website of
http://www.the-things-from-an-icy-moon.com, new devices for nine performances, the film simulations in a wave pool.

Planned recovery: exhibition, 2015

Site : http://www.the-things-from-an-icy-moon.com

The Things? – A Trip to Europa is an odyssey-design proposed by Marguerite Humeau and caused by the assumption that creatures live under the ice cap in Europe, the moon of Jupiter.
The Things? – A Trip to Europa is the second part of an ongoing design trilogy that explores the possibilities of communication between several worlds. She is particularly interested in the development of knowledge of ways to get in touch with a distant object investigation, whether extinct prehistoric creatures, unknown forms or extraterrestrial life.

The recent discovery of Black Smokers, these Antarctic volcanoes offering the same living conditions as on Europe, is considered as a major scientific event. Even more amazing, creatures have been found in these craters living in extreme conditions, without oxygen or sunlight. Given the proximity between these two environments, volcanoes on Earth and Europe, Marguerite Humeau questioned whether these creatures are not exact replicas of those that inhabit the moon of Jupiter? The conjecture that could be contacted to volcanoes creatures, and by extrapolation communicate with aliens from Europe, without traveling to another planet, now unthinkable operation, is the starting point of The Things? – A Trip to Europa.

The research will be conducted in three phases and is to specify and design a series of devices 9 / performance called "blockbusters". Each device will aim to explore a different method to communicate with the creatures of volcanoes. Each performance will be filmed.