The mastery of fire is certainly the primitive technology that has most profoundly modified our way of life and our evolution, not only from a physiological and societal point of view, but also from a cultural one.  Its domestication is certainly at the origin of the emergence of the first myths of our history and allowed prehistoric man to venture further and further into the bowels of the Earth and to adorn them with pictorial works whose meanings remain unknown to this day.

The scenography of Vis Insita is inspired by the cave of Menez Dregan discovered in 1985 in the South Finistère, in Brittany, France, in which was found one of the oldest known traces of fire maintained by Man**.

With the help of a mysterious luminous sphere evoking a flaming torch, Nicolas Bazoge draws a parallel between this mastery of fire by archaic man and what we now call, 450,000 years later, digital technologies. Faced with the immense challenges of the modern world and equipped with these tools that are as fascinating as they are terrifying, the performance is part of the prehistory of a profound metamorphosis of humanity that seems to be taking shape and that we can, for the moment, only try to imagine.
What poetic imaginations can be instilled with digital tools? What luminous traces to leave in the darkness of our contemporary uncertainties? What sensitive gestures to print on the rough walls of our humanity?
Beyond the conception of an innovative technological device, Vis Insita constitutes above all the expression of an ancestral and visceral instinct of interaction with the others, an interior force which pushes a Sapiens among his fellow men to explore, in this quasi platonic cave, the depths of a world become possible.

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* Optical motion capture consists of capturing and digitizing real-time motion using synchronized infrared cameras.

**https://www.finistere.fr/Le-Finistere/Le-Finistere-un-patrimoine-archeologique-remarquable/La-grotte-de-Menez-Dregan