{"id":620,"date":"2023-03-29T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T15:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominiquepeysson.net\/?post_type=portfolio_item&#038;p=620"},"modified":"2025-07-09T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T09:55:06","slug":"speedster-snail-car-race","status":"publish","type":"portfolio_item","link":"https:\/\/dominiquepeysson.net\/en\/project\/speedster-snail-car-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedster-snail performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\n\t\tThe world's first snail-mobile performance\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>On February 2, 2023 in Les Pilles in the Dr\u00f4me Proven\u00e7ale, at the associative caf\u00e9 des Pilanthropes.<\/p>\n\t<p>A performance by Dominique Peysson and Christian Laroche.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dominiquepeysson.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Piste-de-course2-scaled.jpg?resize=930%2C619&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Running track2\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"619\" width=\"930\" title=\"Running track2\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<p>Speedster-snail is a small vehicle powered solely by the snail itself, like a bicycle. 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To offer them an extension of their field of experience, without rushing them. This work does, however, have a critical component. On the anthropocentric conception we project onto the animal kingdom, for example. I generate a whole little world of devices, which raises the question of communication between species and the ever-stronger relationship we're developing between the living and technology. Of course, this can be seen as a transposition of transhumanism. Are we going to endlessly seek to surpass the limits of what is possible, or might we be thinking more along the lines of sharing new ways of seeing the world between ourselves and the various living kingdoms, in a spirit of mutual respect and understanding? Without necessarily seeking to go faster and faster, always...<\/p>\n<p>My artistic work engages in transdisciplinary reflection and work on life and its entanglement with technical processes, on fusions and hybridizations between the living and the technosciences. 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