It all starts with an injunction, time to set the scene. “Forget Thionville as you know her. “The place is the same, the time a distant future imprecise,” after the Fall. »In the headset (because it is through an audio headset that the adventure is fully appreciated), a voice unfolds Khora , presents the context of this series of exploded stories to be visited through the smartphone application GOH.
In order to benefit from it (free of charge), paintings allowing the application to be downloaded on its portable terminal have been scattered on the ground in various places in the city center. The download only lasts a few minutes and the ride can be started.
“It’s an audio and geographic project along the same lines as Us, which had been proposed several years ago. It allowed life stories to be gleaned here and there. Khôra is a project developed by the Strasbourg collective Ensemble 2.2 ”, situates Thierry Benoît, deputy director of Puzzle. “Today, we benefit in a way from a beta version (that is to say still in development, Editor’s note) of the application which will be developed within the framework of Esch, capital of culture 2022.”
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Memorial tags to collect
Once the adventure has started, a map is displayed on the screen. Floating superimposed above the center of Thionville, yellow pastilles. So many points to visit, the journey lulled by sounds of atmosphere, life, time passing. Once near these places, a story begins.
The slanted tower, the neighboring magpie, an evening of music around the camp… So many stories of characters opening up to new meanings. And in these texts, nature and animals are omnipresent both in evoked images and in vocabulary. Not a word more on the nature of the stories here, so as not to divulge anything.
“All the texts were written by author Luvan, published by La Volte, Alain Damasio’s publishing house. The goal of this project is, in the end, to be able to work with real writers, it is in the sense that she came to Thionville in order to discover the place, to be inspired by it, specifies Thierry. The city and its places, remarkable or not, serve as backdrops for the story. “
From the bus station to the Allies Bridge, from Napoleon Park to Wilson Park, the playing field covers a good surface. “But it was initially planned that it would go much further. This has been reduced a bit for convenience. If necessary, the story can obviously be downloaded upstream, for the most fragile connections. To enjoy it, however, you will have to walk well.
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