Sébastien Durand

PHERSU.net is the second chapter of Exercitia Spiritualia Animae, a three-part project exploring the human psyche.
Conceived as a labyrinthic website, PHERSU originates from the Peloponnese, Greece, where material was gathered during the AADK "Expanded SPACES" programme.

The work traces analogies between digital and physical landscapes, mapping both as intertwined ecologies of perception. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty's view of nature as a living field of relations, PHERSU treats the online environment not as separate from the body, but as an extension of it — a space where technology, memory, and landscape converge. Blending new and old technologies, PHERSU speculates on imagined pasts and futures, and on the shifting boundaries between persona, avatar, and self.

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"Chants of the Forgotten Stones" is an audio-print project that aims to document fantasy and investigate the pre-colonization sonic ecosystem of canary islands.
Diving through eras from a fictive traveler in a pseudo comic-style layout, the traveler meets impressionistic writing and sound reliefs from the wild lizards region. Pre-colonial culture elements are emphasized confronting the paradox of machines, repetition and geological affect.

It is an imaginary time-travelogue using graphic primal techniques, re-appropriating mapping, symbolism of pre-inquisition era; it developps around questions of lost perception due to economical impact and invites to deep listening.
The production involves the design of a A1-sized riso print poster with a set of acousmatic work pieces on CD. – PressKit