II. ”Stream of Consciousness”

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1 Synopsis
‘House27’ is the reconstruction of a dream, that of a strange house where a character wanders in search of his history.
Over the course of four chapters, the viewer discovers the reconstructed spaces of an imaginary house and follows the dreamer through the different rooms, but also seeks to understand why this place haunts him: a kind of imaginary puzzle that unfolds throughout the story, through its reconstructions.
Techniques  
- Performance (28 minutes) on stage at the Central Theatre in La Louvière, ARTour Festival, La Louvière (BE), 2021;
- Audio and photographic book published by Transonic and the FWB, 2023;
- Dreamlike lecture (45 minutes) at Le Vecteur, Charleroi, 2024.
Collaboration
Ghostwriters (avec Christophe Bailleau)
Archives
- Images: fragments of childhood homes, places across Europe that resemble the artist's dreamlike images (Brussels, Barcelona, etc.)
- Texts: fragments from George Perec, Gaston Bachelard, René Magritte, Aby Warburg, Jorge Luis Borges, Pierre Bayard, among others. 
Datas - 2021-2025
Captions -
1/ (slide show) Excerpts from the video of "House 27," 28 minutes, 2020
2/  Performance on stage at the Central Theatre in La Louvière, ARTour Festival, La Louvière (BE), 2021
Full video & music - here

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² Synopsis - Inspired by the concept of ‘stream of consciousness’, the sound video mapping ‘Stream of Consciousness’ was projected onto the façade of the Hôtel de Graty”. This collaborative multimedia project explores the continuity of human thoughts, images and sensations.
Artists and writers with ties to the city of Mons appear as silhouettes around the windows of the Hôtel, creating a fluid dynamic that evokes the passage of time and pays tribute to the city's cultural richness.
The sound composition combines electronic music and excerpts from local poetry recited by the artist, who becomes the voice of all the writers. 
Techniques  
Monumental sound video projected via video mapping onto the Hôtel de Grati (Mons)
Collaboration
Ghostwriters (avec Christophe Bailleau)
Archives
- Archives of the Museum of Archives and Literature (AML): manuscript by E. Verhaeren;
- Centre for the Archives of Communism in Belgium (CArCoB) on the struggles in the mining basin;
- Fragments of texts by writers from Mons or associated with the city: M. Bervoets, F. Dumont, C. Lejeune, M. Moreau, E. Verhaeren.
Datas - 2021-2025
Captions -
1/ (slide show) Original archive of the manuscript "Les aubes" by Emile Verhaeren, 1898 Deposit of the Royal Library at the AML (Archives and Museum of Literature), FS16 00049 &  Excerpts from the video of "House 27," 28 minutes, 2020
2/ View of La Maison Graty the 29th of January 2025 during Mons en Lumières

Dreams, by their elusive nature, offer unparalleled artistic freedom. They open up imaginary possibilities that transcend rational thinking and allow us to explore new forms of narrative and representation.

Claire Ducène explores this mysterious dimension through various media, where sound, video and performance convey the shifting and fragmented experience of reverie.
This section brings together works that combine her own imaginary spaces with in-depth archival research, used as compositional material to give shape to dream spaces.

Real documents thus become reinvented fragments of memory, which feed into the poetic writing of her dream worlds, produced in collaboration with sound artist Christophe Bailleau, with whom she forms the duo ‘Ghostwriters’.

In House 27, first presented as a performance on a theatre stage, then deployed as a dreamlike performance lecture, the dream becomes a living, guided narrative. The work invites the viewer to traverse an inner territory oscillating between memory and poetic evocation.

With Stream of Consciousness, a video mapping projected onto the façade of a Hôtel in Mons, it is the visual movement itself that becomes dreamlike material, echoing the characteristics of a cinematic tracking shot and the floating logic of dreams.
Through the diversity of their formats – performance, video, projection – these creations question the porous boundary between reality and imagination.
They reveal the impossibility of defining its contours or retaining its forms, while preserving the evocative power of dreams, between mystery and fragility.