Le Graal en Doom-Like

Éric Giraudet’s projects generally start with fieldwork, an ethnographic experience outside the workshop. His works involve vernacular practices, landscape, ancient myths or new media in the form of performances, videos, sculptures or installations.

From June to August 2018, Éric Giraudet and Tomavatars imagined together the first part of a video game inspired by the artist’s universe. We discover references to medieval literature, the figure of the wild man and the disillusioned lover, mixed with different languages of popular culture.

After this first stage of research and experimentation, Éric Giraudet and Tomavatars continue their collaboration during a creation and transmission residency at the Binquenais college in Rennes in December 2018 and February 2019. The students are involved in the production of a second part of the game, based on the unfinished novel  Le Conte du Graal or le Roman de Perceval  written in the 12th century by Chrétien de Troyes. Middle school students are invited to tap into their references, languages and resources to create the scenarios, settings and characters of this new chapter.

Le Graal en Doom-like is a project at the crossroads of disciplines (literature, history, technology, mathematics, visual arts, etc), cultures (scholarly/ popular), worlds (real/ virtual) and generations (love courteous / 2.0).