JEAN-PAUL'S PHYSICS is a virtual reality experience project intended to be presented as an installation in a museum setting. A first prototype was created thanks to a Canada Council for the Arts research and creation grant.

My father, Jean-Paul Ledoux, has schizophrenia and has been unable to work for over 30 years. All this free time has given him a lot of time to read and rewrite the world in his own way. In recent years, he has become particularly interested in the theories of modern physics, reading dozens of popular science books.

Having a particular disdain for Einstein's theory of relativity and even more so for string theory (multidimensional universes), which he considers “too far removed from common sense,” he has created his own alternative scientific theories, which he calls “neoclassical physics.” His highly complex and interconnected theories spanned about ten books.

Unfortunately, his family (including me) lacked the necessary physics background to understand his theories, and scientists didn't take them seriously.

It was in this context that I wanted to create a work in which I would attempt to understand and immerse myself in my father's theories. The project revolves around a recorded conversation with my father in which I asked him to explain his theories. Fragments of this conversation appear throughout the experience in the form of giant cassettes that can be activated.