a modern but unplugged spectacle
With Jeranium, Lê Quan Ninh, Man, Arnaud Paquotte, Xavier Quérel
At the origin of this project, an intention in the form of intuition on the possibility of a multimedia show disconnected from the main energy source needed for this genre: electricity.
A simple question in the form of a tote: is it feasible?
And other questions that arise: What efforts would this require in both the design, the realization and the performance? Will these efforts disappear to give way to listening and looking? Could we approach the volatile or massive aspect of electronic sound and approach the fluidity of the projected video image without the tremendous power of the electrical flow available in each power outlet?
Constrained by the metaphor, we have endeavoured to follow this leading thread – sometimes forced to some deviations because of the extraordinary logic of materials – but always in the requirement to return to its source and approach, as far as possible, a precise definition of the sound characteristics specific to electronics and the projected image.
Little by little, after long weeks of work, came out of our workshop a whole set of sound and visual machines, originally conceived and realized for a specific purpose but whose manipulation revealed many surprises leading to other investigations, inventions and discoveries.
In the end, it is a fluid spectacle in the form of an invitation to listen and to the gaze where strange, sometimes evocative and concrete sounds are mixed together, and chatoies of shadows and lights, for which the five artists denud each of their gestures, both so precise and so forced, united in a form of forced solidarity and permanent relay.
Thus riveted to the task of maintaining the flow of an absent electricity that must be born – both really (dynamos) and virtually (evocative machines) – artists-builders-cyclists-manipulators are attentive to the emergence of perception, to make all hear (from the rustling of an object to the deflagration of friction amplified by effort) and to show everything from a retinal circus turn flashing and stable, fragile and affirmed.
Deployed on the stage, all the sound and visual machines offer to hear and see space (the near, the far, the top, the bottom, etc.), in volume, in distance, in nature to create a dreamlike interpretation of the present world.
Co-production Théâtre Jean Lurçat-Scene Nationale d'Aubusson, Centre Culturel André Malraux-Scene Nationale de Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy. With the support of ADAMI